OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

on(i), un(i)

•  because; as; just as; if; when.

onhala

•  because; why (also interrog.).

oni ... onitjoi

•  just as ... so.

nion

•  the cause of it is; it must be owing to.

oni ge

•  for this reason; thus; namely; then; after that.

oni go

•  for that reason; once upon a time (used as introductory particle at the beginning of a story).

onima

•  as; just as; if; when.

onime

•  why; what is the reason that.

onimanigo

•  thus; so it is; all-right; that's all; under those circumstances; so; after that.