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Heston (2015): Fataluku Central

Original citation: Heston, Tyler M. 2015. The segmental and suprasegmental phonology of Fataluku. PhD thesis, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

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Headword	IPA	Glosses
a	a	‘first person singular nonsubject pronoun’
a	a	‘subject marker’
ā	aː	‘second person singular subject pronoun’
ā	aː	‘yes-no question particle (which occurs clause-finally)’
ā cene	aː tsene	‘light a fire’
ā ceru	aː tseru	‘call’
ā he'e	aː heʔe	‘stuck’
ā mire	aː mire	‘sit on (something)’
a'a	aʔa	‘on’
a'a kule	aʔa kule	‘keep calling’
a'a more	aʔa more	‘place on, put on’
a'a nāte	aʔa naːte	‘take the place of, take the postion of’
a'a pa'i	aʔa paʔi	‘try, try out’
a'ane	aʔane	‘on’
a'ape	aʔape	‘encounter unexpectedly, run into’
aca	atsa	‘chicken’
aca	atsa	‘fire’
aca tapin	atsa tapin	‘smoke’
aca ucu	atsa utsu	‘chicken egg’
aca'acak pa'i	atsaʔatsak paʔi	‘to tease, to tease someone’
aca'о̄p	atsaʔо̄p	‘ashes’
acak pa'i	atsak paʔi	1. ‘try to fix something that is broken’ 2. ‘try to kill someone through supernatural means’
acakne	atsakne	‘looking in the same direciton, lined up’
acane	atsane	‘mature (of fruit), almost ripe’
ācane	aːtsane	‘enough’
acar	atsar	‘type of spirit that leaves a person's body while they are sleeping’; ‘buan’
aci	atsi	‘see, find’
aci cene	atsi tsene	‘hand someone something’
aci lolo	atsi lolo	‘tell to, tell a story to’
aci pura	atsi pura	‘sell something to someone’
aci ta'a	atsi taʔa	‘tell someone to do something’
ācimese	aːtsimese	‘sip (a drink), take a sip’
acin	atsin	‘finding’
acu	atsu	‘enough, sufficient (when everyone has the same amount)’
acu'acupe	atsuʔatsupe	‘wander around’
acuina	atsuina	‘something fits, is equal’
acune	atsune	‘over something’
acur	atsur	‘sp. of cuscus’
afa	afa	‘first person plural inclusive subject pronoun’
afarika	afarika	‘portion, half, slice (of food)’
afi	afi	‘first person plural inclusive nonsubject pronoun’
aficālafar	afitsaːlafar	‘crocodile (respectful)’
afiri	afiri	‘first person plural inclusive pronoun (citation form)’
ahani	ahani	‘mine’
ahu	ahu	‘for, for the benefit of’
ailaci	ailatsi	‘usually, always’
ait	ait	‘maybe’
aitana	aitana	‘if’
aitula	aitula	‘maybe’
aja	aza	1. ‘rain’ 2. ‘rainy season, November to June’
aja'ira	azaʔira	‘year’
ajan mu'u	azan muʔu	‘type of small plantain’
ajane	azane	‘chew’
aka	aka	‘not’
aka ono	aka ono	‘never’
akan	akan	‘slave, slave class’
akare	akare	‘stubborn’
akatana	akatana	‘burped up food’
akate	akate	‘burp up’
ākina	aːkina	‘firm’
aku	aku	‘feces’
ākule	aːkule	‘call (with the voice)’
akumokor	akumokor	‘intestine’
alah pala	alah pala	‘slash and burn farming’
ale	ale	‘rice, uncooked rice’
ale macen	ale matsen	‘cooked rice’
ale pohen	ale pohen	‘cooked rice’
alehe	alehe	‘again’
alere	alere	‘hit (can be used for inanimate objects)’
ali	ali	‘again’
aliwana	aliwana	‘place’
ami	ami	1. ‘breast, chest (can be applied to either men or women )’ 2. ‘(breast) milk’
ami tapun	ami tapun	‘female breast’
amin	amin	‘louse’
amir	amir	‘wing’
ana	ana	‘1sg nom’
ana	ana	‘or’
anahe	anahe	‘seek, look for’
anahu	anahu	‘for me, for my benefit’
ane	ane	1. ‘exist’ 2. ‘have’
anete	anete	‘not hit’
anukai	anukai	‘thread’
apa	apa	‘mountain’
apa'apa pa'i	apaʔapa paʔi	‘naughty’
ape	ape	‘encounter’
api	api	‘fish’
api nail	api nail	‘fishing pole’
api naile	api naile	‘fish, catch fish’
api taru	api taru	‘fishing line’
apur	apur	‘with’
apure	apure	‘scoop up’
ara	ara	‘plant, tree’
arahe	arahe	‘frightened’
arakafal pa'i	arakafal paʔi	‘drop’
arakafale	arakafale	‘drop, fall’
arakalina	arakalina	‘earing’
arap	arap	‘buffalo, water buffalo’
arap ami	arap ami	‘milk, buffalo milk’
arapou	arapou	‘water buffalo’
ārohe	aːrohe	1. ‘reach, grab (as in, grab a fruit)’ 2. ‘on time (not late)’
aruma	aruma	‘clean, tidy’
arure	arure	‘cry’
aruru	aruru	‘crying’
āseile	aːseile	‘rub, scour’
asir	asir	‘salt’
asire	asire	‘add salt’
asise	asise	‘firm’
ata'atare	ataʔatare	‘keep cracking’
ātanana	aːtanana	‘question’
ātane	aːtane	‘ask, ask a question’
atare	atare	‘crack (as with a machete)’
atere	atere	‘numeral classifier for humans’
atu	atu	‘belly’
atu na'e	atu naʔe	‘pregnant’
aur	aur	‘lime (the mineral), betel lime’
awion	awion	‘plane’
baru	baru	‘new’
ben	ben	‘band’
ben uta	ben uta	‘play a drum (with sticks), play a drumset’
biasa	biasa	‘usually’
bir	bir	‘beer’
bis	bis	‘bus’
bola	bola	‘ball’
buku	buku	‘book’
ca'a	tsaʔa	‘fish poison’
ca'utapun	tsaʔutapun	‘head’
ca'uwari	tsaʔuwari	‘hair’
ca'uwele	tsaʔuwele	‘skin of the head’
cailor cailor	tsailor tsailor	‘name of a tribe’
cāl	tsaːl	1. ‘grandparent’ 2. ‘grandchild’
cāl mocor	tsaːl motsor	‘decendent’
cal nami	tsal nami	‘grandfather’
cal tupur	tsal tupur	‘grandmother’
capaku cewe	tsapaku tsewe	‘smoke a cigarette’
capuk	tsapuk	‘crab’
capur	tsapur	‘kitchen’
caruma	tsaruma	1. ‘thread’ 2. ‘needle’
catanu	tsatanu	‘sign (like a logo)’
cayare	tsajare	‘tired’
cecemālai	tsetsemaːlai	‘pineapple’
cecemālai ara	tsetsemaːlai ara	‘pineapple plant’
cecen	tsetsen	‘pineapple’
cele	tsele	‘corn’
cemaka	tsemaka	‘brain, physical brain’
ceren	tseren	‘lover (can be either boyfriend or girlfriend)’
ceru	tseru	‘call (only applies to physically calling someone with the voice, not calling someone on the telephone)’
cerun	tserun	‘vocation, calling, one's set purpose from God, destiny?’
