Heston (2015): Fataluku Central
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| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| a | a | ‘first person singular nonsubject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| a | a | ‘subject marker’ (eng) | |
| ā | aː | ‘second person singular subject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| ā | aː | ‘yes-no question particle (which occurs clause-finally)’ (eng) | |
| ā cene | aː tsene | ‘light a fire’ (eng) | |
| ā ceru | aː tseru | ‘call’ (eng) | |
| ā he'e | aː heʔe | ‘stuck’ (eng) | |
| ā mire | aː mire | ‘sit on (something)’ (eng) | |
| a'a | aʔa | ‘on’ (eng) | |
| a'a kule | aʔa kule | ‘keep calling’ (eng) | |
| a'a more | aʔa more | ‘place on, put on’ (eng) | |
| a'a nāte | aʔa naːte | ‘take the place of, take the postion of’ (eng) | |
| a'a pa'i | aʔa paʔi | ‘try, try out’ (eng) | |
| a'ane | aʔane | ‘on’ (eng) | |
| a'ape | aʔape | ‘encounter unexpectedly, run into’ (eng) | |
| aca | atsa | ‘chicken’ (eng) | |
| aca | atsa | ‘fire’ (eng) | |
| aca tapin | atsa tapin | ‘smoke’ (eng) | |
| aca ucu | atsa utsu | ‘chicken egg’ (eng) | |
| aca'acak pa'i | atsaʔatsak paʔi | ‘to tease, to tease someone’ (eng) | |
| aca'о̄p | atsaʔо̄p | ‘ashes’ (eng) | |
| acak pa'i | atsak paʔi | 1. ‘try to fix something that is broken’ (eng) 2. ‘try to kill someone through supernatural means’ (eng) | |
| acakne | atsakne | ‘looking in the same direciton, lined up’ (eng) | |
| acane | atsane | ‘mature (of fruit), almost ripe’ (eng) | |
| ācane | aːtsane | ‘enough’ (eng) | |
| acar | atsar | ‘type of spirit that leaves a person's body while they are sleeping’ (eng); ‘buan’ (tet) | |
| aci | atsi | ‘see, find’ (eng) | |
| aci cene | atsi tsene | ‘hand someone something’ (eng) | |
| aci lolo | atsi lolo | ‘tell to, tell a story to’ (eng) | |
| aci pura | atsi pura | ‘sell something to someone’ (eng) | |
| aci ta'a | atsi taʔa | ‘tell someone to do something’ (eng) | |
| ācimese | aːtsimese | ‘sip (a drink), take a sip’ (eng) | |
| acin | atsin | ‘finding’ (eng) | |
| acu | atsu | ‘enough, sufficient (when everyone has the same amount)’ (eng) | |
| acu'acupe | atsuʔatsupe | ‘wander around’ (eng) | |
| acuina | atsuina | ‘something fits, is equal’ (eng) | |
| acune | atsune | ‘over something’ (eng) | |
| acur | atsur | ‘sp. of cuscus’ (eng) | |
| afa | afa | ‘first person plural inclusive subject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| afarika | afarika | ‘portion, half, slice (of food)’ (eng) | |
| afi | afi | ‘first person plural inclusive nonsubject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| aficālafar | afitsaːlafar | ‘crocodile (respectful)’ (eng) | |
| afiri | afiri | ‘first person plural inclusive pronoun (citation form)’ (eng) | |
| ahani | ahani | ‘mine’ (eng) | |
| ahu | ahu | ‘for, for the benefit of’ (eng) | |
| ailaci | ailatsi | ‘usually, always’ (eng) | |
| ait | ait | ‘maybe’ (eng) | |
| aitana | aitana | ‘if’ (eng) | |
| aitula | aitula | ‘maybe’ (eng) | |
| aja | aza | 1. ‘rain’ (eng) 2. ‘rainy season, November to June’ (eng) | |
| aja'ira | azaʔira | ‘year’ (eng) | |
| ajan mu'u | azan muʔu | ‘type of small plantain’ (eng) | |
| ajane | azane | ‘chew’ (eng) | |
| aka | aka | ‘not’ (eng) | |
| aka ono | aka ono | ‘never’ (eng) | |
| akan | akan | ‘slave, slave class’ (eng) | |
| akare | akare | ‘stubborn’ (eng) | |
| akatana | akatana | ‘burped up food’ (eng) | |
| akate | akate | ‘burp up’ (eng) | |
| ākina | aːkina | ‘firm’ (eng) | |
| aku | aku | ‘feces’ (eng) | |
| ākule | aːkule | ‘call (with the voice)’ (eng) | |
| akumokor | akumokor | ‘intestine’ (eng) | |
| alah pala | alah pala | ‘slash and burn farming’ (eng) | |
| ale | ale | ‘rice, uncooked rice’ (eng) | |
| ale macen | ale matsen | ‘cooked rice’ (eng) | |
| ale pohen | ale pohen | ‘cooked rice’ (eng) | |
| alehe | alehe | ‘again’ (eng) | |
| alere | alere | ‘hit (can be used for inanimate objects)’ (eng) | |
| ali | ali | ‘again’ (eng) | |
| aliwana | aliwana | ‘place’ (eng) | |
| ami | ami | 1. ‘breast, chest (can be applied to either men or women )’ (eng) 2. ‘(breast) milk’ (eng) | |
| ami tapun | ami tapun | ‘female breast’ (eng) | |
