OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

cowkan

•  together with; parallel to; close together(eng).

ci -- somotthe people who came together in one (ancestral) canoe(eng)

yo --(living) together on one and the same river(eng)

orepuc cin cowkan-a!stay with your elder brother!(eng)

onow ara cowkan-akapthe thatch should be (put down) close together(eng)

yo-nakap mokot cowkan kawise-r inthe creek ran parallel to the sago garden(eng)

Kaye am aram Yepem cin yo cowkanKaye and Yepem lived together on the same river(eng)