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Voorhoeve (nd c): Asmat Flamingo Bay

Original citation: Voorhoeve, C.L. nd. An Asmat - English Dictionary: Flamingo Bay dialect. Unpublished manuscript.

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Headword	IPA	Glosses
"" inim a-takyise-r ""	"" inim a-takjise-r ""	‘said he, rowing downstream’
""yitakamtiw-er	""jitakamtiw-er	‘while she was saying, he struck her down (with a dagger)’
:yo a-nikasimop-er in …	:jo a-nikasimop-er in …	‘till the sun had gone down’
`l	`l	‘sit, stay - everyone individually, by him/herself’
a	a	‘(thick) branch of a tree, thigh, hind-leg of an animal’
a	a	‘3rd p. sg/pl.: he, she, it, they, this, these, here’
a	a	‘hey, oh, ah!’
a	a	‘marks vocatives, or emphatic utterances’
a	a	‘to, towards, in the direction of’
a akmap	a akmap	‘sit with one's legs wide apart’
a a-sayis-mar	a a-sajis-mar	‘(her) thighs spread outwards (as the roots of a tree)’
a cem aremomiw	a tʃem aremomiw	‘bring one half (of sth) inside the house’
a ci norpa a-kumtowop-of	a tʃi norpa a-kumtowop-of	‘I got the canoe across (snag in the river) all by myself!’
a cowak	a tʃowak	‘and so on’
a kawkaw	a kawkaw	‘opening and closing one’s thighs in rapid succession’
a kawkaw	a kawkaw	‘opening and closing the thighs’
a mac kamimpum-or in	a matʃ kamimpum-or in	‘he stopped wailing’
a makpic	a makpitʃ	‘his adopted yo.br.’; ‘adik piara’
a nam pu simomis	a nam pu simomis	‘iets liggend tegen je aan gedrukt houden’
a nat Fay nesen aptawpisomit-er in	a nat faj nesen aptawpisomit-er in	‘they went only as far as the Fay’
a nowan	a nowan	‘in our direction, on our side’
a nucur atakam tawawer a	a nutʃur atakam tawawer a	1. ‘elders should speak!’ 2. ‘go on telling’
a okos wutnat inim caemapawer	a okos wutnat inim tʃaemapawer	‘it was sitting with shining tusks’
a paypupu	a pajpupu	‘with the thighs wide open’
a pu nim yaracicin-mar	a pu nim jaratʃitʃin-mar	‘he came nearer until he was very close to them’
á sisiwams-i	á sisiwams-i	‘lie down here!’
a tatam	a tatam	‘form branches, grow branches, form flowers (sago palm)’
a yew kor ma-yiwpum ow opak in	a jew kor ma-jiwpum ow opak in	‘there were no people to fill the large yew’
a yisempor-i	a jisempor-i	‘please, come here outside!’
a Yomot tete a Ma tete	a jomot tete a ma tete	‘between the Ma and Yomot’
ac	atʃ	‘cut, chop, chisel, remove small flakes from sth.’
acam	atʃam	‘not-yet-finished inside of a canoe under construction (when finished)’
acan	atʃan	‘advice, admonition, request, order’
acan fo ororomom	atʃan fo ororomom	‘id.’
acan ow	atʃan ow	‘give advice, admonish’
acan owom	atʃan owom	‘request ( a person to do something)’
acan owpor	atʃan owpor	‘try to give advice’
acen	atʃen	‘sp. of wild banana (with seeds)’
acic-acic	atʃitʃ-atʃitʃ	‘all kinds of’
acicin	atʃitʃin	‘beforehand, ahead, in advance of’
acin	atʃin	‘crust of roasted sago, barrier, obstruction, cover’
acin	atʃin	‘Y’
acin at	atʃin at	‘stick to, attached to, full (sago washing trough)’
acin nitem	atʃin nitem	1. ‘go down and settle at’ 2. ‘go ‘down’ and form a barrier (blocking the enemy’s way)’
acin okokortam	atʃin okokortam	‘peel off the crust (of the roasted sago) for s.o.’
acin okortiw	atʃin okortiw	‘roast until a crust has formed’
acin taku-	atʃin taku-	‘go ashore blocking someone’s way’
acin takurum	atʃin takurum	‘head off a person, block a person’s way by getting in front of him, cover sth’
acin tase	atʃin tase	‘obstruct s o’s way on the river’
acin tiwat	atʃin tiwat	‘reach/get nearly to’
acir	atʃir	‘platform on the collar beams of the house, used for storing sago and household implements, broad base of the midrib of a sago frond’
acir fifimtaw	atʃir fifimtaw	‘scrape off the thorns from sago midribs’
acir fimtewer	atʃir fimtewer	‘cut off the midrib of a sago frond’
aciw	atʃiw	‘drenched in water, rinsed’
ackurum	atʃkurum	‘cut, chop completely, cut all’
aco	atʃo	‘shoal of fish’
acom	atʃom	‘stand chiseling’
acom	atʃom	‘Y’
acor	atʃor
acu	atʃu	‘nettle sp.’
acuw	atʃuw	‘(?) prohibition, refusal’
acuw at	atʃuw at	‘forbid’
acuw atem	atʃuw atem	‘want to kill somebody in anger’
af	af	‘(a person’s) lap’
af	af	‘beat, hit, strike, kill’
af	af	‘boing! hit!’
a-famircuk-er in	a-famirtʃuk-er in	‘immediately he set out again’
afan	afan	‘kill to eat, kill edible objects’
afayis	afajis	‘grandparents’
afcin	aftʃin	‘cooked crust of a ball of roasted sago’
afciramis	aftʃiramis	‘lying down, coiled up (e.g. a snake)’
afcir(i)	aftʃir(i)	‘coiled up, coil oneself (e.g. said of a snake)’
afcirim	aftʃirim	‘roll up, coil up’
afciriyukap	aftʃirijukap	‘lie coiled up in a heap (long hair)’
afciryuyukutemet	aftʃirjujukutemet	‘twist one’s way upwards (into a tree) [said of a snake]’
afe	afe	1. ‘dust, cloud of dust, dirt (on floor)’ 2. ‘in great numbers, swarming with’
afe	afe	‘fan, made of leaves or the leaf-sheath of a sago palm’
afek	afek	‘groin’
afem	afem	‘fan (a fire)’
afeyiw	afejiw	‘enter (a house) in great numbers, like a cloud of dust’
afin	afin	‘maggot’
afinem	afinem	‘blow out downwards’
afkam	afkam	‘shoot down (a bird)’
afnim	afnim	‘miss, fail to hit’
afo	afo	‘broad, wide’
afomapom	afomapom	‘widen sth. (a 'sitting' object)’
afomotak	afomotak	‘widen sth. while going downriver’
afsem	afsem	‘kill s.o. on the river/in the water’
afsomit	afsomit	‘get up/depart while yelling’
afun	afun	‘froth, air bubbles (e.g. blown out by someone under water; bubbles which come out of the holes in the trunk of a sago palm full of sago grubs which are almost fully grown)’
afuy	afuj	‘fish sp., proper name of male’
afuy	afuj	‘keeping close to sth, s.o.’
ak	ak	‘(always followed by in and a verb form often containing ak) immediately after doing X, proceed with Y’
ak	ak	‘action usually implies a motion along a curved surface, or a curving motion: to chop or strip off along a curved surface, shave, scoop up’
ak	ak	‘curved surface, cheek, gills (of a fish), side of a canoe, beside’
ak	ak	‘grandfather, husband's father’
ak in aken	ak in aken	‘straightaway to go upstream’
ak in akom	ak in akom	‘immediately after doing X start working on sth.’
ak in akomis	ak in akomis	‘immediately after doing X to go to the forest to meet somebody’
ak in akompuw	ak in akompuw	‘immediately after doing X to go to the river carrying sth.’
ak in aktemet	ak in aktemet	‘at once climb / go upwards’
ak in aktep	ak in aktep	‘go up the river immediately after (having done sth else)’
ak in emak	ak in emak	‘straight away go on with (after finishing doing sth.)’
ak in m-oseak pak	ak in m-oseak pak	‘he didn't turn back’
ak in tepakamis	ak in tepakamis	‘lie down immediately after having gone up the river’
ak kawimom	ak kawimom	‘walk beside s.o., join a.p. and walk with him’
ak m-amfop	ak m-amfop	‘mutually to rub cheeks (as a sign of love)’
ak mi komen comit	ak mi komen tʃomit	‘lick all over someone’s face’
ak mi komen ominom	ak mi komen ominom	‘stand licking a person's face’
ak mi onmimem	ak mi onmimem	‘lick someone’s face (as an expression of love)’
ak nikawimomis	ak nikawimomis	‘lie down to sleep beside s.o.’
ak nikawimomse	ak nikawimomse	‘go into the water beside s.o.’
ak popumapom	ak popumapom	‘blow up one's cheeks’
akakam	akakam	‘tear, chop to pieces’
akakanimomse	akakanimomse	‘akakanim om se, ka kanim om se, ak akanim om se?’
akakapipu	akakapipu	‘always to go out on one's own (hunting; fishing)’
akam	akam	‘beat up’
akam	akam	‘nipa palm’
akam	akam	‘open, wrench open, open up’
akam emcirem	akam emtʃirem	‘go and cut nipa palm fronds’
akam opom ciromse	akam opom tʃiromse	‘cut off nipa palm fronds and take them away in the canoe’
akamapom	akamapom	‘open, unfold, spread out (one’s legs)’
akamis	akamis	‘there (said of footprints; tracks)’
ak(a)mom	ak(a)mom	‘hold something open’
ak(a)momis	ak(a)momis	‘go ashore/to he forest with sth one has opened/which is open’
akamomkonaw	akamomkonaw	‘get (water) and carry it ashore (?)’
akampor	akampor	‘try to open’
akamsow	akamsow	‘jump aside, go aside’
akamtam	akamtam	‘open sth for someone’
akamtaw	akamtaw	‘tear/chop off and take (e.g. leaves off a tree)’
akamtiw	akamtiw	‘split open (lying obj.)’
akan	akan	‘catch and eat/to catch for food’
akan	akan	‘hemorrhoids’
akan	akan	‘sprout, shoot of a palm or tree, offspring, descendants’
Akani	akani	‘name of a yew’
akap	akap	‘minor part, 2nd/following part, of a song’
ak(a)pi	ak(a)pi	‘on one's own, go/row by oneself, not in company of others’
akapiem	akapiem	‘stand on one's own’
akapimtiw	akapimtiw	‘cause to be separate (e.g. said of a wood carver who makes the legs of a statue stand apart)’
akarit	akarit	‘stand up ?’
akasam	akasam	‘scrape off’
akat	akat	‘good, fine, beautiful, wholly, real’
akat cepes apacin-mar araw	akat tʃepes apatʃin-mar araw	‘mooie vrouwen zijn er allen’
akat cowak	akat tʃowak	‘very good’
akat yirnam	akat jirnam	‘very beautiful’
Akatamansimit	akatamansimit	‘proper name of male (good-inside-Senior)’
akatcowuc	akattʃowutʃ	‘good wife’
akates	akates	‘very good, very beautiful (usually followed by cowak)’
akatipic	akatipitʃ	‘very good, excellent’
akaw	akaw	‘frond of a palm tree’
akay	akaj	‘k.o. lizard’
akay	akaj	‘swallow (bird). Flies very high when it is going to rain, just like the susur’
akayem	akajem	‘stand naked’
Akayeres	akajeres	‘proper name of male’
akca(r)	aktʃa(r)	‘together, sharing’
ake	ake	‘fully grown’
akekem	akekem	‘redupl. form of akem’
akem	akem	‘break off, cut down’
akem n	akem n	‘small hoop net used to catch shrimps’
akemasam	akemasam	‘break off and throw away’
akemom	akemom	‘break and stand with it, busy cutting down (Subj. standing)’
akemomas	akemomas	‘break off and take away’
akemotep	akemotep	‘break off and carry along up the river (eg. strong incoming tide breaks off a branch)’
akemsem	akemsem	‘break off s.t. which is on the river (e.p. prow of canoe)’
akemtewen	akemtewen	‘take s.t. from in order to eat it / to take s.t. edible away from (perhaps kemtewen; as Mif. offers the form mekemtewen)’
akemtewer	akemtewer	‘break off sth and take it’
akemtiw	akemtiw	‘chop off, cut down, damage (e.g. a house)’
akemwum	akemwum	‘cut down and scoop out the contents (of a sago palm)’
akemyir(i)momse	akemjir(i)momse	‘filled to the brim with sago (sago washing trough)’
akemyiwoni	akemjiwoni	‘rain heavily, come down in buckets (rain)’
aken	aken	‘very’
akfimusum	akfimusum	‘dig out/hollow out a dugout canoe’
akfomis	akfomis	‘hollow out (a canoe)’
akin	akin	‘immediately after, straightaway (always followed by a verb containing the verb root’
akinmitip	akinmitip	‘perforation of the nostril’
akkurum	akkurum	‘completive form of ak-’
akmat	akmat	‘old, of people’
akmat aworseasam	akmat aworseasam	‘have become very old’
akmat mom wayawer-i	akmat mom wajawer-i	‘may you become very old!’
aknawiriem	aknawiriem	‘go one's own way, independent of others’
aknem	aknem	‘chop off, peel off, downwards’
akni	akni	‘go seawards on one's own, lead towards the sea (a track)’
aknim	aknim	‘irritated, annoyed, squabbling (of children)’
ako	ako	‘grandmother’
ako	ako	‘tree sp.’
akoan	akoan	‘song of the yipay feast’
akokor	akokor	‘smooth, slippery’
akokor so	akokor so	‘song sung during the Bis feast (with women beating the drums according to informant Yoperak of Yepem village)’
akomas	akomas	‘cut away, remove (growth off a tree)’
akoni	akoni	‘return downriver to/with’
akosi	akosi	‘fix firmly, snap into place’
akow	akow	‘cut open (a track), cut oneself a way through the bushes, clear the undergrowth round a tree’
akpes	akpes	‘scarification, tattoo’
aksa	aksa	‘forked, of a tree’
aksemtam	aksemtam	‘finish a new canoe for someone’
akser	akser	‘bend oneself’
akserem	akserem	‘move to one side, out of the way, make a detour’
akseremocin	akseremotʃin	‘bend oneself in upstream direction while carrying s.t., walk in upstream direction with, following a circuitous path’
akseremtapom	akseremtapom	‘send someone up the river along a detour’
akseremtewer	akseremtewer	‘take sth away from behind ( the verb denotes that one has to reach around something to get it)’
akseres	akseres	‘come by a devious/circuitous way: wasen ay-akseres-caraw let him come through the forest by a devious way’
akserni	akserni	‘return home by a roundabout way (walking)’
akserotep	akserotep	‘take s o./sth up the river by a roundabout way’
aksertak	aksertak	‘go down the river by a roundabout way’
aksuwomis	aksuwomis	‘cut a track through the jungle’
aktam	aktam	‘chop off for someone, hew out for someone, help s.o. to hew’
aktiw	aktiw	‘chop/strip off until finished’
aktotor	aktotor	‘chop, strip off individually, everyone for himself (not as part of a group)’
akuan purumuc	akuan purumutʃ	‘one of the songs of the spirit feast (yipay mu), also sung during the sago-tray feast (an pok mu) when the trays (an) are made’
akumapompor	akumapompor	‘for the first time try to fasten sth on’
Akumyewes	akumjewes	‘proper name of male’
akurum	akurum	‘remove all’
am	am	‘3rd pers.sg. emphatic form usually followed by aram’
am	am	‘also, and, with’
am	am	‘cut with an axe’
am	am	‘fish sp. (Lates calcarifer) BI kakap’
am	am	‘tree sp.’
am	am	‘adverbializer?’