| amin | amin | ‘louse’ (eng) | |
| amir | amir | ‘wing’ (eng) | |
| ana | ana | ‘1sg nom’ (eng) | |
| ana | ana | ‘or’ (eng) | |
| anahe | anahe | ‘seek, look for’ (eng) | |
| anahu | anahu | ‘for me, for my benefit’ (eng) | |
| ane | ane | 1. ‘exist’ (eng) 2. ‘have’ (eng) | |
| anete | anete | ‘not hit’ (eng) | |
| anukai | anukai | ‘thread’ (eng) | |
| apa | apa | ‘mountain’ (eng) | |
| apa'apa pa'i | apaʔapa paʔi | ‘naughty’ (eng) | |
| ape | ape | ‘encounter’ (eng) | |
| api | api | ‘fish’ (eng) | |
| api nail | api nail | ‘fishing pole’ (eng) | |
| api naile | api naile | ‘fish, catch fish’ (eng) | |
| api taru | api taru | ‘fishing line’ (eng) | |
| apur | apur | ‘with’ (eng) | |
| apure | apure | ‘scoop up’ (eng) | |
| ara | ara | ‘plant, tree’ (eng) | |
| arahe | arahe | ‘frightened’ (eng) | |
| arakafal pa'i | arakafal paʔi | ‘drop’ (eng) | |
| arakafale | arakafale | ‘drop, fall’ (eng) | |
| arakalina | arakalina | ‘earing’ (eng) | |
| arap | arap | ‘buffalo, water buffalo’ (eng) | |
| arap ami | arap ami | ‘milk, buffalo milk’ (eng) | |
| arapou | arapou | ‘water buffalo’ (eng) | |
| ārohe | aːrohe | 1. ‘reach, grab (as in, grab a fruit)’ (eng) 2. ‘on time (not late)’ (eng) | |
| aruma | aruma | ‘clean, tidy’ (eng) | |
| arure | arure | ‘cry’ (eng) | |
| aruru | aruru | ‘crying’ (eng) | |
| āseile | aːseile | ‘rub, scour’ (eng) | |
| asir | asir | ‘salt’ (eng) | |
| asire | asire | ‘add salt’ (eng) | |
| asise | asise | ‘firm’ (eng) | |
| ata'atare | ataʔatare | ‘keep cracking’ (eng) | |
| ātanana | aːtanana | ‘question’ (eng) | |
| ātane | aːtane | ‘ask, ask a question’ (eng) | |
| atare | atare | ‘crack (as with a machete)’ (eng) | |
| atere | atere | ‘numeral classifier for humans’ (eng) | |
| atu | atu | ‘belly’ (eng) | |
| atu na'e | atu naʔe | ‘pregnant’ (eng) | |
| aur | aur | ‘lime (the mineral), betel lime’ (eng) | |
| awion | awion | ‘plane’ (eng) | |
| baru | baru | ‘new’ (eng) | |
| ben | ben | ‘band’ (eng) | |
| ben uta | ben uta | ‘play a drum (with sticks), play a drumset’ (eng) | |
| biasa | biasa | ‘usually’ (eng) | |
| bir | bir | ‘beer’ (eng) | |
| bis | bis | ‘bus’ (eng) | |
| bola | bola | ‘ball’ (eng) | |
| buku | buku | ‘book’ (eng) | |
| ca'a | tsaʔa | ‘fish poison’ (eng) | |
| ca'utapun | tsaʔutapun | ‘head’ (eng) | |
| ca'uwari | tsaʔuwari | ‘hair’ (eng) | |
| ca'uwele | tsaʔuwele | ‘skin of the head’ (eng) | |
| cailor cailor | tsailor tsailor | ‘name of a tribe’ (eng) | |
| cāl | tsaːl | 1. ‘grandparent’ (eng) 2. ‘grandchild’ (eng) | |
| cāl mocor | tsaːl motsor | ‘decendent’ (eng) | |
| cal nami | tsal nami | ‘grandfather’ (eng) | |
| cal tupur | tsal tupur | ‘grandmother’ (eng) | |
| capaku cewe | tsapaku tsewe | ‘smoke a cigarette’ (eng) | |
| capuk | tsapuk | ‘crab’ (eng) | |
| capur | tsapur | ‘kitchen’ (eng) | |
| caruma | tsaruma | 1. ‘thread’ (eng) 2. ‘needle’ (eng) | |
| catanu | tsatanu | ‘sign (like a logo)’ (eng) | |
| cayare | tsajare | ‘tired’ (eng) | |
| cecemālai | tsetsemaːlai | ‘pineapple’ (eng) | |
| cecemālai ara | tsetsemaːlai ara | ‘pineapple plant’ (eng) | |
| cecen | tsetsen | ‘pineapple’ (eng) | |
| cele | tsele | ‘corn’ (eng) | |
| cemaka | tsemaka | ‘brain, physical brain’ (eng) | |
| ceren | tseren | ‘lover (can be either boyfriend or girlfriend)’ (eng) | |
| ceru | tseru | ‘call (only applies to physically calling someone with the voice, not calling someone on the telephone)’ (eng) | |
| cerun | tserun | ‘vocation, calling, one's set purpose from God, destiny?’ (eng) | |
| cewe | tsewe | ‘burn’ (eng) | |
| cī | tsiː | ‘thunderstorm, lightening, thunder’ (eng) | |
| ci'ele | tsiʔele | ‘walk’ (eng) | |
| ci'irana | tsiʔirana | ‘heavy’ (eng) | |
| ci'ire | tsiʔire | ‘heavy’ (eng) | |
| cicika | tsitsika | ‘shoulder’ (eng) | |
| cicira'i | tsitsiraʔi | ‘play’ (eng) | |
| cicira'ini | tsitsiraʔini | ‘toy’ (eng) | |
| cila | tsila | ‘frog’ (eng) | |
| cipicipi | tsipitsipi | ‘flower’ (eng) | |
| cipito | tsipito | ‘forehead’ (eng) | |
| cō | tsoː | ‘far’ (eng) | |
| cō more | tsoː more | ‘located far’ (eng) | |
| cō neure | tsoː neure | ‘chase away’ (eng) | |
| coicoihana | tsoitsoihana | ‘mortar and pestle’ (eng) | |
