OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 254

mara

•  go.

maramara

•  be travelling; travel on; go on; be sleepy.

mara-maran

•  travelling; going on; who travels etc..

mara ha ura'a

•  after one's departure.

mara ma'u

•  come and go; to and fro.

maramara ma uma u

•  continually to and fro; endlessly.

maramara ma'uma'un

•  going to and fro; goings and comings (i.e. doings, behaviour).

mara pain

•  the Creator.

Literally: who makes go

mara palamire

•  hatch; brood.

mararo

•  gone away already.

mara todo

•  have in tow; take in tow.

mara uste

•  ask permission.

mara waaru

•  visit; assist at.

amaramara

•  audacious; bold.

inamara

•  go where; whither.

itasmara

•  be scattered; asunder; fly apart.

pain itasmara

•  mischief-maker; firebrand.

it'hemara

•  go far inside; far inland; to the very centre.

mal(u)hemara

•  go out.

mud(u)hemara

•  go in.

pan(u)hemara

•  go on.