OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

de Josselin de Jong (1947): Ili'uun Erai

Original citation: de Josselin de Jong, Jan Petrus Benjamin. 1947. Studies in Indonesian Culture II: The community of Erai (Wetar) (Texts and Notes). Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers-Maatschappij.
Notes on this source: Edited by Antoinette Schapper.

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Headword IPA Glosses
mama

‘auxiliary expressing temporal or modal dependence, usually translatable with "when" or "if"’

mama

‘come, also auxiliary verb expressing near future, intention or exhortation (in many cases it is to be translated with: that ... may, in order to)’

mama

‘particle of very vague meaning, which apparently may be used or omitted at will’

mama

‘postpositive particle of uncertain meaning’