OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

nau(n)

•  know; be able to.

nanau(n)who knows

aonau(n)I know

aonanau(n)I know already, now I know, I who know

aota nanau(n)I don't know yet etc

nanau(n)

•  know (in which na- may function as an emphatic reduplication.

ta(na)nau(n)

•  not allowed to; unknown (in the sense of amazing, inconceivable, exceedingly).

aaru tananau(n)exceedingly many, innumerable