| coicoihana fuka | tsoitsoihana fuka | ‘pestle’ (eng) | |
| Com | tsom | ‘place in East Timor in the northeast of the Fataluku-speaking region’ (eng) | |
| coman | tsoman | ‘will definitely’ (eng) | |
| comanan | tsomanan | ‘definitely, sure’ (eng) | |
| cōnana | tsoːnana | ‘farthest one’ (eng) | |
| cōne | tsoːne | ‘far’ (eng) | |
| coro | tsoro | ‘spear’ (eng) | |
| cū | tsuː | ‘shed, hut’ (eng) | |
| cu'ale'u | tsuʔaleʔu | ‘sp. of snake that is green and very poisonous’ (eng) | |
| cuare | tsuare | ‘sit’ (eng) | |
| cūl | tsuːl | ‘knee’ (eng) | |
| cul seisei | tsul seisei | ‘knee cap’ (eng) | |
| cupu | tsupu | ‘water drop’ (eng) | |
| cupucupu | tsuputsupu | ‘water drops’ (eng) | |
| cura | tsura | ‘mouse, rat’ (eng) | |
| cure | tsure | ‘wake up’ (eng) | |
| curuk | tsuruk | ‘lime, lemon’ (eng) | |
| curuk ara | tsuruk ara | ‘lime tree’ (eng) | |
| depois | depois | ‘afterwards’ (eng) | |
| derepenti | derepenti | ‘suddenly, accidently’ (eng) | |
| designa | desiɡna | ‘designate’ (eng) | |
| dewersifika | dewersifika | ‘diversify’ (eng) | |
| Dili | dili | ‘Dili, the capital of East Timor’ (eng) | |
| dōs | doːs | ‘box’ (eng) | |
| dosi | dosi | ‘cake’ (eng) | |
| doutor | doutor | ‘doctor’ (eng) | |
| e | e | ‘proximal demonstrative, this’ (eng) | |
| e | e | ‘second person singular nonsubject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| e na'e | e naʔe | ‘here’ (eng) | |
| e'ece | eʔetse | ‘two at a time’ (eng) | |
| ece | etse | ‘two’ (eng) | |
| eceremu | etseremu | ‘think’ (eng) | |
| eceremun | etseremun | ‘thought, idea’ (eng) | |
| eheni | eheni | ‘yours’ (eng) | |
| ekehe | ekehe | ‘count’ (eng) | |
| ele | ele | ‘relative pronoun’ (eng) | |
| ele'elere | eleʔelere | ‘read, spend time reading’ (eng) | |
| eleh | eleh | ‘husband’ (eng) | |
| elei | elei | ‘yeah, that's right, right on’ (eng) | |
| elere | elere | ‘read’ (eng) | |
| ēlewe | eːlewe | ‘cold (of the weather)’ (eng) | |
| eluhe | eluhe | ‘want’ (eng) | |
| em ma'u | em maʔu | ‘bring’ (eng) | |
| eme | eme | ‘take’ (eng) | |
| emere | emere | ‘first’ (eng) | |
| en | en | ‘proximal demonstrative, this’ (eng) | |
| enen | enen | ‘proximal demonstrative, this’ (eng) | |
| eni'i | eniʔi | ‘this’ (eng) | |
| entaun | entaun | ‘then, and then’ (eng) | |
| ere | ere | ‘chase away’ (eng) | |
| ere | ere | ‘plural marker’ (eng) | |
| erekana | erekana | ‘pumkin vine’ (eng) | |
| ereke | ereke | ‘crawl as a vine’ (eng) | |
| eri | eri | ‘scatter’ (eng) | |
| ēri | eːri | ‘you’ (eng) | |
| ērta | eːrta | ‘you (emph. subj.)’ (eng) | |
| eru | eru | ‘famine’ (eng) | |
| esasa | esasa | ‘vegetable’ (eng) | |
| esturante | esturante | ‘student’ (eng) | |
| ete | ete | ‘tree, wood, plant (refers to logs or trees without leaves)’ (eng) | |
| ete ara | ete ara | ‘tree’ (eng) | |
| ete karan | ete karan | ‘big branch (as of a tree)’ (eng) | |
| ete kete | ete kete | ‘small stick’ (eng) | |
| ete larin | ete larin | ‘root’ (eng) | |
| ete lusu | ete lusu | ‘casava’ (eng) | |
| ete pata | ete pata | ‘log’ (eng) | |
| ete raka | ete raka | ‘small branch’ (eng) | |
| ete sanak | ete sanak | ‘small branch’ (eng) | |
| ete wele | ete wele | ‘tree bark’ (eng) | |
| ewen | ewen | ‘extremely, really, really (more emphatic than tali)’ (eng) | |
| fa'i | faʔi | ‘make’ (eng) | |
| fāfāte | faːfaːte | ‘four at a time’ (eng) | |
| fale | fale | ‘drive (as a car)’ (eng) | |
| familia | familia | ‘family’ (eng) | |
| fanar | fanar | ‘female (only of animals)’ (eng) | |
| fanawana | fanawana | ‘teaching’ (eng) | |
| fanawe | fanawe | ‘teach’ (eng) | |
| fāne | faːne | ‘feed’ (eng) | |
| fani | fani | ‘delicious, sweet’ (eng) | |
| fanu | fanu | ‘face’ (eng) | |
| fanu na'e | fanu naʔe | ‘in front of’ (eng) | |
| fanuhene | fanuhene | ‘meet, face’ (eng) | |
| faru | faru | ‘shirt, T-shirt’ (eng) | |
| fata | fata | ‘origin, simple’ (eng) | |
| fatahara | fatahara | ‘morning’ (eng) | |
| Fataluku | fataluku | ‘Fataluku’ (eng) | |
| fatatara | fatatara | ‘suddenly, immediately’ (eng) | |
| fāte | faːte | ‘flooded’ (eng) | |
| fāte | faːte | ‘four’ (eng) | |
| fei | fei | ‘pretty (can only be used of women)’ (eng) | |
