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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Total entries: 22
Headword IPA Glosses
*amo*amo

‘louse’

*ata*ata

‘excrement’

*ata bu*ata bu

‘flatulate’

*aβuɣo*aβuɣo

‘breast’

*boɣera*boɣera

‘see, look’

*dai*dai

‘lie (down)’

*dapo*dapo

‘hit’

*ete*ete

‘blood’

*gema*ɡema

‘give’

*gewa*ɡewa

‘take’

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

‘sun’

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

‘shoot’

*jiwi*jiwi

‘hear’

*maneɣe*maneɣe

‘nose’

*maβu*maβu

‘foot’

*moi*moi

‘water’

*nV*nv

‘eat, drink’

*opo*opo

‘pig’

*watae*watae

‘red ochre’

*ɣaime*ɣaime

‘drum’

*ɣupu*ɣupu

‘head, hair’

*βata*βata

‘clearing for a garden’