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Smits & Voorhoeve (1998 Tehit g.1): Tehit Eles

Original citation: Smits, Leo and C.L. Voorhoeve. 1998. The J.C. Anceaux collection of wordlists of Irian Jaya languages B: Non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages (Part II). (Irian Jaya Source Material No.10, Series B.4). Leiden-Jakarta: DSALCUL/IRIS

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Headword IPA Glosses
betbɛt

‘earth, ground’

hemhɛm

‘blood’

kimbiakkiᵐbiak

‘ashes’

klikklik

‘snake’

kumboskuᵐbos

‘vein’

maifimaiɸi

‘new’

mbraᵐbɾa

‘green’

mebinmɛbin

‘smoke’

mecesmɛtʃɛs

‘egg’

medehenmɛdɛhɛn

‘burn (intr.)’

mehenmɛhɛn

‘red’

mekavukmɛkaβuk

‘round’

meresmɛɾɛs

‘one’

merimɛɾi

‘yellow’

msolomsolo

‘dry’

nakanaka

‘come’

palapala

‘skin’

samsam

‘head’

samgensamɡɛn

‘hair’

svasβa

‘mountain’

syamʃam

‘give’

takotako

‘drink’

tamtam

‘hand’

tamtam

‘nose’

tatnitatni

‘eat’

tawatawa

‘weep’

tekamtɛkam

‘buttocks’

tekamattɛkamat

‘belly’

tesivotɛsiβo

‘eye’

tetsyamtɛtʃam

‘knee’

tevittɛβit

‘ear’

tokomittokomit

‘cold’

tokontokon

‘rain’

toliktolik

‘three’

tosotoso

‘hear’

vramβɾam

‘leaf’

wewekwɛwɛk

‘small’

wflewɸlɛ

‘great, big’

wokitwokit

‘tree’