| feinu | feinu | ‘pretty’ (eng) | |
| fēl | feːl | ‘bow, bow and arrows’ (eng) | |
| fel ka'u | fel kaʔu | ‘arrow’ (eng) | |
| fel kete | fel kete | ‘arrow’ (eng) | |
| fetil | fetil | ‘fall, stumble’ (eng) | |
| fiare | fiare | ‘believe’ (eng) | |
| fitu | fitu | ‘seven’ (eng) | |
| foeh | foeh | ‘grass’ (eng) | |
| folo | folo | ‘blunt’ (eng) | |
| folopata | folopata | ‘dull, not sharp’ (eng) | |
| foni | foni | ‘distal demonstrative, that’ (eng) | |
| foni ni'i | foni niʔi | ‘distal demonstrative, that’ (eng) | |
| fonin | fonin | ‘distal demonstrative, that’ (eng) | |
| forsa | forsa | ‘strong’ (eng) | |
| fōt | foːt | ‘gun’ (eng) | |
| foto | foto | ‘photo’ (eng) | |
| fūfūlehe | fuːfuːlehe | ‘go back and forth’ (eng) | |
| fuhu | fuhu | ‘muscle’ (eng) | |
| fūlehe | fuːlehe | ‘return, go back’ (eng) | |
| gowerno | ɡowerno | ‘government’ (eng) | |
| goyabas | ɡojabas | ‘guava’ (eng) | |
| goyabas ara | ɡojabas ara | ‘guava tree’ (eng) | |
| ha'ate | haʔate | ‘sharp’ (eng) | |
| ha'i | haʔi | ‘species of large tree with edible seeds that are used to make purfume’ (eng) | |
| haca | hatsa | ‘partner’ (eng) | |
| hafa | hafa | ‘bone’ (eng) | |
| hafa hala | hafa hala | ‘very thin, very skinny’ (eng) | |
| hai | hai | ‘perfective, signifies that the speaker conceives of an action as finished’ (eng) | |
| hair | hair | ‘then, well, but’ (eng) | |
| hala | hala | ‘only’ (eng) | |
| hapate | hapate | ‘sprout, grow’ (eng) | |
| hapatu | hapatu | ‘general term for edible roots (including e.g. bamboo and ginger)’ (eng) | |
| har | har | ‘that, which’ (eng) | |
| hara | hara | ‘clear’ (eng) | |
| harahara | harahara | ‘clear’ (eng) | |
| haran | haran | ‘light’ (eng) | |
| harus | harus | ‘must’ (eng) | |
| hasa | hasa | ‘leaf’ (eng) | |
| hau | hau | ‘fog’ (eng) | |
| hau | hau | 1. ‘for (the benefit of)’ (eng) 2. ‘toward’ (eng) | |
| hawarana | hawarana | ‘hunting’ (eng) | |
| haware | haware | ‘hunt’ (eng) | |
| he'e | heʔe | 1. ‘stuck, difficult’ (eng) 2. ‘difficult’ (eng) 3. ‘scarce, hard to find’ (eng) | |
| hefe | hefe | ‘know’ (eng) | |
| hei | hei | ‘hey, informal greeting’ (eng) | |
| hei kinam | hei kinam | ‘hey buddy, informal greeting’ (eng) | |
| helere | helere | ‘run’ (eng) | |
| heru | heru | ‘sweat’ (eng) | |
| hi'a | hiʔa | ‘on’ (eng) | |
| hi'a ciele | hiʔa tsiele | ‘step on’ (eng) | |
| hi'ahi'are | hiʔahiʔare | ‘repeatedly pay, pretend to pay’ (eng) | |
| hi'amoi | hiʔamoi | ‘climb’ (eng) | |
| hi'ane | hiʔane | ‘on the top’ (eng) | |
| hi'ape | hiʔape | ‘ride (as of the bus)’ (eng) | |
| hi'are | hiʔare | ‘pay’ (eng) | |
| hi'aroun | hiʔaroun | ‘pure of heart’ (eng) | |
| hi'ili | hiʔili | ‘animal trap’ (eng) | |
| hici | hitsi | ‘located’ (eng) | |
| hicine | hitsine | ‘located’ (eng) | |
| hicipe | hitsipe | ‘located towards’ (eng) | |
| hīkar | hiːkar | ‘knife’ (eng) | |
| hilahila | hilahila | ‘smooth, slippery’ (eng) | |
| hilate | hilate | ‘smooth, soft’ (eng) | |
| hin | hin | ‘because of’ (eng) | |
| hin | hin | ‘reflexive’ (eng) | |
| hina | hina | ‘braid (hair)’ (eng) | |
| hinta | hinta | ‘cause, make’ (eng) | |
| hinu'a | hinuʔa | ‘in order to’ (eng) | |
| hira | hira | ‘price’ (eng) | |
| hīre | hiːre | ‘wait’ (eng) | |
| hirohe | hirohe | ‘arrive, reach (a destination)’ (eng) | |
| hītu | hiːtu | ‘sword’ (eng) | |
| ho | ho | ‘and’ (eng) | |
| hō | hoː | ‘yes’ (eng) | |
| hō'ana | hoːʔana | ‘burning’ (eng) | |
| hō'e | hoːʔe | ‘burn’ (eng) | |
| hocatere | hotsatere | ‘both’ (eng) | |
| hōcawa | hoːtsawa | 1. ‘owner, lord, master’ (eng) 2. ‘Christian God’ (eng) | |
| hōk | hoːk | ‘mud’ (eng) | |
| hōke | hoːke | ‘muddy’ (eng) | |
| hor | hor | ‘with’ (eng) | |
| hori | hori | ‘leave, stop’ (eng) | |
| horu | horu | ‘horn, antler’ (eng) | |
| horu | horu | ‘with, together’ (eng) | |
| horun | horun | ‘togetherness’ (eng) | |
| horune | horune | ‘together’ (eng) | |
| hufa | hufa | ‘spit something out of the mouth’ (eng) | |
| hufarana | hufarana | ‘dream’ (eng) | |
| hūfina | huːfina | ‘tip, top (not necessarily sharp)’ (eng) | |
| hufuraka | hufuraka | ‘boil’ (eng) | |
| hūla | huːla | ‘spoon’ (eng) | |
| huluhulu | huluhulu | ‘on fire’ (eng) | |
