Blust & Trussel (2019f): Proto-Oceanic
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| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
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| *<in> | ‘perfective marker’ |
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| *-a | ‘3sg. object’ |
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| *-a | ‘imperative suffix’ |
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| *a | ‘article’ |
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| *a | ‘hesitation particle’ |
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| *a | ‘ligature’ |
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| *a- | ‘adjectival prefix’ |
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| *abit | ‘hold, get, take’ |
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| *abu | ‘grandparent’ |
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| *abut | ‘pull up, root up’ |
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| *acok | ‘sniff, kiss’ |
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| *adom | ‘think, understand’ |
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| *agup | ‘pick up with both hands’ |
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| *ai | ‘anaphoric or relative particle: there, previously mentioned place’ |
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| *ai | ‘interjection, exclamation of surprise, incredulity, etc.’ |
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| *ake | ‘tree sp.’ |
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| *akot | ‘point out, show, teach’ |
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| *aku | ‘1sg nominative, I’ |
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| *akup | ‘cover’ |
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| *alali | ‘halibut, sole, flounder’ |
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| *alap | ‘fetch, get, take’ |
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| *alaq | ‘fetch, get, take’ |
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| *aliq | ‘move, change place’ |
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| *aluluŋ | ‘howl (of dogs)’ |
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| *aluŋ | ‘shade, shadow’ |
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| *aluton | ‘firewood’ |
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| *amax | ‘father’ |
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| *ami | ‘1pl. excl. nominative pronoun, we (exclusive)’ |
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| *-an | ‘verbal suffix marking locative voice, nominal suffix marking location’ |
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| *-ana | ‘attributive suffix’ |
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| *ana<ŋa>ican | ‘when? (past)’ |
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| *añam | ‘plait (mats, baskets, etc.)’ |
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| *ane | ‘insect of the order Isoptera: termite, white ant’ |
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| *aŋak | ‘out of breath, gasping’ |
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| *aŋi | ‘sharp’ |
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| *aŋin | ‘wind’ |
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| *aŋin-aŋin | ‘gust, draft, current of air’ |
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| *aŋit | ‘anger’ |
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| *aŋo | ‘turmeric’; ‘Curcuma longa’ |
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| *aŋo-aŋo-ana | ‘yellow’ |
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| *aŋom | ‘stench’ |
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| *aŋusu | ‘spit, spittle’ |
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| *anu | ‘thing whose name is unknown’ |
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| *a-nu-ku | ‘my unnamed thing: mine’ |
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| *añuliŋ | ‘fruit-bearing plant’; ‘Pisonia umbellifera’ |
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| *a-nu-mu | ‘your unnamed thing: yours’ |
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| *anu-ña | ‘his/her unnamed thing: his/hers’ |
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| *a-nusa | ‘small island, islet’ |
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| *apa apa | ‘something, anything, everything’ |
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| *api | ‘fire’ |
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| *apic | ‘twins of the same sex’ |
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| *apo | ‘high, lofty’ |
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| *apon | ‘fishing line’ |
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| *apuŋ apuŋ | ‘floating’ |
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| *ari | ‘demonstrative: this (?)’ |
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| *ariRi | ‘housepost’ |
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| *aRu | ‘shore tree’; ‘Casuarina equisetifolia’ |
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| *aru | ‘many, much’ |
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| *asam | ‘kind of fern’ |
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| *asaŋ | ‘gills’ |
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| *asaŋ-i | ‘gills of’ |
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| *asaq | ‘sharpen, rub, grate’ |
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| *asaq-i | transitive. ‘sharpen’ |
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| *asio | ‘sneeze’ |
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| *asok | ‘plant in holes in the ground’ |
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| *asu | ‘fetch water, scoop up water’ |
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| *ata | ‘1pl. incl. possessive pronoun: our’ |
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| *atas | ‘high, tall’ |
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| *atas-ña | ‘its top’ |
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| *atay | ‘death’ |
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| *ati | ‘negative marker’ |
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| *atu | ‘away from speaker’ |
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| *au | ‘dew’ |
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| *au | ‘yes’ |
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| *aura | ‘type of wind’ |
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| *awa | ‘exclamation of surprise’ |
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| *awe | ‘wave’ |
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| *aya | ‘exclamation of annoyance, surprise, etc.’ |
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| *aya | ‘father’s sister, father’s sister’s husband’ |
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| *ba | ‘down, under’ |
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| *ba | ‘or, because, but, perhaps’ |
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| *baba | ‘father’ |
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| *babak | ‘break, chip off’ |
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| *babak | ‘peel off bark’ |
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| *babak | ‘strike, chip stone’ |
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| *baban | ‘board, plank, side of canoe’ |
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| *babaŋ | ‘fish sp.’ |
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| *babaŋ | ‘hole, cavern’ |
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| *babaR | ‘side of the face, cheek, side planks of a canoe’ |
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| *bak | ‘strike against’ |
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| *baka | ‘conjunction: despite, nonetheless’ |
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| *baka | ‘kind of banyan tree’; ‘Ficus sp.’ |
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| *bakewak | ‘shark’ |
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| *baki | ‘break off with the hand’ |
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| *baku | ‘scab, crust’ |
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| *bakul | ‘fish: triggerfish sp.(?)’ |
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| *balai | ‘fish sp.’ |
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| *balai | ‘wild yam’; ‘Dioscorea sp.’ |
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| *balalan | ‘slant, lean over (as a tree)’ |
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| *balaŋ | ‘side, part’ |