OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

namo(n)

•  earth; field; garden; place; world(eng).

namo gethis garden (field), this place, here(eng)

namo(n) eha

•  some garden (field); a certain place(eng).

namo(n) sirak

•  daylight(eng).

namorin

•  earthspirit(eng).

Note: literally: lord of the earthland

namorino

•  term of address(eng).

namo'upun

•  garden-priest who is also village-chief in peacetime(eng).