OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Ray (2003b): Kala Lagaw Ya Mabuiag

Page number: 25

dana

Variants: dan

Plural: danal

•  n. anything round and bright; the eye; face; pool of water; eyes of a coconut.

danagi

•  adj. blind; without eyes.

danagig

•  n. a blind man.

danalaig

•  n. a living person.

danal-patai

•  v. watch.

dana mi

•  v. rise become round, of the sun.

danan-purutai

•  v. watch; stare at.

dan-doridi

•  v. take counsel.

dan-gud-palai

•  v. open the eyes.

dan-gulgumi

•  v. roll the eyes; pray.

dania-nudai

•  v. differ; form factions.

dan-muk-nagi

•  v. to glance at.

dan-nagi

•  v. be able to see; get sight.

dan-palai

•  v. make alive.

dan-tadumai

•  v. be thoughtless.

dan-tadumi

•  v. make mistakes, of small number of things only.

dan-tai

•  v. look at; show; inform; exhort.

dan-uradai

•  v. die.

dan-walmai

Variants: ulmai

•  v. make alive.

dawa-dan

•  n.

See also: kuiku-dan

iara-dan

•  n. eyelash.

kaura-dan

•  n. an artificial eye of nautilus nacre.

kaura-danau-minar

•  n. name of a pattern.

kuiku-dan

•  n. shoot of banana.

ngeringeri-dan

•  n. scalp; skin of head.

samu-dan

•  n. eyelashes; antennae of insects; eyes of crab.