OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Elmberg (1968e): Maybrat Eastern

Original citation: Elmberg, John-Erik. 1968. Balance and circulation: aspects of tradition and change among the Mejprat of Irian Barat. Stockholm: Ethnographical Museum of Sweden.

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Headword IPA Glosses
akéaˈke

‘not wanting to’

akénaˈken

‘long and narrow canoe’

anéaˈne

‘pool’

atrofatroɸ

‘reckon descent, follow one's mother (man speaking)’

ferókɸeˈrok

‘out’

jojojojo

‘always’

masejmasej

‘angry’

masochmasox

‘aperture, (human) mouth’

n'feróknɸeˈrok

‘force one's way out’

n'karemnkarem

‘sheath-fish’

nacheninaxeni

‘estimate not see’

nasianasia

‘heart’

nasóchnaˈsox

‘mouth’

natánaˈta

‘ache, swear (?)’

netémneˈtem

‘hand’

okóoˈko

‘hot angry’

pinépiˈne

‘father’

porítíeporitie

‘ceremonial leader’

rajraj

‘human being, person, people, man’

sasa

‘opening, mouth, shore, coast, conch, ten’

sefseɸ

‘small net’

semáseˈma

‘almost’

serchówiakserˈxowiak

‘rattan bag with two compartments (used by women)’

seriémseriˈem

‘aggressive, wild, angry, strange, stranger’

setátemseˈtatem

‘ten’

sétiáchsetiax

‘kind of fish’; ‘ikan kaskado’

setúochseˈtuox

‘home region’

sokosoko

‘digging stick’

temäntemen

‘espouse, marry (a woman )’

tin makátin maˈka

‘sleepy’

torotoro

‘dance-house, spear’