cewe	tsewe	‘burn’
cī	tsiː	‘thunderstorm, lightening, thunder’
ci'ele	tsiʔele	‘walk’
ci'irana	tsiʔirana	‘heavy’
ci'ire	tsiʔire	‘heavy’
cicika	tsitsika	‘shoulder’
cicira'i	tsitsiraʔi	‘play’
cicira'ini	tsitsiraʔini	‘toy’
cila	tsila	‘frog’
cipicipi	tsipitsipi	‘flower’
cipito	tsipito	‘forehead’
cō	tsoː	‘far’
cō more	tsoː more	‘located far’
cō neure	tsoː neure	‘chase away’
coicoihana	tsoitsoihana	‘mortar and pestle’
coicoihana fuka	tsoitsoihana fuka	‘pestle’
Com	tsom	‘place in East Timor in the northeast of the Fataluku-speaking region’
coman	tsoman	‘will definitely’
comanan	tsomanan	‘definitely, sure’
cōnana	tsoːnana	‘farthest one’
cōne	tsoːne	‘far’
coro	tsoro	‘spear’
cū	tsuː	‘shed, hut’
cu'ale'u	tsuʔaleʔu	‘sp. of snake that is green and very poisonous’
cuare	tsuare	‘sit’
cūl	tsuːl	‘knee’
cul seisei	tsul seisei	‘knee cap’
cupu	tsupu	‘water drop’
cupucupu	tsuputsupu	‘water drops’
cura	tsura	‘mouse, rat’
cure	tsure	‘wake up’
curuk	tsuruk	‘lime, lemon’
curuk ara	tsuruk ara	‘lime tree’
depois	depois	‘afterwards’
derepenti	derepenti	‘suddenly, accidently’
designa	desiɡna	‘designate’
dewersifika	dewersifika	‘diversify’
Dili	dili	‘Dili, the capital of East Timor’
dōs	doːs	‘box’
dosi	dosi	‘cake’
doutor	doutor	‘doctor’
e	e	‘proximal demonstrative, this’
e	e	‘second person singular nonsubject pronoun’
e na'e	e naʔe	‘here’
e'ece	eʔetse	‘two at a time’
ece	etse	‘two’
eceremu	etseremu	‘think’
eceremun	etseremun	‘thought, idea’
eheni	eheni	‘yours’
ekehe	ekehe	‘count’
ele	ele	‘relative pronoun’
ele'elere	eleʔelere	‘read, spend time reading’
eleh	eleh	‘husband’
elei	elei	‘yeah, that's right, right on’
elere	elere	‘read’
ēlewe	eːlewe	‘cold (of the weather)’
eluhe	eluhe	‘want’
em ma'u	em maʔu	‘bring’
eme	eme	‘take’
emere	emere	‘first’
en	en	‘proximal demonstrative, this’
enen	enen	‘proximal demonstrative, this’
eni'i	eniʔi	‘this’
entaun	entaun	‘then, and then’
ere	ere	‘chase away’
ere	ere	‘plural marker’
erekana	erekana	‘pumkin vine’
ereke	ereke	‘crawl as a vine’
eri	eri	‘scatter’
ēri	eːri	‘you’
ērta	eːrta	‘you (emph. subj.)’
eru	eru	‘famine’
esasa	esasa	‘vegetable’
esturante	esturante	‘student’
ete	ete	‘tree, wood, plant (refers to logs or trees without leaves)’
ete ara	ete ara	‘tree’
ete karan	ete karan	‘big branch (as of a tree)’
ete kete	ete kete	‘small stick’
ete larin	ete larin	‘root’
ete lusu	ete lusu	‘casava’
ete pata	ete pata	‘log’
ete raka	ete raka	‘small branch’
ete sanak	ete sanak	‘small branch’
ete wele	ete wele	‘tree bark’
ewen	ewen	‘extremely, really, really (more emphatic than tali)’
fa'i	faʔi	‘make’
fāfāte	faːfaːte	‘four at a time’
fale	fale	‘drive (as a car)’
familia	familia	‘family’
fanar	fanar	‘female (only of animals)’
fanawana	fanawana	‘teaching’
fanawe	fanawe	‘teach’
fāne	faːne	‘feed’
fani	fani	‘delicious, sweet’
fanu	fanu	‘face’
fanu na'e	fanu naʔe	‘in front of’
fanuhene	fanuhene	‘meet, face’
faru	faru	‘shirt, T-shirt’
fata	fata	‘origin, simple’
fatahara	fatahara	‘morning’
Fataluku	fataluku	‘Fataluku’
fatatara	fatatara	‘suddenly, immediately’
fāte	faːte	‘flooded’
fāte	faːte	‘four’
fei	fei	‘pretty (can only be used of women)’
feinu	feinu	‘pretty’
fēl	feːl	‘bow, bow and arrows’
fel ka'u	fel kaʔu	‘arrow’
fel kete	fel kete	‘arrow’
fetil	fetil	‘fall, stumble’
fiare	fiare	‘believe’
fitu	fitu	‘seven’
foeh	foeh	‘grass’
folo	folo	‘blunt’
folopata	folopata	‘dull, not sharp’
foni	foni	‘distal demonstrative, that’
foni ni'i	foni niʔi	‘distal demonstrative, that’
fonin	fonin	‘distal demonstrative, that’
forsa	forsa	‘strong’
fōt	foːt	‘gun’
foto	foto	‘photo’
fūfūlehe	fuːfuːlehe	‘go back and forth’
fuhu	fuhu	‘muscle’
fūlehe	fuːlehe	‘return, go back’
gowerno	ɡowerno	‘government’
goyabas	ɡojabas	‘guava’
goyabas ara	ɡojabas ara	‘guava tree’
