Word Class: AnaWu
paperbark (papery bark from any of several paperbark trees, -MeIaleuc_ spp.).
Notes: (sometimes heard `iiba, `iiwa), Exx. with b are 71.16.4ff., 71.21.3, 96.2.3, 127.1.6. Exx. with w are 13.30.2, 40.9.3, 50.1.5, 117.2.3/4, 125.3.1, 129.1.1, 146.1.1/4. 2) a particular paperbark tree known for its easily detachable bark, MeIaleuca viridiflora (applied only to the tall, thick form with abundant bark found along swamps; stunted forms in seasonal floodplains are called ragala). Exx. with w are 98.1.3, 162.20.5 (first of these two shows mana- class prefix instead of ana-, showing sporadic noun-class analogy to (mana-)ragala). Ex. with b is 144.2.1. wu-`iba or wu-`iwa NcAnaWu money (esp. paper money); (rarely) paperbark. 53.1.3. -`iba- as cpd. initial: see =w1aba-. Other paperbarks: ragala, rijbarr, lhulwu, magandarr, lhabara, mi[i, warrjara, wuluru. Cf . -w2arrigu`ag -
Alternate form: `iwa| |