OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Blust & Trussel (2019h): Proto-Western Malayo-Polynesian

Original citation: Blust, Robert and Stephen Trussel. 2019. Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, web edition. URL: www.trussel2.com/ACD
Notes on this source: Edited by Allahverdi Verdizade

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Headword IPA Glosses
*<in>

‘perfective marker’

*<um>

‘verbal infix marking actor voice for intransitive verbs, and of inchoatives’

*-a

‘3sg. object’

*-a

‘imperative suffix’

*-a

‘subjunctive suffix’

*a

‘article’

*a

‘conjunction: and’

*a

‘exclamation, interjection’

*a

‘hesitation particle’

*a

‘ligature’

*a-anak-an

‘doll’

*aba

‘father’

*abá

‘exclamation: ah!, oh!, alas!’

*abaŋ

‘ambush, block the way, obstacle, hindrance’

*abaŋ

‘ditch’

*abaŋ

‘rent’

*abat

‘give a supporting hand’

*abaw

‘high, lofty’

*abit

‘climb’

*abu abu

‘fish sp.’

*abuat

‘long (of objects)’

*abun

‘collect, gather’

*abuqaŋ

‘beetle’

*abuR

‘dust’

*abus

‘ash’

*abut

‘buttocks’

*abut

‘pull up, root up’

*acaŋ

‘dove, pigeon’

*adaduq

‘long (of objects)’

*adamay

‘k.o. plant’; ‘Pipturus argenteus’

*adani

‘near’

*a-di

‘that, there’

*adi

‘no, not’

*adu

‘compete, confront in a contest’

*aduq

‘exclamation of pain, distress, etc.’

*a-enem

‘six (of humans)’

*a-epat

‘four (of humans)’

*a-esa

‘one (of humans)’

*agag

‘sieve, sift’

*agam

‘consider, think’

*agas

‘k.o. tree’; ‘Aporosa spp.’

*agem

‘hold, grip’

*agem

‘overcast’

*agem

‘use, get use from’

*agu

‘and, also’

*ai

‘come’

*ai

‘interjection, exclamation of surprise, incredulity, etc.’

*ajan

‘name’

*ajiq

‘exclamation of pain or surprise’

*aka

‘elder sibling’

*akak

‘cackling laughter’

*aka-ŋ

‘elder sibling (vocative)’

*akaŋ

‘take a long step, step over something’

*aka-q

‘elder sibling (vocative)’

*akaR

‘root’

*aken

‘1sg oblique’

*aken

‘preposition, on, upon, applicative marker’

*akerahaq

‘cry of a monkey’

*aki

‘grandfather, ancestor’

*aku

‘1sg nominative, I’

*aku-en

‘acknowledge, receive, accept’

*ala

‘take, get, fetch, obtain, marry’

*ala-en

‘taken’

*alagaq

‘kind of large red tree ant with bad bite’

*alali

‘halibut, sole, flounder’

*alaŋ-alaŋ

‘insufficient, half-heartedly’

*alap

‘fetch, get, take’

*alap-an

‘what is taken (?)’

*alap-en

‘fetch, get, take’

*alaq

‘defeat’

*alaq

‘fetch, get, take’

*alaq

‘resemble’

*alaq-en

‘taken’

*alawid

‘far’

*alem

‘dark, night’

*alikas

‘quick, fast’

*aliq

‘move, change place’

*aliten

‘firebrand, unconsumed wood in a fire, charred wood’

*alub

‘put in or over a fire’

*alud

‘type of canoe’

*aluja

‘paddle’

*aluluŋ

‘howl (of dogs)’

*aluŋ

‘shade, shadow’

*aluten

‘burning brand, charred or smoldering wood’

*ama ama

‘stepfather’

*ama-an

‘(gloss uncertain)’

*ama-en

‘uncle’

*ama-i

‘father (voc.)’

*amak

‘mat’

*amá-ŋ

‘father (voc.)’

*amaŋ amaŋ

‘dare to do something’

*ama-q

‘father (voc.)’

*amaq

‘eat’

*amaq-an

‘eating place (?)’

*amaRa

‘tree sp.’

*amat

‘continuous, unceasing’

*amax

‘father’

*ambak

‘stamp or smack against’

*ambawaŋ

‘wild mango’

*ambay

‘wave back and forth’

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