ha'ate	haʔate	‘sharp’
ha'i	haʔi	‘species of large tree with edible seeds that are used to make purfume’
haca	hatsa	‘partner’
hafa	hafa	‘bone’
hafa hala	hafa hala	‘very thin, very skinny’
hai	hai	‘perfective, signifies that the speaker conceives of an action as finished’
hair	hair	‘then, well, but’
hala	hala	‘only’
hapate	hapate	‘sprout, grow’
hapatu	hapatu	‘general term for edible roots (including e.g. bamboo and ginger)’
har	har	‘that, which’
hara	hara	‘clear’
harahara	harahara	‘clear’
haran	haran	‘light’
harus	harus	‘must’
hasa	hasa	‘leaf’
hau	hau	‘fog’
hau	hau	1. ‘for (the benefit of)’ 2. ‘toward’
hawarana	hawarana	‘hunting’
haware	haware	‘hunt’
he'e	heʔe	1. ‘stuck, difficult’ 2. ‘difficult’ 3. ‘scarce, hard to find’
hefe	hefe	‘know’
hei	hei	‘hey, informal greeting’
hei kinam	hei kinam	‘hey buddy, informal greeting’
helere	helere	‘run’
heru	heru	‘sweat’
hi'a	hiʔa	‘on’
hi'a ciele	hiʔa tsiele	‘step on’
hi'ahi'are	hiʔahiʔare	‘repeatedly pay, pretend to pay’
hi'amoi	hiʔamoi	‘climb’
hi'ane	hiʔane	‘on the top’
hi'ape	hiʔape	‘ride (as of the bus)’
hi'are	hiʔare	‘pay’
hi'aroun	hiʔaroun	‘pure of heart’
hi'ili	hiʔili	‘animal trap’
hici	hitsi	‘located’
hicine	hitsine	‘located’
hicipe	hitsipe	‘located towards’
hīkar	hiːkar	‘knife’
hilahila	hilahila	‘smooth, slippery’
hilate	hilate	‘smooth, soft’
hin	hin	‘because of’
hin	hin	‘reflexive’
hina	hina	‘braid (hair)’
hinta	hinta	‘cause, make’
hinu'a	hinuʔa	‘in order to’
hira	hira	‘price’
hīre	hiːre	‘wait’
hirohe	hirohe	‘arrive, reach (a destination)’
hītu	hiːtu	‘sword’
ho	ho	‘and’
hō	hoː	‘yes’
hō'ana	hoːʔana	‘burning’
hō'e	hoːʔe	‘burn’
hocatere	hotsatere	‘both’
hōcawa	hoːtsawa	1. ‘owner, lord, master’ 2. ‘Christian God’
hōk	hoːk	‘mud’
hōke	hoːke	‘muddy’
hor	hor	‘with’
hori	hori	‘leave, stop’
horu	horu	‘horn, antler’
horu	horu	‘with, together’
horun	horun	‘togetherness’
horune	horune	‘together’
hufa	hufa	‘spit something out of the mouth’
hufarana	hufarana	‘dream’
hūfina	huːfina	‘tip, top (not necessarily sharp)’
hufuraka	hufuraka	‘boil’
hūla	huːla	‘spoon’
huluhulu	huluhulu	‘on fire’
humār	humaːr	‘soul’
hura	hura	‘take food from a pan, scoop’
i	i	‘second person plural nonsubject pronoun’
ī	iː	‘and’
ī	iː	‘possessive marker’
i na'e	i naʔe	‘there’
i'a	iʔa	‘road, path, way’
i'an	iʔan	‘while’
ia	ia	‘path, way’
ia	ia	‘second person plural subject pronoun’
ia	ia	‘that’
ia tupur	ia tupur	‘mother's brother's daughter’
ica	itsa	‘feeling’
ica ci'ire	itsa tsiʔire	‘feel tired, feel sad’
ica kapare	itsa kapare	‘sad’
ica raurau	itsa raurau	‘happy’
ica tutu	itsa tutu	‘like, love’
ica tutun	itsa tutun	‘love’
ica'ini	itsaʔini	‘maybe (refering to something that is not known), sometimes’
icahici	itsahitsi	‘sometimes’
icauru	itsauru	‘chest’
icile	itsile	‘tied’
ifa	ifa	‘fall (over)’
īfāt	iːfaːt	1. ‘fourth’ 2. ‘Thursday’
ifi	ifi	‘worm’
igilejale	iɡilezale	‘church’
ihaneherana	ihaneherana	‘Monday’
ihec	ihets	‘second (in order), Tuesday’
ihemerana	ihemerana	‘first’
ihini	ihini	‘his, his own’
ikare	ikare	‘cold (of a person)’
ilah	ilah	‘sweet potato’
ilah makau	ilah makau	‘potato’
ili	ili	‘huge stone’
ilikuru	ilikuru	‘cave’
imire	imire	‘sit’
impresta	impresta	‘lend’
ina	ina	‘eye’
ina	ina	‘first person plural exlusive subject pronoun’
ina	ina	‘then’
ina	ina	‘what?’
ina ko'e	ina koʔe	‘blind’
inahara	inahara	‘seer, someone who can see something beyond’
inaleo	inaleo	‘eyebrow’
inawaya	inawaja	‘tears’
ini	ini	‘first person plural exclusive nonsubject pronoun’
inik	inik	‘sand’
inikerekere	inikerekere	‘petroglyph’
inir	inir	‘first person plural exclusive pronoun (citation form)’
ipar	ipar	‘dog’
ipil	ipil	‘tongue’
ipilana	ipilana	‘flying, flight’
ipile	ipile	‘fly (can be used of butterflies, birds, planes, etc.)’
