OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

ina

•  face; eye; appearance; shape(eng).

ina lēre

•  dazzled; blinded (by glaring light)(eng).

inalia

•  eyelash(eng).

inamodo

•  eye(eng).

inamodo itiai nāni

•  with sunken eyes(eng).

inamodo hur wetke

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

inamodo kuikuile

•  close one's eyes; closed eyes(eng).

inamodo najēte he

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

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

ina-modo tapu

•  eye-ball(eng).

inamodo uma tau āni

•  having dust in the eye(s)(eng).

inamule panmule

•  perished; dead(eng).

Literally: face shape disappeared

inapanu

•  appearance; shape; aspect(eng).

inapau

•  eye-lid(eng).

inatapu

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

inatapu a'arau

•  sunken-eyed(eng).

inatapu mala'i nāni

•  having bulging eyes(eng).

Literally: eye-balls stay outside

inatapu mudunasi

•  throw a sidelong look(eng).

Literally: eye-balls look inside

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

•  not changed; having its usual aspect, shape(eng).

Literally: its aspect one

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

•  looking exactly as before(eng).

inawair

•  squinting(eng).

Literally: eye crooked, curved

inawaja

•  tear(eng).

See also: sunu

inawaja elelere

•  streaming tears(eng).

inawati

•  eyebrow(eng).

Literally: eye-road