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Veloso (2016a): Naueti Uatolari

Original citation: Veloso, Alexandre. 2016. A grammar sketch of Naueti, a language of East Timor. MA thesis, Leiden University.

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Headword	IPA	Glosses
'laba	ˀlaba	vt. ‘burn forest or field’
'lada	ˀlada	n. ‘ginger’
'lae	ˀlae	vi. ‘lazy’
'laha	ˀlaha	vi. ‘live’
'laina-hira	ˀlaina-hira	int. ‘when (in the past)’
'laina-rua	ˀlaina-rua	n. ‘two days ago’
'lai-sei	ˀlai-sei	adv. ‘yesterday’
'lara	ˀlara	1. n. ‘sun’ 2. n. ‘day’
'lara di 'lara mai	ˀlara di ˀlara mai	adv. ‘usually’
'lara khai dia	ˀlara kʰai dia	adv. ‘long ago’
'lara-'laran	ˀlara-ˀlaran	adv. ‘everyday’
'lara-'mutu	ˀlara-ˀmutu	n. ‘noon’
'lara-duu	ˀlara-duu	n. ‘sunset, West’
'lara-nhuta	ˀlara-n̥uta	n. ‘sunrise, East’
'lara-ria	ˀlara-ria	n. ‘afternoon’
'lea	ˀlea	vt. ‘mark, carve’
'lero-kai	ˀlero-kai	n. ‘throat’
'lero-kai-wua	ˀlero-kai-wua	n. ‘Adam's apple’
'leru	ˀleru	vt. ‘move’
'lidi	ˀlidi	n. ‘cockroach’
'loi	ˀloi	vi. ‘pray’
'loke	ˀloke	vt. ‘open, uncover’
'lura	ˀlura	vt. ‘carry on shoulder’
'lutu	ˀlutu	n. ‘fence’
'malakai	ˀmalakai	n. ‘grasshopper’
'masa	ˀmasa	vt. ‘taste’
'masi	ˀmasi	vt. ‘try, attempt’
'mimi	ˀmimi	vt. ‘mention’
'moko	ˀmoko	vt. ‘suck, smoke’
'molu	ˀmolu	vi. ‘crazy’
'moma	ˀmoma	vt. ‘chew betelnut’
'mori	ˀmori	vt. ‘cultivate grain’
'mota	ˀmota	vi. ‘crush’
'mumu	ˀmumu	vt. ‘hold between teeth’
'musi	ˀmusi	vi. ‘same’
'mutu	ˀmutu	vi. ‘hot’
'nai	ˀnai	vi. ‘climb’
'nake	ˀnake	vt. ‘remove from fire’
'nane	ˀnane	vt. ‘bend’
'nara	ˀnara	vi. ‘long’
'nasu	ˀnasu	n. ‘smoke’
'nate	ˀnate	vi. ‘itch’
'nau	ˀnau	vt. ‘leave behind’
'nei	ˀnei	v. ‘cry’
'nei-tasa	ˀnei-tasa	n. ‘crybaby’
'neo	ˀneo	n. ‘neck’
'neokai	ˀneokai	n. ‘neck’
'neokai-wua	ˀneokai-wua	n. ‘Adam’s apple’
'nero	ˀnero	vi. ‘sleep, lie down’
'nete	ˀnete	vi. ‘break off’
'niha	ˀniha	vt. ‘count’
'nihi	ˀnihi	vt. ‘request’
'nila	ˀnila	vt. ‘steal’
'nila-bulu	ˀnila-bulu	n. ‘thief’
'nini	ˀnini	vi. ‘cold’
'noe	ˀnoe	vi. ‘long ago’
'noka	ˀnoka	vi. ‘dig a large hole (especially to bury corpses)’
'noka	ˀnoka	vt. ‘hit with crowbar’
'noro	ˀnoro	vi. ‘noisy, make noise’
'nuku	ˀnuku	vi. ‘kneel’
'nuu	ˀnuu	n. ‘mucus’
'raa	ˀraa	vt. ‘open one's mouth’
'reo	ˀreo	vt. ‘brush against someone’
'riga	ˀriga	vi. ‘swear with dirty words’
'rii	ˀrii	vi. ‘copulate’
'wai	ˀwai	vt. ‘dry in sun’
aa	aa	n. ‘reflexive noun’
aba	aba	asp. ‘prospective aspect marker’
abiau	abiau	n. ‘airplane’
ada-huu	ada-huu	n. ‘window’
ae	ae	n. ‘bamboo’; ‘Bambusoidae spp.’
ae-ita	ae-ita	n. ‘Timor black bamboo’; ‘Bambusa lako’
agadiru	agadiru	n. ‘Asian palmyra palm’; ‘Borassus flabellifer’
agarae	agarae	n. ‘palm sp.’
ai	ai	conj. ‘if’
aku	aku	pro. ‘1SG, I, first person singular pronoun’
ala	ala	n. ‘forest’
ala	ala	vt. ‘take’
ala-oli	ala-oli	n. ‘jungle’
alo-kai	alo-kai	n. ‘big pestle’
ama	ama	n. ‘father’
ama-bo'o	ama-boʔo	n. ‘father’s older (classificatory) male sibling’
ama-dae	ama-dae	n. ‘father’s sister’s husband’
ama-rai	ama-rai	n. ‘father’s younger (classificatory) male sibling’
amau	amau	n. ‘honorific address term for a man, usually old’
amu	amu	n. ‘master’
ana	ana	adv. ‘little, diminutive adverb’
ana	ana	n. ‘offspring’
ana-dau	ana-dau	n. ‘sibling's child’
ana-nura	ana-nura	n. ‘woman that just delivered a baby’
anaulu-anaiku	anaulu-anaiku	n. ‘descendants’
ana-walu	ana-walu	n. ‘orphan’
ana-whati	ana-w̥ati	n. ‘womb’
ani	ani	vt. ‘bring’
animál	animal	n. ‘animal’
arame	arame	n. ‘wire’
área	area	n. ‘area’
arepende	arepende	vi. ‘regret’
asalae	asalae	n. ‘sand’
asi	asi	n. ‘salt’
asi-masi	asi-masi	n. ‘sugar’
asukai	asukai	n. ‘man’
ata	ata	n. ‘liver’
ata	ata	n. ‘slave’
ata-mata	ata-mata	n. ‘ancestor’
au	au	poss. ‘1SG POSS, my, first person singular possessive pronoun’
azuda	azuda	vt. ‘help’
ba'e	baʔe	vi. ‘sneeze’
ba'i	baʔi	vi. ‘bitter’
babora	babora	n. ‘crab’
bada	bada	n. ‘friend’
badu	badu	n. ‘candlenut’; ‘Aleurites moluccana’
badu-malae	badu-malae	n. ‘purging nut’; ‘Jatropha curcas’
bagi	bagi	vt. ‘split’
Bagia	bagia	n. ‘Baguia’
baha	baha	n. ‘hamlet, village’
bai	bai	vt. ‘check’
bai	bai	vt. ‘open with force’
baki	baki	n. ‘concrete wall’
bale	bale	vi. ‘become’
balidi-wua	balidi-wua	n. ‘starfruit’; ‘Averrhoa carambola’
bani-wua	bani-wua	n. ‘Java olive’; ‘Sterculia foetida’
bara	bara	n. ‘collective noun’
baru	baru	vt. ‘not want, refuse’
baru ini	baru ini	vi. ‘get divorced’
baru ini	baru ini	‘get divorced’
basa	basa	vi. ‘applause’
basi	basi	n. ‘co-wife’
bata ini	bata ini	vi. ‘share’
bati	bati	v. ‘divide’
bau	bau	n. ‘elephant foot yam’; ‘Amorphophallus paeoniifolius’
behu	behu	vt. ‘shell (corn)’
bei-bulu	bei-bulu	n. ‘grasping person’
beki	beki	adv. ‘can’
benu	benu	vi. ‘full’
bera	bera	1. vi. ‘ill’ 2. vi. ‘sore, hurt’
besa	besa	vi. ‘blossom (of rice flower)’
besu	besu	vi. ‘sated, satisfied, full’
beta	beta	vi. ‘pointed’
betu	betu	n. ‘giant bamboo’; ‘Dendrocalamus asper’
bia	bia	n. ‘term for a taxon including several kinds of tuber, such as yiu and biawulu’
bia-wulu	bia-wulu	n. ‘tuber characterized by a hairy skin’
bibi	bibi	n. ‘goat’
bibi-ata	bibi-ata	n. ‘goatherd’
bibi-malae	bibi-malae	n. ‘sheep’
bibirusa	bibirusa	n. ‘deer’
bika-wua	bika-wua	‘wax apple’; ‘Syzygium spp., Syzigium malaccense, Syzigium samarangense’
bilimbi	bilimbi	n. ‘cucumber tree’; ‘Averrhoa bilimbi’
biru	biru	vt. ‘leave, abandon’
bisa	bisa	vt. ‘tear with hands’
bisu	bisu	vt. ‘murmur’
bizinu	bizinu	n. ‘neighbor’
bo'o	boʔo	n. ‘term used for any respected person because of their age, knowledge or social status’
boakoa	boakoa	n. ‘crow’
boboraka	boboraka	n. ‘kind of house spider sp.’
