OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

sala

•  wrong; not good; not true; guilt; fault; misdeed; bad act in general; failure.

sala he

•  good; true, etc.

salan(a)

•  guilty; guilt; especially: incest; adultery.

salan ali ederemu he

•  forgive; forgiveness.

Literally: guilt no longer remember

salan āni

•  be guilty; be wrong; sin.

salan me iawaje

•  accuse.

Literally: throw up who is guilty

salan pai

•  be guilty; sin (especially of sexual sins).

inasala

•  dissolute; debauched; fornication; fornicate.