OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Elmberg (1968j): Maybrat Framesá

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
ateate

‘blowpipe arrow’

farirɸarir

‘crayfish’

isiórisiˈor

‘blow-pipe’

kuwátkuˈwat

‘exchange’

manjamanja

‘mutuality’

najnaj

‘breathe’

nemännemen

‘have coitus’

norutnorut

‘taboo’

osso mufoso muɸ

‘fifteen (15)’

pajpaj

‘vessel (of leaf-sheaths) for mixing sago porridge’

sakochósakoˈxo

‘adjoin (of allotments; swiddens etc)’

seiáchseiˈax

‘species of fish’; ‘ikan kaskado’

sené(j)seˈne(j)

‘thin’

seríaseˈria

‘bind fast’

setíkseˈtik

‘sago-palm’

tafastaɸas

‘"fiancée" (to whom one has begun to give presents)’