OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Usher & Schapper (2022d): Proto-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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Total entries: 79
Headword IPA Glosses
*abui*abui

‘fish’

*ad[o]l*ad[o]l

‘bird’

*ada*ada

‘fire, firewood’

*adur[i]*adur[i]

‘dust, ashes’

*aja*aja

‘rain’

*ami*ami

‘breast’

*amin*amin

‘louse’

*amu*amu

‘body’

*amən*amən

‘kunai grass’

*anin*anin

‘person’

*arik*arik

‘root’

*aru*aru

‘vagina’

*asa*asa

‘leaf’

*asu*asu

‘prawn’

*atu*atu

‘excrement’

*atəi*atəi

‘tree, wood’

*digar*diɡar

‘fry’

*dur*dur

‘rat, mouse’

*ibi*ibi

‘star’

*idar*idar

‘chest’

*-in*-in

‘eye’

*ina[-n]*ina[-n]

‘give’

*ipa*ipa

‘go down’

*ipi*ipi

‘worm’

*ira*ira

‘water’

*isu*isu

‘fruit, seed’

*itugə*ituɡə

‘three’

*j[e]gal*j[e]ɡal

‘path’

*jabar*jabar

‘dog’

*jagar*jaɡar

‘laugh’

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

‘come’

*mad[u]*mad[u]

‘child’

*madəl*madəl

‘flying fox’

*mag*maɡ

‘voice’

*mag[i][-n]*maɡ[i][-n]

‘hear’

*magul*maɡul

‘banana’

*makala*makala

‘bitter’

*mani*mani

‘neck’

*mida*mida

‘go up’

*mini*mini

‘beside’

*mira*mira

‘inside’

*mit[i][-n]*mit[i][-n]

‘sit’

*muga*muɡa

‘earth, ground’

*mun*mun

‘rotten, smelly’

*muni*muni

‘nose’

*na*na

‘eat, drink’

*nai*nai

‘name’

*nana*nana

‘older sibling’

*nat[a]r*nat[a]r

‘stand’

*panu*panu

‘face’

*pasin*pasin

‘sneeze’

*pasu[C]*pasu[c]

‘husk, peel’

*patu*patu

‘thigh’

*patu[-n]*patu[-n]

‘swell’

*purum*purum

‘spittle, saliva’

*sina*sina

‘plait’

*taga[-n]*taɡa[-n]

‘count’

*tan*tan

‘hand, arm’

*tapa*tapa

‘pound, shoot’

*tari*tari

‘fence’

*tugar[a]*tuɡar[a]

‘heavy’

*uba*uba

‘sugarcane’

*ubur*ubur

‘fly (insect)’

*udu*udu

‘wax’

*upar*upar

‘dream’

*upur*upur

‘body, contents’

*wadi*wadi

‘sun, day’

*wai*wai

‘blood’

*wakal*wakal

‘child’

*walən*walən

‘blue, green’

*war*war

‘stone’

*-wari*-wari

‘ear’

*wari*wari

‘nest’

*wasin*wasin

‘tooth’

*wata*wata

‘coconut’

*wita*wita

‘carry, fetch’

*wəra*wəra

‘tail’

*-əna*-əna

‘see’

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‘moon’