OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 43

ial

Plural: ialai

•  n. hair of the head.

ialai

•  n. the hair twisted in long ringlets; the crest of a cockatoo.

ial-poibi

•  v. crackle; make noise, as breaking stick.

ialai-wapi

•  n. a fish; the diamond trevally.

Scientific name: Caranx gallus

ialal-akurar

•  n. small intestines (of dugong).

ialal-dad

•  n. black bat-fish.

Scientific name: Stromateus niger

ial-bup

•  n. hair when short.

ial-damu

•  n. a sea grass.

Scientific name: Cymodocea sp.

ial-kap

•  n. a lock of hair.