OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Ray (2003d): Kala Lagaw Ya Tudu

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Total entries: 37
Headword IPA Glosses
age

‘Australian’

al

‘dawn, daybreak.’

bop

‘arrow’

gobib

‘native of Parama’

goiga ar-palarmi

‘sun rises’

iladi

‘shine, of moon only’

inurau pudaiginga

‘evening twilight’

kodal

‘crocodile’

kopam

‘native of Kiwai’

kora

‘crocodile’

koroi

‘suffix’

kulkadai

‘variety of yam’

kursai

‘ear’

mael

‘suffix’

maidam

‘image used in rain making’

maiei

‘belt worn obliquely across the chest’

naduiza

‘hair on the pubes’

naguai

‘yam’

nagwam

‘child of ngaibat, father's sister's child’

ngawaki

‘girl’

panau

‘knot in a yam’

paut

‘forehead’

ruail

‘(?)’

sege

‘long yam’

te

‘mouth’

teda

‘blowfly’

tibi

‘ashes’

titoal

‘star (plural)’

turkiam-markai

‘representative of deceased man in death ceremony’

turkiam-markai

‘representative of the deceased in the death dance, inhabitant ofKibu, European’

turukiai markai

‘representative of deceased man in death ceremony’

utu-lag

‘house sleeping place’

wasili

‘kind of basket’

worogi

‘place in layers, one thing on another.’

zangai

‘child, boy’

zialai

‘(plural) cloud’

zogo

‘shrine’