boé	boe	vi. ‘spin’
bohorai	bohorai	n. ‘python’
boko	boko	vi. ‘lay down’
boku	boku	vi. ‘fat, round’
bolu	bolu	vt. ‘call’
borogoé	borogoe	vt. ‘surround’
bosa	bosa	n. ‘orchard’
botili	botili	n. ‘bottle’
botu	botu	adv. ‘too, alike, likewise’
bou	bou	adv. ‘certainly, definitely’
bua	bua	n. ‘betel nut (nut of)’; ‘Areca catechu’
buahona	buahona	n. ‘wasp’
buamara-wua	buamara-wua	n. ‘aubergine’
bubu	bubu	vi. ‘swell’
buga	buga	n. ‘buttocks’
buga kuu	buga kuu	vi. ‘fart’
buga-daga	buga-daga	n. ‘butt crack’
buga-huu	buga-huu	n. ‘anus’
bui	bui	n. ‘cat’
buidiki	buidiki	n. ‘stupid person’
buititi	buititi	n. ‘swallow’; ‘Hirundininae sp.’
buku	buku	vt. ‘hit with stick’
buni	buni	vt. ‘see’
buru	buru	n. ‘monkey’
busu	busu	n. ‘kidney’
buta	buta	asp. ‘complete aspect marker in SVCs’
buta	buta	n. ‘sago’; ‘Metroxylon sagu’
buta	buta	1. vi. ‘white’ 2. vi. ‘blank’
buti	buti	vt. ‘squash’
buu	buu	n. ‘grandparent, 2nd generation’
da	da	adv. ‘not, general pre-predicate negator’
da ha'o	da haʔo	adv. ‘no, negative answer’
da'e	daʔe	vi. ‘bad’
dabe	dabe	vi. ‘fall’
dadau	dadau	adv. ‘must’
daha	daha	n. ‘fire’
daha	daha	adv. ‘not yet’
daha-mata	daha-mata	n. ‘fireplace’
daha-ou	daha-ou	n. ‘ash’
dala	dala	n. ‘road’
dala-wata	dala-wata	n. ‘pavement’
dambua	dambua	n. ‘pomelo’; ‘Citrus maxima’
damu	damu	vt. ‘chew’
daraha	daraha	adv. ‘otherwise’
dare-kai	dare-kai	n. ‘corncob flower’
dasa	dasa	vt. ‘sweep’
dase	dase	vi. ‘near’
dasu	dasu	n. ‘dog’
dasutiti	dasutiti	n. ‘cricket’; ‘Gryllidae sp.’
dateni	dateni	adv. ‘need not’
dau	dau	vi. ‘far’
dau	dau	n. ‘needle’
de'e-nau	deʔe-nau	vi. ‘stay’
deba	deba	asp. ‘INCEP, TERM, inceptive or terminative aspectual marker’
debe	debe	n. ‘debt’
degu	degu	n. ‘night’
degu-sei dia	degu-sei dia	adv. ‘long ago but still recent enough for people to remember’
dei	dei	vt. ‘plough’
deka	deka	vi. ‘abort a baby’
dene	dene	vt. ‘hear’
deni	deni	n. ‘great morinda tree’; ‘Morinda citrifolia’
deo	deo	adv. ‘even if, even though, although’
depois	depois	adv. ‘afterwards’
dere	dere	vi. ‘flat (of surfaces)’
derepente	derepente	adv. ‘suddenly’
dero	dero	n. ‘lime’
desa	desa	vt. ‘cut with machete’
di	di	adv. ‘ALL, allative directional’
di	di	part. ‘imperative marker’
di khata	di kʰata	adv. ‘always’
di naga	di naga	adv. ‘always’
diha	diha	vi. ‘lose’
dihaana	dihaana	n. ‘child’
dii	dii	vi. ‘there be, have, exist’
diri	diri	vi. ‘yellow’
diribua	diribua	n. ‘kind of green cricket’; ‘Tettigonia sp.’
distritu	distritu	n. ‘district’
ditu	ditu	vi. ‘stand up’
dobe	dobe	n. ‘big rice container’
dohu-kuli	dohu-kuli	n. ‘fresh water fish sp.’
doki	doki	vt. ‘tease’
doko	doko	vt. ‘shake’
doku	doku	vt. ‘flip’
dolar	dolar	n. ‘dollar’
dora	dora	n. ‘bamboo tool to store water’
dora	dora	vt. ‘show off power’
dotu	dotu	1. n. ‘meat’ 2. n. ‘fish (only in certain compounds)’
dotu-ita	dotu-ita	n. ‘black fish sp.’
dotu-kaibela	dotu-kaibela	n. ‘sand-coloured, flat fish sp.’
dotu-mee	dotu-mee	n. ‘red fish sp.’
dotu-sa'ukira	dotu-saʔukira	n. ‘scorpionfish’; ‘Scorpaenidae sp.’
dotu-wai	dotu-wai	n. ‘fish’
dudu	dudu	vt. ‘push’
duhu	duhu	vt. ‘pierce’
duma	duma	n. ‘possession, belonging’
dumigu	dumigu	n. ‘Sunday’
dura	dura	vt. ‘promise’
durubasa	durubasa	n. ‘interpreter’
eda	eda	n. ‘traditional short ladder to enter house’
ede	ede	vi. ‘bend down (of a dry plant)’
ehe	ehe	vt. ‘say’
ehe	ehe	conj. ‘that, complementizer’
ehe hila	ehe hila	vt. ‘repeat, aware of what one is saying’
ehe osi	ehe osi	vt. ‘reproduce someone's words’
ei	ei	vt. ‘see’
eka	eka	vt. ‘untie’
ekarae	ekarae	n. ‘maize’
ekarae-wua	ekarae-wua	n. ‘foxtail millet’; ‘Setaria italica’
ekarae-wuli	ekarae-wuli	n. ‘sorghum’; ‘Sorghum sp.’
ele-wai	ele-wai	n. ‘wave’
emo	emo	dem. ‘NONFAM, that still unknown or non-visible, nonfamiliar demonstrative’
ene	ene	1. vi. ‘first’
engineiru	engineiru	n. ‘engineer’
enkuantu	enkuantu	conj. ‘while’
entau	entau	conj. ‘then’
entaun	entaun	conj. ‘then’
entre	entre	prep. ‘between’
enzineiru	enzineiru	n. ‘engineer’
estrada	estrada	n. ‘highway’
estraga	estraga	vt. ‘destroy’
estrondu	estrondu	n. ‘tumult’
estuda	estuda	vt. ‘study’
estudante	estudante	n. ‘student’
esu	esu	1. vt. ‘steam’ 2. vt. ‘make soup’
eti	eti	dem. ‘this close to the speaker, proximal demonstrative’
eto	eto	pro. ‘3SG, he, she, it, third person singular pronoun’
eto	eto	dem. ‘DIST, yonder far from speaker and addressee, distal demonstrative’
ga	ga	poss. ‘2SG POSS, your, second person singular possessive pronoun’
ga'a	gaʔa	vi. ‘sour’
gaa	gaa	n. ‘branch’
gaba	gaba	vi. ‘boast’
gaga-busu	gaga-busu	vi. ‘a gluttonous eater of meat’
gai	gai	vt. ‘harvest’
gali hila	gali hila	vt. ‘look back’
gami	gami	poss. ‘2PL POSS, your, second person plural possessive pronoun’
gana	gana	vi. ‘crawl’
gara	gara	n. ‘ear’
gara-da'e	gara-daʔe	vi. ‘naughty’
gara-kai	gara-kai	n. ‘ear’
garu	garu	vi. ‘skinny’
gasarai	gasarai	vi. ‘lean’
gata	gata	vt. ‘tease verbally’
gatekai	gatekai	n. ‘(leg) calf’
gea	gea	n. ‘frog’
gea-nahamau	gea-nahamau	n. ‘common tree frog’; ‘Polypedates leucomystax’
gene-la	gene-la	prep. ‘about’
gere	gere	vt. ‘write, make stripes’
gese	gese	vt. ‘bump into’
godi	godi	1. vi. ‘correct (of an assertion)’ 2. vi. ‘right (of a person)’
gohe	gohe	vi. ‘row’
gua	gua	n. ‘fruit’
gua	gua	vt. ‘sow’
guahira	guahira	int. ‘how many people’
gugu	gugu	vi. ‘quiet (of a person)’
ha'akai	haʔakai	n. ‘(leg) calf’
ha'o	haʔo	adv. ‘expletive post-predicate negator always accompanied by pre-predicate da’
habu	habu	vi. ‘lie, tell lies’
habu-bulu	habu-bulu	n. ‘liar’
hae	hae	n. ‘grass’
hae-tii	hae-tii	n. ‘plant fibers hanging from both sides of a traditional Naueti house roof’
hae-whoumuni	hae-w̥oumuni	n. ‘lemongrass’; ‘Cymbopogon sp.’
