Blust & Trussel (2019d): Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
Search entries
| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| *ajek | ‘smell, sniff, kiss’ |
||
| *apen | ‘fishing line’ |
||
| *api | ‘fire’ |
||
| *aRezan | ‘notched log ladder’ |
||
| *asaŋ | ‘gills’ |
||
| *asaŋ-i | ‘gills of’ |
||
| *asaq | ‘sharpen, rub, grate’ |
||
| *ated | 1. ‘accompany, escort, conduct, convey’ 2. ‘send’ 3. ‘return’ 4. ‘escort the bride to her husband’ 5. ‘gift of food at a wedding’ 6. ‘send bridewealth payments’ |
||
| *babak | ‘strike, chip stone’ |
||
| *balun | ‘mix’ |
||
| *baqoRu | 1. ‘new, recent’ 2. ‘young, fresh’ |
||
| *beŋkeR | ‘defecate’ |
||
| *betek | 1. ‘thorn’ 2. ‘stinger of stingray’ |
||
| *bokes | 1. ‘bundle’ 2. ‘package’ |
||
| *bolaj | 1. ‘spread out, unroll (mats, etc.)’ 2. ‘wide’ |
||
| *boRe | ‘give’ |
||
| *boRse | ‘canoe paddle, paddle a canoe’ |
||
| *emis | ‘sweet taste’ |
||
| *ikan | ‘fish’ |
||
| *ipun | ‘tiny sea fish that ascends rivers in huge numbers to spawn’ |
||
| *ira | ‘they, them’ |
||
| *iri | ‘then, at that time’ |
||
| *isug | ‘scrub oneself by scrubbing’ |
||
| *kanisu | ‘to spit at (as an insult?)’ |
||
| *kanus | 1. ‘spittle’ 2. ‘to spit (intr.)’ |
||
| *kanus-i | ‘to spit (trans.)’ |
||
| *kaRa | ‘member of the parrot family’ |
||
| *ma-katel | ‘itch’ |
||
| *maluRu | ‘shade’ |
||
| *ma-qosak | 1. ‘ripe’ 2. ‘cooked’ 3. ‘ready to eat’ |
||
| *ma-riRi | ‘to stand, be standing’ |
||
| *masak | ‘ripe, cooked’ |
||
| *mauRi | ‘left side or direction’ |
||
| *mawa | ‘cleft, space between two rocks’ |
||
| *molaŋ | ‘true, real, genuine’ |
||
| *mutu | ‘broken off, cut off’ |
||
| *natu | ‘child, offspring’ |
||
| *onəm | ‘six’ |
||
| *paRi- | ‘prefix of reciprocal or collective action’ |
||
| *pat | ‘four’ |
||
| *patoto | ‘sticks that connect the float to the booms of an outrigger canoe’ |
||
| *poli | 1. ‘value, price’ 2. ‘marriage prestations, brideprice’ 3. ‘purchase’ |
||
| *qayawan | ‘banyan, strangler fig’ |
||
| *qutub | ‘submerge a container to fill it’ |
||
| *raun | 1. ‘leaf’ 2. ‘head hair’ 3. ‘classifier used in counting certain types of objects’ |
||
| *riris | ‘cut, slice’ |
||
| *sala | ‘sharp-’ |
||
| *saŋa | 1. ‘crotch, fork of the legs’ 2. ‘span, fork of the fingers’ |
||
| *sira | ‘they, them’ |
||
| *sombu | ‘go down, descend’ |
||
| *sua | ‘to stir’ |
||
| *suak | 1. ‘to backpaddle a canoe’ 2. ‘walk backwards’ |
||
| *supi | ‘to peel, pare, as yams’ |
||
| *sura | ‘comb’ |
||
| *t-ampu | ‘grandparent/ grandchild (reciprocal)’ |
||
| *tinoni | ‘man, male’ |
||
| *tolu | ‘three’ |
||
| *tosi | ‘draw, make marks or designs’ |
||
| *tuRi | ‘candlenut tree: *Aleurites moluccana*’ |
||
| *u | ‘2sg. subject pronoun’ |
||
| *upe | ‘end of tuber that is kept for planting’ |
||
| *upu | ‘germinating coconut (?)’ |
||
| *uRas | ‘wash body parts, cooking or eating utensils (but not clothes)’ |
||
| *waip | ‘water container’ |
||
| *wakaR-i | ‘root’ |
||
| *waŋka | ‘outrigger canoe with dugout hull’ |
||
| *wa(n)se | ‘divide’ |