am-	am-	‘fish man’
am mimin	am mimin	‘whiskers of the am fish’
amakapi	amakapi	‘go one’s separate way’
amamew	amamew	‘tell one another to do sth., order one another’
amamis	amamis	‘lie down together’
amamtewer	amamtewer	‘barter’
Aman	aman	‘name of a yew group’
aman	aman	‘bow (weapon)’
aman	aman	‘eat together with someone, join others to eat’
aman	aman	‘eat together, join in eating’
aman	aman	‘inside, in, during, underneath, below, under’
aman apcom nimomkonaw	aman aptʃom nimomkonaw	‘come up the bank of the river carrying a bow’
aman asow	aman asow	‘heavy bow, bow which is difficult to bend’
aman at(a)momkonaw	aman at(a)momkonaw	‘come ashore, bow ready to shoot’
aman atamompor	aman atamompor	‘try out a bow’
aman atamotak	aman atamotak	‘go down the river, bow at the ready’
aman fayipic	aman fajipitʃ	‘good bowman, good shot’
aman fem	aman fem	‘bow without bowstring’
aman in makpirem	aman in makpirem	‘nurse a grievance, have a grievance but keep it a secret’
aman mesatmotak	aman mesatmotak	‘walk down the river along the bank, holding a bow at the ready’
aman mo	aman mo	‘that part of the pith of the sago palm that contains sago grubs’
aman sam	aman sam	‘shoot with a bow’
aman se	aman se	‘rattan ring/knot at the end of the bow which keeps the eye in the bowstring in its place’
aman sur amesatmomis	aman sur amesatmomis	‘cautiously to go forward in the direction of the forest, bow ready to shoot’
aman tiwanim	aman tiwanim	‘take a bow from above’
aman wac a yan	aman watʃ a jan	‘sound of the release of the bowstring’
aman yiam	aman jiam	‘shoot at each other’
aman yirasam	aman jirasam	‘draw the bow’
aman yokmen nim anmop	aman jokmen nim anmop	‘he sat pulling the bow strongly (so that it looked like a pair of firetongs)’
am(a)nam	am(a)nam	‘in his/her presence’
Amanamkay	amanamkaj	‘name of a yew group’
amanapak wase	amanapak wase	‘bright red’
amanfa yipic	amanfa jipitʃ	‘good archer’
Amanpinokon	amanpinokon	‘proper name of male’
amantiw	amantiw	‘horizontal beams resting on the house stilts, supporting the floor and walls of the house, bottom plate’
amapom	amapom	‘cause to sit together, marry a couple, put down together’
Amar	amar	‘name of a yew’
amar	amar	‘go together with a person, accompany’
amas	amas	1. ‘sago, sago palm, food’ 2. ‘edible, ripe’
amas a mimin	amas a mimin	‘sago crumbs’
amas acin a-okor-ac in	amas atʃin a-okor-atʃ in	‘after she had the sago crust’
amas akaw a po a-yine-mom	amas akaw a po a-jine-mom	‘we use a midrib of a sago frond for the sago-washing trough’
amas am sakmamtewer-es	amas am sakmamtewer-es	‘they had already decided to get sago’
amas amimin	amas amimin	‘dry, crumbly raw core of a roasted lump of sago, sago crumbs, left-overs of sago’
amas amitparemapom	amas amitparemapom	‘cut down a sago palm and remove the starch’
amas an co nisimop	amas an tʃo nisimop	‘fill a bowl with sago’
amas apim yiwtewer	amas apim jiwtewer	‘alles opmaken’
amas at	amas at	‘pound sago’
amas awan	amas awan	‘roast sago and eat it, harvest sago for food’
amas awop	amas awop	‘sit, roasting sago’
amas awsimtiwtam	amas awsimtiwtam	‘roast sago and push it over to someone’
amas awtam	amas awtam	‘roast/scrape out sago for someone’
amas awtewer	amas awtewer	‘harvest sago’
amas cayin	amas tʃajin	‘communal gathering of sago and fish for the ceremonial exchange of food when a death in the family makes it necessary as at the arok feast’
amas cem peramotamkurum	amas tʃem peramotamkurum	‘fill houses completely with sago’
amas ci niyirim	amas tʃi nijirim	‘stow a canoe full of sago’
amas ci otnemtam	amas tʃi otnemtam	‘take sago to the canoe for s.o.’
amas ci yirimtam	amas tʃi jirimtam	‘stow a canoe full of sago for someone’
amas cu	amas tʃu	‘top layer of sago pith in the trunk’
amas emawasam	amas emawasam	‘scrap out much sago, start pounding sago, working hard’
amas emnamomat	amas emnamomat	‘walk about in order to collect sago’
amas emtewtum	amas emtewtum	‘collect large quantities of sago’
amas éwos	amas éwos	‘felled sago palm which is left unused’
amas fifiwomat	amas fifiwomat	‘enter houses with someone in order to collect sago’
amas fimokomtiwasam	amas fimokomtiwasam	‘perform the whole process of sago making’
amas in momer	amas in momer	‘want to get sago’
amas ken	amas ken	‘implements used for processing sago: axes, digging sticks, sago pounders, small troughs, strainers, ready to be used, ready for action’
amas ken emkene	amas ken emkene	‘start to collect the sago-making implements / to get ready the sago-making implements’
amas kene	amas kene	‘put the sago-processing implements ready’
amas kumis	amas kumis	‘roasted ball of sago’
amas mase am ams-esmar	amas mase am ams-esmar	‘he slept without having eaten the sago’
amas may kor me-mtempam-ores	amas maj kor me-mtempam-ores	‘and on top of that they took away a large block of sago!’
amas me-mtemon	amas me-mtemon	‘let someone share one's sago’
amas mer empawu	amas mer empawu	‘leave to get sago (all members of a group)’
amas mer pacaycuku	amas mer patʃajtʃuku	‘disappear in all directions to make sago’
amas mer witay	amas mer witaj	‘quickly to return from sago making’
amas mer wuam-awer	amas mer wuam-awer	‘set out to make sago (many people)’
amas mertam	amas mertam	‘go to harvest sago for s.o.’
amas metemaw	amas metemaw	‘scrape out more sago (in addition to what had been done before)’
amas mi	amas mi	‘sago flour’
amas mikam	amas mikam	‘sago ball (dry sago is mixed with water and then kneaded into a ball)’
amas mom-er in	amas mom-er in	‘he felled a sago palm’
amas mum	amas mum	‘break (pieces of sago) in two’
amas namapomtotor	amas namapomtotor	‘give each one in turn sago to eat’
amas nec sisipop-mero	amas netʃ sisipop-mero	‘day after day he sat, chewing raw sago’
amas nes	amas nes	‘sago pith’
amas nes awocin	amas nes awotʃin	‘scrape out sago pith in the direction of the top (umu) or bottom (mopan) of the trunk’
amas okomtewerasam	amas okomtewerasam	‘fetch a lot of sago’
amas patamtiw	amas patamtiw	‘accumulate much sago’
amas po kikimpimtiw	amas po kikimpimtiw	‘put the sago-washing contraption together’
amas pok yimaman	amas pok jimaman	‘join others eating’
amas poporemtam	amas poporemtam	‘prepare sago for s.o.’
amas pumnem	amas pumnem	‘make a sago palm fall down (in the water?)’
amas si'n siawer	amas siʔn siawer	‘'generations' of sago trees’; ‘sagu turun temurun’
amas tapomsam	amas tapomsam	‘pound sago’
amas tawtominomas	amas tawtominomas	‘eat sago from then on’
amas to metom	amas to metom	‘also to be hungry’
amas to yak takayamis	amas to jak takajamis	‘die of hunger, very hungry’
amas to'n kawum	amas toʔn kawum	‘make hungry, cause to be silent with hunger’
amas tow patotor	amas tow patotor	‘fetch sago grubs (everyone individually)’
amas towkopom	amas towkopom	‘(?)’
amas tuwn	amas tuwn	‘accumulate (lots of) sago’
amas usi	amas usi	‘temporary dwelling place near the sago gardens where one stays when large amounts of sago have to be processed, e.g. for a feast’
amas yec pok yak	amas jetʃ pok jak	‘carry sago until really tired’
amas yimin yaka m-emyurs-ey puruw-a	amas jimin jaka m-emjurs-ej puruw-a	‘he does like sago sticks, doesn't he?’
amas yipum	amas jipum	‘squeeze out sago pulp’
amas yis casasapiap	amas jis tʃasasapiap	‘put so much sago on the fire that it looks as if it has been extinguished’
amas yisapom	amas jisapom	‘go out and fell sago trees’
amas yop	amas jop	‘busy making sago’
amas yow turumomis	amas jow turumomis	‘go to the forest while leaving a trail of sago flour behind’
amas yowsim	amas jowsim	‘strew sago’
amas yuwrew yukusiri	amas juwrew jukusiri	‘huge flowering sago tree’
amasam	amasam	‘cut/chop away, chop a lot’
amasaw	amasaw	‘decorate each other’
amasnakap	amasnakap	‘bit of sago’
amat	amat	‘bird sp., k o parrot with red feathers’
amat	amat	‘property, possession’
amat	amat	‘revenge’
amatmomse	amatmomse	‘accompany s.o. in the canoe’
amawkum	amawkum	‘look after a small child, baby-sit’
amcan	amtʃan	‘together kill and eat’
amcin	amtʃin	‘flesh of fruit’
amcirim	amtʃirim	‘deny each other the possession of s.t.’
ame	ame	‘say/do to each other’
ameman	ameman	‘together with others to go out to get food’
amemap	amemap	‘also to sit down, sit down together with (other people)’
amemap	amemap	‘sit down together with others, also to sit down’
amemawer	amemawer	‘stay together’
amen	amen	‘go up a big river together with s.o., accompany s.o. up the river’
amer	amer	‘join (others) on a fishing/hunting/sago making trip’
amer	amer	‘snake (generic term)’
amernak	amernak	‘ringed water snake’
ames	ames	‘on one's way (by canoe), proceed cautiously (by canoe)’
amesatmotak	amesatmotak	‘as above, but going down a tributary’
amesawnem	amesawnem	‘stretch oneself (a person lying down)’
amesawor	amesawor	‘to (start to) change into’
amese	amese	‘do with many people’
amese	amese	‘do/be/say (by an agent who is lying down or belongs to the positional category lying down’
amesfac	amesfatʃ	‘become emaciated (a sick person)’
amesfay	amesfaj	‘lie burning, roasting’
amesfefe	amesfefe	‘lie down, having been tied up/chained to’
amesfes	amesfes	‘lie wriggling (snake), convulsing’
amesfikim	amesfikim	‘lie stinking, smelling badly (corpse)’
ameskamen	ameskamen	‘slowly to go up a main river with a heavy load in the canoe’
ameskamtep	ameskamtep	‘id., up a tributary’
ameskamus	ameskamus	‘slowly to paddle on, forwards’
ameskawu	ameskawu	‘busy dancing’
ameskawuni	ameskawuni	‘dance the kawo dance’
ameskeke	ameskeke	‘stretch oneself’
ameskokoy	ameskokoj	‘arrive with many people (?)’
ameskusi	ameskusi	‘turn oneself SL’
amesmoc	amesmotʃ	‘lie down, crying’
amesmumuyar	amesmumujar	‘shuffle around SL, lie(on the bottom of a canoe) beating (the sides) while on the way’
amesni	amesni	‘slide/crawl/flow down, return home’
amesnowomtep	amesnowomtep	‘take along up the river in many canoes in battle array’
amesof	amesof	‘rot away (corpse)’
amesokom	amesokom	‘lie stored (goods in a warehouse)’
amesotasisim	amesotasisim	‘wriggle SL’
amesotemet	amesotemet	‘take along while crawling upwards/into a tree’
amesowertotor	amesowertotor	‘semua orang bicara’
amespacaytotor	amespatʃajtotor	‘(of a group of people) all to have a lot of (pubic hair)’
amespay	amespaj	‘crawl around sth.’
amespayotep	amespajotep	‘slowly to follow the bend in the river going upstream while taking someone/sth along’
amespopoyomat	amespopojomat	‘crawl around sth., circle around SL’
amestak	amestak	‘go down a side river along its bank’
amestep	amestep	‘crawl in upstream direction SL, slowly to go up the river (while looking for food)’
amesterew	amesterew	‘shallow (a river)’
amestewet	amestewet	‘go away to take for oneself’
amestomt	amestomt	‘crawl up (eg. into a tree) carrying sth’
amesyay	amesjaj	‘lie unattended’
amesyes	amesjes	‘come towards the speaker while doing’
amesyi	amesji	‘do/say (SL)’
amesyien	amesjien	‘slowly to go up the river while doing/saying’
amesyini	amesjini	‘go down/descend in great numbers while doing’
amesyires	amesjires	‘slowly to come hither (by canoe) across’
amesyirimomas	amesjirimomas	‘fully load a canoe and go away’
amesyis	amesjis	‘slide out (baby being born)’
amesyit	amesjit	‘sprout by itself, grow wild (plant)’
amesyitak	amesjitak	‘slowly to paddle down the river while doing’
amesyocin	amesjotʃin	‘row up a big river with a heavy load of’
amesyotak	amesjotak	‘id., down a side river’
amesyotep	amesjotep	‘id., up a side river’
amew	amew	‘give instructions to one another’
amewer	amewer	‘fight each other’
amfasi	amfasi	‘go back together with the others, join others going back’
amfasi	amfasi	‘go back together’
amfaw	amfaw	‘join others in stabbing, stab one another’
amfaw	amfaw	‘stab each other’
amfawtam	amfawtam	‘stab together?’
amfinamsem	amfinamsem	‘smear/rub each other with (sago)’
amfis	amfis	‘together/also to come outside’
amfiw	amfiw	‘join others entering (a house), enter as well’
amfop: ak m-amfop	amfop: ak m-amfop	‘rub cheeks (two people greeting each other)’
ami	ami	‘all without exception, nothing but, totally’
Amimansimit	amimansimit	‘proper name of an old important man’
amin	amin	‘proud of, boasting of, extremely pleased with’
amiram	amiram	‘chase each other (eg. playing children)’
amirek	amirek	‘ghost of someone whose head has been taken. These ghosts are thought to have a human body and limbs but a bird's head’
amirim	amirim	‘chase’
amirmoni	amirmoni	‘chase someone in ni direction’
amis	amis	1. ‘lie down, present, of a LS’ 2. ‘move, crawl’
amis	amis	‘upper part of something, top, crown of a tree’
amisetotor	amisetotor	‘do -everyone for himself - while lying down’
amiskori	amiskori	‘lie down and start singing loudly’
amiskurum	amiskurum	‘have come up completely (the sun)’
amispopoyomat	amispopojomat	‘crawl around in circles’
amistam	amistam	‘put away’
Amisu	amisu	‘village name’
amisu	amisu	‘pregnant LS’
amisyen	amisjen	‘go up the river along the bank while saying/doing’
Amiw	amiw	‘name of yew in Amisu’
amkakawiam	amkakawiam	‘fish with the fishing nets (group of women)’
amkawi	amkawi	‘join someone, go together with other people’
amkawiamis	amkawiamis	‘join a person/persons lying down’
amkawiap	amkawiap	‘join a person/persons sitting’
amkawimapom	amkawimapom	‘join s.o. to, marry a woman to a man’
amke apan	amke apan	‘pronged arrow with prongs made of blackpalm wood’
amkikiap	amkikiap	‘sit close together’
amkoman	amkoman	‘together to go and catch crabs’
Amkoyunum	amkojunum	‘name of a yew group’
amku	amku	‘go ashore together’
amku	amku	‘together to go ashore’
amkuem	amkuem	‘go ashore and join others who have settled there, also to go ashore etc.’
amkun(i)	amkun(i)	‘together to row down the river’
Amkuyunum	amkujunum	‘name of a yew group’
amna	amna	‘eat together with s.o.’
amnam	amnam	‘in his/her/their presence’
amnapor	amnapor	‘try/want to eat together’
amni	amni	‘go home together, go downriver together’
amnuwuw	amnuwuw	‘depart together’
amo	amo	‘kind of basket made of a section of a nipa palm frond’
amo	amo	‘tumor, boil, swelling’
amof	amof	‘fish species (presumably a porpoise)’
amokomem: ak mi okomem	amokomem: ak mi okomem	‘kiss each other’
amom	amom	‘kind of rattan used as a bow string (“elder brother” of the yisuw)’
amom yakse	amom jakse	‘very taut bowstring’
amomtam	amomtam	‘meenemen naar?’
Amon	amon	‘proper name of male’
amop	amop	‘hot’
Amorep	amorep	‘name of a yew group’
amorkurum	amorkurum	‘travel everywhere, walkabout, walk around sth’
amortep	amortep	‘stretch out in upstream direction (large group of people)’
amoryar	amorjar	‘travel about, wander’
amosom	amosom	‘separate from each other (fighting people), pull away from e.o.’
amot	amot	‘generic marker ?’
amot	amot	‘property, possession’
amotcowuc	amottʃowutʃ	‘the (female) owner’
amotipic	amotipitʃ	‘the (male) owner’
ampapakam	ampapakam	‘beat up each other’
ampi	ampi	‘go fishing together’
ampi-	ampi-	‘together to fish with a net/nets’
ampor	ampor	‘look on (as a spectator)’
amporom	amporom	‘show to each other’
ampow	ampow	‘Recipr. form’
ampow	ampow	‘together to look for, help others to look for sth.’
ampu	ampu	‘join others on a trip’
ampu	ampu	‘together to travel by canoe’
ams	ams	1. ‘lie down, present, of a LS’ 2. ‘move, crawl’
amsen	amsen	‘slowly to row up the river along the bank’
amsenaw	amsenaw	‘slowly to come up the river (towards the speaker)’
amsenpor	amsenpor	‘go up the river to look for’
amses	amses	‘come here slowly (rowing along the bank of the river)’
amses	amses	‘pass the night, sleep’
amsetomt	amsetomt	‘crawl with sth up (into a tree)’
amsiri	amsiri	‘run together’
amsit	amsit	‘grow up’
amsit	amsit	‘lie down in the morning’
amsit	amsit	‘together to set out’
amsocin	amsotʃin	‘crawl inland (from the sea) while carrying sth/s.o.’
amsocin	amsotʃin	‘take s.o. up the river (slowly?)’
amsom	amsom	‘he/she knows it’
amsomis	amsomis	‘sleep with someone, holding sth.’
amsomiw	amsomiw	‘creep into (a house) to meet someone’
amsoni	amsoni	‘creep downwards while carrying sth/s.o.’
amsotak	amsotak	‘go down the river with all people’
amsotep	amsotep	‘many people to go back up the river’
amtafa	amtafa	‘stickle of the am fish’
amtak	amtak	‘together to go downriver’
amtak	amtak	‘together/also …’
amtam	amtam	‘in retaliation, in (his) turn’
amtam emsokom-or he	amtam emsokom-or he	‘(A) hit him first and he (B) hit him in return’
amtapitep	amtapitep	‘hang down (e.g. a lamp from the ceiling; piece of rope)’
amtatotor	amtatotor	‘(?)’
amtayir	amtajir	‘accompany to the other side of the river’
amterem	amterem	‘stir (in sth), mix’
amteremsem	amteremsem	‘mix food (in a soup?)’
amterom	amterom	‘compare (one’s length) with each other’
amtewer	amtewer	‘also to take, take with one’
amtitiw	amtitiw	‘together put down’
amtiw	amtiw	‘have cut down (a tree)’
amtosom	amtosom	‘mix’
amu	amu	‘(?)’