hagu	hagu	n. ‘corncob leaf’
hai	hai	1. prep. ‘INSTR, with, instrumental prepositional verb’ 2. prep. ‘in order to, instrumental prepositional verb’
hai	hai	n. ‘stingray’; ‘Myliobatidae sp.’
haka	haka	vt. ‘feed animals’
haku	haku	n. ‘plate’
hama'a	hamaʔa	1. vt. ‘want’ 2. vt. ‘like, love’
hamae	hamae	n. ‘breath’
hare	hare	n. ‘uncooked rice’
hare-behe	hare-behe	n. ‘husked rice’
hare-wai	hare-wai	n. ‘paddy field’
hati	hati	adv. ‘still’
he'a	heʔa	vt. ‘milk an animal’
he'e	heʔe	adv. ‘yes’
heba	heba	vi. ‘big, strong, robust’
hede	hede	n. ‘screwpine’; ‘Pandanus sp.’
hede-malae	hede-malae	n. ‘pineapple’
heki	heki	vt. ‘remove with effort’
heta	heta	vt. ‘cut with axe’
heta	heta	vt. ‘find’
hia	hia	vi. ‘good’
hida	hida	vt. ‘kill’
hika rua	hika rua	vt. ‘bring’
hila	hila	adv. ‘back’
hili	hili	vt. ‘encounter’
hira	hira	1. pro. ‘1PL INCL, we and you, first person plural inclusive pronoun’ 2. pro. ‘you, second person singular polite pronoun’
hira-ata	hira-ata	pro. ‘I, first person singular polite pronominal expression’
hira-ata sira	hira-ata sira	pro. ‘we, first person plural polite pronominal expression’
hira-rua	hira-rua	pro. ‘1DU INCL, you and me two, first person dual inclusive pronoun’
hita	hita	vt. ‘go over’
hiu	hiu	n. ‘shark’
ho'u	hoʔu	vi. ‘agree’
hoka	hoka	vt. ‘sell’
horo	horo	vi. ‘hide’
hoti	hoti	vt. ‘feed people’
hua	hua	1. vi. ‘fly, soar, floar’ 2. vi. ‘above, over (a place) in directionals SVCs’
hudi	hudi	n. ‘banana’; ‘Musa sp.’
hudi-gada	hudi-gada	n. ‘probably Saba banana’; ‘Musa acuminata x balbisiana’
hudi-mandar	hudi-mandar	n. ‘probably Gros Michel banana’; ‘Musa acuminata (AAA)’
hudi-mee	hudi-mee	n. ‘probably Red Dacca banana’; ‘Musa acuminata (AAA)’
hudi-na'i	hudi-naʔi	n. ‘banana flower’
hudi-Sigapura	hudi-sigapura	n. ‘most common kind of cooking banana, typically served fried, probably Latundan banana’; ‘Musa acuminata x balbisiana’
huu	huu	n. ‘hole’
ia	ia	vt. ‘give’
ida	ida	vi. ‘expand’
igi	igi	n. ‘edge’
igreza	igreza	n. ‘church’
iku	iku	n. ‘tail’
ili-wai	ili-wai	n. ‘saliva’
ilu	ilu	n. ‘greater yam’; ‘Dioscorea alata’
ilu-wai	ilu-wai	n. ‘saliva’
ina	ina	n. ‘mother’
ina-ama	ina-ama	n. ‘parents’
ina-bo'o	ina-boʔo	n. ‘mother’s older (classificatory) male sibling’
ina-rai	ina-rai	n. ‘mother’s younger (classificatory) male sibling’
ina-tua	ina-tua	n. ‘father’s (classificatory) female sibling’
inau	inau	n. ‘honorific address term for a woman’
ini	ini	pro. ‘RECP, each other, reciprocal pronoun’
ini	ini	dem. ‘that close to the addresse, medial demonstrative’
inihu	inihu	n. ‘earlobe’
inihu-'molu	inihu-ˀmolu	vi. ‘deaf’
inihu-ta'i	inihu-taʔi	n. ‘earwax’
iri	iri	n. ‘wind’
iru	iru	n. ‘bow’
iru	iru	n. ‘nose’
iru-ana	iru-ana	n. ‘arrow’
iru-kai	iru-kai	n. ‘nose’
isi	isi	clf. ‘classifier for tuber crops’
isi	isi	n. ‘flesh’
isi-hia	isi-hia	vi. ‘healthy’
isikeru	isikeru	n. ‘lighter’
isikola	isikola	n. ‘school’
isi-loloona	isi-loloona	n. ‘body’
ita	ita	vi. ‘black, dark’
ita-mata	ita-mata	n. ‘door’
iti	iti	vt. ‘hold a baby’
izemplu	izemplu	n. ‘example’
ka	ka	pro. ‘2SG, you, second person singular pronoun’
kaba	kaba	n. ‘thread’
kaba-limu	kaba-limu	n. ‘cotton’
kaben	kaben	vt. ‘marry’
kabu	kabu	vt. ‘tear up’
kaburea	kaburea	n. ‘palm tree sp.’
kada	kada	det. ‘each’
kadeira	kadeira	n. ‘chair’
kadera	kadera	n. ‘chair’
kaha	kaha	vi. ‘thick’
kaha	kaha	1. vi. ‘wild’
kahu	kahu	1. vt. ‘mix’ 2. vt. ‘disturb’
kai	kai	n. ‘wood, tree’
kai rui	kai rui	n. ‘thorn’
kai-bara	kai-bara	n. ‘thatch’
kai-bira	kai-bira	n. ‘traditional totem pole used in ritual ceremonies with two curved branches, one on each side, where certain objects are hung’
kai-boe	kai-boe	n. ‘peg-top’
kai-dawa	kai-dawa	n. ‘Macassar oil tree’; ‘Schleichera oleosa’
kai-dila	kai-dila	n. ‘papaya tree’; ‘Carica papaya’
kaidila-watu	kaidila-watu	n. ‘Indian bael’; ‘Aegle marmelos’
kaihaa	kaihaa	num. ‘four’
kai-haku	kai-haku	n. ‘quinine tree’; ‘Cinchona sp.)’
kaihira	kaihira	int. ‘how many, how much’
kai-ho'o	kai-hoʔo	n. ‘tree, tree trunk’
kai-kaphé	kai-kapʰe	n. ‘white leadtree’; ‘Leucaena leucocephala’
kai-kata	kai-kata	n. ‘parallel wooden sticks used as a flat surface’
kai-kia	kai-kia	n. ‘canarium tree’; ‘Canarium indicum’
kai-kobi	kai-kobi	n. ‘Indian jujube’; ‘Ziziphus mauritiana’
kai-kulu	kai-kulu	n. ‘soursop’; ‘Annona muricata’
kai-kuri	kai-kuri	n. ‘poison’
kai-laha	kai-laha	n. ‘plant’
kai-leba	kai-leba	n. ‘wooden structure joining the pillars, rafter’
kai-lelete	kai-lelete	n. ‘bridge’
kailima	kailima	num. ‘five’
kailima resi kaihaa	kailima resi kaihaa	num. ‘nine’
kailima resi kairua	kailima resi kairua	num. ‘seven’
kailima resi kaitelu	kailima resi kaitelu	num. ‘eight’
kailima resin	kailima resin	num. ‘six’
kai-lolo	kai-lolo	n. ‘log’
kai-malae	kai-malae	n. ‘manioc’; ‘Manihot esculenta’
kai-mali	kai-mali	n. ‘tamarind tree’; ‘Tamarindus indica’
kaimaliwua-kroki	kaimaliwua-kroki	n. ‘sweetsop’; ‘Annona squamosa’
kai-oka	kai-oka	n. ‘root’
kai-rae	kai-rae	1. n. ‘leaf’ 2. n. ‘medicine’
kai-ria	kai-ria	n. ‘tree shade’
kairua	kairua	num. ‘two’
kai-satu	kai-satu	n. ‘frangipani tree’; ‘Plumeria sp.’
