OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Usher & Suter (2020d): Proto-Asmat-Muli

Original citation: Usher, Timothy and Edgar Suter. 2020. The Asmat-Muli Languages of Southwestern New Guinea. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 38. 148-175.

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Headword IPA Glosses
*amo*amo

‘louse’ (eng)

*ata*ata

‘excrement’ (eng)

*ata bu*ata bu

‘flatulate’ (eng)

*aβuɣo*aβuɣo

‘breast’ (eng)

*boɣera*boɣera

‘see, look’ (eng)

*dai*dai

‘lie (down)’ (eng)

*dapo*dapo

‘hit’ (eng)

*ete*ete

‘blood’ (eng)

*gema*ɡema

‘give’ (eng)

*gewa*ɡewa

‘take’ (eng)

*jaw(a,u)*jaw(a,u)

‘sun’ (eng)

*j(i,u)ri*j(i,u)ri

‘shoot’ (eng)

*jiwi*jiwi

‘hear’ (eng)

*maneɣe*maneɣe

‘nose’ (eng)

*maβu*maβu

‘foot’ (eng)

*moi*moi

‘water’ (eng)

*nV*nv

‘eat, drink’ (eng)

*opo*opo

‘pig’ (eng)

*watae*watae

‘red ochre’ (eng)

*ɣaime*ɣaime

‘drum’ (eng)

*ɣupu*ɣupu

‘head, hair’ (eng)

*βata*βata

‘clearing for a garden’ (eng)