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’

*[s]alai

‘dig’

*aka

‘bite’

*as

‘swim’

*asan

‘sun, day’

*ata

‘to smoke (food)’

*ba

‘big’

*bi

‘live, be alive’

*bisik

‘sick’

*bus

‘white’

*dum

‘drink’

*el

‘mountain’

*iap

‘k.o. brown fish’

*katem

‘one’

*lali

‘dirty’

*lan

‘song’

*le

‘land(ward)’

*ma-lom

‘wet’

*ma-sun

‘heavy’

*tuat

‘buy’

*una

‘know’

*utin

‘hundred’