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).

acuw at

•  to forbid.

amas at

•  pound sago.

apo at

•  to feel sorry for.

aw at

•  to get breasts.

cemew at

•  to abuse.

ya at

•  to move.

masim at

•  to watch carefully.

masom at

•  to visit.

mese at

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

mu at

•  throw water up into the air.

owen at

•  to fight.

per at

•  to have as a (co)wife.

pokmu at

•  have a feast.

pu at

•  come near.

purumuc at, seypa at

•  to work with a bush knife.

seypiri at

•  to work with a chisel.

sen at

•  to notch.

sokor at

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

uwku at

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

uwku m-at-nakap

•  a bit of hair-braiding.