amuc	amutʃ	‘part of a fish just above the gills’
amum	amum	‘put into’
amun	amun	‘smoke, steam, vapour, haze’
amun in merkoyap	amun in merkojap	‘haze is lying over it (this is said of the mirage which can be seen above a large expanse of water)’
amun mak weremtewer	amun mak weremtewer	‘remove the vertebrae (from a dead body)’
amun meryom-er	amun merjom-er	‘(it) was steaming’
amun mu nikoyiwiser	amun mu nikojiwiser	‘smoke drifted down to the water’
amun pu	amun pu	‘very busy with’
amun pu yap	amun pu jap	‘busy making preparations for departure’
amun puputemet-ma	amun puputemet-ma	‘steam rises up (eg. from wet soil when the sun starts shining)’
amunmak	amunmak	‘backbone, spine, tail bones’
amunpu	amunpu	‘ramai ramai’
amup	amup	‘hot, courageous, vital, fertile’
amup am tow amas mom-kakemomtam-esi	amup am tow amas mom-kakemomtam-esi	‘rub the sago grubs into the sago while still hot’
amup pum	amup pum	‘make hot’
amup pumamkurum	amup pumamkurum	‘make hot on both sides’
amup pumkurum	amup pumkurum	‘geheel opvullen met hitte’
amur ma-kampor-i	amur ma-kampor-i	‘open the sleeping mat!’
amurtep	amurtep	‘with many people upstream’
amus	amus	‘sago pounder, high wave, about to break’
amus	amus	‘together with other people to go away/to the forest, join others going to the forest’
amus	amus	‘younger sister (sg.)’
amus in cuwuc apasi-mar araw	amus in tʃuwutʃ apasi-mar araw	‘standing close together one was scraping sago’
amus tiwkafum	amus tiwkafum	‘take up the sago beater and start pounding the sago pith’
amusewes	amusewes	‘younger sisters’
amusnakap	amusnakap	‘small sago scraper’
amuw	amuw	‘join people who are leaving in a canoe’
amuw	amuw	‘kind of reeds growing in and along rivers where there is little or no current. The roots intertwine, forming a floating layer so that a river can be totally overgrown by this plant (this is the place where ghost-children are thought to play)’; ‘Hanguana malayana’
amuw cak	amuw tʃak	‘edible top of the amuw plant’
amuw fa apomkomtewer	amuw fa apomkomtewer	‘break/tear off aclump of amuw and take it away’
amuw keman	amuw keman	‘break off ambuw reed to eat in’
amuw mipin	amuw mipin	‘stalks of the amuw reeds’
amuwamanipic	amuwamanipitʃ	‘someone who lives in the amuw fields along the river, ghost child (said to a naughty child, it refers to its pre-birth existence as a spirit child when it was playing in the fields of amuw along the river’
amuy	amuj
amyisas	amjisas	‘also to leave’
amyisas	amjisas	‘leave together’
amyiyi	amjiji	‘talk things over’
amyiyim	amjijim	‘shake hands’
an	an	‘chest/breast of a bird’
an	an	‘eat’
an	an	‘news, tidings, fame, tradition’
an	an	‘question marker, (sometimes suggests a negative answer)’
an	an	‘small tray made of a leaf-sheath of the sago palm’
an facimomiw	an fatʃimomiw	‘put sth in the an (sago trough) and take it inside’
an fu	an fu	‘get around (news), become known’
an fumtiw	an fumtiw	‘tell news, secret, reveal’
an metemfis	an metemfis	‘receive news, information’
anakat	anakat	‘aforementioned, said …’
anakat	anakat	1. ‘contents, flesh (of fruit)’ 2. ‘true, real, really’
anakat asawem	anakat asawem	‘become visible’
anakat ow	anakat ow	‘aforementioned people, people (anaphoric)’
anakayap	anakajap	‘(?)’
anam	anam	‘agree on something’
anam	anam	‘inner pith of the sago palm: that part of the pith which is scraped out first by workers standing outside the trunk’
anam	anam	‘wanting to eat excessive quantities of’
anamsem	anamsem	‘feed s.o. in the water, feed fish’
anawamis	anawamis	‘bent’
anawkonaw	anawkonaw	‘come ashore bent down by a heavy load’
anawtep	anawtep	‘bent in upstream direction (e.g. top of a tree)’
anco	antʃo	‘small tray for sago’
ane	ane	‘grass sp. (similar to fasismi)’
anep	anep	‘crab sp., living in abandoned shells of sea-snails like the musit crab’
anesawer	anesawer	‘eat continually, at night’
anesmatiwa	anesmatiwa	‘term of abuse’
aniap	aniap	‘have come together and sit’
anicukas	anitʃukas	‘have disappeared’
aniem	aniem	‘standing together’
animcukasam	animtʃukasam	‘all to go away’
animcuku	animtʃuku	‘disappear, go away out of sight’
animom	animom	‘claim, consider it one's own’
animtaw	animtaw	‘bring together’
animtiw	animtiw	‘forget’
animus	animus	‘disappear into the forest’
anin	anin	‘(?)’
a-ninimur-er in	a-ninimur-er in	‘one danced in the canoe (while crossing river?)’
anis	anis	‘infection caused by a splinter which has not been removed’
anis	anis	‘similar, but not quite alike, not what it seems to be, just the opposite’
anit	anit	‘young sago grub’
ani(y)	ani(j)	‘feeling of well-being’
aniynakap	anijnakap	‘snack, sth to eat while on the way, morsel’
ankos	ankos	‘centipede’
anmamis	anmamis	‘lie pressing down on’
anmewit	anmewit	‘small centipede which phosphoresces when being crushed, phosphorescence of the sea’
anmom	anmom	‘have eaten’
anmoni	anmoni	‘go down while pressing down’
anmotep	anmotep	‘move upstream (through the trees) bending (the branches) [said of a big snake]’
anokam	anokam	‘cari’
anpiw	anpiw	‘nearby, quite close, within easy reach, without delay, straightaway’
anuk	anuk	‘growth of mosses, ferns and thorns on the bark of the sago palm, layer of charcoal on the bottom of a canoe when it has been treated with fire, thick skin of a sago leaf, which is peeled off to use the remaining thin skin, yinum’
anuk aktotor	anuk aktotor	‘but everyone doing it for him/herself’
anuk akurumasam	anuk akurumasam	‘chop away all the growth’
anwap	anwap	‘(?)’
ap	ap	‘dig out, fetch, sago grubs’
ap	ap	‘kind of tree’
ap	ap	‘sit, stay home, be, move (Sitting agent):’
ap	ap	‘work loose, split off’
apáci	apátʃi	‘small one-man canoe’
apak	apak	‘oh, no!’
apak	apak	‘raw white kernel of a ball of roasted sago, budding leaf which is still light coloured’
apakap	apakap	‘sit cross-legged’
apakserasam	apakserasam	‘collapse, falling over to one side (of sitting agent)’
apan	apan	1. ‘many-pronged arrow used to kill small fish and birds’ 2. ‘young sago palm the fronds of which still point upwards like the prongs of a pronged arrow.’
apan	apan	‘sit down and eat, have something to eat’
apan atamurum	apan atamurum	‘shoot many-pronged arrows’
apani	apani	‘to (start) to come together, begin to assemble (people)’
apaperi	apaperi	‘idle, have a rest (?)’
apapomomis	apapomomis	‘kasi turun terus’
apareremomat	apareremomat	‘walk around hugging (a child)’
apareriwtak	apareriwtak	‘set out with many people, rowing down a side-river’
aparewsisi	aparewsisi
apariamis	apariamis	‘fall asleep’
apasam	apasam	‘sit for a long time, stay home, rest, take a holyday’
apasow	apasow	‘start to adorn oneself’
apat	apat	‘kind of water snake’
apat	apat	‘say, speak, sit and speak’
apawan	apawan	‘roast food at home and eat it’
apawer	apawer	‘sit all the time, sit the whole day, stay for a long time, have a holiday’
apawewerocin	apawewerotʃin	‘walk cautiously upstream in order to meet or to find s o./sth (eg. in order to catch a pig)’
apawnem	apawnem	‘stretch oneself’
apawu	apawu	‘when a tesmayipic has died, the "ordinary people" (nes mino) of his group leave the village and go to another village, this is apawu, eg. when the great warleader of Kaye, Amanfakipic, was killed and eaten by Owus, the Kaye group split up and settled in other villages’
apayiwis	apajiwis	‘go on a long trip on your own’
apcaku	aptʃaku	‘glance off (arrow etc), scatter in all directions (eg. to look for food)’
apcamtiw	aptʃamtiw	‘pull apart (eg. firewood from a fire which is too hot), spread out, take apart (a heap of goods)’
apcayamis	aptʃajamis	‘go out of the way’
apci	aptʃi	‘one-man canoe’
apci-nakap	aptʃi-nakap	‘very small one-man canoe’
apcom	aptʃom	‘having (a lot of), together with, including, (liberally) endowed with, whole/wholly, complete(ly), total(ly)’
ape	ape	‘droppings of the sago grub left inside the trunk of the palm’
ape	ape	‘kind of grass with leaves as broad as the leaves of the faf’
ape	ape	‘sit while saying or doing something’
apea	apea	‘hey!, say!’
apef	apef	‘rear entrance, escape tunnel (in an animal’s hole, e.g. the holes of the mudfish which have many entrances)’
apek	apek	‘kind of plant’
apem	apem	‘last one in a row, end of a row’
apem coyap cowak	apem tʃojap tʃowak	‘it grew abundantly all the way from the end of the village’
apeman-mos	apeman-mos	‘let’s eat!’
apemar	apemar	‘stroll, saunter’
apepé	apepé	‘HPB’; ‘(Hoofd plaatselijk Bestuur – District Officer)’
apeper	apeper	‘full of lies’
apeperocin	apeperotʃin	‘make test holes in the trunk of a sago palm, starting in the middle and working towards the ends’
apepertaw	apepertaw	‘make holes in the trunk of a sago palm’
apepor	apepor	‘sit down and try to do something’
aper	aper	‘anus of a fish’
aper	aper	‘make a test hole in the trunk of a sago palm’
aper	aper	‘small hole cut in the hard outer layer of the trunk of a sago palm through which a digging stick is stuck into the pith to test for the presence of sago meal: if the pith underneath contains meal, some of it will stick to the digging stick when it is withdrawn’
aper apeper	aper apeper	‘make test holes in the trunk of a sago palm’
aperiwamis	aperiwamis	‘reach to’
apermak	apermak	‘end of a long object, extremity’
apes	apes	‘come rowing up/down a side river’
apesawer	apesawer	‘stay for a long time during the night (?)’
apet	apet	‘mepet’
apetotor	apetotor	‘sit doing sth (many people individually)’
apfafasiawer	apfafasiawer	‘travel around all the time’
apfafsi	apfafsi	‘travel around (?)’
apfasi	apfasi	‘row to a certain point and then turn back’
apfawomat	apfawomat	‘walk about while beating (a drum)’
apfefe	apfefe	‘sit, tied up’
apfiki	apfiki	‘smell badly (sitting subj.)’
apfikimawer	apfikimawer	‘let s.o. smell sth. (durative)’
apfofsiomat	apfofsiomat	‘walk to and fro while keeping an eye on things’
api	api	‘look! listen!’
apic	apitʃ	‘old dry frond of the sago palm’
apim	apim	‘scraped-out pith, sago pulp, part of the sago-washing trough in which the pulp is squeezed out’
apim o yitatam-enem aw	apim o jitatam-enem aw	‘do you (ever) squeeze out the sago pulp for me? instruct, tell to do’
apimsomit	apimsomit	‘go on one's way while pulling sth along’
apin	apin	‘back of the thigh’
apin kamkawi(m)	apin kamkawi(m)	‘open one's thighs, joining (one's lover; for intercourse)’
apinaf	apinaf	‘thighs, lap, with the legs spread’
apipi	apipi	‘hop, move in little jumps (like walking birds)’
apipis	apipis	‘soft light-coloured core of the midrib of a sago palm frond’
apiram	apiram	‘rush up toto take’
apit	apit	‘remain sitting, stay’
apitum	apitum	‘sit/stay all afternoon’
apkakanipu	apkakanipu	‘secretly to go out and travel’
apkakayum	apkakajum	‘sit drumming’
apkam	apkam	‘go out on one’s own?’
apkamni	apkamni	‘set out and slowly go down the river’
apkamomis	apkamomis	‘slowly/cautiously to go to the forest taking sth along or in order to meet someone’
apkamomiw	apkamomiw	‘slowly/cautiously to enter (a house) to meet someone/taking sth along’
apkampu	apkampu	‘go on a long trip on one's own’
apkamsit	apkamsit	‘set out on a trip on one's own’
apkamtak	apkamtak	‘slowly/cautiously to row down the river on one's own’
apkamus	apkamus	‘slowly to go outside, go out of (the house) on one’s own’
apkanaw	apkanaw	‘come towards the shore/bank of the river, arrive’
apkori	apkori	‘sit cooing (bird)’
apkuku	apkuku	‘start running from the house, dash outside’
apkusi	apkusi	‘turn back’
apmespom	apmespom	‘take slowly to the shore’
apmomeroyar	apmomerojar	‘wobble about (said of a fat pig)’
apmot	apmot	‘stumble over sth.’
apmowor	apmowor	‘retreat (canoes; after an attack), turn and flee’
apmuy	apmuj	‘(?)’
apn	apn	‘apna (ap na)’
apnaf	apnaf	‘between the legs/thighs’
apnapu	apnapu	‘eat (a snack) on the way (in the canoe)’
apnawer	apnawer	‘sit eating all the time, have plenty to eat’
apnesawer	apnesawer	‘sit and eat a lot all night long’
apni	apni	‘make dance movments while sitting’
apni	apni	‘row down the river’
apnukumpom	apnukumpom	‘een aantal mensen meenemen om eens te gaan kijken’
ápo	ápo	‘look!’
apo at	apo at	‘feel sorry for’
apo at-	apo at-	‘feel sad about’
apo yi-	apo ji-	‘feel sorry for, longing for’
apo'n mertom	apoʔn mertom	‘feel sorry for s.o.’
apofam	apofam	‘keep someone with you till daybreak’
Apokow	apokow	‘name of a yew in Yepem’
apom	apom	‘cause to sit, plant, put down’
apomawsim	apomawsim	‘thrust (a digging stick) into (the sago pith) and cause (the sago meal) to fly out’
apomayum	apomajum	‘frighten somebody, startle s o’
apomcapi	apomtʃapi	‘feel about in someone's hair, searching for lice, delouse’
apomcapim	apomtʃapim	‘seize with the hand’
apomce	apomtʃe	‘(?)’
apomcenimtaw	apomtʃenimtaw	‘scoop up hands full of’
apomcicirim	apomtʃitʃirim	‘quicken the drum beat at the end of a song, accompany a flute orchestra (drumming)’
apomcim	apomtʃim	‘take sth out of (a bag), take away bits of, part of’
apomfaw	apomfaw	‘stab, spear (object sitting)’
apomfifirim	apomfifirim	‘turn sth round repeatedly (object sitting)’
apomiw	apomiw	‘go inside to meet s.o. (inchoative action)’; ‘mulai masuk’
apomiwiru	apomiwiru	‘clean up a mess (eg. the faeces of a baby)’
apomkam	apomkam	‘split off’
apomkamim	apomkamim	‘press heavily on, clasp’
apomkapum	apomkapum	‘stop up, close (a hole)’
apomkenem	apomkenem	‘finishing building (a house)’
apomkipimtewer	apomkipimtewer	‘take a person along on a trip’
apomkom	apomkom	‘start to cut down (a tree)’
apomkorom	apomkorom	‘set free, loosen, untie’
apomkukurum	apomkukurum	‘hollow out, dig out’
apomkum	apomkum	‘beat the drum(s)’
apomkuru	apomkuru	‘inform, agree upon’
apomnam	apomnam	‘feed s.o.’
apomot	apomot	‘touch, bump against’
apompam	apompam	‘catch, seize, take a sitting object away from’
apompapem	apompapem	‘terus pukul’
apompepem	apompepem	‘send (canoes) into a tributary’
apompikimtewer	apompikimtewer	‘break off a Sitt.Obj. and take it’
apompim	apompim	‘pull out (eg. wu)’
apompipim	apompipim	‘enter a tributary with many people’
apompir	apompir	‘looking on’
apompupum	apompupum	‘move (whole crowd of people?)’
apomsakam	apomsakam	‘cut off, cut’
apomsakamtewer	apomsakamtewer	‘cut off and take away (SO)’
apomsapim	apomsapim	‘cover sth with’
apomseromtewer	apomseromtewer	‘break off and carry away’
apomsim	apomsim	‘enter a connecting river/ a short-cut between two rivers’
apomsiritewer	apomsiritewer	‘run away with’
apomsoporomtewer	apomsoporomtewer	‘carry away completely (eg a piece of the river bank with everything on it)’
apomsoromtewer	apomsoromtewer	‘carry away in its current’
apomsumtewer	apomsumtewer	‘pull out, extract’
apomtam	apomtam	‘put sth down for someone, plant sth for s.o.’
apomtaw	apomtaw	‘take (pl obj.)’
apomteter	apomteter	‘tuck away in bag’
apomtewer	apomtewer	‘take something, catch (a pig)’
apomtiw	apomtiw	‘put down’
apomum	apomum	‘hit, bump against’
apomyarom	apomjarom	‘carry around and put down’
apomyim	apomjim	‘pull (a sitting object) along, drag sth along, store (bags with sago)’
apomyini	apomjini	‘pull sth out of’
apomyipir	apomjipir	‘embrace someone who is sitting’
apomyirim	apomjirim	‘stick/shoot sth into a sitting object, hit’
apomyirsom	apomjirsom	‘kill’
apomyitim	apomjitim	‘bark at (dog at pig)’
apomyum	apomjum	‘rear a child, bring up (child; animal)’
aponi	aponi	‘start to row down the river with (someone)’
apor cowuc kor	apor tʃowutʃ kor	‘big co-wife (?)’
