OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

amese

Morphological form: ames.e

•  to do/be/say (by an agent who is lying down or belongs to the positional category lying down.

mayi mayi --to lie burning

mi kanka --to lie down snoring

mirmirmir --to become bigger and bigger

no or atow m-amese yipic m-emamis pow!I am not your playmate! (says a snake)

may amse-mar arawthe tracks were there