kai-tae	kai-tae	n. ‘bush’
kaitelu	kaitelu	num. ‘three’
kai-whoumuni	kai-w̥oumuni	n. ‘sandalwood’; ‘Santalum sp.’
kai-wua	kai-wua	n. ‘fruit’
kaka	kaka	n. ‘elder (classificatory) male sibling’
kakoraka	kakoraka	n. ‘Asian tiger shrimp’; ‘Penaeus monodon’
kalsa	kalsa	n. ‘trousers’
kama	kama	n. ‘bed’
kami	kami	pro. ‘2PL, you (plural), second person plural pronoun’
kami-rua	kami-rua	pro. ‘you two, you and someone else, second person dual pronoun’
kantor	kantor	n. ‘office’
kaphé	kapʰe	n. ‘coffee’
karabou	karabou	n. ‘water buffalo’
karabou-ata	karabou-ata	n. ‘cattleherd’
karabou-waka	karabou-waka	n. ‘cow, typically banteng’; ‘Bos javanicus’
kareta	kareta	n. ‘car’
karu	karu	vt. ‘make a hole with teeth’
kasa	kasa	vt. ‘send’
kastigu	kastigu	n. ‘punishment’
kata	kata	vt. ‘lay something on two parallel sticks’
kata	kata	vt. ‘sew’
kataloi	kataloi	n. ‘air potato’; ‘Dioscorea bulbifera’
kateri	kateri	n. ‘scissors’
katolika	katolika	n. ‘catholic religion’
kau	kau	vi. ‘crunchy’
keke	keke	n. ‘bracelet’
kekehu	kekehu	vi. ‘random’
keku	keku	vi. ‘crooked’
kele	kele	n. ‘leg, foot’
kele-lhari	kele-l̥ari	n. ‘shin’
kele-matauku	kele-matauku	n. ‘patella, kneecap’
kele-na'i	kele-naʔi	n. ‘leg calf’
kele-siku	kele-siku	n. ‘knee hock’
kele-timu	kele-timu	n. ‘heel’
kele-uku	kele-uku	n. ‘knee’
kele-una	kele-una	n. ‘toe’
kele-wala	kele-wala	n. ‘foot instep’
kesi	kesi	vt. ‘tie’
kete-di	kete-di	vi. ‘pass’
khaa	kʰaa	vt. ‘eat’
khaana	kʰaana	n. ‘cooked rice’
khai	kʰai	vi. ‘hard’
khai	kʰai	asp. ‘PROG, progressive aspectual marker’
khakhaana	kʰakʰaana	n. ‘food’
khakhi	kʰakʰi	vi. ‘obstruct’
khali	kʰali	vt. ‘dig a hole to plant’
kheba	kʰeba	vt. ‘slip into a place’
khee	kʰee	vt. ‘cut with knife’
kheu	kʰeu	vt. ‘scrape’
kho	kʰo	n. ‘COLL’
kholai-mee	kʰolai-mee	n. ‘olive tree skink’; ‘Dasia olivacea’
khole	kʰole	vi. ‘tired’
kholi	kʰoli	vt. ‘choose’
khoo	kʰoo	vi. ‘narrow’
khoo-khai	kʰoo-kʰai	vt. ‘hug’
khose	kʰose	vt. ‘rub on body’
khutu	kʰutu	n. ‘louse’
khuu-wua	kʰuu-wua	n. ‘chilli pepper’
kidakai	kidakai	n. ‘dragonfly’
kii	kii	n. ‘person’
kilibí	kilibi	vt. ‘trickle’
kina	kina	vt. ‘show’
kiri	kiri	vi. ‘urinate’
kita	kita	pro. ‘1PL EXCL, we but not you, first person plural exclusive pronoun’
kita-rua	kita-rua	pro. ‘1DU EXCL, me and someone else but not you, first person dual pronoun’
klae	klae	vi. ‘painful’
klale	klale	vi. ‘look a bigger amount than there really is’
klata	klata	vt. ‘strongly stick to something’
klema	klema	vi. ‘fat-flavored’
kloi	kloi	vt. ‘tear a rope’
klua	klua	vi. ‘wide’
ko	ko	n. ‘COLL, collective noun’
koba	koba	n. ‘small container of sacred objects, for instance, betel nuts’
koha	koha	n. ‘cloud’
kohudawa	kohudawa	n. ‘Timor blindsnake’; ‘Ramphotyphlops polygrammicus’
koi	koi	vt. ‘hide’
koibasa	koibasa	n. ‘guava’; ‘Psidium guajava’
komesa	komesa	vi. ‘begin’
konekai	konekai	n. ‘turmeric’
kophu	kopʰu	n. ‘glass’
kora-kora	kora-kora	n. ‘canoe’
koro	koro	vt. ‘saw’
kotasa	kotasa	n. ‘Queensland arrowroot’; ‘Canna edulis’
kotu	kotu	1. vt. ‘chase’ 2. vt. ‘valency increaser occurring after certain verbs in SVCs’
kra'a	kraʔa	vi. ‘ticklish’
krabi	krabi	n. ‘women’s traditional cloth used like a sarong, Naueti tais for women’
kreko	kreko	vt. ‘beat severely’
kreta-wua	kreta-wua	n. ‘tuber of Myrmecodia sp. in symbiotic association with an ant colony’
krete	krete	vi. ‘loud’
kria	kria	n. ‘male (classificatory) sibling-in-law’
krii	krii	n. ‘flame’
krii	krii	vt. ‘open one's eyes’
kroki	kroki	vi. ‘rough, not smooth (of a surface)’
kroo	kroo	vt. ‘prick’
krou	krou	vi. ‘fall down’
krutu	krutu	vt. ‘discuss’
kuandu	kuandu	conj. ‘when’
kuartu	kuartu	n. ‘room’
kuaze	kuaze	adv. ‘almost’
kuda	kuda	n. ‘horse’
kuda	kuda	vt. ‘sow’
kuitsarin	kuitsarin	n. ‘octopus’
kukusu	kukusu	vt. ‘steam’
kuli	kuli	1. n. ‘skin’ 2. n. ‘fruit peel or shell’
kulu	kulu	n. ‘fruit of Artocarpus sp.’
kulu-kau	kulu-kau	n. ‘chempedak’; ‘Artocarpus integer’
kulu-malae	kulu-malae	n. ‘jackfruit’; ‘Artocarpus heterophyllus’
kulu-roma	kulu-roma	n. ‘each fleshy aril of an Artocarpus sp. fruit’
kulu-thunu	kulu-tʰunu	n. ‘breadfruit’; ‘Artocarpus altilis’
kumu	kumu	1. vt. ‘squeeze, press’ 2. vt. ‘massage’
kura	kura	adv. ‘PROH, do not, prohibitive negator’
kurizi	kurizi	vt. ‘correct’
kuu	kuu	vi. ‘fart’
la	la	1. prep. ‘LOC, in, at, by, general locative preposition’ 2. prep. ‘for, to, recipient-introducing preposition’
la'i	laʔi	vi. ‘arrogant’
laba	laba	vi. ‘speak nonsense’
lada	lada	n. ‘cut-open bamboo used to make beds’
laehona	laehona	n. ‘onion’
laha	laha	n. ‘shrimp net’
lai-buu	lai-buu	n. ‘back’
laka	laka	vi. ‘go, walk’
laka rua	laka rua	vt. ‘deliver’
lakana	lakana	conj. ‘after’
laki	laki	vt. ‘marry a man’
laku	laku	vi. ‘silent’
laku-buta	laku-buta	n. ‘Asian palm civet’; ‘Paradoxurus hermaphroditus’
laku-ita	laku-ita	n. ‘northern common cuscus’; ‘Phalanger Orientalis’
lakusala	lakusala	n. ‘any weapon like a gun or a rifle, firearm’
lalabadai	lalabadai	n. ‘kind of spider found outdoors, unlike boboraka.’