ipilira	ipilira	‘chicken comb’
ipinaka	ipinaka	‘star’
ipiti	ipiti	‘sea turtle’
ipo	ipo	‘but’
ira	ira	‘water’
ira ina	ira ina	‘fountain’
ira tutun	ira tutun	‘drinking water’
ira'e	iraʔe	‘add water’
iraira	iraira	‘wet’
iri	iri	‘second person plural pronoun (citation form)’
irin	irin	‘forest’
irise	irise	‘urinate’
isi'isile	isiʔisile	‘tie’
isikola	isikola	‘school’
isikola lē	isikola leː	‘schoolhouse’
isile	isile	‘tie’
istura	istura	‘study’
ita	ita	‘near’
itane	itane	‘near’
itarapa'an	itarapaʔan	‘greetings’
iti'ele	itiʔele	‘kick’
iwari	iwari	‘same’
iwi	iwi	‘that’
iwi'itu	iwiʔitu	‘and then, formed from the mesal demonstrative and the topicalization clitic’
iwin	iwin	‘mesal demonstrative, that’
iwini'i	iwiniʔi	‘mesal demonstrative, that’
Jaco	zatso	‘Jaco, Jaco island, an island just off the Northeast coast of East Timor’
jaket	zaket	‘jacket’
jāmpata	zaːmpata	‘road’
japatu	zapatu	‘pair of shoes’
jatu	zatu	‘airplane’
Jawa	zawa	‘Java’
jeitu	zeitu	‘cool, neat’
jelu	zelu	‘ice’
jen	zen	‘reflexive’
jeu	zeu	1. ‘wife’ 2. ‘man's mother's brother's daughter (which men are traditionally expected to marry)’
jia	zia	‘leg’
jia fukar	zia fukar	‘toes’
jia lepen	zia lepen	‘sole, bottom of one's foot (analogous to the palm of the hand)’
jia mu'upoko	zia muʔupoko	‘calf of leg’
jia ocoh	zia otsoh	‘anklet’
jia punar	zia punar	‘calf of the leg’
jujur	zuzur	‘honest’
juka	zuka	‘cards, card game’
ka'are	kaʔare	‘empty’
ka'u	kaʔu	‘stick’
ka'ukisa	kaʔukisa	‘small’
ka'une	kaʔune	‘break along the long axis, break a round object, break in two pieces, explode’
ka'usila	kaʔusila	‘small’
kadera	kadera	‘chair’
kafa	kafa	‘eight’
kafale	kafale	1. ‘fall, drop (intrans.)’ 2. ‘throw’
kafe	kafe	‘coffee’
kafu	kafu	‘seed’
kafur	kafur	‘scratch’
kaihe	kaihe	‘file’
kailana	kailana	‘sinfulness’
kaile	kaile	1. ‘bent’ 2. ‘sin’
kaka	kaka	1. ‘older brother’ 2. ‘mother's older sister's son (if older than oneself)’
kaka tupur	kaka tupur	‘older brother's wife’
kakal	kakal	‘palm tree (exluding coconut palms)’
kalah	kalah	‘taro’
kale	kale	‘throw’
kaluse	kaluse	‘compete (as in a race)’
kama	kama	‘bed’
kanta	kanta	‘sing’
kanta	kanta	‘song’
kaparana	kaparana	‘bad, evil’
kaparasi	kaparasi	‘ugly’
kapare	kapare	1. ‘bad’ 2. ‘severe’ 3. ‘huge’
kar	kar	‘right now’
karase	karase	‘yellow’
kare	kare	‘cold’
karpenteru	karpenteru	‘carpenter’
karu'en	karuʔen	‘right now’
karunana	karunana	‘nearest one’
karune	karune	‘near’
kastiku	kastiku	‘punish’
katak	katak	‘that (as a quotative)’
katen	katen	‘thigh, part of the leg from the hip to the knee’
katuas	katuas	‘old (person), old man’
katuba	katuba	‘kind of rice cake consisting of rice wrapped in coconut leaves (which is traditionally eaten around Christmas)’
kaukaure	kaukaure	‘scratch’
kaure	kaure	1. ‘scratch’ 2. ‘loose, untie, allow’
kawa	kawa	‘short’
kawe	kawe	‘marry’
kayarana	kajarana	‘tiredness, effort’
kayare	kajare	‘tired’
ke'er	keʔer	‘ladder’
ke'ile	keʔile	‘pick something with a tool’
kekehana	kekehana	‘counting’
kēlana	keːlana	‘laughter’
kēle	keːle	‘laugh, smile’
kelici	kelitsi	‘rabbit’
kelu	kelu	‘not want’
keos	keos	‘kiosk’
kere	kere	1. ‘write’ 2. ‘writing’
kerekere	kerekere	‘write’
kerekerenana	kerekerenana	‘writing’
kete	kete	‘thin, skinny (usually in reference to wood)’
ketile	ketile	‘fly through the air (after getting launched)’
kiki'e	kikiʔe	‘bite’
kila'e	kilaʔe	‘dirty’
kilakila'e	kilakilaʔe	‘dirty’
kina	kina	‘buddy’
kiufatahara	kiufatahara	‘dawn’
klas	klas	‘class’
koire	koire	‘stir’
kokote	kokote	‘grow’
kolega	koleɡa	‘friend’
kolikolise	kolikolise	‘later’
kolis	kolis	‘Indicates the near future’
kolo	kolo	‘person who is mute’
komensa	komensa	‘start’
komprende	komprende	‘understand’
konfesa	konfesa	‘confess’
kota	kota	‘town’
Koun	koun	‘Fataluku-speaking village on the northeast coast of Timor’
koune	koune	‘dark, evening’
kuandu	kuandu	‘when’
kuartu	kuartu	‘room’
kuca	kutsa	‘horse’
kūle	kuːle	‘yell’
kurakura	kurakura	‘argue, quarrel’
kurisa	kurisa	1. ‘(fresh) chile pepper’ 2. ‘paste made with chile peppers, garlic and dried shrimp served as a condiment’
kuru	kuru	‘hole’
la'a	laʔa	‘go’
la'ala'a	laʔalaʔa	‘walk’
lāfai	laːfai	‘big’
lāfane	laːfane	‘much, many’
lafur	lafur	‘traditional place to cook, made with 3 stones’
lāhuna	laːhuna	‘onion’
lai	lai	‘cut (a specific way of cutting something)’
lailaine	lailaine	‘chop repeatedly’
lakaran	lakaran	‘step’
laki	laki	‘dig’
lakuware	lakuware	‘black’
lālāfai	laːlaːfai	‘big’
lalu	lalu	‘high’
lalune	lalune	‘above, higher, on top’
laman	laman	‘inside’
lamanu	lamanu	‘bushes, area with bushes’
lān	laːn	‘friend’
lanura	lanura	‘friends’
lapusa	lapusa	‘spider’
lār	laːr	‘instance, time, repetition’
larin	larin	‘root’
larin arapou	larin arapou	‘water buffalo’
larunate	larunate	‘turn around’
lau	lau	‘clothes, blanket’
lau'e	lauʔe	‘melt, dissolve’
lauhana	lauhana	‘life’
lauhe	lauhe	‘live’
lawalawan	lawalawan	‘fake money’
lawan	lawan	‘money’
lāware	laːware	‘dress (trans.), put clothes on’
lāwei	laːwei	‘crocodile (not respectful)’
lē	leː	‘house’
lē ho cu	leː ho tsu	‘house and hut’
lē teinu	leː teinu	‘church’
le'u	leʔu	1. ‘fur, hair (not on the head)’ 2. ‘feathers’
lēlē moko	leːleː moko	‘toy house’
lēlēre	leːleːre	‘read for fun’
leman	leman	‘gentleman’
lemesana	lemesana	‘sweet’
lemese	lemese	‘sweet’
lepikasa	lepikasa	‘thin’
lērana	leːrana	‘reading’
leren	leren	‘older sister’
leren kaka	leren kaka	‘older sister’
leren lafai	leren lafai	‘older sister’
leren noko	leren noko	‘male's younger sister’
leru'e	leruʔe	‘roll (intrans.)’