| humār | humaːr | ‘soul’ (eng) | |
| hura | hura | ‘take food from a pan, scoop’ (eng) | |
| i | i | ‘second person plural nonsubject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| ī | iː | ‘and’ (eng) | |
| ī | iː | ‘possessive marker’ (eng) | |
| i na'e | i naʔe | ‘there’ (eng) | |
| i'a | iʔa | ‘road, path, way’ (eng) | |
| i'an | iʔan | ‘while’ (eng) | |
| ia | ia | ‘path, way’ (eng) | |
| ia | ia | ‘second person plural subject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| ia | ia | ‘that’ (eng) | |
| ia tupur | ia tupur | ‘mother's brother's daughter’ (eng) | |
| ica | itsa | ‘feeling’ (eng) | |
| ica ci'ire | itsa tsiʔire | ‘feel tired, feel sad’ (eng) | |
| ica kapare | itsa kapare | ‘sad’ (eng) | |
| ica raurau | itsa raurau | ‘happy’ (eng) | |
| ica tutu | itsa tutu | ‘like, love’ (eng) | |
| ica tutun | itsa tutun | ‘love’ (eng) | |
| ica'ini | itsaʔini | ‘maybe (refering to something that is not known), sometimes’ (eng) | |
| icahici | itsahitsi | ‘sometimes’ (eng) | |
| icauru | itsauru | ‘chest’ (eng) | |
| icile | itsile | ‘tied’ (eng) | |
| ifa | ifa | ‘fall (over)’ (eng) | |
| īfāt | iːfaːt | 1. ‘fourth’ (eng) 2. ‘Thursday’ (eng) | |
| ifi | ifi | ‘worm’ (eng) | |
| igilejale | iɡilezale | ‘church’ (eng) | |
| ihaneherana | ihaneherana | ‘Monday’ (eng) | |
| ihec | ihets | ‘second (in order), Tuesday’ (eng) | |
| ihemerana | ihemerana | ‘first’ (eng) | |
| ihini | ihini | ‘his, his own’ (eng) | |
| ikare | ikare | ‘cold (of a person)’ (eng) | |
| ilah | ilah | ‘sweet potato’ (eng) | |
| ilah makau | ilah makau | ‘potato’ (eng) | |
| ili | ili | ‘huge stone’ (eng) | |
| ilikuru | ilikuru | ‘cave’ (eng) | |
| imire | imire | ‘sit’ (eng) | |
| impresta | impresta | ‘lend’ (eng) | |
| ina | ina | ‘eye’ (eng) | |
| ina | ina | ‘first person plural exlusive subject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| ina | ina | ‘then’ (eng) | |
| ina | ina | ‘what?’ (eng) | |
| ina ko'e | ina koʔe | ‘blind’ (eng) | |
| inahara | inahara | ‘seer, someone who can see something beyond’ (eng) | |
| inaleo | inaleo | ‘eyebrow’ (eng) | |
| inawaya | inawaja | ‘tears’ (eng) | |
| ini | ini | ‘first person plural exclusive nonsubject pronoun’ (eng) | |
| inik | inik | ‘sand’ (eng) | |
| inikerekere | inikerekere | ‘petroglyph’ (eng) | |
| inir | inir | ‘first person plural exclusive pronoun (citation form)’ (eng) | |
| ipar | ipar | ‘dog’ (eng) | |
| ipil | ipil | ‘tongue’ (eng) | |
| ipilana | ipilana | ‘flying, flight’ (eng) | |
| ipile | ipile | ‘fly (can be used of butterflies, birds, planes, etc.)’ (eng) | |
| ipilira | ipilira | ‘chicken comb’ (eng) | |
| ipinaka | ipinaka | ‘star’ (eng) | |
| ipiti | ipiti | ‘sea turtle’ (eng) | |
| ipo | ipo | ‘but’ (eng) | |
| ira | ira | ‘water’ (eng) | |
| ira ina | ira ina | ‘fountain’ (eng) | |
| ira tutun | ira tutun | ‘drinking water’ (eng) | |
| ira'e | iraʔe | ‘add water’ (eng) | |
| iraira | iraira | ‘wet’ (eng) | |
| iri | iri | ‘second person plural pronoun (citation form)’ (eng) | |
| irin | irin | ‘forest’ (eng) | |
| irise | irise | ‘urinate’ (eng) | |
| isi'isile | isiʔisile | ‘tie’ (eng) | |
| isikola | isikola | ‘school’ (eng) | |
| isikola lē | isikola leː | ‘schoolhouse’ (eng) | |
| isile | isile | ‘tie’ (eng) | |
| istura | istura | ‘study’ (eng) | |
| ita | ita | ‘near’ (eng) | |
| itane | itane | ‘near’ (eng) | |
| itarapa'an | itarapaʔan | ‘greetings’ (eng) | |
| iti'ele | itiʔele | ‘kick’ (eng) | |
| iwari | iwari | ‘same’ (eng) | |
| iwi | iwi | ‘that’ (eng) | |
| iwi'itu | iwiʔitu | ‘and then, formed from the mesal demonstrative and the topicalization clitic’ (eng) | |
| iwin | iwin | ‘mesal demonstrative, that’ (eng) | |
| iwini'i | iwiniʔi | ‘mesal demonstrative, that’ (eng) | |
| Jaco | zatso | ‘Jaco, Jaco island, an island just off the Northeast coast of East Timor’ (eng) | |
| jaket | zaket | ‘jacket’ (eng) | |
| jāmpata | zaːmpata | ‘road’ (eng) | |
| japatu | zapatu | ‘pair of shoes’ (eng) | |
| jatu | zatu | ‘airplane’ (eng) | |
| Jawa | zawa | ‘Java’ (eng) | |
| jeitu | zeitu | ‘cool, neat’ (eng) | |
| jelu | zelu | ‘ice’ (eng) | |
| jen | zen | ‘reflexive’ (eng) | |
