OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Visser (2020): Kalamang

kai[kai]

•  Noun. firewood (used for cooking and drying); medicine (traditional).kayu bakar; obat.

Fatima mu bo kairep teba.Fatima and family go collect firewood., Fatima dorang pigi ambil kayu bakar.

Wa me kariak kaia kon untuk emumur kalo tumun amkeiret mu wara nanet.This is blood medicine for mothers, when they have given birth they drink this., Ini satu obat darah, untuk mamama kalo melahirkan mereka minum ini.

Semantic domain: food, cooking, fire, medicines, human artifacts

Etymology: proto-Central-Eastern-Malayo-Polynesian *kayu