OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Josselin de Jong (1937): Woirata

Page number: 232

halse

•  light (not heavy); float; anchor in a harbour; put to sea.

halhalse

•  be floating about; be anchored.

menhalse

•  float or be anchored near by.

ahalse

•  float; drop anchor somewhere.

arahalse

•  being anchored; drop anchor below in the harbour.

halse hakane

•  drop in and anchor; be anchored.