OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Ray (2003f): Kala Lagaw Ya Saibai

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Total entries: 56
Headword IPA Glosses
arigal-kupmani

‘twisted string’

balbaigi-palai

‘straighten’

bid

‘petticoat worn during pregnancy’

bid wapa

‘plant used in making bid’

doid

‘plain open place’

dugu

‘blunt’

dural

‘other, different’

gamu-diu-mani

‘dance’

gamu-kaubazi

‘tired’

gigino

‘thunder’

gud-palami

‘overflow’

ial-pat

‘comb’

iananu-mani

‘sell, offer for sale’

igalaig

‘kinsman, friend’

imus

‘soge’

inananga

‘(demonstrative)’

iz

‘(suffix) to verbs’

kauba

‘laziness, weakness, fatigue’

kaubu

‘fighting, war’

kaura-pus

‘ear-hole’

kobegada

‘unless’

komakoma

‘one by one’

kukun-mapi

‘kick’

kulu-kulba

‘first time’

kurisai

‘fringe of the bid’

kusaig

‘self’

lngu

‘(suffix) from’

lpa

‘(suffix)’

magina

‘sometimes for |fI{maginga}’

mail

‘suffix’

makiam

‘call, cooey’

makiam-ieudai

‘wonder at, exclaim’

mari-dan

‘mirror’

misai

‘yes’

moken-mizi

‘want’

mu-asi

‘finish’

mut-umaizinga

‘plaited string with three plies’

nainonob

‘apart, in different places, in groups here and there’

ngabad

‘cave’

ngi

‘thou’

ngita

‘you (plural)’

pa

‘(suffix)’

parapara

‘power’

pa-wadai

‘rebuke’

purul-kazi

‘thief’

sesi-tamai

‘think, show, guide’

sike

‘if’

supa

‘louse’

tulai

‘dirty’

tulaigi

‘clean’

ukauka laelo

‘two by two’

wakai

‘chase’

wakasu

‘oil’

wata

‘season, year’

worogi

‘place in layers, one thing on another.’

wuz

‘quartz’