lalakana	lalakana	n. ‘way of walking’
lalara	lalara	vi. ‘grill’
lale	lale	1. n. ‘inside’ 2. n. ‘seat of emotions’
lale	lale	n. ‘time, occasion’
lale see-lale see	lale see-lale see	adv. ‘occasionally, from time to time’
lale-kroto	lale-kroto	vi. ‘angry but not visibly’
lale-mara	lale-mara	vi. ‘angry, furious’
lamo	lamo	adv. ‘anywhere outside the range of vision of either the speaker or the addressee’
lamu	lamu	vt. ‘grab’
lani	lani	adv. ‘there, close to the addressee’
laphae	lapʰae	n. ‘crocodile’
lara	lara	n. ‘praying mantis’
lare	lare	int. ‘where’
lase	lase	n. ‘penis’
lata	lata	vt. ‘add’
lata ini	lata ini	vi. ‘gather things together’
lati	lati	adv. ‘here, close to the speaker’
lato	lato	adv. ‘yonder, far from speaker and addressee’
le'a-wa'a	leʔa-waʔa	n. ‘word’
le'a-wa'a see	leʔa-waʔa see	v. ‘agree’
lea	lea	n. ‘problem’
lea	lea	1. n. ‘voice, sound’ 2. n. ‘language’
lea-wa'a	lea-waʔa	n. ‘word’
leba	leba	vt. ‘carry a bag on shoulder’
leba	leba	asp. ‘PFV, perfective aspectual marker’
ledu	ledu	vt. ‘slap’
lele wai	lele wai	vi. ‘swim’
lelekai	lelekai	vt. ‘braid hair’
lero	lero	vt. ‘lick’
lesu	lesu	n. ‘big mortar’
lete	lete	n. ‘upside’
leti	leti	adv. ‘here’
leto	leto	adv. ‘there’
lha'a	l̥aʔa	n. ‘soul’
lhai	l̥ai	vi. ‘savage’
lhai-lhai	l̥ai-l̥ai	vi. ‘immediate, very fast’
lhari	l̥ari	n. ‘hill’
lhawa	l̥awa	vt. ‘open a door’
lhira	l̥ira	vt. ‘boil’
lhira	l̥ira	vi. ‘light’
lhubu	l̥ubu	n. ‘young leaf’
lhuru	l̥uru	n. ‘plant node’
lhuu	l̥uu	n. ‘cooking pot’
lhuu-mata	l̥uu-mata	n. ‘cooking pot cover’
lia	lia	n. ‘cave’
lia	lia	n. ‘wing’
liakai	liakai	n. ‘wing’
liba	liba	n. ‘sarong’
liga	liga	vt. ‘connect’
ligasau	ligasau	n. ‘connection’
liliboka	liliboka	n. ‘butterfly’
lima	lima	n. ‘arm, hand’
lima-'neo	lima-ˀneo	n. ‘wrist’
lima-gere	lima-gere	n. ‘lines of the hand’
lima-siku	lima-siku	n. ‘elbow hock’
lima-uku	lima-uku	n. ‘elbow’
lima-una	lima-una	n. ‘finger’
lima-una ana	lima-una ana	n. ‘ring finger’
lima-una iku	lima-una iku	n. ‘little finger’
lima-una kina	lima-una kina	n. ‘index finger’
lima-una oli	lima-una oli	n. ‘thumb’
lima-una tena	lima-una tena	n. ‘middle finger’
limauna-ana	limauna-ana	n. ‘ring finger’
limauna-iku	limauna-iku	n. ‘little finger’
limauna-kina	limauna-kina	n. ‘index finger’
limauna-oli	limauna-oli	n. ‘thumb’
limauna-tena	limauna-tena	n. ‘middle finger’
lima-wala	lima-wala	n. ‘palm of the hand’
limu	limu	vt. ‘pulverize, turn into powder’
lirikiki	lirikiki	vt. ‘suddenly scatter around’
lita	lita	n. ‘traditional bag made of palm leaves’
lita-boka	lita-boka	n. ‘women's basket type’
lita-dula	lita-dula	n. ‘kind of basket to store betel nut or tobacco’
lita-oli	lita-oli	n. ‘kind of men’s bag’
lita-suri	lita-suri	n. ‘kind of men’s small basket’
liurai	liurai	n. ‘village chief’
loa	loa	n. ‘rat, rodent’
lobo-lale	lobo-lale	n. ‘room’
lobo-tuka	lobo-tuka	n. ‘outside’
loloona	loloona	n. ‘action, behavior’
loo	loo	vt. ‘do, make’
loo nau se'i	loo nau seʔi	int. ‘why’
loo nau seri	loo nau seri	int. ‘why’
loo osi	loo osi	vt. ‘obey’
loo osi-osi	loo osi-osi	vt. ‘replicate or mime without understanding’
loo-oli	loo-oli	n. ‘skilled person’
loza	loza	n. ‘shop’
luba	luba	vi. ‘hungry’
luha	luha	vt. ‘forget’
lui	lui	vt. ‘drool’
luli	luli	vi. ‘forbidden, sacred’
luli	luli	n. ‘great-grandparents, third generation’
lulu-o'o	lulu-oʔo	n. ‘flat wood between the ladder and the inside of the house’
luma	luma	vi. ‘soft’
ma'a	maʔa	1. vi. ‘NEG EXIST, there not be, not have, negative existential verb’ 2. vi. ‘complete aspect in SVCs’
maa	maa	n. ‘tongue’
maa	maa	vi. ‘yawn’
mada	mada	n. ‘bat’
madakia	madakia	n. ‘common house gecko’; ‘Hemidactylus frenatus’
madakia-hua	madakia-hua	n. ‘Timor flying dragon’; ‘Draco timorensis’
madi	madi	vt. ‘sharpen a razor’
madu	madu	n. ‘yellow rice, cooked in coconut milk and served in a woven palm-leaf basket’
mae	mae	n. ‘cross-sex (classificatory) sibling’
magariti	magariti	vt. ‘mean’
mai	mai	vi. ‘come’
mai	mai	adv. ‘venitive directional’
maibé	maibe	conj. ‘but’
malae	malae	n. ‘foreigner’
malae	malae	n. ‘sweet potato’
malae-boku	malae-boku	n. ‘potato’
malae-buta	malae-buta	n. ‘Caucasian person’
malu	malu	n. ‘betel vine’; ‘Piper betle’
malu-khuu	malu-kʰuu	n. ‘Javanese long pepper’; ‘Piper retrofractum’
mama	mama	n. ‘mum’
mamara	mamara	vi. ‘different’
manana	manana	vt. ‘win’
manehou	manehou	n. ‘son-in-law’
manu	manu	n. ‘bird’
manu-ho'o	manu-hoʔo	n. ‘quail’; ‘Coturnix sp.’
manu-kaha	manu-kaha	n. ‘junglefowl’
manu-oto	manu-oto	n. ‘fighting cock’
manu-tasi	manu-tasi	n. ‘seagull’
manu-thelu	manu-tʰelu	n. ‘egg’
mara	mara	1. vi. ‘sharp’ 2. vi. ‘awake’
maraldii	maraldii	n. ‘morning’
mare	mare	vi. ‘dry’
Maromak	maromak	n. ‘God’
mas	mas	conj. ‘but’
masa-rui	masa-rui	n. ‘rib’
masi	masi	vt. ‘desanctify, remove the sacred quality of something’
masi	masi	vi. ‘sweet, yummy’
masin-midar	masin-midar	n. ‘sugar’
maske	maske	conj. ‘although’
mata	mata	vi. ‘die’
mata	mata	n. ‘eye’
mata-bai	mata-bai	vi. ‘sleepy’
mata-boke	mata-boke	vi. ‘blind’
mata-borae	mata-borae	n. ‘eyelash’
mata-keku	mata-keku	vi. ‘cross-eyed’
mata-ta'i	mata-taʔi	n. ‘rheum’
mata-uma	mata-uma	n. ‘funeral’
mata-wai	mata-wai	n. ‘teardrop’
mata-wulu	mata-wulu	n. ‘eyebrow’
Matebian	matebian	n. ‘name of sacred peak, located in the district of Baucau’
matebisu	matebisu	n. ‘breakfast’
mau	mau	vt. ‘intoxicated, drunk’
maugada	maugada	n. ‘wee wee, child’s name for the penis’
meda	meda	vi. ‘tight’
mee	mee	vi. ‘red’
mega	mega	vt. ‘finish’
mesa	mesa	vi. ‘alone’
mestre	mestre	n. ‘teacher’
mesu	mesu	vi. ‘give birth’
mesu	mesu	v. ‘valency increasing function occurring after certain verbs in SVCs’
meta	meta	n. ‘river’
metru	metru	n. ‘meter’
mhata	m̥ata	1. vi. ‘raw, uncooked, unripe’ 2. vi. ‘green’
mhate	m̥ate	n. ‘leech’
mhatu	m̥atu	vt. ‘feed people’
mhatu	m̥atu	vi. ‘tired (especially of limbs)’
mhodo	m̥odo	1. n. ‘vegetable’ 2. n. ‘garnishment’
mhutu	m̥utu	vi. ‘together’
mia	mia	n. ‘animal fat’
mia	mia	vi. ‘defecate’
mila	mila	vt. ‘touch’
mimi	mimi	n. ‘woman's parents-in-law’
mina	mina	n. ‘oil’
mina-rai	mina-rai	n. ‘petroleum’
moe	moe	n. ‘parents of great-grandparents, fourth generation’
molu	molu	vi. ‘stupid’
molukai	molukai	n. ‘stupid person’
momogi dia	momogi dia	adv. ‘normally’
mona	mona	vi. ‘clean’
mori	mori	vi. ‘new’
moso-buta	moso-buta	vi. ‘blue’
mou	mou	n. ‘carpenter bee’; ‘Xylocopa sp.’
