OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

aktam

Morphological form: ak.tam

•  to chop off for someone; to hew out for someone; to help s.o. to hew.

ci --to make a canoe for s.o.

pe --to catch crabs for someone

mow --to fetch bark fibres for someone

mino p-ak.tam-uy!Help him to hew out the central part (of the canoe-to-be)

akkurum

•  completive form of ak-.

aktotor

•  to chop; strip off individually; everyone for himself (not as part of a group).