OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

Original citation: Schapper, Antoinette. 2020. Wersing dictionary. Dictionaria 11. 1–1430. URL: https://dictionaria.clld.org/contributions/wersing doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4139455

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Headword IPA Glosses
=mi=mi

postp. ‘LOC, in, at, general locative postposition, used for any spatial relationship where one entity is broadly contained with another’; ‘di, pada’

mi-mi-

1. prefix. ‘LOC, in, at, into, locative applicative prefix for an applied P that denotes a location at, in(to), or around which the event denoted by a verb occurs’; ‘LOK’

2. prefix. ‘out of, from within, locative applicative prefix for an applied P that denotes that a referent issues from an interior location’

3. prefix. ‘more, further, denotes further movement into a state, that is, an increase in the state experienced by S’; ‘tambah’

4. prefix. ‘do again, repeat the action denoted by the verb root’; ‘bikin kembali’

5. prefix. ‘times, do X number of times, occurs on a numeral denoting how many times an action denoted by preceding verb’; ‘kali, X kali’