muda	muda	vt. ‘change’
muni	muni	vt. ‘kiss’
musu	musu	vi. ‘suckle’
muta	muta	vi. ‘vomit’
muta ili-wai	muta ili-wai	vi. ‘spit’
muta'u	mutaʔu	n. ‘taro’; ‘Colocasia esculenta’
mutu	mutu	vt. ‘separate’
-na	-na	suf. ‘ATTR’
-na	-na	suf. ‘GEN’
-na	-na	suf. ‘NMLZ’
na'a	naʔa	vi. ‘descend’
na'i	naʔi	n. ‘belly’
na'i-ita	naʔi-ita	vi. ‘sad’
na'i-oli	naʔi-oli	vi. ‘pregnant’
nabi	nabi	vt. ‘pull with sudden force’
nahakada	nahakada	n. ‘eagle’
nai	nai	n. ‘name’
naili	naili	n. ‘fishhook’
nake	nake	vt. ‘cut grass’
naki	naki	adv. ‘today (often referring to earlier today)’
nali	nali	n. ‘sky’
nali-'noro	nali-ˀnoro	n. ‘thunder’
name	name	vt. ‘cook’
namora	namora	n. ‘girlfriend’
namu	namu	n. ‘thing’
nanau	nanau	n. ‘bad spirit’
naneloko	naneloko	n. ‘mirror’
nani	nani	adv. ‘maybe’
nanu	nanu	n. ‘grandparents of great-grandparents, fifth generation.’
nara	nara	n. ‘bad spirit’
narae	narae	adv. ‘later’
nase	nase	n. ‘side’
nata	nata	vi. ‘arrive’
nau	nau	1. prep. ‘SIMIL, like, as, similative preposition’ 2. prep. ‘as far as, in direction to, directional preposition’
nau se'i	nau seʔi	int. ‘how’
nau seri	nau seri	adv. ‘how’
nau-eri	nau-eri	adv. ‘when (in the future)’
nau-eti	nau-eti	adv. ‘now’
naueti	naueti	n. ‘ethnonym and glotonym of the Naueti people and their language’
=ne	=ne	part. ‘CNTR’
ne'i	neʔi	adv. ‘yes’
nee	nee	n. ‘coconut’
nee-buu	nee-buu	n. ‘scraped coconut meat’
nee-nura	nee-nura	n. ‘young coconut’
nee-thubu	nee-tʰubu	n. ‘coconut bud’
neko	neko	vt. ‘ask’
neluku	neluku	n. ‘turtle’
nenehe	nenehe	vi. ‘speak’
nenei dia	nenei dia	adv. ‘long ago, in the time of the ancestors’
nete	nete	n. ‘half’
nete	nete	vi. ‘tremble’
nhai	n̥ai	vt. ‘scratch’
nhala	n̥ala	n. ‘crown of head’
nhalakai	n̥alakai	n. ‘crown of head’
nhei	n̥ei	n. ‘livestock’
nheku	n̥eku	n. ‘household stuff’
nhoe	n̥oe	vi. ‘scream’
nhoku	n̥oku	vi. ‘bow’
nhoku-ulu	n̥oku-ulu	vt. ‘greet someone, reverence’
nhona	n̥ona	vi. ‘have a wild behaviour’
nhotu	n̥otu	vt. ‘crave’
nhou	n̥ou	vi. ‘bark’
nhula	n̥ula	vt. ‘stick something in a hole’
nihi	nihi	n. ‘tooth’
nii-bete	nii-bete	n. ‘kind of round, flat basket’
nika	nika	vt. ‘break with both hands’
niki	niki	1. adv. ‘then’ 2. adv. ‘so, therefore’
nikibo	nikibo	conj. ‘PURP’
nina	nina	vi. ‘relaxed’
nini	nini	vt. ‘seek food’
nira	nira	n. ‘gums’
no	no	conj. ‘or’
no'o	noʔo	vt. ‘bite’
no'olo	noʔolo	n. ‘men’s traditional cloth (used as a sarong, Naueti tais for men)’
nodu	nodu	n. ‘married person without children’
noe	noe	n. ‘nest’
none	none	vt. ‘hit horizontally’
noo	noo	n. ‘generation’
notu	notu	vt. ‘burn out’
nua	nua	conj. ‘and, with’
nuga	nuga	vt. ‘punch’
nuku	nuku	vi. ‘knot’
nuku	nuku	n. ‘tradition’
nunu-bete	nunu-bete	n. ‘shark’
nunu-kai	nunu-kai	n. ‘mouth’
nunukai	nunukai	n. ‘mouth’
nunu-mee	nunu-mee	n. ‘red hair of the corncob’
nunu-oka	nunu-oka	n. ‘liana’
nunu-wulu	nunu-wulu	n. ‘moustache’
nura	nura	vi. ‘young’
nusá	nusa	n. ‘Tetun Terik speaker’
nuu	nuu	vt. ‘drink’
o'o	oʔo	n. ‘upperside’
oasae	oasae	n. ‘wife-taking clan’
obrigada	obrigada	n. ‘thanks said by a woman’
obrigado	obrigado	n. ‘thanks said by a man’
obu	obu	n. ‘mother’s sibling’
oda	oda	vt. ‘call someone’
oka	oka	vt. ‘pull off’
oka	oka	n. ‘root’
oka-nete	oka-nete	vi. ‘impatient to get things before anyone else’
oli	oli	vi. ‘large’
oli da'e	oli daʔe	vi. ‘lot’
ona	ona	vt. ‘weed’
onaata	onaata	n. ‘woman’
oni	oni	vi. ‘concealed’
oo	oo	adv. ‘also’
oportunidade	oportunidade	n. ‘chance’
ora	ora	vt. ‘carry wood on shoulder’
ore	ore	vt. ‘stir’
osan	osan	n. ‘money’
osan-buta	osan-buta	‘silver’
osan-mee	osan-mee	‘gold’
ose	ose	vt. ‘wash’
osi	osi	prep. ‘along’
otamhori	otam̥ori	n. ‘daughter-in-law’
otarae	otarae	n. ‘virgin’
otawalu	otawalu	n. ‘widow’
ou	ou	n. ‘ash, dust’
papá	papa	n. ‘dad’
para	para	conj. ‘to, in order to’
parte	parte	n. ‘part’
pas	pas	vt. ‘match’
pau	pau	n. ‘bread’
pha'a	pʰaʔa	vi. ‘astringent’
phalai	pʰalai	n. ‘shoulder’
phamilia	pʰamilia	n. ‘family’
phara	pʰara	vi. ‘stop’
phare	pʰare	vt. ‘extinguish a fire’
phata'u	pʰataʔu	qua. ‘many’
phere	pʰere	vt. ‘close one’s eyes’
pheta	pʰeta	vi. ‘blast, make a loud sound’
phiar	pʰiar	vt. ‘believe’
pho'ere	pʰoʔere	vi. ‘dirty’
phoko	pʰoko	vi. ‘crack’
phoo	pʰoo	vi. ‘have a soft or not firm texture when bitten’
phua	pʰua	vt. ‘whisper’
phulisia	pʰulisia	n. ‘policeman’
phulítika	pʰulitika	n. ‘politics’
planu	planu	n. ‘plan’
primeiru	primeiru	adv. ‘first’
prizau	prizau	n. ‘prison’
problema	problema	n. ‘problem’
protestan	protestan	n. ‘protestant (religion)’
ra'a	raʔa	vt. ‘wash face’
raa	raa	n. ‘blood’
raba	raba	adv. ‘just, simply’
rabu	rabu	vt. ‘chop into pieces’
rae	rae	clf. ‘classifier for pieces of cloth’
rae	rae	n. ‘leaf’
raha	raha	vt. ‘dream’
raha	raha	adv. ‘dubitative adverb’
rai	rai	vi. ‘small’
rakalele	rakalele	vi. ‘cheer, acclaim’
rake	rake	vt. ‘catch’
rani	rani	vt. ‘collect’
raru	raru	n. ‘parents of great-grandparents of greatgrandparents, seventh generation’
rasa	rasa	num. ‘hundred’
rasa-kailima	rasa-kailima	num. ‘five hundred’
rasu	rasu	vt. ‘fetch water’
re'o	reʔo	vi. ‘thirsty’
