OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

lau(n)

•  silver; gold.

Note: More especially: silver, whereas lau(n) mara is a special word for: gold; lau(n), however, is used for both silver ear-drops and the heirlooms of gold (called mas bulan in Mal.) which play an important role in marriage-transactions.