OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Josselin de Jong (1947): Ili'uun Erai

ili(n)

•  village(eng).

ilihun

•  skirt of the village(eng).

iliralan

•  village population(eng).

Note: literally: coast-village

ili tjahi

•  government village(eng).

Note: i.e. the village built on the coast by order of the Government, in contradistinction of the real village or the dwellingplaces in the gardens inland

la iliralan

•  in one's own village(eng).

la ili eha

•  in another village; in other villages(eng).