aposiom	aposiom	‘take someone into a side river’
apotak	apotak	‘set out, taking s.o. along down a side river’
apotar	apotar	‘root for food (said of a pig)’
apotep	apotep	‘go on one's way with someone up the side river’
apsakay	apsakaj	‘pass (rowing; sailing)’
apsasi	apsasi	‘almost under, very low in the sky (sun,moon), sit bent forward with one's head in one's hands’
apsasiyi	apsasiji	‘(?)’
apserompom	apserompom	‘float, carried by the current’
apsi	apsi	‘sit plaiting/weaving’
apsiri	apsiri	‘start to run’
apsirimtak	apsirimtak	‘start rowing quickly down the side river’
apsisi	apsisi	‘set (sun)’
apsowsit	apsowsit	‘jump up and leave’
aptak	aptak	‘start to row down the river’
aptakam	aptakam	‘bring up, look after, cause to increase, save (money)’
aptakasamawer	aptakasamawer	‘set out and go down the whole length of the side river’
aptami	aptami	‘startled, frightened’
aptapipi	aptapipi	‘swing (of s.o. hanging by his hands, of sth. suspended)’
aptapite	aptapite	‘hang by one's hands’
aptapupu	aptapupu	‘throw oneself down’
aptaw	aptaw	‘sit talking’
aptemet	aptemet	‘grow (trees), climb (a tree; a pole)’
aptep	aptep	‘row up a tributary’
apteppor	apteppor	‘row up a side river to have a look’
apteremapom	apteremapom	‘tuck in sth between…’
apteremotep	apteremotep	‘go one's separate way up a tributary to/with s.o.’
apteremtiw	apteremtiw	‘cover up (a pit with earth), close’
aptersi	aptersi	‘enter a tributary in line of battle (canoes)’
apteteremtaw	apteteremtaw	‘sit discussing things’
apteteripu	apteteripu	‘tussen andere prauwen door varen’
apteteriyar	apteterijar	‘tussen anderen door lopen’
apumtewtim	apumtewtim	‘(to kill?)’
apuya	apuja	‘look!’
apwasomatom	apwasomatom	‘have an affair with s.o.’
apwitep	apwitep	‘set out and quickly go up a side river’
apwu	apwu	‘flee’
apyam	apjam	‘tinggal duduk saja’
apyi	apji	‘say while sitting, do while sitting’
apyik	apjik	‘wrap up’
apyiniwyar	apjiniwjar	‘start walking (many people one after another)’
apyipu	apjipu	‘do habitually, stay habitually’
apyit	apjit	‘grow (plants,trees), come up, appear (a new generation)’
apyit	apjit	‘sit doing in the morning’
apyol	apjol	‘mat’
apyu	apju	‘scream (SS), shriek (of a bird)’
Ar	ar	‘name of a yew in Suru’
ar	ar	‘3rd p. sg/pl.: he, she, it, they, this, these, here’
ar	ar	‘inside of the thigh’
ar	ar	‘sawfish’
ar	ar	‘to, towards, in the direction of’
ar enew a niwi kemapor-es opak in	ar enew a niwi kemapor-es opak in	‘his mother and father tried to stop him to no avail’
ar isipisnakasere	ar isipisnakasere	‘all his little uncles’
ar picirim araw	ar pitʃirim araw	‘it's finished, that's the story, that's all’
ar wet mak tayuru-r	ar wet mak tajuru-r	‘he was born after his namesake’
ar yuyum	ar jujum	‘smoothen the inside of a canoe with an adze’
ara	ara	‘it is’
ar(a)m	ar(a)m	‘rub in with’
aram poya	aram poja	‘he was thinking it over’
aramapom	aramapom	‘smear/rub with’
aramnim	aramnim	‘dance in the ceremonial house (women; during the headhunting feast)’
aramtiw	aramtiw	‘smear, rub with’
aran	aran	‘upstream, upper reaches (of a main river) [et passim]’
aran merse	aran merse	‘go up a main river and stay (on the river)’
aran yow merpumse eres in	aran jow merpumse eres in	‘they travelled up the river until the sun rose’
arante	arante	‘anchor’
arap	arap	‘he/she alone, only he, he by himself, apart, special’
ararara	ararara	‘gush forth (blood from wound)’
ararem	ararem	‘sting, bite repeatedly (insects)’
araremasam	araremasam	‘dash to pieces’
arásen	arásen	‘here, on this spot’
arawun	arawun	‘however’
arcer	artʃer	‘main-(stream; road,river), deep sea, chief-, head-’
arceripic	artʃeripitʃ	‘leader, important man’
aremtiw	aremtiw	‘put ready (klaar zetten)’
arerem	arerem	‘break into pieces, destroy (one's possessions)’
areremsem	areremsem	‘smash to pieces (sth in/on the water)’
areriamis	areriamis	‘lie about in pieces, shattered’
arespupu	arespupu	‘burst (a tumour)’
arespupuyartotor	arespupujartotor	‘burst open, one after another’
arew	arew	‘many people together’
arewem	arewem	‘stand/stay in great numbers’
arewfafuy	arewfafuj	‘assemble, come together, in great numbers’
arewfafuyom	arewfafujom	‘crowd together around someone’
arewfay	arewfaj	‘come together (many people)’
arewfaypor	arewfajpor	‘come together in great numbers to try to’
arewfaypurta	arewfajpurta	‘come together from all directions, in great numbers’
arewkay	arewkaj	‘come home from camp in great numbers’
arewsam	arewsam	‘start out from in great numbers’
arewsiap	arewsiap	‘sit with many people together’
arewsisiap	arewsisiap	‘enter a side-river and stay there (many people)’
arewtepem	arewtepem	‘retreat upstream’
arewyuyukap	arewjujukap	‘sit packed together (a crowd of people)’
arim	arim	‘together in one canoe, man a canoe’
arimasam	arimasam	‘make people board a canoe’
arimomas	arimomas	‘row away, taking (other people) along in the canoe’
arimotak	arimotak	‘man a canoe and row down the river’
arimotep	arimotep	‘man a canoe and row up the river’
arimtiw	arimtiw	‘make several people man one canoe’
arimutum	arimutum	‘raid (the enemy), make a surprise attack on’
arin	arin	‘conspicuous, eye-catching’
arir enam	arir enam	‘small fry, smallest fishes’
ariw	ariw	‘away, gone, disappeared’
ariwamis	ariwamis	‘set out in canoes (lots of people), on the way with many in one canoe’
ariwap	ariwap	‘stay together, gathered’
ariwen	ariwen	‘go up a main river with a canoe full of people’
ariwes	ariwes	‘come with a canoe full of people (on a side-river)’
ariwir	ariwir	‘dorang turun duduk’
ariwnim pak	ariwnim pak	‘not the proper size (eg. armband which is too tight or too wide), fitting badly (clothes)’
ariwse	ariwse	‘in a canoe with many people together’
ariwtep	ariwtep	‘go up a tributary in a canoe full of people’
ariwtepasam	ariwtepasam	‘paddle all the way up to the headwaters in one canoe (many people)’
ariwtom	ariwtom	‘arrive (a canoe full of people)’
arke	arke	‘many (Ayam; Yaun dialect but in Suru sometimes used by old people)’
arm	arm	‘rub in with’
arma	arma	‘he himself, she herself, of his/her own accord’
arma emsokomemesmar	arma emsokomemesmar	‘he himself did wrong during the night’
arma m-amesfiw pok	arma m-amesfiw pok	‘something which is empty by itself’
armotcowuc	armottʃowutʃ	‘the (female) owner’
armotipic	armotipitʃ	‘the (male) owner, rich man’
armotow	armotow	‘owners’
árok	árok	‘ceremonial exchange of food at specific occasions’
arow	arow	‘form used by old people, in old texts’
arow	arow	‘he/she!’
arow me-tmatam e-of	arow me-tmatam e-of	‘I tricked them’
arpa	arpa	‘he alone, by himself, they alone, by themselves, only they’
arpa a-yipoma-mar in	arpa a-jipoma-mar in	‘it ran aground by itself’
arpa fi amsasm-or in	arpa fi amsasm-or in	‘it lay (there) completely empty (space)’
arpa m-	arpa m-	‘want to eat by oneself’
arpa min	arpa min	‘he himself’
arpa sa nanmi-mar	arpa sa nanmi-mar	‘it dried out by itself (tree)’
arpic	arpitʃ	‘up till here’
arpiciri(m)	arpitʃiri(m)	‘that’s how far it goes (story)’
arpuk	arpuk	‘out of the way, at a distance’
arsam	arsam	‘drain off (juice; pus; discharge of ear etc)’
arumotak	arumotak	‘go downstream, taking many goods in the canoe’
aruw	aruw	‘magic, sorcery’
aruw ecuku-	aruw etʃuku-	‘make oneself invisible by magic means’
aruw yisow	aruw jisow	‘practice sorcery’
aruwipic	aruwipitʃ	‘sorcerer’
As	as	‘river name’
as	as	‘ace (in a pack of cards)’
as	as	‘call, used to urge on dogs at a pig hunt’
as	as	‘close friend, partner in the ceremonial exchange of wives, papis wife’
as	as	‘faeces, shit, fart’
as	as	‘rust, pith of the sago palm, soft substance between the fibres of palm wood, soft inner part of stalk or stem’
as	as	‘thing, something’
as a wak	as a wak	‘leaf or stick used to clean oneself after defecation’
as api	as api	‘defecate’
as apim	as apim	‘cause to defecate’
as awak	as awak	‘leaf used as toilet paper’
as cof	as tʃof	‘inaudible fart’
As epmak ew nikoromse	as epmak ew nikoromse	‘leave the upper reaches of the As and go down the river with’
as es	as es	‘dysentery’
as fek	as fek	‘constipation’
as i op tepomporsem	as i op tepomporsem	‘let one's shit and piss go freely from above into the water’
as koap	as koap	‘there is rust on it, it's rusty’
as me	as me	‘diarrhoea’
as mer	as mer	‘go away to shit’
as mikin	as mikin	‘appendix’
as mimis	as mimis	‘diarrhoea’
as mu yitamer-	as mu jitamer-	‘share out by hands full’
as nemak	as nemak	‘dried-up traces of excreta’
as pacak	as patʃak	‘diarrhoea’
as pum	as pum	‘fart’
as pupum	as pupum	‘fart’
as tom	as tom	‘blue fly’
as yi-	as ji-	‘defecate’
as yitiw	as jitiw	‘defecate, drop one's shit’
(as/i) imiriw-ic	(as/i) imiriw-itʃ	‘feel the need (to defecate/urinate)’
asakap	asakap	‘younger of two such friends’
asam	asam	‘take sth out of, remove’
asamapom	asamapom	‘decorate until completed’
asamasam	asamasam	‘throw away (till nothing is left)’
asamenamtam	asamenamtam	‘throw sth towards s.o. at his/her request’
asamop	asamop	‘take out and sit with it’
asamsusum	asamsusum	‘throw up, vomit’
asamtewer	asamtewer	‘take away, take out of, pick up from, turn the canoe away from (by rowing sidewards)’
asamtiw	asamtiw	‘push aside/away (Ly Obj.)’
asan	asan	‘lowest part of a body, base, (of a tree) the root system, (of a young sago palm) the base of the stem just above the ground, (of a human being) the rectum, (of a pig) the area around the arse’
asan	asan	‘place, area, room, situation’
asan mipo	asan mipo	‘coccyx (tail-bone)’
asaramak	asaramak	‘kind of water bird (large)’
a-sasakamotnaw-or in	a-sasakamotnaw-or in	‘door (de bladeren) heen brekend vloog hij hierheen (pijl)’
ásatamó	ásatamó	‘left side, (when rowing: the right side)’
asawtam	asawtam	‘decorate oneself for s.o.’
ase	ase	‘sides of the small of the back, waist’
ase	ase	‘undergrowth’
ase amesyuruw	ase amesjuruw	‘stretch one's back (while lying down?)’
ase arisipis	ase arisipis	‘male ofew’
ase aterasepes	ase aterasepes	‘female ofew’
ase fo	ase fo	‘tail’
ase ma-yapyurumutumces	ase ma-japjurumutumtʃes	‘they have to rest in the afternoon’
ase pisua comesm	ase pisua tʃomesm	‘tuck a dagger between waistband and back’
ase semiram	ase semiram	‘swim, using both arms (normally Asmat men swim on the side using one arm to hold their bow and arrows above the water)’
ase sinokos	ase sinokos	‘organ located somewhere in the belly (unidentified)’
asecepes	asetʃepes	‘co-wives’
asefo	asefo	‘tail’
Asem	asem	‘proper name (mother of Manefakat)’
asen	asen	‘place, area, room, situation’
asen pacak atakam tewerum	asen patʃak atakam tewerum	‘talking about one’s bodily defects’
Asena	asena	‘name of a village’
asenam	asenam	‘belt made of finely woven rattan strips, worn by men around the waist’
asep	asep	‘rear end, lower end, at the rear, last’
Aseper	aseper	‘tributary of the Meni river on which in former times the Kaye people lived’
asermet	asermet	‘in the middle (of a 2nd wife if there are more than 2 co-wives)’
asesa kamak	asesa kamak	‘very bad indeed (deceit)’
asesak	asesak	‘painful, hurting, hot (of taste)’
asesen mu	asesen mu	‘river nearby’
asesinokos	asesinokos	‘kidney?’
asesmer	asesmer	‘much and large’
Asewec	asewetʃ	‘river name’
Asewec mimi tarewem	asewetʃ mimi tarewem	‘have one roots at the Asewec river’
asi	asi	‘share, portion, group, division’
asi	asi	‘small black bird which acts as a messenger’
asi win asi win muritep	asi win asi win muritep	‘row up the river in rows’
asiem	asiem	‘stand assembled (people)’
asienaw	asienaw	‘assemble near the speaker’
asim	asim	‘row fast!’
asimom	asimom	‘busy with (group of people who have come together for that purpose), join someone on a walk’
asimotep	asimotep	‘come together and go upstream’
asin	asin	‘hip (bodypart)’
asin m-e	asin m-e	‘desire’
asiocin	asiotʃin	‘go back to the end of sth with sth/while doing sth’
a-sire-r cowak	a-sire-r tʃowak	‘at once he rowed there’
asirtewer	asirtewer	‘descend and take’
asis	asis	‘kind of caterpillar/kind of grub which spins a cocoon of a reddish colour’
asisi'n siamis	asisiʔn siamis	‘always to be lying on the same spot (inert; lazy)’
asisin	asisin	‘nest, lair, den’
asiy win asiy win	asij win asij win	‘in small groups’
asm	asm	‘cause to go away’
asmat	asmat	‘human being, human’
asmat comor	asmat tʃomor	‘descendants, progeny, mankind, people’
asmatipic	asmatipitʃ	‘human/mortal man (as distinct from a netipic; ghost-man)’
asmit	asmit	‘older, senior, main part of a song, huge and old’
asmot cemen mi-yim pak in	asmot tʃemen mi-jim pak in	‘human penis did not create him!’
asmot cowor	asmot tʃowor	‘human beings’
asmu	asmu	‘cut across the sago cake in the washing trough, dividing it in two segments (wok)’
asnakapiriw	asnakapiriw	‘little bit of shit’
asnawor	asnawor	‘kind of bush fowl’
asof	asof	‘anus’
Asok	asok	‘name of a yew’
asomutum	asomutum	‘kasi jalan’
asow	asow	‘intestines’
aspayim	aspajim	‘turn away to’
Asua	asua	‘name of a yew’
asuk	asuk	‘small caterpillar which feeds on the leaves of thatch and on the leaves of the yisin’
asuk as	asuk as	‘droppings of the asuk caterpillar’
asuw	asuw	‘very’
at	at	‘urging, ordering, promising’
ata	ata	‘no! hey!’
ata	ata	‘over there’
áta	áta	‘up there, there above, he/she (Emph.)’
atakam	atakam	‘first(ly), ahead’
atakam	atakam	‘speech, language, talking, story, news, singing of birds’
atakam apotaw	atakam apotaw	‘ask, tell s.o.’
atakam as emsokom-or	atakam as emsokom-or	‘(A) hit him first and he (B) hit him in return’
atakam asep	atakam asep	‘usually one makes it known later’
atakam asep a-merfu-cema	atakam asep a-merfu-tʃema	‘it usually becomes known afterwards’
atakam atamyiyimtaw	atakam atamjijimtaw	‘draw out the telling of a story’
atakam curuw kukurumamtaw	atakam tʃuruw kukurumamtaw	‘share a secret nudging each other’
atakam curuw yuruwu	atakam tʃuruw juruwu	‘secretly to talk about’
atakam fasimap	atakam fasimap	‘recount what happened, tell the story’
atakam fasimtewer	atakam fasimtewer	‘(to break off a story and) take it up again at an earlier point, go back to an earlier episode in a story’
atakam komsakam	atakam komsakam	‘shorten a story, cross (of tracks)’
atakam ma-tawiwimtiw-of	atakam ma-tawiwimtiw-of	‘I have already told the first part of the story’
atakam ma-yamokow en	atakam ma-jamokow en	‘shall I stop telling the story?’