letana	letana	‘in between’
leura	leura	‘meat (for eating)’
liare fūlehe	liare fuːlehe	‘go back and forth’
lika	lika	‘sp. of lizard that lives in a tree’
līka	liːka	‘skinny’
likalika	likalika	‘skinniness’
limar	limar	‘a (metal) file’
limare	limare	‘file’
līme	liːme	‘five’
lita	lita	‘bag’
lō	loː	‘sp. of cuscus’
lōhai	loːhai	1. ‘tall’ 2. ‘long’
lolo	lolo	‘tell, tell a story’
lōlōhai	loːloːhai	‘tall’
lolon	lolon	‘story’
lolos	lolos	‘fat’
lōr	loːr	‘heavy (as of a rainstorm)’
lore	lore	1. ‘hole that is made in the ground for planting seeds into’ 2. ‘large, pointed stick that is used for making holes in the ground for planting’
loro	loro	‘type of plant similar to a watermelon’
Lospala	lospala	‘Lospalos (a town in roughly the center of the Fataluku-speaking region of East Timor)’
louke	louke	‘jump’
lōyasu	loːjasu	‘ship’
lu'a	luʔa	‘monkey’
luka	luka	‘old’
luku	luku	‘talk (trans.)’
lukuluku	lukuluku	‘talk (intrans.)’
lukulukun	lukulukun	‘language’
lukun	lukun	‘language’
lumulumure	lumulumure	‘completely green’
lumure	lumure	‘green, blue’
lutu	lutu	‘large basin used for smashing rice’
ma'amoko	maʔamoko	‘what's up?’
ma'ar	maʔar	‘person (can be male or female)’
ma'ar lāfai	maʔar laːfai	‘authority figure’
ma'ar tein	maʔar tein	‘priest’
ma'ate	maʔate	‘bitter’
ma'u	maʔu	‘come’
ma'unu	maʔunu	‘arrival’
maca	matsa	‘bat’
macamaca	matsamatsa	‘butterfly’
mace	matse	‘eat’
macemacen	matsematsen	‘food’
macen	matsen	‘food’
mahane	mahane	‘fear, scared of’
mai	mai	‘eagle’
mais	mais	‘but’
maisana	maisana	1. ‘somthing that is correct, correct thing’ 2. ‘truth’
maise	maise	‘true, straight, correct’
maka	maka	‘kick’
Makalero	makalero	‘Makalero, a nearby related language’
makamakase	makamakase	‘whisper’
Makasa'e	makasaʔe	‘Makasa'e, a nearby related language’
maksud	maksud	‘meaning’
mālai	maːlai	1. ‘foreigner, stranger’ 2. ‘head of a village, king’
mālete	maːlete	‘narrow (space)’
malu	malu	‘outside’
malupe	malupe	‘go outside’
mama	mama	‘mother’
mana	mana	‘big sister’
manamana	manamana	‘fruit’
manane	manane	‘win, defeat’
manda la'a	manda laʔa	‘send’
manikete	manikete	‘neck’
manimani	manimani	‘necklace’
manko	manko	‘bowl’
manu	manu	‘big brother’
manu	manu	‘injury’
manu pa'i	manu paʔi	‘injure’
manun	manun	‘wounded’
mara	mara	‘go to’
marteru	marteru	‘hammer’
masu	masu	‘carefully’
masu cina	masu tsina	‘blow on a fire to kindle it well’
masu pa'i	masu paʔi	‘careful’
matar	matar	‘stone’
matare	matare	‘stone area’
matu	matu	‘used’
mautūle	mautuːle	‘lazy’
meimeite	meimeite	‘retarded, mentally handicapped’
meja	meza	‘table’
menit	menit	‘minute’
merkadu	merkadu	‘market’
mesene	mesene	‘show’
mestri	mestri	‘teacher’
meti	meti	‘tide’
mimimimireke	mimimimireke	‘red, very much red, always red’
mimireke	mimireke	‘red’
mina	mina	‘cooking oil’
mine	mine	‘have’
mini	mini	‘on the edge’
mini mire	mini mire	‘sit on the edge’
mini more	mini more	‘located near’
minik	minik	‘nose’
minine	minine	‘next to, beside, on the edge of’
mire	mire	‘sit’
miri	miri	‘new’
mirimiri	mirimiri	‘new, new and clean’
miucia	miutsia	‘midday’
moco	motso	1. ‘child’ 2. ‘brother's son’
moco nami	motso nami	‘brother's son’
moco tupur	motso tupur	‘brother's daughter’
moco wāle	motso waːle	‘bear a child’
mocomoko	motsomoko	‘baby’
mohe	mohe	‘run’
moko	moko	‘small, young’
mokomoco	mokomotso	‘baby’
mokomokor	mokomokor	‘children’
morisa	morisa	‘throw, throw away’
mouk	mouk	‘cloud’
mu'a	muʔa	‘atmosphere’
mu'a	muʔa	‘day’
mu'a	muʔa	‘soil’
mu'a ca'uwele	muʔa tsaʔuwele	‘earth’
mu'a hōcawa	muʔa hoːtsawa	‘landowner’
mu'a koune	muʔa koune	‘evening’
mu'ahaka	muʔahaka	‘caring’
mu'ahara mu'ahara	muʔahara muʔahara	‘every day’
mu'aharan	muʔaharan	‘day’
mu'e	muʔe	‘kiss’
mu'u	muʔu	‘banana’
mu'u ara	muʔu ara	‘banana plant’
mu'umālai	muʔumaːlai	‘papaya’
mu'umālai ara	muʔumaːlai ara	‘papaya tree’
mu'upoko	muʔupoko	‘banana bell, banana blossom, red bulb on the bottom of a bunch of bananas’
mucu	mutsu	‘in’
mucu cene	mutsu tsene	‘submit, reach out and put inside’
mucu co'e	mutsu tsoʔe	‘stuck inside’
mucu he'e	mutsu heʔe	‘stuck inside’
mucu hufuhufute	mutsu hufuhufute	‘outraged’
mucune	mutsune	‘in’
mucupe	mutsupe	‘into’
muhare	muhare	‘hungry’
mumina	mumina	‘iron’
muralaku	muralaku	‘take off (as of clothes)’
nā	naː	‘at’
nā ceru	naː tseru	‘call’
nā neluhe	naː neluhe	‘want’
nā pale	naː pale	‘touch’
nā pati	naː pati	‘distribute’
na'a kēle	naʔa keːle	‘laugh’
na'e	naʔe	1. ‘at’ 2. ‘live, breathe’
na'u	naʔu	‘yet’
na'u taya	naʔu taja	‘go to sleep directly’
na'u'uku	naʔuʔuku	‘all, everyone’
na'unope	naʔunope	‘morning’
na'uwara	naʔuwara	‘and’
