Elmberg (1968i): Maybrat Northern
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Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
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achá | aˈxa | ‘corpse’ | |
achóf | aˈxoɸ | ‘sago-pith’ | |
achré | axˈre | ‘to sit down’ | |
amách | aˈmax | ‘floor grating of pole house, indoors, house’ | |
ara kawia | ara kawia | ‘fig tree’ | |
chamá | xaˈma | ‘skull’ | |
chapä | xape | ‘opossum’ | |
chapek | xapek | ‘dance’ | |
chara watä | xara wate | ‘butterfly, ghost’ | |
charok | xarok | ‘hole, made in the wall of Krä-house through which the child is taken out, bi-coloured dema bird’ | |
faws | ɸaws | ‘edible beetle-grub’ | |
ferók | ɸeˈrok | ‘out’ | |
fior | ɸior | ‘plant’; ‘Coleus’ | |
jin | jin | ‘banyan-tree’ | |
kané | kaˈne | ‘patola-patterned cloth’ | |
kapék | kaˈpek | ‘dance’ | |
ko napách | ko naˈpax | ‘rake (for swidden work)’ | |
korok | korok | ‘nose-flute’ | |
merúf | meˈruɸ | ‘rake’ | |
n'ta | nta | ‘marriage partner’ | |
nafas | naɸas | ‘rub vigorously, exchange’ | |
name | name | ‘knit, embroider’ | |
nefenáj | neɸeˈnaj | ‘myth, tale (?)’ | |
newát | neˈwat | ‘catching fish in a trap’ | |
osomúf | osoˈmuɸ | ‘fifteen’ | |
pokejt | pokejt | ‘sago’ | |
pren | pren | ‘feast of exchange’ | |
raj | raj | ‘human being, person, people, man’ | |
satúoch | saˈtuox | ‘connected with one dema, certain region or its people’ | |
serchówiak | serˈxowiak | ‘rattan bag with two compartments (used by women)’ | |
setátem | seˈtatem | ‘ten’ | |
setúoch | seˈtuox | ‘home region’ | |
tait | tait | ‘centipede’ | |
tämaj | temaj | ‘ten’ | |
temáj | teˈmaj | ‘ten’ | |
tuwok | tuwok | ‘palm-wine’ | |
uiar | uiar | ‘crocodile’ | |
wochá | woˈxa | ‘ghost’ | |
woreách | woreˈax | ‘totem animal’ |