OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Ray (2003a): Meriam

Page number: 157

kosker

•  n. a married woman; wife.

au kosker

•  n. old woman.

auski kosker

•  n. midwife.

kosker keber

•  n. the impersonator of a deceased woman in the death dance.

koskerlam

•  n. adultery (?).

maik kosker

•  n. a widow.

kosker teibur

•  n. the horizontal bars in wall of house, usually made of bamboo.