OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

ili

•  back part.

ilin

•  stern; rudder; tricks and traps.

ilin tana

•  helm-stock (rudder-hand).

ilin hali to ilehen mara mara

•  drift off transversally.

Literally: there is no rudder, so it is drifting transversally

ilin pale

•  steer (hold the rudder).

ilin palen

•  helmsman (who holds the rudder).