nail taru	nail taru	‘fishing line’
naile	naile	‘hook out, fish’
nāl	naːl	1. ‘mother’ 2. ‘father's brother's wife’
nāl kaka	naːl kaka	‘mother's older sister’
nāl noko	naːl noko	‘mother's younger sister’
nālpāl	naːlpaːl	‘parents’
nami	nami	‘male, man, gentleman’
nana	nana	‘snake’
nanakēle	nanakeːle	‘smile’
nānāl	naːnaːl	‘big (wide)’
nananana	nananana	‘crazy’
napaniki	napaniki	‘not exactly, that's not right’
nara	nara	‘then, and then’
naru'uru	naruʔuru	‘buried underground’
nasional	nasional	‘national’
natal	natal	‘Christmas’
nāte	naːte	‘stand’
naten	naten	‘follow’
nawa	nawa	‘eat’
naware	naware	1. ‘know, understand’ 2. ‘know how to, able to’
nē	neː	‘name’
nekulana	nekulana	‘anger, frustration’
nekule	nekule	‘angry’
nēl	neːl	‘sky, heaven’
nēme	neːme	‘six’
nērana	neːrana	‘flat area’
nere	nere	‘follow (a person; animal or a path)’
nēre	neːre	‘flat’
nerenere nāte	nerenere naːte	‘follow’
nerenu	nerenu	‘follow, follow in order to do something’
neru	neru	‘traditional kitchen item used to thresh plants’
neure	neure	‘chase’
nikini	nikini	‘mosquito’
ninau	ninau	‘himself’
nita	nita	‘reciprocal’
nita kurakura	nita kurakura	‘argue with one another, try to undermine one another’
nita uca	nita utsa	‘kill each other, kill one another’
nita uta	nita uta	‘kill each other in mass quantities, commit genocide’
noko	noko	1. ‘younger same-sex sibling’ 2. ‘younger same-sex cousin from one's mother's older sister’
noko tupur	noko tupur	‘younger brother's wife’
nope	nope	‘tomorrow’
nūcece	nuːtsetse	‘wash, bathe’
nutu	nutu	‘cover’
o	o	‘also, too’
o'o	oʔo	1. ‘mouth’ 2. ‘door’
o'opira	oʔopira	1. ‘(physical) lip’ 2. ‘(metaphorical) edge (as in the edge of the ocean)’
o'ose	oʔose	‘steal’
obrigadu	obriɡadu	‘thank you’
oco	otso	‘orchard, grove’
oco	otso	‘touch’
ocoh	otsoh	‘bracelet’
ofo'ofote	ofoʔofote	‘cut, cut many times’
ofote	ofote	‘cut’
okolewe	okolewe	‘hug’
okon	okon	‘general term for dried, edible roots’
olo	olo	‘bird’
olo le'u	olo leʔu	‘bird's feathers’
omo'omoke	omoʔomoke	‘a quiet person’
omoke	omoke	‘quiet’
ono	ono	‘still’
ōp	oːp	‘ashes’
oposana	oposana	‘rotten’
opose	opose	1. ‘rot, spoil’ 2. ‘rude’
oras	oras	‘hour, hours’
orasen	orasen	‘nowadays’
ore	ore	‘quarrel’
ore	ore	1. ‘weaving’ 2. ‘kind of rice cake consisting of rice wrapped in coconut leaves’; ‘katuba’
orite	orite	1. ‘embarrassed, ashamed’ 2. ‘shy’
oroma'i	oromaʔi	‘hide’
ōruma lalaruma	oːruma lalaruma	‘loud (of people talking and chit-chatting)’
ote	ote	‘bean’
otemina	otemina	‘peanut’
pa'a	paʔa	‘lot, much’
pa'in	paʔin	1. ‘sister's child’ 2. ‘mother's older brother’
pa'in matu	paʔin matu	‘father's sister's husband (whether sister is older or younger)’
pa'in noko	paʔin noko	‘mother's younger brother’
pa'in tupur	paʔin tupur	‘mother's brother's wife’
paca	patsa	‘commoner, commoner class’
paca	patsa	‘portion (of game, for instance) set aside for a particular person’
pacu	patsu	‘forbid’
paha	paha	‘slap, hit’
pahale	pahale	‘wash (clothes)’
pai	pai	‘pig’
paki	paki	‘wall’
paksat	paksat	‘force (someone to do something)’
pāl	paːl	1. ‘father’ 2. ‘mother's sister's husband’
pāl kaka	paːl kaka	‘father's older brother’
pāl noko	paːl noko	‘father's younger brother’
pala	pala	‘farm’
palake	palake	‘stick on’
palastiku	palastiku	‘plastic bag’
pali	pali	‘not exist’
palise	palise	‘swim’
pān	paːn	‘bread’
panak	panak	‘heart’
panake	panake	‘ache’
panleru	panleru	‘man who acts feminine or who dresses like a woman’
pantai	pantai	‘beach’
papanoko	papanoko	‘uncle (specifically; mother's brother)’
papasiare	papasiare	‘take a walk’
papu	papu	‘great-grandparent’
papu nami	papu nami	‘great-grandfather’
papu tupur	papu tupur	‘great-grandmother’
para	para	‘so, so that’
pari	pari	‘wind’
pari olioli	pari olioli	‘whistle’
pari silil	pari silil	‘breeze’
parir	parir	‘dry season, July-October’
parke	parke	‘park’
pasar	pasar	‘market’
pasar	pasar	‘week’
pasiare	pasiare	‘walk’
pasta	pasta	‘bag’
pata	pata	‘log (from a tree)’
pati	pati	‘share, distribute’
patin	patin	‘separate’
patu'e	patuʔe	‘cough’
paya	paja	‘liquid’
paya	paja	‘special type of expensive necklace given from the husband to the wife when they get married’
payah	pajah	‘mango’
payah ara	pajah ara	‘mango tree’
payapayah	pajapajah	‘necklace (in general)’
pelek	pelek	‘boat’
pemandana	pemandana	‘view’
pēt	peːt	‘mattress’
petun	petun	‘bamboo’
pī	piː	‘type of hard seed from a palm tree’
pi'apara	piʔapara	‘raise, take care of’
pinta	pinta	1. ‘paint’ 2. ‘painting’
pipi	pipi	‘goat’
pirapira	pirapira	‘edge’
piri	piri	‘lie, tell an untruth’
pirin	pirin	‘lie’
piripiri	piripiri	‘a liar’