rea	rea	n. ‘land’
rea-huu	rea-huu	n. ‘hole in the ground’
rea-keta	rea-keta	n. ‘border’
rebu	rebu	vi. ‘beautiful’
ree	ree	vt. ‘feel, touch gently’
rei	rei	vt. ‘pull’
rei hamae	rei hamae	vt. ‘breathe’
reka	reka	vi. ‘jump off’
reke	reke	vi. ‘laugh, smile’
relizau	relizau	n. ‘religion’
rema	rema	adv. ‘tomorrow’
resa-basa	resa-basa	n. ‘big space inside the house to sleep or eat’
resi	resi	conj. ‘augmentative morpheme, used to add units to 5 or to multiples of 10’
resi	resi	vt. ‘play’
rhadu	rhadu	vi. ‘whistle’
rhae	rhae	vt. ‘fill woven baskets with yellow rice’
rhana	rhana	vi. ‘jump’
rhia	rhia	vt. ‘wait’
rhoba	rhoba	vi. ‘fast’
rhoe	rhoe	vi. ‘shout’
rhoi	rhoi	vt. ‘boil’
rhuu	rhuu	vt. ‘blow’
ria	ria	n. ‘shade’
rihun	rihun	num. ‘thousand’
rii	rii	n. ‘pillar, column’
riku	riku	n. ‘dowry’
ripha	ripʰa	n. ‘raffle’
rita	rita	vi. ‘sticky’
riu	riu	vi. ‘bathe’
roa	roa	n. ‘point’
roka	roka	vt. ‘bite (of animals)’
roma	roma	n. ‘animal placenta’
roto	roto	vi. ‘mixed (of food)’
ru'a	ruʔa	vt. ‘invite someone’
rua	rua	vt. ‘carry’
ruba	ruba	vt. ‘throw’
rubalele	rubalele	n. ‘susung-kalabaw’; ‘Uvaria rufa’
rui	rui	n. ‘bone’
rui-uta	rui-uta	n. ‘bone marrow’
ruka	ruka	vi. ‘appear’
ruma	ruma	adv. ‘probably’
ruma	ruma	qua. ‘some’
rusi	rusi	vt. ‘leave’
rusu	rusu	vt. ‘perform a men's dance’
rutu	rutu	vt. ‘cut in two’
ruu	ruu	vi. ‘roar’
sa'i	saʔi	vt. ‘look for, search’
sa'ukira	saʔukira	n. ‘scorpion’
sabau	sabau	n. ‘mosquito’
sabilai	sabilai	n. ‘axe’
sabilai-tuu	sabilai-tuu	n. ‘praying mantis’
sabirika	sabirika	n. ‘orange’
sabudu	sabudu	n. ‘Saturday’
saga	saga	vt. ‘cross’
sai	sai	vi. ‘go out, exit’
saka	saka	vi. ‘ascend’
saka	saka	vi. ‘injured’
sala	sala	vi. ‘wrong’
samha'u	sam̥aʔu	n. ‘ant’
samhode	sam̥ode	n. ‘white-lipped island pit viper’; ‘Cryptelytrops insularis’
sana	sana	vi. ‘hung’
saramalae	saramalae	n. ‘Malay gooseberry’; ‘Phyllanthus acidus’
sasira	sasira	n. ‘kind of fierce ant sp. dwelling inside Myrmecodia tubers’
sasoka	sasoka	n. ‘kind of basket used to make thread’
sawa	sawa	n. ‘snake’
se	se	conj. ‘if’
se'i	seʔi	int. ‘what’
se'i-se'i	seʔi-seʔi	pro. ‘nothing, anything’
sebu	sebu	n. ‘pumpkin’
sebu-no'o	sebu-noʔo	n. ‘watermelon’
sebu-yeku	sebu-jeku	n. ‘courgette’
see	see	num. ‘one, that one (used to denote specificity)’
sei	sei	vt. ‘block’
seku	seku	vt. ‘grind’
selu	selu	vt. ‘pay’
semana	semana	n. ‘week’
semo	semo	det. ‘one NONFAM, that still unknown or non-visible’
sempre	sempre	adv. ‘always’
sena	sena	vt. ‘fry’
senora	senora	n. ‘carrot’
sereza-wua	sereza-wua	n. ‘Jamaica cherry’; ‘Muntingia calabura’
sesu	sesu	vt. ‘dispute’
seti	seti	det. ‘one PROX, this close to the speaker’
seto	seto	det. ‘one DIST, yonder far from speaker and addressee’
sia	sia	int. ‘who’
sidi	sidi	vt. ‘cover side of a house’
sidi-lolo	sidi-lolo	n. ‘wall’
Sigapura	sigapura	n. ‘Singapore’
sii	sii	vt. ‘tie’
simu	simu	n. ‘men's parents-in-law’
Sina	sina	n. ‘China’
Sina-uma	sina-uma	n. ‘shop’
sini	sini	det. ‘one MED, that close to the addressee’
sira	sira	pro. ‘3PL, they, third person plural pronoun’
sira	sira	det. ‘PL, human plural marker’
sira-rua	sira-rua	pro. ‘3DU, they two, third person dual pronoun’
siribisu	siribisu	vi. ‘work’
sisi	sisi	vt. ‘insist on’
siu	siu	n. ‘coconut shell’
sode	sode	n. ‘great-grandparents of greatgrandparents, sixth generation’
sohe	sohe	vt. ‘recognize’
soi	soi	vt. ‘buy’
soke	soke	vt. ‘collide with’
soki	soki	vt. ‘root with snout (typically pigs)’
soli	soli	vt. ‘hate’
somu	somu	vt. ‘receive’
soro	soro	vt. ‘hunt’
soru	soru	n. ‘horn’
soru	soru	vt. ‘meet’
subdistritu	subdistritu	n. ‘sub-district’
sui	sui	vt. ‘comb’
suku	suku	n. ‘municipality’
sulu	sulu	n. ‘spoon’
sura	sura	vt. ‘count’
susara	susara	vi. ‘difficult’
susu	susu	n. ‘breast’
susu	susu	n. ‘freshwater snail’
susu-wai	susu-wai	n. ‘milk’
=ta	=ta	disc. ‘TOP’
ta'a	taʔa	vi. ‘old’
ta'a	taʔa	vt. ‘spread’
ta'ana	taʔana	n. ‘year’
ta'asa	taʔasa	n. ‘kind of basket used to steam rice or cassava’
ta'e	taʔe	adv. ‘only’
ta'i	taʔi	n. ‘faeces’
tabu	tabu	n. ‘tuber, corm’
tada	tada	vt. ‘guess’
tada-bua	tada-bua	n. ‘kind of basket’
tada-osi	tada-osi	vt. ‘know, understand’
taga	taga	vi. ‘step’
taha	taha	n. ‘mud’
tahi	tahi	vt. ‘wear’
tahina	tahina	n. ‘clothes’
taka	taka	vt. ‘close, cover’
taka	taka	n. ‘kind of small basket’
taka-ulu	taka-ulu	n. ‘hat’
tala	tala	n. ‘star’
tali	tali	n. ‘rope’
tama	tama	vt. ‘enter’
tanba	tanba	conj. ‘because’
tara	tara	vt. ‘hang’
taru	taru	vt. ‘bet’
tasa	tasa	vi. ‘cooked, ripe, ready to eat’
tasa	tasa	n. ‘pus’
tasi	tasi	n. ‘sea’
tasi-asukai	tasi-asukai	n. ‘Timor Sea, south’
tasi-onaata	tasi-onaata	n. ‘Banda Sea, north’
tasu	tasu	n. ‘frying pan’
tata	tata	n. ‘kapok tree’; ‘Ceiba pentandra’
tauderi	tauderi	qua. ‘all’
te'e	teʔe	adv. ‘please’
te'i	teʔi	vt. ‘burn to cook’
tea	tea	vi. ‘burp’
teba	teba	n. ‘calabash, bottle gourd’; ‘Lagenaria siceraria’
teba	teba	vi. ‘slow’
tebe	tebe	vt. ‘kick’
teha	teha	1. vt. ‘think’ 2. vt. ‘miss’
tehu	tehu	n. ‘owl’
teka	teka	vt. ‘stomp’
teke	teke	n. ‘top’
teki	teki	n. ‘gecko sp.’