atakam m-emyom pak in	atakam m-emjom pak in	‘he didn't speak again’
atakam merapimtiw	atakam merapimtiw	‘tell a story up to a certain point and then break it off’
atakam mi'n yisimtewer	atakam miʔn jisimtewer	‘speak with a sleepy face’
atakam mo-sorw-oc a	atakam mo-sorw-otʃ a	‘clear, express yourself clearly!’
atakam ofeseremtewer	atakam ofeseremtewer	‘steeds weer spreken tot?’
atakam p-amsesakum-er ara	atakam p-amsesakum-er ara	‘not listen to good advice’
atakam petem	atakam petem	‘shut up!’
atakam sawuan	atakam sawuan	‘quarrelling, bickering’
atakam sem ap-okom	atakam sem ap-okom	‘you (Pl.) are talking too much!’
atakam sewen	atakam sewen	‘squabble’
atakam tamyiyimtam	atakam tamjijimtam	‘draw out a story, tell a story very slowly to make it last long’
atakam tatam	atakam tatam	‘tell somebody’
atakam taw	atakam taw	‘talk, speak, tell, say’
atakam tawkurum	atakam tawkurum	‘tell the whole story’
atakam tawporomit	atakam tawporomit	‘warn’
atakam tawtak	atakam tawtak	‘call out in downstream direction’
atakam tawtam	atakam tawtam	‘give advice to, say for someone (so that he may learn it)’
atakam tawtampor-i a	atakam tawtampor-i a	‘for heaven's sake, tell it’
atakam tawyiwimtiw	atakam tawjiwimtiw	‘tell to the end, tell all’
atakam tepfefe	atakam tepfefe	‘talk incessantly in the top of a tree’
atakam tewer	atakam tewer	‘een verhaal weer opnemen’
atakam tewerem	atakam tewerem	‘take up the word, begin talking’
atakam tewkom	atakam tewkom	‘answer’
atakam tiwpam	atakam tiwpam	‘resume a story’
atakam usi okomom	atakam usi okomom	‘forbid, contradict’
atakam witiw	atakam witiw	‘tell a story (quickly?)’
atakam yen fo tororo ar in	atakam jen fo tororo ar in	‘rumour had already come to their ears’
atakam yen kiriawer	atakam jen kiriawer	‘quarrel all the time’
atakam yimporom	atakam jimporom	‘tell, reveal’
atakam yiyom	atakam jijom	‘inform s.o. of sth’
atakam yo'n apotim	atakam joʔn apotim	‘sit talking until sunset’
atakam yokopom	atakam jokopom	‘tell, inform’
atakam yomem	atakam jomem	‘yomes’
a-takamsomcukum-espes	a-takamsomtʃukum-espes	‘they let him escape the night before’
a-takamtowokom-or yis	a-takamtowokom-or jis	‘firewood he had lit first’
atam atam-á yi	atam atam-á ji	‘(usually) to shoot with the bow’
atam e-	atam e-	‘promise’
atam etewem	atam etewem	‘plant sth with a certain purpose’
atamapom	atamapom	‘put something on something else, fasten sth on, fix sth on, dab on’
atamapomkurum	atamapomkurum	‘send a person straight to’
atamem	atamem	‘bring up’
atames	atames	‘swim just below the surface (fish), nearly to reach to the surface of the water (sago meal in the sump trough)’
atamiwapom	atamiwapom	‘prick’
atamomis	atamomis	‘go outside clutching sth in the mouth (said of dogs)’
atamomis	atamomis	‘lie down hugging (a child)’
atampias	atampias	‘travel far away’
atampicuku	atampitʃuku	‘jump/fly far away (out of sight), of an object’
atampim	atampim	‘shoot once (one arrow)’
atamsem	atamsem	‘fasten sth to (on the river, eg. a fishing line to the canoe or to a pole in the water)’
atamsimnem	atamsimnem	‘punt (a canoe) down the river’
atamsisimkurum	atamsisimkurum	‘press sth on all places’
Atamuc	atamutʃ	‘village name’
atamurumapom	atamurumapom	‘dance all the time’
atamurumpum	atamurumpum	‘push into the water, throw into the water’
atamururumfam	atamururumfam	‘dance all the time (until daybreak?)’
atamyar	atamjar	‘walk while crying continuously’
atan	atan	‘take a shellfish out of its shell and eat it’
a-tapacayams-er	a-tapatʃajams-er	‘whole crowd of them went home (?)’
atar	atar	‘epidemic, having a contagious disease’
átar	átar	‘up there, there above, he/she (Emph.)’
Ataripic	ataripitʃ	‘man's name’
Atat	atat	‘yew name’
atáyi	atáji	‘advice, request, order, instruction’
atáyi	atáji	‘order, advice, instruction’
atayi atam	ataji atam	‘give instructions/advice, agree to’
atayi atiwtam	ataji atiwtam	‘give an order to s.o.’
atayi epu	ataji epu	‘foretell what is going to happen, tell during a visit’
atayi etiwtam	ataji etiwtam	‘inform, give instructions’
atayi omen	ataji omen	‘go inwards by order of, as instructed by’
atayi tiwtam	ataji tiwtam	‘give advice’
ate	ate	‘call’
ate	ate	‘under (false) promise of’
ateas	ateas	‘cry out’
ateem	ateem	‘go in order to call’
ateenaw	ateenaw	‘come upstream to call’
atekum	atekum	‘call out to people on the shore’
atem	atem	‘go on one's way, set out (on foot)’
atemen	atemen	‘news’
atemen atam	atemen atam	‘report, tell’
atemen atamocin	atemen atamotʃin	‘carry news up the river’
atemen yistam	atemen jistam	‘go to the forest and tell someone the news’
a-temetanmamis-ayimero	a-temetanmamis-ajimero	‘everyday he climbed up and lay down, bending it (the tree) down (under his weight)’
atenam	atenam	‘call from the downstream side to someone near the speaker’
atenem	atenem	‘call to someone below’
atep	atep	‘part of the body of a fish’
atep ma-yit	atep ma-jit	‘call out to somebody who is returning from his fishing/hunting trip, asking if he is bringing sth back, shout for joy when a kinsman returns safely from abroad (eg. when Eremnet returned from Miwar together with a canoe from that village, Lime is thrown, men plunge into the water, all as a sign of joy about his safe return.)’
atepete atomse	atepete atomse	‘take a person along in the canoe on the pretext of’
atepor	atepor	‘try to call’
ateraswuc ci cuwutse-	ateraswutʃ tʃi tʃuwutse-	‘their sister who was in the canoe’
atesumtum	atesumtum	‘call and wake up’
atet	atet	‘rubbish, garbage, refuse’
atetam	atetam	‘call on behalf of, call s.o. for s.o.’
atetam	atetam	‘give advice, instruct, tell s.o. what to do’
atetampor	atetampor	‘try to call somebody for someone’
atetapom	atetapom	‘send someone up the river to call’
atetaw	atetaw	‘call (pl obj)’
atetewer	atetewer	‘call and take’
atetwere	atetwere	‘abandoned (of a village)’
atew	atew	‘name of a sago area’
Atmer	atmer	‘proper name of male’
atmusum	atmusum	‘donker afsteken tegen de lucht, bv van palmbladeren’
atomer	atomer	‘in five days time, five days ago’
atow	atow	‘come’
atow	atow	‘game, play’
atow	atow	‘interjection expressing an earnest appeal: wait! please! hey! say!’
atow emas	atow emas
atow emetom	atow emetom	‘play with’
atow ow	atow ow	‘ancestors in the distant past’
atow tatakay	atow tatakaj	‘playful’
átoyofay	átojofaj	‘in four days time / four days ago’
átoyowun	átojowun	‘in three days time, three days ago’
aturamis	aturamis	‘lying in rows’
Aw	aw	‘name of a yew, river’
aw	aw	1. ‘covered in sth, soiled’ 2. ‘roast, cook, boil’ 3. ‘scrape, sharpen, scoop, bail out’
aw	aw	‘frond of a nipa palm’
aw	aw	‘interjection: oh!’
aw	aw	‘mood-marking particle, expressing the speaker's anxiety or annoyance’
aw	aw	‘near, next to’
aw	aw	‘woman's breast(s)’
aw at	aw at	‘get breasts’
aw coyse	aw tʃojse	‘offered to suck the breast of a woman as a sign of adoption’
aw m-at pak-nakapiriw	aw m-at pak-nakapiriw	‘breast grow not very small: (she) had no breast-growth at all yet’
aw mipin	aw mipin	‘developing breasts (of girl)’
aw sis	aw sis	‘milk teeth’
aw sisna	aw sisna	‘dried-up breasts’
aw takam tawtem-er cepes	aw takam tawtem-er tʃepes	‘girls who first got breasts’
aw takamtawuri-r cepes	aw takamtawuri-r tʃepes	‘girls who had newly developed breasts’
aw tawturi-r cepes	aw tawturi-r tʃepes	‘girls who are growing breasts’
aw tem	aw tem	‘grow breasts (girl)’
aw tomurum	aw tomurum	‘become big (breasts)’
aw un atamop-er in	aw un atamop-er in	‘she had (fully developed) breasts’
aw un tamop	aw un tamop	‘have full-grown breasts’
aw un yitamaram	aw un jitamaram	‘beat oneself on the breast with amazement’
awa	awa	‘yes!’
áwak	áwak	‘cork of a bottle’
awam(por)	awam(por)	‘rummage, go through a heap of things looking for sth’
awan	awan	‘improvised song’
awan a-wu-mes	awan a-wu-mes	‘Satewakap ara Satewakap, about whom they always sing songs’
awan e so tawkumtam	awan e so tawkumtam	‘sing awan etc, for somebody’
awan kuciri	awan kutʃiri	‘improvise an awan song while going ashore’
awan wuams-i	awan wuams-i	‘go out (all of you) to fetch food!’
awan yimse	awan jimse	‘sing awan in the canoe’
aw-ápo	aw-ápo	‘Said to someone who is sneezing: there is s.o. thinking of you!’
awápo	awápo	‘bless you! (said to someone who suddenly sneezes)’
awasam	awasam	‘bail out, scrape out (sago) until nothing is left’
awaymaci	awajmatʃi	‘opscheppen en leeggooien’
awcowor	awtʃowor	‘smooth, level, even, parallel, on a par with, similar to’
awenem	awenem	‘roast and put down’
awer	awer	‘not (in denials)’
awer	awer	‘pubic cover worn by married women ( a belt woven of grasses, which strands of young sago leaves have been fastened’
awer	awer	‘sharpen’
awer akat yipin yipin tapipim-amar	awer akat jipin jipin tapipim-amar	‘she cut the beautiful awer into small pieces’
awer emkapim	awer emkapim	‘put a pubic cover (awer) on a girl, dress a girl in an awer’
awer famtiw	awer famtiw	‘take off, open, one’s awer’
awer forokopom	awer forokopom	‘open the loin cover at the back side (when going to defecate)’
awer kapomapom	awer kapomapom	‘put an awer on a girl (eg. when she marries)’
awer kopesi	awer kopesi	‘extremely well-made loin cover’
awer mu-mu	awer mu-mu	‘wear an pubic cover’
awer mutam	awer mutam	‘put on an awer for s.o.’
awer pir	awer pir	1. ‘strips of shredded sago leaf as used for making the awer’ 2. ‘thin’
awer tapomforasam	awer tapomforasam	‘take off the awer (?)’
awer yinum cocom	awer jinum tʃotʃom	‘attach the shredded sago leaves to the belt of the awer’
aweramis	aweramis	‘lie on, or near, edge of sth.’
awerap	awerap	‘sit on, or near, the edge of sth., eg. on the front verandah, on the doorstep, near the stem/stern of a canoe’
awerco	awertʃo	‘hide oneself near the edge of’
awercocom	awertʃotʃom	‘fasten along the edge (eg. fasten shredded sago young sago leaves along the edge of a woven belt)’
awerem	awerem	‘stand on/near the edge of, next to, stand on something narrow’
aweremapom	aweremapom	‘put down on/near the edge/end’
aweremawer	aweremawer	‘stand on guard all the time’
aweremtiw	aweremtiw	‘put sth at the edge/end of’
aweremyim	aweremjim	‘arrive by ship’
Awerew	awerew	‘proper name of female’
awerfis	awerfis	‘go outside, passing closely by s.o.’
awerni	awerni	‘descend by something narrow, eg. to descend to the river walking down a log’
awerotap(o)m	awerotap(o)m	‘appear outside (head of child at birth)’
awertak	awertak	‘go down the river while standing at the end of’
aweryi	awerji	‘er als eerste bij zijn’
aweryomiw	awerjomiw	‘penetrate into a pig's lair’
awewer	awewer	‘always to pound sago’
awewerem	awewerem	‘put ashore in a hurry, just on the edge of the water’
aweweremkum	aweweremkum	‘put ashore in a hurry, just on the edge of the water’
awewerku	awewerku	‘go ashore walking over a log or plank’
awewerni	awewerni	‘in a hurry to go to the edge (of the forest; coming from inside the forest)’
aweweryar	awewerjar	‘walk across a narrow (bridge)’
awfis	awfis	‘scrape out the pith till the end’
awkam	awkam	‘diminish, decrease’
awkamimtiw	awkamimtiw	‘sharpen and set aside (for later use)’
awkayawer	awkajawer	‘mesti bikin habis’
awko	awko	‘kind of tree’
awkomse	awkomse	‘wash ?’
awku	awku	‘postpone’
awkurum	awkurum	‘scrape out all the sago pith’
awkurumtiw	awkurumtiw	‘have scraped out all the sago pith’
awkutiw	awkutiw	‘store (goods), set aside provisions for a voyage’
awkuw	awkuw	‘delay departure’
awnam	awnam	‘grown-up, full grown’
awo	awo	‘all right, yes’
Awok	awok	‘name of yew in Amanamkay’
awomse	awomse	‘roast (sago) in the canoe’
awon	awon	‘blow, stroke’
awon mom	awon mom	‘hit, beat’
awon mop	awon mop	‘hit, strike’
Awor	awor	‘name of yew in Suru’
awor	awor	‘catfish’
awor	awor	‘change into’
awor sis	awor sis	‘flower spike of the sago palm’
aworamis	aworamis	‘have changed into, have become’
aworap	aworap	‘have changed into’
aworem	aworem	‘grave + corpse’
aworem	aworem	‘have changed into’
aworemkurum	aworemkurum	‘have completely changed into’
aworom	aworom	‘revive’
aworomat	aworomat	‘revive’
aworomtasam	aworomtasam	‘revive (many people?)’
aworomtewer	aworomtewer	‘revive and take’
aworomtewet	aworomtewet	‘revive and take for oneself’
aworomtiw	aworomtiw	‘change sth into’
aworsa	aworsa	‘sago flower with the beginning of the fruit in it’
aworse	aworse	‘become, change into (of an aquatic subject)’
awórsis	awórsis	‘flower of the sago palm’
aworsit	aworsit	‘become alive again, stand up again’
áwotipic	áwotipitʃ	‘very high (eg. of clouds), up here’
awpor	awpor	‘try to roast, know how to roast’
awpor	awpor	‘try to scrape out sago, know how to scrape out sago’
awtamasam	awtamasam	‘scrape out much sago for someone’
awtamnuw(uw)	awtamnuw(uw)	‘leave to make sago for’
awtirim	awtirim	‘fry’
awtirimom	awtirimom	‘surround?’
awtiw	awtiw	‘have scraped out, have roasted’
awtiwtam	awtiwtam	‘roast/cook, and put down for somebody’
awto	awto	‘kind of tree’
awtokom	awtokom	‘woven pattern along the edge of a rattan armband (meten)’
awu	awu	‘chest of a man (body part)’
awu a-pay-men	awu a-paj-men	‘I feel a stitch in the chest’
awu min in payopomit	awu min in pajopomit	‘sit looking at (large number of on-lookers)’
awu yukumumomat	awu jukumumomat	‘walk while breastfeeding (a child)’
awum	awum	‘flay, peel off’
awumapom	awumapom	‘strip off (eg. bark off a tree)’
awumnem	awumnem	‘pry loose from the top towards the ground (the bark of a felled sago palm)’
awumtaw	awumtaw	‘remove (Pl O) by peeling off (eg. scabs off wounds)’
awumtiw	awumtiw	‘pry (the bark) off (a tree)’
awun	awun	‘but, however’
awúpa	awúpa	‘exclamation: it's a hit! got you!’
awusiem	awusiem	‘throw down with a bang’
awut	awut	‘big, large, many, much, heavy (rain)’
awutipic	awutipitʃ	‘big man’
awúya	awúja	‘hey!’
awyimapom	awjimapom	‘put something into’
awyimasam	awjimasam	‘pour out of, empty’
awyini	awjini	‘fall out of ?’
awyiwitiw	awjiwitiw	‘panggur sagu penghabisan’
awyukum	awjukum	‘roast and heap up’
awyukumtam	awjukumtam	‘roast (several pieces of sago) and put them in a heap for someone’
awyuyukum	awjujukum	‘roast and heap up (pieces of sago)’
awyuyukumtiw	awjujukumtiw	‘have roasted and heaped up’
awyuyumasam	awjujumasam	‘bakar sampai habis (pl obj.)’
ay	aj	‘exclamation of joy or anger’
ay	aj	‘friend’
ay	aj	‘here’
ay	aj	‘irrealis marker’
ay	aj	‘new, young, other day’
ay	aj	1. ‘side, half, part’ 2. ‘and, another’
ay asenam sikukupimem	aj asenam sikukupimem	‘make a new waist belt and put it on’
ay cem oyitm	aj tʃem ojitm	‘again to make a new house’
ay mis	aj mis	‘boy who has just entered puberty’
ay tiw	aj tiw	‘descendants, new generation’
áya	ája	‘hey!’
aya tiwpakam	aja tiwpakam	‘shout aya!’
ay-amurit-mar somot	aj-amurit-mar somot	‘all the people who are living here’
ay-aptewer-amar atakam	aj-aptewer-amar atakam	‘de taal die zij uitsloeg’
ay-asiem-ces	aj-asiem-tʃes	‘they stand together (in a group)’
ayaw	ajaw	‘ay!’