pite	pite	‘shine’
pitine	pitine	‘white’
pitipitine	pitipitine	‘white’
po'iteke	poʔiteke	‘back’
po'opo'ote	poʔopoʔote	‘sick’
po'ote	poʔote	‘sick’
pohe	pohe	‘cook’
pohepohe	pohepohe	‘cook’
poki	poki	‘punch’
polu	polu	‘full’
pōpō	poːpoː	‘grandparent’
pōpō nami	poːpoː nami	‘grandfather’
pōpō tupur	poːpoː tupur	‘grandmother’
pōpoke	poːpoke	‘soggy’
poporawa	poporawa	‘dragonfly’
por ejemplu	por ezemplu	‘for example’
poron	poron	‘in a circle’
Portuges	portuɡes	‘Portuguese’
poru	poru	‘smooth’
posi	posi	‘cat’
posi	posi	‘push slowly’
pouke	pouke	‘throw at and hit’
pu'ina	puʔina	‘roof’
pua	pua	‘betel nut’
puhu	puhu	‘pot’
pui	pui	‘man who acts like a girl’
puicina	puitsina	‘flatland’
pulau	pulau	‘island’
puluh	puluh	‘tens’
pura	pura	‘sell’
purupale	purupale	‘take care’
ra'u	raʔu	‘plate’
ra'ulukun	raʔulukun	‘bowl’
rah	rah	‘hundred’
rahine	rahine	‘yesterday’
rakase	rakase	‘fry’
rame	rame	‘fun (when a lot of people are having a good time)’
ranuranu	ranuranu	‘well’
raparapake	raparapake	‘rough’
rapu	rapu	‘type of leafy plant similar to spinach’
rapurapu	rapurapu	‘insecurity, lack of self-confidence’
rarahe	rarahe	1. ‘bloom, open wide’ 2. ‘twinkle (of stars)’
rata	rata	‘old’
ratan	ratan	‘long time ago’
ratarata	ratarata	‘in a little bit’
ratu	ratu	1. ‘tribe, clan’ 2. ‘ruling class’
rau	rau	‘good’
raurau	raurau	‘happy’
rehabi	rehabi	‘rebuild’
rehun	rehun	‘thousand’
rekise	rekise	‘chop, cut down (for instance; a tree)’
ria	ria	‘mother's brother's son’
riku	riku	‘riches’
rohone	rohone	1. ‘on the day before yesterday’ 2. ‘in the past’
rohorohone	rohorohone	‘in the past’
roja	roza	‘rose’
ropisaro	ropisaro	‘sweet things’
rotoroto	rotoroto	‘onomatopoeia for breathing’
rukus	rukus	‘ring’
rūmau	ruːmau	‘pomegranate’
sā	saː	‘tea’
sai	sai	‘finish’
saline	saline	‘carry (as of a bag)’
salwa	salwa	‘save’
salwasaun	salwasaun	‘salvation’
sapu	sapu	‘pomelo’
sapun	sapun	‘lung’
sasake	sasake	‘dry’
sasale	sasale	‘stupid’
se	se	‘if’
semu	semu	‘receive’
senti	senti	‘feel’
sepu	sepu	‘watermelon’
sepusepu	sepusepu	‘lawn’
serika	serika	‘little, little bit’
siku	siku	‘elbow’
silaki	silaki	‘grasshopper’
sirike	sirike	‘drive’
siriwisi	siriwisi	‘work’
sīwa	siːwa	‘nine’
soele	soele	‘slither’
somone	somone	‘carry (e g., a log)’
sorot	sorot	‘book, paper’
sorot hasa	sorot hasa	‘paper’
sorot tein	sorot tein	‘Bible’
sosike	sosike	‘slip’
sūke	suːke	‘duck’
sumurelu	sumurelu	‘umbrella’
sune	sune	‘blow (as of the wind)’
susuka	susuka	‘fork’
sūsūke	suːsuːke	‘walk while ducking, walk hunched, crawl’
ta	ta	‘despite’
ta	ta	‘in order to’
ta'a	taʔa	‘talk’
ta'ane	taʔane	‘tens’
tafa	tafa	1. ‘shoot (as with a spear, gun or catapult)’ 2. ‘pound (as with a morter and pestle)’
tahi	tahi	‘ocean, beach’
tahi ira	tahi ira	‘ocean water’
tahi o'opira	tahi oʔopira	‘beach’
tahi wehe mocori	tahi wehe motsori	‘child of the sea, person with salt water in their veins’
tahinana	tahinana	‘beauty’
tahine	tahine	‘good-looking, handsome, pretty’
tahun	tahun	‘year’
tain	tain	‘earlier today’
tali	tali	1. ‘beyond, surpassing’ 2. ‘very’
taline	taline	‘beyond, past, physically over’
tamba	tamba	‘because’
tamu	tamu	‘name (someone) (something), give someone a name’
tamu kaka	tamu kaka	‘father's older sister’
tamu noko	tamu noko	‘father's younger sister’
tana	tana	‘hand, arm’
tana fukar	tana fukar	‘finger’
tana ocoh	tana otsoh	‘bracelet’
tanapungal	tanapunɡal	‘bicep’
tanu	tanu	‘against’
tapa	tapa	‘don't!, negative imperative’
tapalana	tapalana	‘saddle’
tapule	tapule	‘buy’
tapun	tapun	‘round (thing)’
tār	taːr	‘third person plural pronoun’
taru	taru	‘gamble’
taru	taru	‘twine, rope’
tarunu	tarunu	‘gambling’
tarupaha	tarupaha	‘how many?, how much?’
tarute	tarute	‘when?’
tatu	tatu	‘tattooed’
tatun	tatun	‘on the day after tomorrow’
taukawa	taukawa	‘fat’
tawa	tawa	‘third person singular pronoun’
tawar	tawar	‘third person plural pronoun’
taya	taja	‘sleep, lay down’
tayan	tajan	‘sleep (as a noun)’
teane	teane	‘what, how’
tefu'ana	tefuʔana	‘broken one’
tefu'e	tefuʔe	‘broken (because someone broke it, refers to a long object that is broken along the short axis)’
tei	tei	‘holy, taboo’
teile	teile	‘slow’
teiteile	teiteile	‘slow’
teku	teku	‘stir’
telewisaun	telewisaun	‘television’
telira	telira	‘other’
tena	tena	‘which one (used in questions)’
tena'e	tenaʔe	‘where’
tenen	tenen	‘right (not left)’
teni'it	teniʔit	‘which’
tenke	tenke	‘must, have to’
terlambati	terlambati	‘to come late, to arrive late’
tetere	tetere	‘cut grass’
tewa'ane	tewaʔane	‘how?, what is it like?’
tewa'awa'ane	tewaʔawaʔane	‘what is it like?’
