OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 237

ilas(a)

•  understanding, prudence, discretion, modesty, good breeding, manners, custom, usage.

ilasi

•  (with possessive suffix); accustomed to; usage; usual.

ilas jāni

•  understanding; modesty etc.; good manners.

ilas mahunana liare selre

•  repent; mend one's ways.

Literally: change bad ways