OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Voorhoeve (nd c): Asmat Flamingo Bay

at, ta, t

•  gen.v.+ adjunct nominal.

acin at

•  to stick to; be attached to; to be full (sago washing trough)(eng).

acuw at

•  to forbid(eng).

amas at

•  pound sago(eng).

apo at

•  to feel sorry for(eng).

aw at

•  to get breasts(eng).

cemew at

•  to abuse(eng).

ya at

•  to move(eng).

masim at

•  to watch carefully(eng).

masom at

•  to visit(eng).

mese at

•  to pick the scales from one's skin (person with tinea/cascado)(eng).

mu at

•  throw water up into the air(eng).

owen at

•  to fight(eng).

per at

•  to have as a (co)wife(eng).

pokmu at

•  have a feast(eng).

pu at

•  come near(eng).

purumuc at, seypa at

•  to work with a bush knife(eng).

seypiri at

•  to work with a chisel(eng).

sen at

•  to notch(eng).

sokor at

•  be weakened (e.g. trunk of sago palm of which the pith has been eaten by grubs)(eng).

uwku at

•  to braid/plait hair with a bone crochet needle(eng).

uwku m-at-nakap

•  a bit of hair-braiding(eng).