ti'ele	tiʔele	‘kick’
tia	tia	‘chew (betel nut)’
tia	tia	‘mother's brother's wife’
tifare	tifare	‘run’
tifatifale	tifatifale	‘jog’
tiga	tiɡa	‘three’
tigri	tiɡri	‘tiger’
timine	timine	‘feel hot’
tīmuna	tiːmuna	‘cucumber’
tina	tina	‘blow on embers to start a fire’
tini	tini	‘can come at the end of an imperative sentence to show respect to the individual you are commanding’
tipal	tipal	‘drum’
tipal kakale	tipal kakale	‘play the drum with one's hand’
titiriri	titiriri	‘shiver’
tiu	tiu	‘uncle (specifically, mother's brother)’
to	to	‘quotative particle introducing a direct quote’
tō	toː	‘cup’
toko	toko	‘store’
tomati	tomati	‘tomato’
tomoke	tomoke	‘soft’
tomotomoke	tomotomoke	‘soft’
totana	totana	‘something separated’
tote	tote	‘cut’
toto	toto	‘see, look at, watch’
totole	totole	‘cut’
toton	toton	‘observing, observation, observer’
totonana	totonana	‘taken care of’
totototo	totototo	‘look at’
tour na'u'uku	tour naʔuʔuku	‘everyone’
toure	toure	‘many (only of animates, such as animals or people)’
tu'u	tuʔu	‘shows respect (unclear meaning)’
tu'ulere	tuʔulere	‘beat to death’
tua	tua	1. ‘palm wine’ 2. ‘palm tree from which palm wine is made, sugar palm’; ‘Borassus flabellifer’ 3. ‘alcohol in general’
tua harak	tua harak	‘distilled palm wine’
tua pitin	tua pitin	‘white palm wine’
tuahasa	tuahasa	‘palm leaves, thatch’
tuana	tuana	‘plantation’
tugas	tuɡas	‘assignment’
tuku	tuku	‘o'clock’
tunangan	tunanɡan	‘fiance’
tupukur	tupukur	‘owl’
tupur	tupur	‘woman’
tuputupur pa'i	tuputupur paʔi	‘make more feminine’
turista	turista	‘tourist’
tutu	tutu	‘drink’
tutu	tutu	‘like, love’
Tutuala	tutuala	‘Tutuala, a place in the Fataluku-speaking region of East Timor’
tūtūana	tuːtuːana	‘plantation’
u'a	uʔa	‘under’
u'ane	uʔane	‘under, below’
ū'ūkani	uːʔuːkani	‘one at a time’
u'ureke	uʔureke	‘green’
uan	uan	‘heart’
uca	utsa	‘kill’
ucu	utsu	‘egg’
ucu'ete	utsuʔete	‘thick’
ufale	ufale	‘hold’
ufane	ufane	‘feed’
ufarana	ufarana	‘dream, have a dream’
ufur	ufur	‘body’
ufutana	ufutana	‘froth, bubbled up stuff’
ufute	ufute	‘bubbling (when cooking)’
uhule	uhule	‘able’
uja	uza	‘use’
ūkani	uːkani	‘one’
uku	uku	1. ‘finished’ 2. ‘all’
ukusina	ukusina	‘reachable’
ula	ula	1. ‘maybe’ 2. ‘about’
ulafuka	ulafuka	‘tail’
ulahuca	ulahutsa	‘killer’
ulan	ulan	‘for (duration)’
ulawarin	ulawarin	‘hip’
ulawere	ulawere	‘wear’
ulu'ulu	uluʔulu	‘greedy’
ulun	ulun	‘tadpole’
ulur	ulur	‘breadfruit’
ulure	ulure	‘sweep’
uman	uman	‘who?’
umu	umu	‘die’
una	una	‘eat’
uname	uname	‘catch (as of animals)’
undani	undani	‘invite’
uni	uni	‘one’
unu	unu	‘indefinite article, a, one some’
upe	upe	‘no, not, there is not’
upu	upu	‘back’
upu	upu	‘white soil’
upu hicine	upu hitsine	‘behind’
upu na'e	upu naʔe	‘behind’
upur	upur	‘fly (the insect)’
uru	uru	‘moon’
uru'uru	uruʔuru	‘burn’
uta	uta	‘fall (especially of rain)’
uta	uta	‘play a musical instrument’
utu	utu	‘block, interfere’
utu	utu	‘draw water, get water’
utu co'e	utu tsoʔe	‘block (as in dirt blocking a pipe)’
utu'e	utuʔe	‘plant, sow’
utu'e	utuʔe	‘three’
utu'utu'e	utuʔutuʔe	‘pretend to plant something’
utu'utu'e	utuʔutuʔe	‘three at a time’
utune	utune	‘block, interfere, block from a stationary position (used if the thing that is blocking is not moving)’
utupe	utupe	‘block, interfere, block while moving (used if the thing that is blocking is moving; for instance; can be used of a car that pulls in front of another car and blocks it)’
ututefe	ututefe	‘blow, blow air’
wa'an	waʔan	1. ‘same as, alike’ 2. ‘like, similar to’ 3. ‘around, approximately at’
wa'ane	waʔane	1. ‘similar, like, the same as’ 2. ‘approximately, about’
wa'awa'ane	waʔawaʔane	‘same’
wa'i	waʔi	‘carry (a baby)’
waci	watsi	‘today’
wacin	watsin	‘day’
wacu	watsu	‘sun’
wacu hi'amoi	watsu hiʔamoi	1. ‘sunrise’ 2. ‘east’
wacu isi	watsu isi	1. ‘sunset’ 2. ‘west’
wacuwici	watsuwitsi	‘afternoon’
wāhe	waːhe	‘leak (as in to drip water)’
wahilan	wahilan	‘male (of animals, offensive if applied to people)’
wahin	wahin	‘tooth’
wahu	wahu	‘eel’
wahu	wahu	‘wash’
waihoho	waihoho	‘sing (used of traditional songs)’
waihulai	waihulai	‘window’
wainhira	wainhira	‘when’
waka arapou	waka arapou	‘cow’
wakahana	wakahana	‘lightweight’
wakahi	wakahi	‘active, athletic’
walahana	walahana	‘bride-price, gift given from the husband to the wife at marriage’
walale	walale	‘fast’
wāle	waːle	‘give birth’
wali	wali	‘ear’
wāli'ara	waːliʔara	‘side of saw’
walik	walik	‘corner’
walikana	walikana	‘corner’
walikasa	walikasa	‘ear, physical part of your ear’
walipali	walipali	‘keep (doing), continue to (do)’
Walu	walu	‘place on the eastern coast of Timor, on the mainland near Jaco island’
walur	walur	‘particular sp. of bird, dark blue wild dove’
wani	wani	‘bee’
wanifahu	wanifahu	‘beeswax’
wār	waːr	‘dew’
wāreseni	waːreseni	‘clean, clear’
wari	wari	‘always’
wari	wari	‘hear, listen’
wari	wari	‘nest’
waru	waru	‘sp. of tree’
wasi	wasi	‘very, really’
wasitali	wasitali	‘more, very’
wata	wata	‘coconut’
wata ara	wata ara	‘coconut tree’
wata ira	wata ira	‘coconut water, juice from a coconut’
wata tō	wata toː	‘coconut shell’
wāwārese	waːwaːrese	‘clean’
waya	waja	‘juice (occuring after the name of various fruits)’
wayan	wajan	1. ‘mother's brother's son (same word whether it is the mother's older brother or younger brother)’ 2. ‘sister's husband’
wehe	wehe	‘blood’
wele	wele	‘skin, bark’
wele taru	wele taru	‘skin (of a human or animal)’
wēlika	weːlika	‘left (not right)’
wēr	weːr	‘stream, river’
wēteru	weːteru	‘trip, fall, stumble’
wetik	wetik	‘beating’
wetike	wetike	‘flick someone’
wetiwetike	wetiwetike	‘beating (as of one's heart)’
wuru	wuru	‘oil’

OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Heston (2015): Fataluku Central

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