OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

mate

•  die; dead; sleeping (of members of the body).

mate ēr

•  be parched with thirst (to death).

mate klar

•  starve; be starved.

(ata) mate nō

•  burying-place.

Note: literally: dead stay, dead are left

mamate

•  who dies; going to die; who is dead; dead.

manimamate

•  when he was going to die.

ito mamate

•  many corpses.

See also: ma