OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

ina

•  face; eye; appearance; shape.

ina lēre

•  dazzled; blinded (by glaring light).

inalia

•  eyelash.

inamodo

•  eye.

inamodo itiai nāni

•  with sunken eyes.

inamodo hur wetke

•  blink one's eyes (keep closing opening one's eyes).

inamodo kuikuile

•  close one's eyes; closed eyes.

inamodo najēte he

•  unseemly; very indecent (e.g. incest).

Literally: the eye does not rest upon, not to be looked at

ina-modo tapu

•  eye-ball.

inamodo uma tau āni

•  having dust in the eye(s).

inamule panmule

•  perished; dead.

Literally: face shape disappeared

inapanu

•  appearance; shape; aspect.

inapau

•  eye-lid.

inatapu

•  eye-ball; upper half of a coconut shell.

inatapu a'arau

•  sunken-eyed.

inatapu mala'i nāni

•  having bulging eyes.

Literally: eye-balls stay outside

inatapu mudunasi

•  throw a sidelong look.

Literally: eye-balls look inside

ina'uni, ina'auni, i'ina'uni, iina'auni

•  not changed; having its usual aspect, shape.

Literally: its aspect one

ina'una' uni, i'ina' uni auni

•  looking exactly as before.

inawair

•  squinting.

Literally: eye crooked, curved

inawaja

•  tear.

See also: sunu

inawaja elelere

•  streaming tears.

inawati

•  eyebrow.

Literally: eye-road