OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Silzer (1983c): Biak

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
adiradir

‘post’

aduaraduar

‘sago stirrer’

aiai

‘tree’

aibonaibon

‘heart’

amauamau

‘sago pounder’

amperamper

‘sago frond rib’

andisaandisa

‘breadfruit’

aperaper

‘fold’

apusapus

‘grandparent’

arekarek

‘bite’

asawaasawa

‘papaya’

asriasri

‘mortar’

asurasur

‘comb (n.)’

awakawak

‘orphan’

awerawer

‘turn’

baba

‘big’

babeubabeu

‘water jar’

babobabo

‘new’

bakbak

‘pay’

bambam

‘palm, sole’

barekbarek

‘lie down’

binbin

‘woman’

biserbiser

‘hungry’

bonbon

‘fruit’

bonbon

‘mouth’

bon-dibon-di

‘outside’

boresbores

‘paddle (v.)’

brubru

‘head’

burbur

‘body hair’

dinedine

‘hold’

dodo

‘inside’

dudu

‘two’

durdur

‘coconut juice’

dwarekdwarek

‘obstruct’

enefenef

‘sleep’

epenepen

‘pinch’

esenesen

‘hand (of bananas)’

fararifarari

‘imitate’

farifari

‘decorate’

fasfas

‘rice’

fikfik

‘seven’

forfor

‘catch’

fukenfuken

‘ask’

ii

‘he’

ikoiikoi

‘arrow’

inin

‘fish (n.)’

ineminem

‘drink’

inoiinoi

‘knife’

kaboreskabores

‘oar’

kakokako

‘also’

kaneskanes

‘weep’

kaparawerkaparawer

‘crooked’

kaprerkaprer

‘tongue’

kasinanokasinano

‘cucumber’

kasunkasun

‘small’

kawenkawen

‘prawn’

kbur bekbur be

‘conch’

kinfirkinfir

‘choose’

kiorkior

‘three’

knakna

‘ear’

knampuknampu

‘short’

knikknik

‘soon’

kobkob

‘sugarcane’

koberkober

‘dull’

korkor

‘count’

kpukpu

‘grandparent’

krafkraf

‘meat’

krukru

‘back’

kukkuk

‘pound (sago)’

kukerkuker

‘with (Accomp.)’

kwarkwar

‘old (thing)’

mababmabab

‘yawn’

mafenmafen

‘fat (n.)’

mambrukmambruk

‘crowned pigeon’

manman

‘bird’

manman

‘man, male’

mananakmananak

‘ant’

manawirmanawir

‘leader’

manimani

‘oil’

manibobmanibob

‘friend’

man-seiman-sei

‘who’

man-swarman-swar

‘cassowary’

marmar

‘die’

marbakmarbak

‘heavy’

marisanmarisan

‘pepper’

marisenmarisen

‘like’

masenmasen

‘salt’

masyanmasjan

‘widower’

mbrifmbrif

‘laugh’

mgirmɡir

‘leak’

mkakmkak

‘fear’

mnibermniber

‘bee’

mnumnu

‘village’

munmun

‘kill’

muremmurem

‘east’

nafnaf

‘dog’

nornor

‘ironwood’

nu-nu-

‘island’

nyannjan

‘road, path’

okok

‘intercourse’

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