OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Roesler (2011): Central Asmat

bwimsem

Variants: mwimsen

•  v. bathe someone (with bwi).

Bwi abwimsemeres.They bathed people (who had received heads taken by s headhunting raid).

Reference: 6.365; 6.1521