OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Silzer (1983a): Ambai

Original citation: Silzer, Peter. 1983. Ambai: An Austronesian Language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. PhD Thesis, Australian National University.

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Headword IPA Glosses
a-dafia-dafi

‘pestle’

adaiadai

‘tall’

adiaadia

‘fire’

adiwa(r)adiwa(r)

‘hide (intr)’

aeae

‘vein’

afaiafai

‘bow (n.)’

afaiafai

‘sail (v.)’

afai-sinafai-sin

‘bowstring’

afuafu

‘answer’

afuranafuran

‘pigeon’

aiai

‘my mother’

aiai

‘salt’

aiai

‘say’

aiai

‘tree’

ai-bonai-bon

‘heart’

aifaiaifai

‘crab’

ainauainau

‘teach’

airaiairai

‘gourd’

ai-rapeai-rape

‘beam’

ai-rauai-rau

‘sea’

ai-rerawaai-rerawa

‘bark (n.)’

ai-robonai-robon

‘tree trunk’

ai-ronai-ron

‘ironwood’

ai-roronai-roron

‘jungle’

ai-sankinai-sankin

‘nest’

ai-soai-so

‘stick (digging)’

ai-soriai-sori

‘mortar’

ai-subunai-subun

‘peg’

ai-tabaai-taba

‘crossbeam’

aiyaiaijai

‘above’

aiyaiyaiaijaijai

‘light (weight)’

ai-yaruai-jaru

‘casuarina’

akaaka

‘tomorrow’

akeraakera

‘fast, quick’

ama-daunama-daun

‘tail’

amafaamafa

‘yawn’

amiami

‘command’

amiaiamiai

‘dream’

amoamo

‘kangaroo, tree’

ampekiampeki

‘sago frond rib’

ampiampi

‘eat (intr)’

amuamu

‘bunch’

amumariamumari

‘fly (n.)’

anan

‘eat (tr)’

anan

‘scabies’

anananan

‘sago pudding’

ananaanana

‘ant’

anawianawi

‘point to’

andariandari

‘mango’

andauandau

‘breadfruit’

andaunandaun

‘mat’

andeisaandeisa

‘wave (n.)’

andoriandori

‘Eugenia’

aniaianiai

‘needle’

anikaanika

‘dry (tr.)’

anitaanita

‘breadfruit’

aniwaaniwa

‘bee’

ankadiankadi

‘coconut’

ankadi kuruankadi kuru

‘coconut juice’

anonaianonai

‘wait’

a(nsa)wai-bona(nsa)wai-bon

‘papaya’

antaraunantaraun

‘roof’

antenanten

‘good’

antinuiantinui

‘squid’

an-toruan-toru

‘we (ex tr.)’

antunantun

‘child’

anu(m)anu(m)

‘weave, plait’

aparandinaparandin

‘praise’

ara-beraara-bera

‘turn’

ara-bera(k)ara-bera(k)

‘return home’

arahiaiarahiai

‘dry (cloth)’

araiarai

‘dig’

arawanarawan

‘branch’

arawinarawin

‘sail (n.)’

areaiareai

‘sash’

arikanarikan

‘child’

arikanarikan

‘curse’

arikan awataarikan awata

‘orphan’

arikan tataruiarikan tatarui

‘twins’

aririariri

‘crab’

aro-aro-

‘chest’

aro-oaro-o

‘remember’

aro-pora(k)aro-pora(k)

‘forget’

asuiasui

‘sink’

atoato

‘arrow’

atorator

‘count’

aumpeaumpe

‘bamboo (small)’

aunaiaunai

‘areca nut’

autaauta

‘climb’

awaawa

‘sew’

awakaawaka

‘star’

awayanawajan

‘sell’

awe-bukaawe-buka

‘knee’

awe-didiuawe-didiu

‘heel’

awe-dunawe-dun

‘thigh’

awe-kekaawe-keka

‘toe’

awe-rowawaawe-rowawa

‘calf’

awi(t)awi(t)

‘tie’

awokiawoki

‘float’

aya-diruaja-diru

‘bat’

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