OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 259

nair(i)

•  custom; manners; good manners; good sense; wisdom; discreteness etc.; use; clothes; dress(eng).

naire he

•  not in use(eng).

naire hewete

•  in use(eng).

nainairi

•  clothes; dresses(eng).

nair jāni

•  good manners etc(eng).

nair mahunana

•  bad manners; bad ways etc(eng).

nair mahunana liare selre

•  repent; be converted(eng).

Literally: change one's bad ways

nair nahamai

•  ill-mannered; ill-bred(eng).