| jeu | zeu | 1. ‘wife’ (eng) 2. ‘man's mother's brother's daughter (which men are traditionally expected to marry)’ (eng) | |
| jia | zia | ‘leg’ (eng) | |
| jia fukar | zia fukar | ‘toes’ (eng) | |
| jia lepen | zia lepen | ‘sole, bottom of one's foot (analogous to the palm of the hand)’ (eng) | |
| jia mu'upoko | zia muʔupoko | ‘calf of leg’ (eng) | |
| jia ocoh | zia otsoh | ‘anklet’ (eng) | |
| jia punar | zia punar | ‘calf of the leg’ (eng) | |
| jujur | zuzur | ‘honest’ (eng) | |
| juka | zuka | ‘cards, card game’ (eng) | |
| ka'are | kaʔare | ‘empty’ (eng) | |
| ka'u | kaʔu | ‘stick’ (eng) | |
| ka'ukisa | kaʔukisa | ‘small’ (eng) | |
| ka'une | kaʔune | ‘break along the long axis, break a round object, break in two pieces, explode’ (eng) | |
| ka'usila | kaʔusila | ‘small’ (eng) | |
| kadera | kadera | ‘chair’ (eng) | |
| kafa | kafa | ‘eight’ (eng) | |
| kafale | kafale | 1. ‘fall, drop (intrans.)’ (eng) 2. ‘throw’ (eng) | |
| kafe | kafe | ‘coffee’ (eng) | |
| kafu | kafu | ‘seed’ (eng) | |
| kafur | kafur | ‘scratch’ (eng) | |
| kaihe | kaihe | ‘file’ (eng) | |
| kailana | kailana | ‘sinfulness’ (eng) | |
| kaile | kaile | 1. ‘bent’ (eng) 2. ‘sin’ (eng) | |
| kaka | kaka | 1. ‘older brother’ (eng) 2. ‘mother's older sister's son (if older than oneself)’ (eng) | |
| kaka tupur | kaka tupur | ‘older brother's wife’ (eng) | |
| kakal | kakal | ‘palm tree (exluding coconut palms)’ (eng) | |
| kalah | kalah | ‘taro’ (eng) | |
| kale | kale | ‘throw’ (eng) | |
| kaluse | kaluse | ‘compete (as in a race)’ (eng) | |
| kama | kama | ‘bed’ (eng) | |
| kanta | kanta | ‘sing’ (eng) | |
| kanta | kanta | ‘song’ (eng) | |
| kaparana | kaparana | ‘bad, evil’ (eng) | |
| kaparasi | kaparasi | ‘ugly’ (eng) | |
| kapare | kapare | 1. ‘bad’ (eng) 2. ‘severe’ (eng) 3. ‘huge’ (eng) | |
| kar | kar | ‘right now’ (eng) | |
| karase | karase | ‘yellow’ (eng) | |
| kare | kare | ‘cold’ (eng) | |
| karpenteru | karpenteru | ‘carpenter’ (eng) | |
| karu'en | karuʔen | ‘right now’ (eng) | |
| karunana | karunana | ‘nearest one’ (eng) | |
| karune | karune | ‘near’ (eng) | |
| kastiku | kastiku | ‘punish’ (eng) | |
| katak | katak | ‘that (as a quotative)’ (eng) | |
| katen | katen | ‘thigh, part of the leg from the hip to the knee’ (eng) | |
| katuas | katuas | ‘old (person), old man’ (eng) | |
| katuba | katuba | ‘kind of rice cake consisting of rice wrapped in coconut leaves (which is traditionally eaten around Christmas)’ (eng) | |
| kaukaure | kaukaure | ‘scratch’ (eng) | |
| kaure | kaure | 1. ‘scratch’ (eng) 2. ‘loose, untie, allow’ (eng) | |
| kawa | kawa | ‘short’ (eng) | |
| kawe | kawe | ‘marry’ (eng) | |
| kayarana | kajarana | ‘tiredness, effort’ (eng) | |
| kayare | kajare | ‘tired’ (eng) | |
| ke'er | keʔer | ‘ladder’ (eng) | |
| ke'ile | keʔile | ‘pick something with a tool’ (eng) | |
| kekehana | kekehana | ‘counting’ (eng) | |
| kēlana | keːlana | ‘laughter’ (eng) | |
| kēle | keːle | ‘laugh, smile’ (eng) | |
| kelici | kelitsi | ‘rabbit’ (eng) | |
| kelu | kelu | ‘not want’ (eng) | |
| keos | keos | ‘kiosk’ (eng) | |
| kere | kere | 1. ‘write’ (eng) 2. ‘writing’ (eng) | |
| kerekere | kerekere | ‘write’ (eng) | |
| kerekerenana | kerekerenana | ‘writing’ (eng) | |
| kete | kete | ‘thin, skinny (usually in reference to wood)’ (eng) | |
| ketile | ketile | ‘fly through the air (after getting launched)’ (eng) | |
| kiki'e | kikiʔe | ‘bite’ (eng) | |
| kila'e | kilaʔe | ‘dirty’ (eng) | |
| kilakila'e | kilakilaʔe | ‘dirty’ (eng) | |
| kina | kina | ‘buddy’ (eng) | |
| kiufatahara | kiufatahara | ‘dawn’ (eng) | |
| klas | klas | ‘class’ (eng) | |
| koire | koire | ‘stir’ (eng) | |
| kokote | kokote | ‘grow’ (eng) | |
| kolega | koleɡa | ‘friend’ (eng) | |
| kolikolise | kolikolise | ‘later’ (eng) | |
| kolis | kolis | ‘Indicates the near future’ (eng) | |
| kolo | kolo | ‘person who is mute’ (eng) | |
| komensa | komensa | ‘start’ (eng) | |
| komprende | komprende | ‘understand’ (eng) | |
| konfesa | konfesa | ‘confess’ (eng) | |
| kota | kota | ‘town’ (eng) | |
| Koun | koun | ‘Fataluku-speaking village on the northeast coast of Timor’ (eng) | |
| koune | koune | ‘dark, evening’ (eng) | |
