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(eng).

nanau(n)who knows(eng)

aonau(n)I know(eng)

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

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

nanau(n)

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

ta(na)nau(n)

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

aaru tananau(n)exceedingly many, innumerable(eng)