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Usher & Schapper (2022b): Proto-Timor-Alor-Pantar

Original citation: Usher, Timothy and Antoinette Schapper. 2022. The Greater West Bomberai Family. Oceanic Linguistics 61.1: 469–527.

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Headword IPA Glosses
*[ʔ]abui*[ʔ]abui

‘fish’

*[ʔ]adur[i]*[ʔ]adur[i]

‘dust, ashes’

*[ʔ]ag[i,ə]lV*[ʔ]aɡ[i,ə]lv

‘bite’

*[ʔ]aja*[ʔ]aja

‘rain’

*[ʔ]amu*[ʔ]amu

‘body’

*[ʔ]arik*[ʔ]arik

‘root’

*[ʔ]atsa*[ʔ]atsa

‘leaf’

*[ʔ]atəi*[ʔ]atəi

‘tree, wood’

*[ʔ]ibi*[ʔ]ibi

‘star’

*[ʔ]idzar*[ʔ]idzar

‘chest’

*[ʔ]ina*[ʔ]ina

‘give’

*[ʔ]ipa*[ʔ]ipa

‘go down’

*[ʔ]itugə*[ʔ]ituɡə

‘three’

*[ʔ]ubur*[ʔ]ubur

‘fly (insect)’

*[ʔ]udu*[ʔ]udu

‘egg’

*[ʔ]udzu*[ʔ]udzu

‘wax’

*[ʔ]upar*[ʔ]upar

‘dream’

*[ʔ]upur*[ʔ]upur

‘body, contents’

*ada*ada

‘fire, firewood’

*adzəwəl*adzəwəl

‘bird’

*ami*ami

‘breast’

*amin*amin

‘louse’

*amir*amir

‘wing’

*amən*amən

‘kunai grass’

*aru*aru

‘vagina’

*atu*atu

‘excrement’

*dzigar*dziɡar

‘fry’

*dzura*dzura

‘rat, mouse’

*ina*ina

‘eye’

*ini*ini

‘do, make’

*ipi*ipi

‘worm’

*ira*ira

‘water’

*isu*isu

‘fruit, seed’

*jabar*jabar

‘dog’

*jəgal*jəɡal

‘path’

*jəgar*jəɡar

‘laugh’

*ma[-n]*ma[-n]

‘come’

*madV*madv

‘child’

*madəl*madəl

‘flying fox’

*mag*maɡ

‘voice’

*magul*maɡul

‘banana’

*magə[-n]*maɡə[-n]

‘hear’

*makala*makala

‘bitter’

*mani*mani

‘neck’

*mara*mara

‘walk, go’

*midza*midza

‘go up’

*mini*mini

‘beside’

*mira*mira

‘inside’

*mit*mit

‘sit’

*muga*muɡa

‘earth, ground’

*mun*mun

‘rotten, smelly’

*muni[k]*muni[k]

‘nose’

*na[n]Cər*na[n]cər

‘stand’

*nai*nai

‘name’

*nami*nami

‘man’

*nana*nana

‘older sibling’

*nawa*nawa

‘eat, drink’

*noko*noko

‘younger sibling’

*pana[r]*pana[r]

‘female’

*pani*pani

‘tasty’

*panu*panu

‘face’

*pasin*pasin

‘sneeze’

*pasu*pasu

‘husk, peel’

*patu*patu

‘swell’

*patu*patu

‘thigh’

*pulum*pulum

‘spittle, saliva’

*sina*sina

‘plait’

*taga[-n]*taɡa[-n]

‘count’

*tana*tana

‘hand, arm’

*tapa*tapa

‘pound, shoot’

*tari*tari

‘fence’

*tinan*tinan

‘cook’

*tipar*tipar

‘run’

*tubur*tubur

‘woman’

*tugair*tuɡair

‘heavy’

*tVbər*tvbər

‘mountain’

*ugar*uɡar

‘raw, unripe’

*ukani*ukani

‘one’

*umV*umv

‘die’

*wadu*wadu

‘sun, day’

*wagadzi*waɡadzi

‘day’

*wai*wai

‘blood’

*wakal*wakal

‘child’

*walen*walen

‘blue, green’

*wali*wali

‘ear’

*war*war

‘stone’

*wari*wari

‘nest’

*wasa*wasa

‘bean’

*wasin*wasin

‘tooth’

*wata*wata

‘coconut’

*wita*wita

‘carry, fetch’

*wura*wura

‘moon’

*wəla*wəla

‘tail’

*əna*əna

‘see’

*ʔanin*ʔanin

‘person’

*ʔats[i,u]*ʔats[i,u]

‘prawn’

*ʔuba*ʔuba

‘sugarcane’