áye	áje	‘interjection imitating laughter’
ayep	ajep	‘sp. of climber’
ayínawua	ajínawua	‘war cry’
a-yininimise-res in	a-jininimise-res in	‘they said, wherever they were on the river’
Ayip	ajip	‘river name’
ayip	ajip	‘fish sp.’
Ayip ciwew mesocin	ajip tʃiwew mesotʃin	‘paddle up the Ayip river following the bank’
ayiraw	ajiraw	‘here it is!’
ayirimuciri	ajirimutʃiri	‘at the end of (a row)’
ayirnam	ajirnam	‘zonder bang te hoeven zijn’
ayit	ajit	‘k.o. game children play when the moon is full.’
ayiwi	ajiwi	‘plenty, in abundance, many’
ayiwic	ajiwitʃ	‘many, much’
ayiwiri(pici)	ajiwiri(pitʃi)	‘till here, that's it for now’
aykum	ajkum	‘abounding in fish’
aykun	ajkun	‘younger sibling (address and reference), as opposed to metiw elder sibling’
aykuna metiwa	ajkuna metiwa	‘younger and older siblings! (way of addressing a meeting)’
aykuncem	ajkuntʃem	‘younger female housemates (of a woman)’
aykuncowuc	ajkuntʃowutʃ	‘younger (of two women), younger sister’
aykunipic	ajkunipitʃ	‘younger (of two men), younger brother’
aykuntiw	ajkuntiw	‘younger brothers (reference and address)’
aymir	ajmir	‘wrong, do wrong, the cause of trouble, at fault, in trouble, have lost one's way, have lost (a game), die, err’
aymiramis	ajmiramis	‘of an agent who is lying down’
aymirap	ajmirap	‘of an agent who is sitting, have lost (a game)’
aymiras	ajmiras
aymircuku	ajmirtʃuku	‘go away, disappear’
aymirem	ajmirem	‘of an agent who is standing: have lost one’s way, in difficulties, guilty of sth’
aymirim	ajmirim	‘cause someone's misfortune, kill s.o., cause someone's undoing’
aymirimamtiw	ajmirimamtiw	‘cause each other to do wrong (commit adultery)’
aymirimapom	ajmirimapom	‘cause the undoing of a sitting patient, do sth nasty to’
aymir(i)mit	ajmir(i)mit	‘feel sorry for s.o.’
aymirimom	ajmirimom	‘walk with someone causing him to lose his way (said of ghosts)’
aymirimtiw	ajmirimtiw	‘have killed s.o., have wrought disaster upon’
aymirom	ajmirom	‘walk having bad intentions’
aymirse	ajmirse	‘do wrong etc. while being on the river’
ay-nakap	aj-nakap	‘at once, immediately, straightaway, at an early stage’
aynakap a tewer-i	ajnakap a tewer-i	‘take it now immediately!’
aynam	ajnam	‘moment ago, just, recently, shortly, at once, immediately’
aynim	ajnim	‘now, right now’
ayow	ajow	‘earthquake, mythical woman who causes earthquakes by wriggling her bottom while sitting on the ground’
aypama	ajpama	‘known’
aypaw man	ajpaw man	‘good! fine! thank heavens! (but also: the hell with it!)’
aypim	ajpim	‘side, end, of an object’
aypir	ajpir	‘very heavy body’
aysaw	ajsaw	‘alas!’
aysimir	ajsimir	‘count, enumerate’
aysir	ajsir	‘count, calculate, claim sth.’
aytur	ajtur	‘full of X. always doing X (as a character trait), having a high degree of a certain quality’
ayu	aju	‘startled, get a fright’
ayur	ajur	‘fish sp.’
a-yurusitem-er in	a-jurusitem-er in	‘he stood up in his full length’
aywus	ajwus	‘kind of bush spirit’
ca	tʃa	‘beautiful, shining’
ca	tʃa	‘hit, kill, affect’
ca	tʃa	‘sperm’
ca	tʃa	‘who, whose’
ca	tʃa	‘you (pl), your (pl)’
ca menem	tʃa menem	‘cause to fall (beautiful object)’
ca no mesemuc/t ow nak o	tʃa no mesemutʃ/t ow nak o	‘you are my mates (those who stand by me)!’
ca omomirse-fokom	tʃa omomirse-fokom	‘you were at fault!’
ca yen m-apomkapum ew ete-of	tʃa jen m-apomkapum ew ete-of	‘I thought he would plug my ears with his semen!’
caca yies-mar	tʃatʃa jies-mar	‘he was fast asleep all night’
cacaca	tʃatʃatʃa	‘bright, brilliant’
cacaka	tʃatʃaka	‘deep section of creek, closed off at the upstream and downstream ends in order to catch the fish trapped in it by hand’
cacakam	tʃatʃakam	‘bite repeatedly (animal), tear open’
cacakurum	tʃatʃakurum	‘kill everybody, exterminate’
cacapuyar	tʃatʃapujar	‘walk through dirt’
caciem	tʃatʃiem	‘set out in search for (a husband)’
cac(i)om	tʃatʃ(i)om	‘busy all the time: to keep an eye on’
caciop	tʃatʃiop	‘sit, busy with making sth’
caciw	tʃatʃiw	‘kind of fish’; ‘Plotosus Canius’
cacom	tʃatʃom	‘beat, thrash, breaking it’
caemwuawer	tʃaemwuawer	‘rustle in the wind (leaves)’
cafam	tʃafam	‘dead till a certain time’
cafomtiw	tʃafomtiw	‘hit, causing blood to run out’
cafuy	tʃafuj	‘kind of spirit’
cak	tʃak	‘big container made of woven nipa leaves and filled with alternating layers of sago and sago grubs. It is a sacral object, its contents are eaten by the old men as part of the umu feast’
caka	tʃaka	‘interjection: with a splash’; ‘plons!’
caka	tʃaka	‘pool, puddle’
cakakapi	tʃakakapi	‘block completely, form an impassable obstacle’
cakakapiap	tʃakakapiap	‘completely blocked (path)’
cakakawu	tʃakakawu	‘very wide (clothing; awer)’
cakam	tʃakam	‘deserted (of a house; village)’
cakamimtiw	tʃakamimtiw	‘hit and cause to fall down’
cakar	tʃakar	‘kind of fish’
cakawim	tʃakawim	‘kill still more’
cakayap	tʃakajap	‘follow one another’; ‘ikut terus terus’
cakokorom	tʃakokorom	‘kill and skin’
cakokoromsem	tʃakokoromsem	‘kill and skin in the canoe?’
cakokoromtiw	tʃakokoromtiw	‘kill’
cakukurumoni	tʃakukurumoni	‘make flat and smooth (e.g. bottom of canoe)’
cakurise	tʃakurise	‘of fair size (but not yet full-grown)’
cam	tʃam	‘rub sth with’
cam	tʃam	‘you (pl) too, yóu (emph.)’
camak	tʃamak	‘path leading from the back of an Asmat house into the forest and used by the inhabitants when they go to defecate’
camak opos	tʃamak opos	‘go to the rear of the house’
caman	tʃaman
camar	tʃamar	‘shark’
camemerem	tʃamemerem	‘give s.o. a sound thrashing’
camemsemtiwtam	tʃamemsemtiwtam	‘secretly to put something aside for someone’
camesap	tʃamesap	‘sit leaning against (said of a big person)’
camesem	tʃamesem	‘give much to’
camesemtam	tʃamesemtam	‘kill and put aside for someone’
cami akmat	tʃami akmat	‘old woman’
cami pak	tʃami pak	‘have to look after yourself (s.o. without a wife)’
Camiri	tʃamiri	‘proper name’
camkonam	tʃamkonam	‘make s.o. approach s.o.’
camnam	tʃamnam	‘in your (pl) presence’
camnim	tʃamnim	‘right/proper way of doing things’
camsom	tʃamsom	‘you (pl) know it’
camtiw	tʃamtiw	‘kill and put down’
camu	tʃamu	‘blunt’
camuw	tʃamuw	‘on foot, walking’
camuw	tʃamuw	‘sound of breaking wood, of wood being chopped in the distance, of paddles hitting the side of the canoe when rowing’
camuw am	tʃamuw am	‘making the sound of feet stepping on dry twigs’
camuw ci aken	tʃamuw tʃi aken	‘walk upstream as fast as a canoe travels on the river’
camuw ci akomat	tʃamuw tʃi akomat	‘take sth/s.o. along on foot instead of going by canoe’
camuw ci akyar	tʃamuw tʃi akjar	‘go on foot instead of by canoe’
camuw ci apnayar	tʃamuw tʃi apnajar	‘look for food on foot’
can(a)	tʃan(a)	‘kill and eat, kill with the intention of eating (it)’
canasam	tʃanasam	‘kill and eat up’
Canersimamer	tʃanersimamer	‘name of a yew’
canir	tʃanir	‘kind of song’
canonom	tʃanonom	‘kill (people) until empty (the houses)’
canonomkurum	tʃanonomkurum	‘exterminate’
canukumtiw	tʃanukumtiw	‘massacre’
canunumop	tʃanunumop	‘have the habit of killing large numbers of’
canupir	tʃanupir	‘pelican’
caokom	tʃaokom	‘rub in with (grease of killed man)’
caokomasam	tʃaokomasam	‘kill (a pig)’
caokomtiw	tʃaokomtiw	‘club to death’
caokorap	tʃaokorap	‘sitting, asleep, leaning to one side’
cápak	tʃápak	‘vaginal fluid’
capakamop	tʃapakamop	‘have killed by breaking - the killing of people is often compared to the breaking of wood’
capepemtiw	tʃapepemtiw	‘tie firmly’
capim	tʃapim	‘pull at/out, cut out’
capimsomit	tʃapimsomit	‘set out while holding sth by one end’
capin	tʃapin	‘area covered with trees (except coconut palms)’
capinmi	tʃapinmi	‘territory, ground, dry land (as distinct from yif)’
capinmi emmoc	tʃapinmi emmotʃ	‘stand on the ground, weeping’
capiwu	tʃapiwu	‘term of abuse’
capom	tʃapom	‘wound s.o.’
capoporemtiw	tʃapoporemtiw	‘beat to death’
capor	tʃapor	‘intent on killing’
caporsomop	tʃaporsomop	‘have massacred, stay with those one has massacred’
car	tʃar	‘you (pl), your (pl)’
car	tʃar	‘your, your (pl)’
car amat	tʃar amat	‘your property’
car ep	tʃar ep	‘my, your (sg,pl.) daughter’
car womis	tʃar womis	‘your husbands’
caram	tʃaram	‘you too, yóu’
carap	tʃarap	‘only you, you alone, on your own’
carépu e-	tʃarépu e-	‘come gushing out (water)’
carini	tʃarini	‘all to return from sago making’
cariponi	tʃariponi	‘appear (from the forest) with many people’
carkas	tʃarkas	‘all of you’
carma	tʃarma	‘you yourself’
carpa	tʃarpa	‘casayas’
casasakam	tʃasasakam	‘kill (many) by breaking’
case	tʃase	‘killed whilst on the river’
casem	tʃasem	‘kill and put in the water’
casit	tʃasit	‘shining/bright-coloured and grow up’
catam	tʃatam	‘kill somebody for someone’
cateter	tʃateter	‘kill, everyone for himself’
catewen	tʃatewen	‘kill and take to eat’
catiw	tʃatiw	‘hit/kill and put down, have killed, beat the drums’
catiw	tʃatiw	‘make sth well, make sth beautiful’
catiwasam	tʃatiwasam	‘kill, start to? beat the drums’
catiwtam	tʃatiwtam	‘have killed for s.o.’
catotor	tʃatotor	‘kill (everyone for himself)’
cawat	tʃawat	‘kind of flower’
cawayomse	tʃawajomse	‘moving back and forth erratically’
cawir	tʃawir	‘kind of grub living in dead trees’
cawir pok	tʃawir pok	‘plants of which the contents of the stems can be eaten’
Cawor	tʃawor	‘name of a yew’
cawuawer	tʃawuawer	‘rustle continually (leaves)’
cawum	tʃawum	‘kill’
cawumasam	tʃawumasam	‘kill’
cawusem	tʃawusem	‘bury at sea, throw a dead person into the water’
cawut	tʃawut	‘loin cloth (from Indonesia cawat)’
cay	tʃaj	‘harm, ill fate’
cay	tʃaj	‘not willing, averse from’
cay	tʃaj	‘plan, intention, idea, purpose, pretext’
cay	tʃaj	‘sexual intercourse’
cay	tʃaj	‘way of doing, customary behaviour, rules for doing sth.’
cay nesen siropomit	tʃaj nesen siropomit	‘keep to oneself, not to get involved in other people's business’
cay pacak esem	tʃaj patʃak esem	‘harm s.o. in the water’
cay pacak eyuwom	tʃaj patʃak ejuwom	‘cause someone harm/misfortune’
cay pacak momem-fenem	tʃaj patʃak momem-fenem	‘you did sth terrible to me’
cay sirop	tʃaj sirop	‘give in (to persuasion)’
cay takame	tʃaj takame	‘(?)’
cayamis	tʃajamis	‘sleep soundly’
cayap	tʃajap	‘beautiful, neat’
cayem	tʃajem	‘beautiful (standing subj.)’
cayimir	tʃajimir	‘kill’; ‘ambil jiwa-jiwa’
cayimirkurum	tʃajimirkurum	‘kill all, spearing them’
cayimirtam	tʃajimirtam	‘give children to (in marriage)’
cayimtewer	tʃajimtewer	‘pull off (leaves off stem)’
cayipir	tʃajipir	‘coil oneself around (snake)’
cayirim	tʃajirim	‘load a canoe full to the brim’
cayirpamis	tʃajirpamis	‘lie down feeling ashamed’
cayiwamis	tʃajiwamis	‘sleep soundly’
cayiwasam	tʃajiwasam	‘kill many’
cayiwokomtiw	tʃajiwokomtiw	‘kill s.o. and leave him’
cayiyimtaw	tʃajijimtaw	‘move to and fro’
cayomat	tʃajomat	‘carry a large quantity of sth, chase and kill (?)’
caypor	tʃajpor	‘try to kill/hit’
caytam	tʃajtam	‘take turns at’
caytewer	tʃajtewer	‘take something back, pull sth back (after first offering it to s o.)’
caytom	tʃajtom	‘take a person's place, take one's turn’
cayuyukum	tʃajujukum	‘kill many and heap them together’
Ceawuc	tʃeawutʃ	‘woman's name’
cec	tʃetʃ	‘kind of grass’
cec cec	tʃetʃ tʃetʃ	‘snatch away’
cec yipirsam	tʃetʃ jipirsam	‘grab, snatch from each other’
cecece emsemtam	tʃetʃetʃe emsemtam	‘make a canoe nearly sink (by overloading)’
cecepuyar	tʃetʃepujar	‘walk badly (because of defect)’
ceceremtaw	tʃetʃeremtaw	‘pierce, prick (pl obj)’
ceceremtawkurum	tʃetʃeremtawkurum	‘pierce, prick all there is to be pierced etc.’
ceceri	tʃetʃeri	‘bud’
ceceriop	tʃetʃeriop	‘in flower’
cem	tʃem	‘house, dwelling’
cem	tʃem	‘term denoting a wife's house-mates: co-wives, sisters, papis wives’
cem aman empacinawer	tʃem aman empatʃinawer	‘hide inside the houses’
cem aman yuwur	tʃem aman juwur	‘(house-inside-dog): wife’
cem apomis	tʃem apomis	‘take s.o. home’
cem apomkekem	tʃem apomkekem	‘make a house, tying the parts firmly together’
cem arpa sorap-er in	tʃem arpa sorap-er in	‘she lived alone in a house’
cem a-sese-ma pak	tʃem a-sese-ma pak	‘he didn't stay long in the house’
cem a-warimku-ac in	tʃem a-warimku-atʃ in	‘when they all had come ashore at the house…’
cem caman	tʃem tʃaman	‘space under a house on stilts’
cem curuw niyop	tʃem tʃuruw nijop	‘secretly to go home and sit with/by s.o.’
cem eapomkekem	tʃem eapomkekem	‘build a house, tying it firmly’
cem eapomtam	tʃem eapomtam	‘make a house for s.o.’
cem efa opnapm-ac in	tʃem efa opnapm-atʃ in	‘build a house’
cem enestom	tʃem enestom	‘bring a person back home’
cem eyamapom	tʃem ejamapom	‘build a large house’
cem fapiw si a-emsem-or in	tʃem fapiw si a-emsem-or in	‘he made the floor of the house flat’
cem fifiw	tʃem fifiw	‘enter houses (pl. obj.)’
cem fimom	tʃem fimom	‘take s.o. inside the house’
cem in yikurumap	tʃem in jikurumap	‘have gone home, everybody’
cem kuyirimap	tʃem kujirimap	‘build a house on the bank of the river and stay there’
cem makan takamyisit-er	tʃem makan takamjisit-er	‘she set out first, leaving her house behind’
cem merkay	tʃem merkaj	‘reach the village (many people)’
cem merkupariop	tʃem merkupariop	‘go upstream to the house, go ashore and sit inside with’
cem metowomiw	tʃem metowomiw	‘accompany s.o. entering a house’
cem micic emtiwyirim	tʃem mitʃitʃ emtiwjirim	‘pack a house full with’
cem mino	tʃem mino	‘large house in which several families live’
cem mipacak siefermapom	tʃem mipatʃak siefermapom	‘stow a house chock-a-block with’
cem m-orowyiwyimtewer-a	tʃem m-orowjiwjimtewer-a	‘quite openly he pulled them (the girls) out of the houses’
cem mu enmomiw	tʃem mu enmomiw	‘build houses’
cem mu tawam	tʃem mu tawam	‘(begin to) build houses’
cem nikukuor	tʃem nikukuor	‘he ran out of the house’
cem nitay	tʃem nitaj	‘arrive home’
cem nowopis	tʃem nowopis	‘my housemates, co-wives (female sp.)’
