OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

leli

•  fell (trees); hew.

leli loi

•  perform the preparatory labour for making a dug-out (the felling and splitting of a tree).

malaleli loi

•  want (be going) to prepare the making of a dug-out.