| kuandu | kuandu | ‘when’ (eng) | |
| kuartu | kuartu | ‘room’ (eng) | |
| kuca | kutsa | ‘horse’ (eng) | |
| kūle | kuːle | ‘yell’ (eng) | |
| kurakura | kurakura | ‘argue, quarrel’ (eng) | |
| kurisa | kurisa | 1. ‘(fresh) chile pepper’ (eng) 2. ‘paste made with chile peppers, garlic and dried shrimp served as a condiment’ (eng) | |
| kuru | kuru | ‘hole’ (eng) | |
| la'a | laʔa | ‘go’ (eng) | |
| la'ala'a | laʔalaʔa | ‘walk’ (eng) | |
| lāfai | laːfai | ‘big’ (eng) | |
| lāfane | laːfane | ‘much, many’ (eng) | |
| lafur | lafur | ‘traditional place to cook, made with 3 stones’ (eng) | |
| lāhuna | laːhuna | ‘onion’ (eng) | |
| lai | lai | ‘cut (a specific way of cutting something)’ (eng) | |
| lailaine | lailaine | ‘chop repeatedly’ (eng) | |
| lakaran | lakaran | ‘step’ (eng) | |
| laki | laki | ‘dig’ (eng) | |
| lakuware | lakuware | ‘black’ (eng) | |
| lālāfai | laːlaːfai | ‘big’ (eng) | |
| lalu | lalu | ‘high’ (eng) | |
| lalune | lalune | ‘above, higher, on top’ (eng) | |
| laman | laman | ‘inside’ (eng) | |
| lamanu | lamanu | ‘bushes, area with bushes’ (eng) | |
| lān | laːn | ‘friend’ (eng) | |
| lanura | lanura | ‘friends’ (eng) | |
| lapusa | lapusa | ‘spider’ (eng) | |
| lār | laːr | ‘instance, time, repetition’ (eng) | |
| larin | larin | ‘root’ (eng) | |
| larin arapou | larin arapou | ‘water buffalo’ (eng) | |
| larunate | larunate | ‘turn around’ (eng) | |
| lau | lau | ‘clothes, blanket’ (eng) | |
| lau'e | lauʔe | ‘melt, dissolve’ (eng) | |
| lauhana | lauhana | ‘life’ (eng) | |
| lauhe | lauhe | ‘live’ (eng) | |
| lawalawan | lawalawan | ‘fake money’ (eng) | |
| lawan | lawan | ‘money’ (eng) | |
| lāware | laːware | ‘dress (trans.), put clothes on’ (eng) | |
| lāwei | laːwei | ‘crocodile (not respectful)’ (eng) | |
| lē | leː | ‘house’ (eng) | |
| lē ho cu | leː ho tsu | ‘house and hut’ (eng) | |
| lē teinu | leː teinu | ‘church’ (eng) | |
| le'u | leʔu | 1. ‘fur, hair (not on the head)’ (eng) 2. ‘feathers’ (eng) | |
| lēlē moko | leːleː moko | ‘toy house’ (eng) | |
| lēlēre | leːleːre | ‘read for fun’ (eng) | |
| leman | leman | ‘gentleman’ (eng) | |
| lemesana | lemesana | ‘sweet’ (eng) | |
| lemese | lemese | ‘sweet’ (eng) | |
| lepikasa | lepikasa | ‘thin’ (eng) | |
| lērana | leːrana | ‘reading’ (eng) | |
| leren | leren | ‘older sister’ (eng) | |
| leren kaka | leren kaka | ‘older sister’ (eng) | |
| leren lafai | leren lafai | ‘older sister’ (eng) | |
| leren noko | leren noko | ‘male's younger sister’ (eng) | |
| leru'e | leruʔe | ‘roll (intrans.)’ (eng) | |
| letana | letana | ‘in between’ (eng) | |
| leura | leura | ‘meat (for eating)’ (eng) | |
| liare fūlehe | liare fuːlehe | ‘go back and forth’ (eng) | |
| lika | lika | ‘sp. of lizard that lives in a tree’ (eng) | |
| līka | liːka | ‘skinny’ (eng) | |
| likalika | likalika | ‘skinniness’ (eng) | |
| limar | limar | ‘a (metal) file’ (eng) | |
| limare | limare | ‘file’ (eng) | |
| līme | liːme | ‘five’ (eng) | |
| lita | lita | ‘bag’ (eng) | |
| lō | loː | ‘sp. of cuscus’ (eng) | |
| lōhai | loːhai | 1. ‘tall’ (eng) 2. ‘long’ (eng) | |
| lolo | lolo | ‘tell, tell a story’ (eng) | |
| lōlōhai | loːloːhai | ‘tall’ (eng) | |
| lolon | lolon | ‘story’ (eng) | |
| lolos | lolos | ‘fat’ (eng) | |
| lōr | loːr | ‘heavy (as of a rainstorm)’ (eng) | |
| lore | lore | 1. ‘hole that is made in the ground for planting seeds into’ (eng) 2. ‘large, pointed stick that is used for making holes in the ground for planting’ (eng) | |
| loro | loro | ‘type of plant similar to a watermelon’ (eng) | |
| Lospala | lospala | ‘Lospalos (a town in roughly the center of the Fataluku-speaking region of East Timor)’ (eng) | |
| louke | louke | ‘jump’ (eng) | |
| lōyasu | loːjasu | ‘ship’ (eng) | |
| lu'a | luʔa | ‘monkey’ (eng) | |
| luka | luka | ‘old’ (eng) | |
| luku | luku | ‘talk (trans.)’ (eng) | |
| lukuluku | lukuluku | ‘talk (intrans.)’ (eng) | |
| lukulukun | lukulukun | ‘language’ (eng) | |
| lukun | lukun | ‘language’ (eng) | |
| lumulumure | lumulumure | ‘completely green’ (eng) | |
| lumure | lumure | ‘green, blue’ (eng) | |
| lutu | lutu | ‘large basin used for smashing rice’ (eng) | |