cem opomit-mi araw	tʃem opomit-mi araw	‘I have him with me in the house’
cem oreapom	tʃem oreapom	‘again to build a house’
cem os yaryirimop	tʃem os jarjirimop	‘go and be busy putting up poles for a house’
cem osiap	tʃem osiap	‘have gone home (many people)’
cem pawuomas	tʃem pawuomas	‘take a group of people (e.g. guests) home’
cem picin cowak	tʃem pitʃin tʃowak	‘(house-skin-only) empty house(s)’
cem pok camop	tʃem pok tʃamop	‘have a house full of food’
cem pok yimkurum	tʃem pok jimkurum	‘pack a house full with foodstuff/goods’
cem sirim	tʃem sirim	‘quickly to go home’
cem sis	tʃem sis	‘poles supporting a raised house’
cem sisnakap fowap	tʃem sisnakap fowap	‘build a house on short stilts’
cem suwat yoryar	tʃem suwat jorjar	‘walk around the house’
cem takfis	tʃem takfis	‘come inside the house, having come down the river’
cem tapomcomsem	tʃem tapomtʃomsem	‘put a house on fire’
cem tapomkekem	tʃem tapomkekem	‘make a strong house above (the water)’
cem tawomiw	tʃem tawomiw	‘bring home (news)’
cem tepakayap	tʃem tepakajap	‘go to the village upstream and stay there together’
cem tepap	tʃem tepap	‘have gone to stay upriver’
cem tepomse	tʃem tepomse	‘go upstr. to the village taking somebody along in the canoe’
cem teptam	tʃem teptam	‘reach one's home’
cem teptom	tʃem teptom	‘reach one's house upstream with(carrying X; taking X along)’
cem topomyitim	tʃem topomjitim	‘een huis boven iets anders bouwen’
cem wos yomku	tʃem wos jomku	‘go ashore to clear a piece of land for building a house’
cem yarfiw	tʃem jarfiw	‘go home and enter’
cem yirimtom	tʃem jirimtom	‘veel dingen mee naar huis nemen’
cem yisaramyuyukum	tʃem jisaramjujukum	‘take (many prisoners) to the house and keep them there together’
cem yisfimum	tʃem jisfimum	‘(from the river) go to the house and bring inside’
cem yisop	tʃem jisop	‘go to the house (from the side of the river) and stay there busy with’
cem yistapoap	tʃem jistapoap	‘go to the house and sit inside (all together)’
cem yistaw	tʃem jistaw	‘take (Pl Obj.) to the house (from the river side)’
cem yiwi	tʃem jiwi	‘wall of a house’
cem yiwi famoni	tʃem jiwi famoni	‘pull down the walls of a house’
cem yiwi pari apmem	tʃem jiwi pari apmem	‘knock softly on the wall of a house’
cem yiwi pari apomem	tʃem jiwi pari apomem	‘knock on the wall of a house’
cem yiwi pipirim	tʃem jiwi pipirim	‘knock on the wall of a house’
cem yum	tʃem jum	‘pull down a house, speak to s.o. inside the house, bring up, care for, look after’
cem yuwap	tʃem juwap	‘enter a house and sit down’
cem yuwop	tʃem juwop	1. ‘married’ 2. ‘zitten te beitelen’
cem yuyum	tʃem jujum	‘pull down a house’
cem yuyupor-ef opak	tʃem jujupor-ef opak	‘house was dilapidated (yuyu) but that didn't matter (the people were still living in it)’
cemen	tʃemen	‘penis, extremity, point’
cemen an	tʃemen an	‘have intercourse (with a man)’
cemen kokom	tʃemen kokom	1. ‘glans of the penis’ 2. ‘node in bamboo’ 3. ‘hand, of bananas’
cemen mer-i	tʃemen mer-i	‘grab my penis (if you can)! (expression of defiance)’
cemen miwin	tʃemen miwin	‘niet kunnen naaien (?)’
cemen muwus	tʃemen muwus	‘having much intercourse, fucking a lot’
cemen mu-wus kor	tʃemen mu-wus kor	‘having a lot of sex (woman)’
cemen na	tʃemen na	‘have intercourse (with a man)’
cemen-akap	tʃemen-akap	‘little penis’
Cemenkakawersimit	tʃemenkakawersimit	‘proper name of male’
cemew	tʃemew	‘abuse’
cemew amtatotor	tʃemew amtatotor	‘abuse one another (group of people)’
cemew apot	tʃemew apot	‘abuse’
cemew at	tʃemew at	‘abuse’
cemew tewiri-nokom	tʃemew tewiri-nokom	‘you (Pl.) used to abuse me!’
cemi	tʃemi	‘core of the palm cabbage’
Cemir	tʃemir	‘river name’
Cemnamos	tʃemnamos	‘proper name’
cémorow	tʃémorow	‘kind of duck’
cem-puri a-yi-tmar	tʃem-puri a-ji-tmar	‘they crowded together in the house’
cemsen	tʃemsen	‘open space between the houses and the river, village’
cemsen atamku	tʃemsen atamku	‘reach the village and go ashore’
cemsen ma-fayim	tʃemsen ma-fajim	‘sweep the front yard’
cemsen nisisiem	tʃemsen nisisiem	‘arrive in the village from the forest’
cemsen pakem ar amat ow	tʃemsen pakem ar amat ow	‘people who are inclined to kill strangers in the village’
cen	tʃen	‘vagina, sister‘s / mother’s side’
cen apo wut am nak aw	tʃen apo wut am nak aw	‘You really are obsessed with sex! (said to a man)’
cen atakam owotew	tʃen atakam owotew	‘deflower’
cen cemen towkop	tʃen tʃemen towkop	‘have intercourse’
cen in a-sirim-cen	tʃen in a-sirim-tʃen	‘fuck me!’
cen man yursom	tʃen man jursom	‘want to copulate with a woman’
cen manek	tʃen manek	‘finger up (a girl, by boy), masturbate (girl)’
cen nimirkawim	tʃen nimirkawim	‘looking for breeding partners’
cen pim pamsakamasam	tʃen pim pamsakamasam	‘open the vagina and carve the sides, make scratches in the sides’
cen yof aman ewis-er	tʃen jof aman ewis-er	‘he came out of the vagina’
cen yomaman	tʃen jomaman	‘have intercourse with one another's sisters on a reciprocal basis’
cena pok	tʃena pok	‘left overs (of meal), garbage, waste’
cena pok fi araw	tʃena pok fi araw	‘nothing but rubbish!’
cenakas	tʃenakas	‘left-overs, food which has not been eaten and has been left behind’
cenam	tʃenam	‘point, headpiece’
cenam	tʃenam	1. ‘soft slimy, or fluid, substance which forms the core of sth, contents’ 2. ‘of shellfish: the animal itself, within the shell: thus’ 3. ‘of people: full-blooded, 100%’ 4. ‘of a song: the words’
cenam woworemyukum	tʃenam woworemjukum	‘scoop out (shellfish from shell) and put on a heap’
cenen	tʃenen	‘noise of yelling, shouting, angry words’
cenen asir	tʃenen asir	‘make loud noise’
cenerep	tʃenerep	‘pubis (of a woman)’
cenerep mi-ninim-es-mar	tʃenerep mi-ninim-es-mar	‘(my) belly has been causing me pain all night’
cenes	tʃenes	‘below, on the floor, downstream’
cenes niwusomis	tʃenes niwusomis	‘lie down on the ground holding (a child in the arms)’
cenes poriamis	tʃenes poriamis	‘roll over the ground’
cenes-nakap	tʃenes-nakap	‘nearly on the ground, (reaching) nearly to the ground’
-cenesnakap yimerenam	-tʃenesnakap jimerenam	‘op komen zetten van laaghangende bewolking’
Cenewer	tʃenewer	‘yew of the village of Amorep’
cenfew	tʃenfew	‘classificatory sisters’
ceniwis	tʃeniwis	‘wife's parents’
cenwis cowuc	tʃenwis tʃowutʃ	‘one's betrothed, one's future wife’
cenwis tan	tʃenwis tan	‘promise a boy that a certain girl will be his wife’
cenwispuwus	tʃenwispuwus	‘brothers in law’
Cenyufunum	tʃeɲufunum	‘proper name of male’
cepes	tʃepes	‘woman, women, wife, wives (but not: the wife/woman)’
cepes mi okor	tʃepes mi okor	‘have a secret encounter with a woman’
cepes nur isipis	tʃepes nur isipis	‘my mothers’
cepes worom-	tʃepes worom-	‘inspect women’
cepespuris	tʃepespuris	‘girls, daughters’
cer	tʃer	‘kind of fish living in holes in the mud in tidal waters’
cer sapiw	tʃer sapiw	‘dig small cer fish out of the mud’
cerap	tʃerap	‘stay at the far end of, on the upper reaches of’
cérecáfo	tʃéretʃáfo	‘spurting, gushing forth’
cerecafo eas	tʃeretʃafo eas	‘spurt out (juice)’
cerecafo yas	tʃeretʃafo jas	‘spurt (blood from wound)’
cérek	tʃérek	‘kettle’
cerem	tʃerem	‘at the beginning’
ceren	tʃeren	‘trousers’
cerepu	tʃerepu	‘approaching quickly (a mass of people; a large wave or flood)’
ces	tʃes	‘arrow with a point of black palm wood, bullet’
ces atam	tʃes atam	‘make arrows’
ces feram	tʃes feram	‘thin k.o. arrow’
ces korom	tʃes korom	‘release an arrow, shoot an arrow’
ces sawi	tʃes sawi	‘shoot arrows’
ces yiatam	tʃes jiatam	‘make arrows’
cescuw	tʃestʃuw	‘skilled skilful, clever, handy, good in sth, always busy making sth.’
ceswen	tʃeswen	‘long k.o. arrow’
cew	tʃew	‘kind of tree’
cewi	tʃewi	1. ‘base, stump (of a tree), first part of a song’ 2. ‘original, older group in the yew: Yepem --, Setmot -- etc’ 3. ‘cause of sth’
cewir	tʃewir	‘kind of grub living in dead trees’
ci	tʃi	‘broad base of the midrib of a sago palm frond (when a frond dies it breaks off just above the ci. The base remains attached to the stem of the palm and has to be chopped away)’
ci	tʃi	‘cut up (a pig)’
ci	tʃi	‘kind of tree used for making canoes, dugout canoe’
ci	tʃi	‘leech’
ci	tʃi	‘part of the belly of a fish, between the gills’
ci ak kawies	tʃi ak kawies	‘come walking (on the shore) keeping abreast a canoe going in the same direction on the river’
ci ak kawues	tʃi ak kawues	‘keep pace with a canoe, walking in es direction’
ci ak mese	tʃi ak mese	‘row beside another canoe’
ci akin akomuw	tʃi akin akomuw	‘at once step into the canoe with’
ci akirim	tʃi akirim	‘make a good canoe, make a canoe with good workmanship’
ci akni	tʃi akni	‘hew a canoe and go down the river (seawards)’
ci akot	tʃi akot	‘make many canoes’
ci akotaw	tʃi akotaw	‘make a canoe as a gift in return for sth (eg. for a wife)’
ci aksem	tʃi aksem	‘hew a canoe and put it in the water, finish a new canoe’
ci aktam	tʃi aktam	‘make a canoe for someone’
ci akuw	tʃi akuw	‘make a canoe and depart’
ci aman amesyururu	tʃi aman amesjururu	‘slide into the canoe’
ci aman kamimomir	tʃi aman kamimomir	‘put sth heavy on the bottom of the canoe and cross the river with it’
ci a-mom-er in	tʃi a-mom-er in	‘he stood making a canoe’
ci amuwasam	tʃi amuwasam	‘turn over a canoe and shape it.?’
ci apsapu	tʃi apsapu	‘look after the canoes of the women when they are fishing (usually this is done by children)’
ci areremomku	tʃi areremomku	‘hack a coe to pieces on the shore’
ci at(a)moni	tʃi at(a)moni	‘take sth to the canoe’
ci atamtiw	tʃi atamtiw	‘moor a canoe’
ci aw	tʃi aw	‘track along which a new, roughly hewn canoe is dragged from its original place in the forest to the river’
ci a-wumse-ma	tʃi a-wumse-ma	‘canoe is full of people’
ci a-yiaw-or in	tʃi a-jiaw-or in	‘he treated the canoe with magic’
ci camuw apakyar	tʃi tʃamuw apakjar	‘set out on foot (where other people would go by canoe)’
ci cemen atamokomtiw	tʃi tʃemen atamokomtiw	‘carve out the stem of a canoe’
ci cemen payimsem	tʃi tʃemen pajimsem	‘turn the canoe towards’
ci cic	tʃi tʃitʃ	‘track cut through the forest from the place where a new canoe has been roughly hewn out of the tree trunk, the nearest creek, along this track the canoe is dragged to the water’
ci cowak-a	tʃi tʃowak-a	‘everyone aboard!’
ci cumu	tʃi tʃumu	‘feast of the ceremonial making of canoe’
ci curuw asenuk ar	tʃi tʃuruw asenuk ar	‘canoe-secretly-go away’
ci e tewer nim nikomtiw-eres	tʃi e tewer nim nikomtiw-eres	‘they laid her in the canoe like a tewer flower’
ci emakan	tʃi emakan	‘make canoes for oneselves’
ci empom	tʃi empom	‘take to the canoe, take along on a voyage’
ci empupum	tʃi empupum	‘go and launch canoes’
ci ep aweweryu	tʃi ep awewerju	‘row while standing on the stern of one's canoe (many people)’
ci ep mercamtiw	tʃi ep mertʃamtiw	‘go to the rear end of the canoe and make it beautiful’
ci ep yircifimsem	tʃi ep jirtʃifimsem	‘when grounding a canoe on the river bank: let the rear end stick out from the bank, visible to all’
ci ew sowkonaw	tʃi ew sowkonaw	‘jump ashore (from the canoe) towards the reference point’
ci fa	tʃi fa	‘kind of scoop made of the leaf-sheath of a sago palm, used to bail water out of canoes’
ci fasiuw	tʃi fasiuw	‘return to the canoe and leave’
ci fayimasam	tʃi fajimasam	‘wipe the canoe clean, polish off, eat everything’
ci fayimsem	tʃi fajimsem	‘make a good, smooth canoe’
ci fop atamses-	tʃi fop atamses-	‘voorover in de prauw liggen’s nachts?’
ci fow	tʃi fow	‘decorate a canoe with rattan leaves’
ci kaykay inim e-mar	tʃi kajkaj inim e-mar	‘when the canoe wobbled…’
ci kaykuku e-mar araw un	tʃi kajkuku e-mar araw un	1. ‘fleet returned, paddles thumping’ 2. ‘ze kletterden neer op de prauw (vallende vruchten)’
ci kenemsem	tʃi kenemsem	‘prepare a canoe for departure’; ‘sandar dan ikat’
ci kom ese a-yiswowyimut-mes	tʃi kom ese a-jiswowjimut-mes	‘they brought the bags with kom fruit from the canoe on to the land’
ci ku	tʃi ku	‘use a canoe’
ci ma- wuw	tʃi ma- wuw	‘board a canoe’
ci mak in paynuwu	tʃi mak in pajnuwu	‘turn back to the canoe and depart’
ci man po man ma-mane	tʃi man po man ma-mane	‘agree to go on a headhunting expedition with each other’
ci map	tʃi map	‘mooring place for canoes’
ci memim	tʃi memim	‘make a canoe’
ci men merfimsum	tʃi men merfimsum	‘move towards the prow of the canoe while carving <hewing?> it’
ci merakserem	tʃi merakserem	‘go to a ci tree to cut it down’
ci mi nitirpimtiw	tʃi mi nitirpimtiw	‘leave the canoe on the river bank,with its prow in the water’
ci mi omit	tʃi mi omit	‘parade the canoes’
ci mi ucim asen pa-yimomas-cem	tʃi mi utʃim asen pa-jimomas-tʃem	‘which place will you turn the canoe?’
ci mi yo omasam	tʃi mi jo omasam	‘turn the front of the canoe to the river’
ci mita	tʃi mita	‘sap of the ci tree’
ci mitakekemtaw	tʃi mitakekemtaw	‘prick/stab repeatedly in the canoe’
ci mu enm	tʃi mu enm	‘make canoes, make a big canoe’
ci mu kusim	tʃi mu kusim	‘turn the canoe towards’
ci mu yirimpum	tʃi mu jirimpum	‘draw the canoes into the water’
ci nat mipor emsaynafim	tʃi nat mipor emsajnafim	‘zomaar in de prauwen gooien’
ci nesen teptewsem cowak	tʃi nesen teptewsem tʃowak	‘they just left the canoe upstream in the water(?)’
ci niemsemtam	tʃi niemsemtam	‘having gone to the river, launch a canoe for s.o.’
