Ray (2003e): Kala Lagaw Ya Muralag
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| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
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| aona | ‘sting-ray’ |
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| ararapa | ‘bat’ |
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| bagamulei | ‘pale green’ |
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| ba-gamuli | ‘pale green’ |
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| balbaigi-asiri | ‘have a fair wind, in sailing’ |
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| bari | ‘grass’ |
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| barit | ‘cuscus’ |
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| bete | ‘driftwood’ |
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| biia | ‘goatsucker’ |
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| brabat | ‘man's sister, woman's brother’ |
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| buama | ‘white cowry shell’; ‘Ovulum ovum’ |
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| buradunga | ‘pale green, violet, "close up white"’ |
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| da | ‘bosom’ |
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| daga-sam | ‘young cassowary’ |
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| danga-mari | ‘crescent-shaped ornament of pearl shell’ |
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| danga-mari | ‘crescentic ornament of nacre’ |
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| dan-goigoi | ‘roll the eyes, pray’ |
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| dob-utiz | ‘flee’ |
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| dura | ‘bosom’ |
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| enti | ‘spider’ |
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| gabugabu | ‘cold, cool’ |
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| gagi | ‘turtle-shell fish-hook ornament worn by girls during betrothal’ |
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| gaima | ‘abscess, boil’ |
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| gariga | ‘sun, sunlight, day’ |
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| gaulonga | ‘green coconut, used for drink’ |
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| gizugi | ‘blunt’ |
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| goraigor | ‘goiga’ |
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| grus | ‘sea anemone’; ‘Discosoma sp.’ |
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| grusad | ‘purple’ |
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| guapi | ‘shaft of klak’ |
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| guel | ‘bald’ |
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| ibaeba | ‘sandstone’ |
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| ietu | ‘barnacle, on turtle’ |
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| inguidonga | ‘blue’ |
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| ipatu | ‘grave’ |
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| kadaipa | ‘Saibai’ |
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| kaiet | ‘(?)’ |
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| kaiet-gamuli | ‘brown’ |
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| kaise | ‘perhaps’ |
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| kamad | ‘belt worn obliquely across the chest’ |
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| karaba | ‘paddle, oar’ |
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| karalaig | ‘native of Muralag’ |
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| karum(a) | ‘monitor lizard’; ‘Varanus’ |
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| kaura | ‘island’ |
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| kauralaig | ‘native of Muralag’ |
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| kaura-tarte | ‘hole in the lobe of the ear’ |
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| kazi gubar epiz | ‘adopt’ |
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| kazi-toridi | ‘adopt’ |
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| kisuri | ‘moon, month’ |
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| kogwoi | ‘throwing-stick’ |
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| krem | ‘white heron’ |
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| kubar | ‘shell of coconut’ |
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| kuik-get | ‘index finger’ |
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| kuikuia-trapot | ‘dorsal fin’ |
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| kuiku-tidari | ‘behead’ |
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| kukunu-nanamari | ‘to kick’ |
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| kupal | ‘tail of bird’ |
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| kupal-baba | ‘tail feather’ |
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| kurseg | ‘self’ |
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| maiwa | ‘species of turtle’ |
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| marapi | ‘bamboo, bamboo water vessel’ |
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| mari | ‘pearl shell’ |
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| muga-gud | ‘basket’ |
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| muia-trapot | ‘pelvic fin’ |
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| murug | ‘sweat’ |
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| nabi-get | ‘five’ |
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| naguli | ‘gardens probably yam gardens’ |
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| nar | ‘mud’ |
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| narlai | ‘dirty, muddy’ |
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| ngaranga | ‘leaf which causes a blister’ |
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| ngi | ‘thou’ |
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| ngita | ‘you (plural)’ |
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| nipa | ‘(suffix)’ |
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| oripara | ‘rainbow’ |
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| pa | ‘(suffix)’ |
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| penai | ‘dive?’ |
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| pidai | ‘dig?’ |
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| piro | ‘stealing, theft’ |
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| poniponi | ‘lightning’ |
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| potur | ‘digging-stick’ |
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| prui | ‘tree’ |
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| puri | ‘a, tree, wood, stick, flapper of a turtle’ |
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| purul-kazi | ‘thief’ |
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| purur | ‘bark of a tree’ |
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| pusakar-adai | ‘fill up’ |
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| puti | ‘armlet’ |
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| puti | ‘fall [drop down], undress, come out, of feather’ |
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| rugaig puri | ‘love charm’ |
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| rumbadi | ‘kind of water-lily’ |
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| sabi | ‘tabu, prohibition, instructions to kernge in the kwod’ |
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| sarima | ‘outrigger float of a canoe’ |
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| sarza | ‘tree, leaves used in initiation ceremony, stars in the tail of the constellation Baidam, fig tree’ |
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| sek | ‘hole’ |
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| sib-palga-paliz | ‘frightened, startled, "jump inside"’ |
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| sirasira | ‘tree, bark used for making fishing lines’ |
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| sisuri | ‘rainbow’ |
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| sowar | ‘food plant, species of yam, eaten during Waur’ |
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| sup-adai | ‘bask’ |
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| susuli-puri | ‘plant with milky juice’ |
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| tabai gabu-tari | ‘carry on shoulder’ |
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| taban | ‘petticoat’ |
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| tagur | ‘name of a plant, species of flag Probably same as togar’; ‘Philydrum’ |
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| tataimili | ‘scales of a fish’ |
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| tepan | ‘pandanus fruit’ |
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| tirap | ‘wrist’ |
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| tirap-uru | ‘bracelet of plaited string’ |
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| tituri | ‘star’ |
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| turab | ‘side of beach’ |
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| turkekai | ‘male’ |
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| turo | ‘easy, light’ |
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| ukosa | ‘two’ |
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| urapun | ‘one’ |
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| urapuni | ‘one’ |
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| urato | ‘season, year’ |
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| urgil-palai | ‘cover up’ |
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| utua | ‘sleep’ |
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| utu-lag | ‘house sleeping place’ |
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| waigar | ‘yea!, yes indeed!’ |
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| waiwi | ‘kernel of coconut’ |
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| wakai kamani-mizi | ‘sorry’ |
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| wakai-kamani-mizi | ‘sorry’ |
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| wakai-kuam | ‘sorry’ |
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| wakai-kumani | ‘sorry’ |
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| wakai-kumani-mizi | ‘sorry’ |
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| walkadun | ‘wallaby’ |
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| walsi | ‘name of a plant, basket’; ‘Xerotes banksii’ |
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| waranis | ‘green pigeon’ |
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| wati zazi | ‘menses’ |
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| watigam | ‘menses’ |
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| wati-zazi | ‘menses’ |
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| wera | ‘stomach’ |
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| wier | ‘palm of hand’ |
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| zabai | ‘pectoral fin’ |