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

‘blow-pipe arrow’ (eng)

farirɸarir

‘crayfish’ (eng)

isiórisiˈor

‘blow-pipe’ (eng)

kuwátkuˈwat

‘exchange’ (eng)

manjamanja

‘mutuality’ (eng)

najnaj

‘breathe’ (eng)

nemännemen

‘have coitus’ (eng)

norutnorut

‘taboo’ (eng)

osso mufoso muɸ

‘fifteen (15)’ (eng)

pajpaj

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

sakochósakoˈxo

‘adjoin (of allotments; swiddens etc)’ (eng)

seiáchseiˈax

‘species of fish’ (eng); ‘ikan kaskado’ (ind)

sené(j)seˈne(j)

‘thin’ (eng)

seríaseˈria

‘bind fast’ (eng)

setíkseˈtik

‘sago-palm’ (eng)

tafastaɸas

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