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.

pain(i)

•  making etc.; who makes etc.; deed; act; owing to.

paipain

•  deeds; doings; behaviour; matter; business.

painpain etekaure

•  mend one's ways.

Literally: stop doings

(i) paipain liare selre

•  repent; mend one's ways.

Literally: change doings

paipain mahune

•  bad act; vice.

lawan paipain

•  goldsmith.

Literally: who uses to work gold

pai ne

•  to sneeze.

pai pu'ine pai la'ine

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

pai to ahahara he

•  to astonish.

See also: ahahara

pai to ederemu he

•  to confuse; make somebody lose his head.

See also: ederemu

pai to iro

•  fulfil; complete; accomplish; cause to arrive; deliver.

See also: iro

pai to isa tutu he

•  make averse from; inspire with aversion.

pai to ita o'one he

•  cause to differ from each other; make different.

pai to lowai

•  lengthen.

pai to lumete

•  to crush; dissolve.

pai to oone

•  create; produce; compare.