OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Kamholz (2021): Proto-SHWNG

Original citation: Kamholz, David. forthcoming. The historical linguistics of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup. In Sander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper (eds), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Total entries: 22
Headword IPA Glosses
*[a,e]m

‘see’ (eng)

*[s]alai

‘dig’ (eng)

*aka

‘bite’ (eng)

*as

‘swim’ (eng)

*asan

‘sun, day’ (eng)

*ata

‘to smoke (food)’ (eng)

*ba

‘big’ (eng)

*bi

‘live, be alive’ (eng)

*bisik

‘sick’ (eng)

*bus

‘white’ (eng)

*dum

‘drink’ (eng)

*el

‘mountain’ (eng)

*iap

‘k.o. brown fish’ (eng)

*katem

‘one’ (eng)

*lali

‘dirty’ (eng)

*lan

‘song’ (eng)

*le

‘land(ward)’ (eng)

*ma-lom

‘wet’ (eng)

*ma-sun

‘heavy’ (eng)

*tuat

‘buy’ (eng)

*una

‘know’ (eng)

*utin

‘hundred’ (eng)