ci nikukurumse	tʃi nikukurumse	‘all to go in the canoes and drum’
ci nikurumyamomse	tʃi nikurumjamomse	‘go to the river and beat the drums while standing in the canoes (crowd of people)’
ci nimayuw	tʃi nimajuw	‘go in the canoes and leave’
ci niowtiw	tʃi niowtiw	‘go down to the canoe and put it down in the canoe’
ci nipaymuw	tʃi nipajmuw	‘row down the river and round the corner (up again?)’
ci nisowpum	tʃi nisowpum	‘go down to the river and launch the canoe’
ci nituwsem	tʃi nituwsem	‘put the canoe in the river and depart’
ci niwarimem	tʃi niwarimem	‘with the whole group go down to the canoe’
ci nuwus	tʃi nuwus	‘chips of wood (left over from the hewing of a canoe)’
ci okomsem	tʃi okomsem	‘moore a canoe’
ci okomtam	tʃi okomtam	‘let a canoe run aground (on the river bank)’
ci omen	tʃi omen	‘tapering ends of a canoe’
ci omen yiyimkum	tʃi omen jijimkum	‘go aboard the canoes while yelling’
ci opak uruap	tʃi opak uruap	‘(?)’
ci otewsemtam	tʃi otewsemtam	‘again to put a canoe in the water for s.o.’
ci otnem	tʃi otnem	‘bijeenleggen in de prauw’
ci oworomfofsimapm	tʃi oworomfofsimapm	‘paddle around looking for somebody’
ci pa awerap	tʃi pa awerap	‘sit next to’
ci papiromku-eres in	tʃi papiromku-eres in	‘they turned the canoes over and went ashore’
ci petem a	tʃi petem a	‘you should not make a canoe!’
ci pim tiwawerem	tʃi pim tiwawerem	‘working on the boards/rims of the canoe’
ci pina	tʃi pina	‘small blocks of wood on the inside of a canoe, left there when digging out the hull’
ci pok mu aman ma-yiwpu-caw	tʃi pok mu aman ma-jiwpu-tʃaw	‘canoe has to arrive during the feast’
ci powo kapom cuwuc emic a-kikimtam-ores in	tʃi powo kapom tʃuwutʃ emitʃ a-kikimtam-ores in	‘They made the canoe go into the fork of a mangrove till it stick’
ci sampum	tʃi sampum	‘cause s.o. to fall out of the canoe into the water’
ci sayuw	tʃi sajuw	‘board a canoe (all members of a group of people)’
ci sempupum	tʃi sempupum	‘chop a canoe to pieces’
ci serem	tʃi serem	‘char a canoe’
ci ses ci op sayomatom-ismar in	tʃi ses tʃi op sajomatom-ismar in	‘whole group took the canoes up (on to the land) to fire them during the night’
ci ses paparemom	tʃi ses paparemom	‘turn the canoes upside down and char them’
ci ses paremom	tʃi ses paremom	‘turn over the canoe and char it’
ci ses peremop	tʃi ses peremop	‘turn a canoe upside down and char it’
ci ses sowkenemtiw	tʃi ses sowkenemtiw	‘char a canoe and make it ready for use’
ci ses sowtiw	tʃi ses sowtiw	‘finish the charring of the canoe’
ci ses sowtiwtam	tʃi ses sowtiwtam	‘char a canoe for someone until finished’
ci ses yisparemom	tʃi ses jisparemom	‘go outside-turn over- and be busy with charring the canoe’
ci sesemerpum	tʃi sesemerpum	‘push and pull (with a jerking motion) a (heavy) canoe to the river and launch it’
ci sew	tʃi sew	‘canoes lying hidden in ambush’
ci sirinuw	tʃi sirinuw	‘quickly to go to the canoe (?)’
ci sowpum	tʃi sowpum	‘char a canoe and then launch it’
ci sowtopom	tʃi sowtopom	‘char a canoe and leave it on the shore’
ci taksem akat	tʃi taksem akat	‘beautifully made (canoe)’
ci tam a-poporomut-mes in	tʃi tam a-poporomut-mes in	‘early in the morning they … the canoes’
ci tamsem	tʃi tamsem	‘moor a canoe, beach a canoe’
ci tamtewer	tʃi tamtewer	‘haul a canoe on to the land’
ci tamtiw	tʃi tamtiw	‘row until one reaches the shore, pull/push a canoe with one end onto the shore’
ci tapompayfirim	tʃi tapompajfirim	‘turn over a canoe (on the shore)’
ci tatewu	tʃi tatewu	‘ramming of a canoe by another, crash into’
ci tayu	tʃi taju	‘row vigorously (with every stroke of the paddle the foot in front is put down with force)’
ci tenep	tʃi tenep	1. ‘part of the bottom of the canoe which is next to the tail’ 2. ‘upper tail side of a fish’
ci teptewsem	tʃi teptewsem	‘fetch a canoe upstream’
ci tewni	tʃi tewni	‘take a canoe and go down the river’
ci tiwtemsem	tʃi tiwtemsem	‘put a canoe into the river’
ci utukumsem-uc	tʃi utukumsem-utʃ	‘stop the canoe for a moment!’
ci wirum	tʃi wirum	‘launch a canoe’
ci wum	tʃi wum	‘bail out a canoe’
ci wumsem	tʃi wumsem	‘take large quantities (of luggage) into a canoe’
ci wuwumaram	tʃi wuwumaram	‘push a canoe back and forth thus making the water in it flow out at the ends’
ci yamnok okomtewsem	tʃi jamnok okomtewsem	‘pick out two canoes and put them in the river(?)’
ci yemep yiwyitmapom	tʃi jemep jiwjitmapom	‘put (a big fish) down in the canoe,leaning it against’
ci yicemup a payniyis	tʃi jitʃemup a pajnijis	‘canoe (floated) around the bend towards the sea’
ci yimomuw	tʃi jimomuw	‘drag sth/s.o. into the canoe and depart with it/him, her’
ci yirsayomatomis	tʃi jirsajomatomis	‘cross and drag the canoes on to the shore towards the bush’
ci yirsem	tʃi jirsem	‘pull a canoe through the water’
ci yisotemet	tʃi jisotemet	‘bikin prahu’
ci yiwayimop	tʃi jiwajimop	‘in de prauw bij zich leggen’
ci yu	tʃi ju	‘track in the mud of a canoe which has been pushed through it’
ci yumnapu	tʃi jumnapu	‘go away to look for food (Pl. Subj.)’
ci yuruap-it	tʃi juruap-it	‘there is a continuous coming and going of canoes’
Ciaf	tʃiaf	‘name of a river’
ciamis	tʃiamis	‘ergens uithangen’
ciap	tʃiap	‘come to call s.o.’
ciasam	tʃiasam	‘conclude (a ceremony), cut up (a pig)’
cic	tʃitʃ	‘contest, match’
cic ma-tatewer	tʃitʃ ma-tatewer	‘win a contest, grab sth. from s.o.’
cic po	tʃitʃ po	1. ‘push a canoe forward through shallow water with one leg while standing in the canoe on the other’ 2. ‘row with one leg (if there is no paddle)’
cic tewer	tʃitʃ tewer	‘win a contest’
cic(i)	tʃitʃ(i)	‘limping, walking like a cripple’
cicici	tʃitʃitʃi	‘onomatopoeia: reproducing the sound of people shuffling about inside the house (when startled by ghosts)’
cicici…	tʃitʃitʃi…	‘sound of mice scuffling in the thatch of walls’
cicikim	tʃitʃikim	‘wash off, clean’
cicikimasam	tʃitʃikimasam	‘wash off completely, wash away’
cicikimkurum	tʃitʃikimkurum	‘wash completely, wash everything’
cicikimtiw	tʃitʃikimtiw	‘wash, clean’
cicim	tʃitʃim	‘make rustling noises in the thatch of houses (said of ghosts)’
cicimpor	tʃitʃimpor	‘try (want,need) to make rustling noises in thatch, I shall not kill them’
cicimsem	tʃitʃimsem	‘nearly to get hold of’
ciciyiw	tʃitʃijiw	‘enter limping’
cicomit	tʃitʃomit	‘palate’
cicomiw	tʃitʃomiw	‘enter limping’
ciconi	tʃitʃoni	‘go home limping’
ciem	tʃiem	‘stand and cut off’
cifenakap	tʃifenakap	‘bailer’
cifi e-	tʃifi e-	‘break through, pierce, well up’
cifir	tʃifir	‘kind of shell similar to the pirkawor but not as white, short k.o. arrow, about 80 cm long’
cifu	tʃifu	‘kind of shell’
cikim	tʃikim	‘wash something’
cikis	tʃikis	‘reddish kind of duckweed’
cikokorom	tʃikokorom	‘cut to separate pieces’
cim	tʃim	‘just like, exactly like’
cim	tʃim	‘shoot (arrow), stab, prick (once only)’
cimamewer	tʃimamewer	‘shoot at each other’
cimen	tʃimen	‘prow of a canoe’
cimen arma eses-mar in	tʃimen arma eses-mar in	‘prow of the canoe formed itself during the night’
cimen musi	tʃimen musi	‘pushing the front of the canoe deep into the water’
cimen wow tatakamfifimsam	tʃimen wow tatakamfifimsam	‘carve the prow decoration of a canoe’
cimi	tʃimi	1. ‘heel of the foot’ 2. ‘kind of song’
cimin	tʃimin	‘imitation, imitating, pretending, as if’
cimin	tʃimin	‘temple (of the head)’
cimin fi	tʃimin fi	‘bald on one side of the head’
cimin yiwi firimasamapom	tʃimin jiwi firimasamapom	‘decorate a person's head with a fringe of cassowary feathers’
ciminipic	tʃiminipitʃ	‘person who always imitates others, clown’
cimisu	tʃimisu	‘one of the songs sung during the feast of the sago trays (an pok mu)’
cimom	tʃimom	‘busy with’
cimpowamis	tʃimpowamis	‘fast asleep, many people together’
cimsomit	tʃimsomit	‘set out carrying a heavy load’
cimtam	tʃimtam	‘benefactive of cim’
cimtapom	tʃimtapom	‘Shoot upwards (e.g. at bird in tree)’
cimtaryap	tʃimtarjap	‘(or: cimtar e ap-? from BI senter) to shine’
cimtewer	tʃimtewer	‘deplete, exhaust’
cimtewsem	tʃimtewsem	‘touch repeatedly’
cimtiw	tʃimtiw	‘shoot/kill with an arrow’
cimur emapom-	tʃimur emapom-	‘make round (plaited object)’
cimur(i)	tʃimur(i)	‘leech swollen with blood’
cin	tʃin	‘and, together with’
cin	tʃin	‘cut up sth for eating’
cin atem-	tʃin atem-	‘the boss of guardian of’
cinakap	tʃinakap	‘small canoe’
cinin	tʃinin	‘stump of a felled sago tree’
ciomiw	tʃiomiw	‘cut up and take indoors’
cipa pu	tʃipa pu	‘walkway sealed with old canoe boards’
cipar	tʃipar	‘kind of fish’
ciptow	tʃiptow	‘dried-up sago palm’
cir	tʃir	‘snatch at, pluck at’
cir yumamnem	tʃir jumamnem	‘pull down?’
circiriciri	tʃirtʃiritʃiri	‘nibbling’
ciri	tʃiri	‘break into (wailing)’
ciri	tʃiri	‘bulge, bubble, bulging’
ciri	tʃiri	‘snatching’
cirim	tʃirim	1. ‘check, arrest, stop someone with the hands’ 2. ‘break off (a small piece of sth)’
cirim	tʃirim	‘fence, partition’
cirim osiapom	tʃirim osiapom	‘again to put up a partition, fence’
cirim siop	tʃirim siop	‘hold up a screen’
cirim siotak	tʃirim siotak	‘on both sides to accompany s.o. down the stream (many people forming a wall so to say)’
cirimtewer	tʃirimtewer	‘pull away forcefully’
cirin	tʃirin	‘fringe’
ciritep	tʃiritep	‘hanging’
ciromas	tʃiromas	‘cut up and take away’
cirop	tʃirop	‘have burst into tears (sitting subj)’
cirpim	tʃirpim	‘remove a layer from, peel o’
cisiyipic	tʃisijipitʃ	‘canoe-maker’
citam	tʃitam	‘cut up for (benefactive of ci-)’
citep	tʃitep	‘hanging down (eg. from the ceiling)’
ciw	tʃiw	‘kind of tree’
ciw	tʃiw	‘wash sth’
ciwap	tʃiwap	‘stay after having doused (the fire)’
ciwasam	tʃiwasam	‘wash off, rinse off, wash out’
ciwemkurum	tʃiwemkurum	‘rinse off completely’
ciwew	tʃiwew	‘bank in the outer bend of a river’
ciwew	tʃiwew	‘very young banana fruit’
ciwik	tʃiwik	‘kind of tree’
ciwin	tʃiwin	‘kind of creeper’
ciwir	tʃiwir	‘kind of creeper with heart-shaped leaves’
ciwirmapom	tʃiwirmapom	‘hit deadly with an arrow or spear’
ciwokomtiw	tʃiwokomtiw	‘rinse off, remove by rinsing’
ciyiwitep	tʃijiwitep	‘hang down from above’
ciyukumapom	tʃijukumapom	‘cut up and put together’
ciyuyukumapom	tʃijujukumapom	‘cut up and put the pieces on a heap’
ciyuyukumapomtam	tʃijujukumapomtam	‘benefactive form’
co	tʃo	‘container, trough, tray, nest’
co	tʃo	‘secretly: co eyit-’
co	tʃo	‘shoal of fish’
coamak	tʃoamak	‘edible fruit of the cuwus plant (?)’
coap	tʃoap	‘be/stay hidden’
coap	tʃoap	‘plait, weave’
coco	tʃotʃo	‘crawl about (maggots)’
cococo	tʃotʃotʃo	1. ‘onomatopoeia rendering’ 2. ‘sound of sucking’ 3. ‘sound of someone dashing through the undergrowth of the forest’ 4. ‘sound of hurried steps’
cocok	tʃotʃok	‘thick (of a tree)’
cocoman	tʃotʃoman	‘suck (out), eg. an egg’
cocomapom	tʃotʃomapom	‘iterative form of comapom’
cocopomtiw	tʃotʃopomtiw	‘have sexual intercourse with a woman’
cofo	tʃofo	‘spoilt, unusable (a sago palm)’
cokop	tʃokop	‘together in secret (lovers)’
cokor	tʃokor	‘bell’
com	tʃom	‘dress up in’
com	tʃom	‘hide someone’
com	tʃom	‘iets ergens tussen steken, vastzetten tussen’
com	tʃom	‘kill and take away’
com	tʃom	‘strap, band, stalk’
com	tʃom
comapom	tʃomapom	‘fasten something in (a wall), slide sth in between, put (a person) between two others, slip sth into someone's hand’
comat	tʃomat	‘kill’
comic	tʃomitʃ	‘mop made of young shredded sago leaves used to mop up water that has come into the canoe’
comis	tʃomis	‘go outside throwing (sago) about’
comiw	tʃomiw	‘To bring someone inside the house’
comomis	tʃomomis	‘string fish on a rope and take them inland’
comop	tʃomop	‘keep hidden’
comor	tʃomor	‘topple over (tree which is uprooted or cut down)’
comor	tʃomor	‘twisting, winding (river)’
comsem	tʃomsem	‘light a lamp, torch, leaves etc’
comseman	tʃomseman	‘light a cigarette and smoke it’
comsemasam	tʃomsemasam	‘light a lamp, switch on a torch’
comtiw	tʃomtiw	‘put away, lock away, hide’
comtiwtam	tʃomtiwtam	‘Ben’
con	tʃon	‘hidden, out of sight’
con kamimtiw	tʃon kamimtiw	‘hide sth (under?)’
coni	tʃoni	‘secretly go home / down a river’
coop	tʃoop	‘sit with s.o. in secret (lovers)’
cop	tʃop	‘sit plaiting a bag’
copak	tʃopak	‘deep spot in a river where spirits are thought to dwell’
copo	tʃopo	‘with a thud, splashed (of mud in which a stone has fallen)’
copo a-niap-er in	tʃopo a-niap-er in	‘(the tree) shrunk until it was only a short stump’
copo niyap	tʃopo nijap	‘shrink until only a short stump is left’
copo wu	tʃopo wu	‘with a splash’
copom	tʃopom	‘plait’
copon	tʃopon	‘short necklace of dog's teeth’
copon	tʃopon	‘young sago palm, about 6 ft tall (older than waser)’
copu	tʃopu	‘young sago palm (older than a mikin but younger than a waser)’
coro yamusum	tʃoro jamusum	‘come out of, appear (of sth big)’
coro yitep-	tʃoro jitep-	‘go off like a shot up the river’
corom	tʃorom	‘rash (skin disease)’
cotiw	tʃotiw	‘plait and lay down, finish plaiting’
cotiwpor	tʃotiwpor	‘try to finish weaving/plaiting’
cow	tʃow	‘sago palms (generic term)’
cow asen onamicar	tʃow asen onamitʃar	‘let's all go to the sago forest’
cowak	tʃowak	‘one, all, very, forthwith, straightaway, united’
cowak cowak	tʃowak tʃowak	‘one by one’
cowak ut	tʃowak ut	‘only one’
cowakasere	tʃowakasere	‘little ones, crumbs’
cowkan	tʃowkan	‘together with, parallel to, close together’
cowkan kawiem	tʃowkan kawiem	‘stand beside s.o.’
cowo	tʃowo	‘side leaves of the frond of a sago palm’
cowom	tʃowom	‘umbilical cord’
cowor	tʃowor	‘flat, level, smooth’
cowore	tʃowore	‘upper end, youngest part of (eg. the top end of the frond of a sago palm)’
cowu	tʃowu	1. ‘hard bark of the sago palm’ 2. ‘felled sago palm’

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