OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Ray (2003a): Meriam

Page number: 123

apu

•  n. mother, etc.; mother's sister; horizontal fire-stick.

Note: Not Vocative

Etymology comment: Mabuiag apu, mother

apule

•  mother's brother and sister's child (reciprocal).

apu ur ikwar

•  "fire is produced," literally "mother gives fire," said of the horizontal fire-stick.

gani-apu

•  n. a bee.

isau-apu

•  n. a bee.

meg-apu

•  n. a shrimp.

we apu

•  n. larva of ant-lion.