OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 265

pai

•  make; do; cause to(eng).

pain(i)

•  making etc.; who makes etc.; deed; act; owing to(eng).

paipain

•  deeds; doings; behaviour; matter; business(eng).

painpain etekaure

•  mend one's ways(eng).

Literally: stop doings

(i) paipain liare selre

•  repent; mend one's ways(eng).

Literally: change doings

paipain mahune

•  bad act; vice(eng).

lawan paipain

•  goldsmith(eng).

Literally: who uses to work gold

pai ne

•  to sneeze(eng).

pai pu'ine pai la'ine

•  take away somebody's shame (e.g. by fining the person who has insulted him)(eng).

pai to ahahara he

•  to astonish(eng).

See also: ahahara

pai to ederemu he

•  to confuse; make somebody lose his head(eng).

See also: ederemu

pai to iro

•  fulfil; complete; accomplish; cause to arrive; deliver(eng).

See also: iro

pai to isa tutu he

•  make averse from; inspire with aversion(eng).

pai to ita o'one he

•  cause to differ from each other; make different(eng).

pai to lowai

•  lengthen(eng).

pai to lumete

•  to crush; dissolve(eng).

pai to oone

•  create; produce; compare(eng).