OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

nai(n), naima

(1) from (temporal).

nai amipaunhirafrom the times (occasionally: at the time) of our ancestors

nai ma gofrom that time (local)

(2) from (local).

nai Madjarfrom Madjar

o nai mefrom where (are) you

nanai djuluwho is from the East, the one from the East

nanai

•  made out of.

nai aimade of wood

nai paputimade of white cloth

nai ... ratan

•  from ... to.

heti nai

•  ask from.

Note: In fast speech the ~i may be dropped, e.g. namuri instead of nai muri 'afterwards, last'.