teki-niki	teki-niki	n. ‘rainbow’
tena	tena	n. ‘middle’
teni	teni	adv. ‘again’
tenke	tenke	vmod. ‘must’
tera	tera	vt. ‘cut fruit while holding it with one’s hand’
teri	teri	vt. ‘cut’
tete-bo'ona	tete-boʔona	n. ‘story, tale’
tetu	tetu	vi. ‘flat, balanced’
tetuna	tetuna	n. ‘Tetun’
teu	teu	n. ‘sugarcane’
tewa	tewa	vt. ‘smash’
thae	tʰae	vt. ‘answer’
thaku	tʰaku	vt. ‘fear’
thane	tʰane	vt. ‘bury’
thara	tʰara	vi. ‘sweat’
thara-wai	tʰara-wai	n. ‘perspiration fluid’
thau	tʰau	vt. ‘put’
thede	tʰede	vi. ‘heavy’
thelu	tʰelu	n. ‘egg’
thi'i	tʰiʔi	n. ‘right hand side’
thunu	tʰunu	vt. ‘grill’
thutu	tʰutu	vt. ‘smash with a rock’
thuu	tʰuu	vt. ‘plant’
tila'a	tilaʔa	vi. ‘ask for permission to leave’
Timoro	timoro	n. ‘Timor’
timu	timu	n. ‘chin’
timukai	timukai	n. ‘chin’
to'e	toʔe	v. ‘sit’
to'o	toʔo	vi. ‘true’
toe	toe	n. ‘bamboo tool to blow fire’
togu	togu	vi. ‘deep’
toi	toi	vt. ‘follow’
toi meda	toi meda	vt. ‘hold firmly’
toke	toke	n. ‘big gecko sp.’
toko	toko	vi. ‘boil’
tota	tota	vi. ‘argue’
tota	tota	vt. ‘clear a field’
tradús	tradus	vt. ‘translate’
tua	tua	n. ‘palm wine’
tuakata	tuakata	n. ‘arenga palm’; ‘Arenga pinnata’
tubutei	tubutei	n. ‘bladder’
tuka	tuka	n. ‘backside’
tuku	tuku	n. ‘hour’
tumamae	tumamae	n. ‘firefly’
tuna	tuna	n. ‘eel’
tunu	tunu	vt. ‘kick by accident’
turuka	turuka	vt. ‘exchange’
tuta	tuta	vt. ‘link’
tutu	tutu	vi. ‘hoot’
tuturai	tuturai	vt. ‘carry on head’
tuu	tuu	n. ‘holder’
ua	ua	n. ‘force’
ua	ua	n. ‘vein’
ua-kai	ua-kai	n. ‘rattan’; ‘Calameae sp.’
uakasa-wua	uakasa-wua	n. ‘rattan fruit’
uda	uda	n. ‘rain’
uda-dau	uda-dau	n. ‘rainy season’
uka	uka	vi. ‘run’
uka teda	uka teda	vi. ‘perform a traditional dance’
ulu	ulu	n. ‘head’
ulu-bera	ulu-bera	n. ‘have a headache’
ulu-rae	ulu-rae	n. ‘head hair’
ulu-rui	ulu-rui	n. ‘skull’
ulu-uta	ulu-uta	n. ‘brain’
ulu-watu	ulu-watu	n. ‘head, cranium’
uma	uma	n. ‘house’
uma luli	uma luli	n. ‘sacred house’
uma-ana	uma-ana	n. ‘wife-giving clan’
uma-kai	uma-kai	n. ‘household’
uma-ulu	uma-ulu	n. ‘roof’
unibersidade	unibersidade	n. ‘university’
ura	ura	n. ‘shrimp’
ura-tasi	ura-tasi	n. ‘lobster’
us-sama	us-sama	n. ‘arrowroot’; ‘Maranta arundinacea’
uta	uta	n. ‘bean’
uta-isi	uta-isi	n. ‘peanut’
uti	uti	n. ‘penis’
wa'a	waʔa	clf. ‘classifier for beans and nuts’
wa'a	waʔa	n. ‘pip’
waa-'nate	waa-ˀnate	vi. ‘swearing and complaining a lot’
waga	waga	n. ‘swamp’
waga	waga	vt. ‘throw away’
wai	wai	n. ‘price’
wai	wai	n. ‘water’
wai-'lara	wai-ˀlara	n. ‘dry season’
wai-'liu	wai-ˀliu	1. vt. ‘surpass, exceed’ 2. adv. ‘specially’
wai-'nara	wai-ˀnara	vi. ‘expensive’
wai-bete	wai-bete	vi. ‘cheap’
waihira	waihira	int. ‘when (in the future)’
waihira	waihira	conj. ‘when’
wai-kai	wai-kai	n. ‘water and firewood for cooking’
wai-mata	wai-mata	n. ‘water spring’
wai-nhuta	wai-n̥uta	n. ‘lake’
wainolo	wainolo	n. ‘place above fireplace to store food’
wai-rua	wai-rua	adv. ‘in two days’
wairuma di	wairuma di	adv. ‘sometimes’
wai-wai	wai-wai	vi. ‘wet’
wala	wala	vi. ‘explode’
wani	wani	n. ‘bee’
wani-uma	wani-uma	n. ‘beehive’
wani-wai	wani-wai	n. ‘honey’
wara	wara	n. ‘spear’
ware	ware	n. ‘human placenta’
ware	ware	n. ‘younger (classificatory) male sibling’
ware-kaka	ware-kaka	n. ‘brothers, (classificatory) male siblings’
wasa	wasa	1. n. ‘face’ 2. n. ‘frontside’
wasa-hia	wasa-hia	vi. ‘good-looking’
wasa-ita	wasa-ita	vi. ‘faint, blackout’
wasa-klee	wasa-klee	n. ‘forehead’
wasu	wasu	n. ‘cheek’
wasu-wulu	wasu-wulu	n. ‘beard’
wati	wati	vt. ‘badmouth’
watu	watu	n. ‘stone, rock’
watu'lika	watuˀlika	n. ‘three stones displayed in a triangle to set fire to cook’
watu-huu	watu-huu	n. ‘rock shelter’
Watukarbau	watukarbau	n. ‘Uatocarbau’
Watulari	watulari	n. ‘Uatolari’
watu-rui	watu-rui	n. ‘coral’
Wekeke	wekeke	n. ‘Viqueque’
wele'e	weleʔe	vi. ‘little amount, few’
weli	weli	n. ‘bride price’
weli	weli	n. ‘left hand side’
weli see	weli see	num. ‘ten’
wewe-wua	wewe-wua	n. ‘winged bean’; ‘Psophocarpus tetragonolobus’
whai	w̥ai	vt. ‘pound’
whailia	w̥ailia	n. ‘armpit’
whali hila	w̥ali hila	vi. ‘come back’
whati	w̥ati	n. ‘place’
whou	w̥ou	v. ‘stink’
whou-muni	w̥ou-muni	vi. ‘fragrant’
woe	woe	part. ‘used to interpellate someone, vocative morpheme’
woke	woke	n. ‘underside’
wono	wono	n. ‘war’
wore	wore	vi. ‘fine, soft’
wori	wori	n. ‘lung’
woso	woso	n. ‘mountain’
wou	wou	n. ‘pig’
wou-kaha	wou-kaha	n. ‘Sulawesi warty pig’; ‘Sus celebensis’
Woukou	woukou	n. ‘Baucau’
Wu'lara	wuˀlara	n. ‘God’
wua	wua	n. ‘fruit’
wua-	wua-	cl. ‘CLF HUMAN-’
wua-boku	wua-boku	n. ‘heart, cardiac organ’
wua-hia	wua-hia	vi. ‘joyful’
wuahira	wuahira	int. ‘how many people’
wuahira sira	wuahira sira	pro. ‘2PL POL, second person plural polite pronominal expression’
wuarua	wuarua	1. num. ‘two people’ 2. num. ‘both people’
wuda	wuda	n. ‘sister-in-law’
wuhu	wuhu	vt. ‘sneak’
wui	wui	n. ‘vagina’
wui-balu	wui-balu	n. ‘clitoris’
wula	wula	n. ‘moon’
wulu	wulu	n. ‘body hair’
wusa	wusa	n. ‘navel’
yeru	jeru	n. ‘bile’
yesu	jesu	1. vt. ‘report’ 2. vt. ‘gossip’
yetu	jetu	n. ‘chicken hindfoot spur’
yii	jii	vt. ‘marry a woman’
yina	jina	n. ‘seed’
yitigalo	jitigalo	n. ‘Timor monitor’; ‘Varanus timorensis’
yiu	jiu	n. ‘lesser yam’; ‘Dioscorea esculenta’
yiu-no'o	jiu-noʔo	n. ‘jicama’; ‘Pachyrhizus erosus’

OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Veloso (2016a): Naueti Uatolari

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