OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

n. ‘thing’

pron (qword). ‘used to substitute thing(s) in questions’

v. ‘beat, hit’

v. ‘do, carry out’

v. ‘make, build’

v. ‘play’

v. ‘use, with’

v. ‘wrap a rope around an opening of a flexible container, so that things inside the container do not fall out’

v. ‘pack’

v. ‘anchor, beach, ashore’

v. ‘erect, plant’

n. ‘younger sibling, little brother, little sister’

n. ‘cliff, stone wall’

v. ‘bring someone into conflict’

v. ‘collide’

v. ‘move burning fire woods deeper into a stove to get a better flame’

n. ‘face’

n. ‘in front of, front’

v. ‘block, prevent’

v. ‘defraud, take everything for one's own possession’

n. ‘geometrid caterpillar’

n. ‘caterpillar’

v. ‘sew roughly’

v. ‘decorate, put on make up, beautify, dress up’

v. ‘close’

n. ‘coral reef’

v. ‘weave bamboo incisions to make a fish trap’

v. ‘bewitch somebody so that he/she follows what one wants him/her to do’

n. ‘celebration of a success’

n. ‘traditional feast’

n. ‘dog’

‘male dog’

‘all domesticated animals’

‘vicious dog’

‘female dog’

v. ‘fetch water’

v. ‘go, leave’

n. ‘beach (one that is usually used as a port where fishermen beach their canoes)’

v. ‘find, see’

v. ‘lie, tell a lie, manipulate, cheat’

adv. ‘no, do not’

pron. ‘what’

v. ‘go by, go along’

n. ‘casting net’

n. ‘house yard, one's original house site’

n. ‘sound’

n. ‘seaweed’

n. ‘owner, people’

n. ‘clothes’

n. ‘stomach’

‘he/she has a stomachace’

‘he/she is full’

‘he/she has the need to defecate’

‘he/she is hungry’

adj. ‘slope’

n. ‘tendon, nerve’

n. ‘rice pestle’

n. ‘father’

n. ‘sir, lord, honorific expression used to address elderly men’

n. ‘man, gentleman’

n. ‘weapon’

v. ‘ask for apology, say hello’

adj. ‘empty’

n. ‘magic power’

adv. ‘entire’

n. ‘root’

v. ‘plait, weave’

n. ‘child’

‘small, little, tiny’

n. ‘bait’

‘bait from a hermit crab’

n. ‘wind’

‘eastward wind’

‘monsoon’

v. ‘close, cover’

n. ‘craw’

v. ‘sing a lullaby’

n. ‘fire’

‘smoke’

‘ember’

v. ‘put a baby to sleep with or without singing a lullaby’

v. ‘embrace, hug’

n. ‘lime’

n. ‘dew’

n. ‘beam (of wood) used for sitting’

n. ‘charcoal’

n. ‘plank’

n. ‘arrack’

n. ‘younger sibling, younger brother, younger sister’

v. ‘sharpen’

n. ‘people’

n. ‘sugar-apple’

n. ‘guard, owner’

‘soursop’

n. ‘human being’

v. ‘liver’

n. ‘stone arranged potruding into the sea water to trap fish, stone fish trap’

n. ‘bamboo’