| ma'amoko | maʔamoko | ‘what's up?’ (eng) | |
| ma'ar | maʔar | ‘person (can be male or female)’ (eng) | |
| ma'ar lāfai | maʔar laːfai | ‘authority figure’ (eng) | |
| ma'ar tein | maʔar tein | ‘priest’ (eng) | |
| ma'ate | maʔate | ‘bitter’ (eng) | |
| ma'u | maʔu | ‘come’ (eng) | |
| ma'unu | maʔunu | ‘arrival’ (eng) | |
| maca | matsa | ‘bat’ (eng) | |
| macamaca | matsamatsa | ‘butterfly’ (eng) | |
| mace | matse | ‘eat’ (eng) | |
| macemacen | matsematsen | ‘food’ (eng) | |
| macen | matsen | ‘food’ (eng) | |
| mahane | mahane | ‘fear, scared of’ (eng) | |
| mai | mai | ‘eagle’ (eng) | |
| mais | mais | ‘but’ (eng) | |
| maisana | maisana | 1. ‘somthing that is correct, correct thing’ (eng) 2. ‘truth’ (eng) | |
| maise | maise | ‘true, straight, correct’ (eng) | |
| maka | maka | ‘kick’ (eng) | |
| Makalero | makalero | ‘Makalero, a nearby related language’ (eng) | |
| makamakase | makamakase | ‘whisper’ (eng) | |
| Makasa'e | makasaʔe | ‘Makasa'e, a nearby related language’ (eng) | |
| maksud | maksud | ‘meaning’ (eng) | |
| mālai | maːlai | 1. ‘foreigner, stranger’ (eng) 2. ‘head of a village, king’ (eng) | |
| mālete | maːlete | ‘narrow (space)’ (eng) | |
| malu | malu | ‘outside’ (eng) | |
| malupe | malupe | ‘go outside’ (eng) | |
| mama | mama | ‘mother’ (eng) | |
| mana | mana | ‘big sister’ (eng) | |
| manamana | manamana | ‘fruit’ (eng) | |
| manane | manane | ‘win, defeat’ (eng) | |
| manda la'a | manda laʔa | ‘send’ (eng) | |
| manikete | manikete | ‘neck’ (eng) | |
| manimani | manimani | ‘necklace’ (eng) | |
| manko | manko | ‘bowl’ (eng) | |
| manu | manu | ‘big brother’ (eng) | |
| manu | manu | ‘injury’ (eng) | |
| manu pa'i | manu paʔi | ‘injure’ (eng) | |
| manun | manun | ‘wounded’ (eng) | |
| mara | mara | ‘go to’ (eng) | |
| marteru | marteru | ‘hammer’ (eng) | |
| masu | masu | ‘carefully’ (eng) | |
| masu cina | masu tsina | ‘blow on a fire to kindle it well’ (eng) | |
| masu pa'i | masu paʔi | ‘careful’ (eng) | |
| matar | matar | ‘stone’ (eng) | |
| matare | matare | ‘stone area’ (eng) | |
| matu | matu | ‘used’ (eng) | |
| mautūle | mautuːle | ‘lazy’ (eng) | |
| meimeite | meimeite | ‘retarded, mentally handicapped’ (eng) | |
| meja | meza | ‘table’ (eng) | |
| menit | menit | ‘minute’ (eng) | |
| merkadu | merkadu | ‘market’ (eng) | |
| mesene | mesene | ‘show’ (eng) | |
| mestri | mestri | ‘teacher’ (eng) | |
| meti | meti | ‘tide’ (eng) | |
| mimimimireke | mimimimireke | ‘red, very much red, always red’ (eng) | |
| mimireke | mimireke | ‘red’ (eng) | |
| mina | mina | ‘cooking oil’ (eng) | |
| mine | mine | ‘have’ (eng) | |
| mini | mini | ‘on the edge’ (eng) | |
| mini mire | mini mire | ‘sit on the edge’ (eng) | |
| mini more | mini more | ‘located near’ (eng) | |
| minik | minik | ‘nose’ (eng) | |
| minine | minine | ‘next to, beside, on the edge of’ (eng) | |
| mire | mire | ‘sit’ (eng) | |
| miri | miri | ‘new’ (eng) | |
| mirimiri | mirimiri | ‘new, new and clean’ (eng) | |
| miucia | miutsia | ‘midday’ (eng) | |
| moco | motso | 1. ‘child’ (eng) 2. ‘brother's son’ (eng) | |
| moco nami | motso nami | ‘brother's son’ (eng) | |
| moco tupur | motso tupur | ‘brother's daughter’ (eng) | |
| moco wāle | motso waːle | ‘bear a child’ (eng) | |
| mocomoko | motsomoko | ‘baby’ (eng) | |
| mohe | mohe | ‘run’ (eng) | |
| moko | moko | ‘small, young’ (eng) | |
| mokomoco | mokomotso | ‘baby’ (eng) | |
| mokomokor | mokomokor | ‘children’ (eng) | |
| morisa | morisa | ‘throw, throw away’ (eng) | |
| mouk | mouk | ‘cloud’ (eng) | |
| mu'a | muʔa | ‘atmosphere’ (eng) | |
| mu'a | muʔa | ‘day’ (eng) | |
| mu'a | muʔa | ‘soil’ (eng) | |
| mu'a ca'uwele | muʔa tsaʔuwele | ‘earth’ (eng) | |
| mu'a hōcawa | muʔa hoːtsawa | ‘landowner’ (eng) | |
| mu'a koune | muʔa koune | ‘evening’ (eng) | |
| mu'ahaka | muʔahaka | ‘caring’ (eng) | |
| mu'ahara mu'ahara | muʔahara muʔahara | ‘every day’ (eng) | |
| mu'aharan | muʔaharan | ‘day’ (eng) | |
| mu'e | muʔe | ‘kiss’ (eng) | |
| mu'u | muʔu | ‘banana’ (eng) | |
| mu'u ara | muʔu ara | ‘banana plant’ (eng) | |
| mu'umālai | muʔumaːlai | ‘papaya’ (eng) | |
| mu'umālai ara | muʔumaːlai ara | ‘papaya tree’ (eng) | |
| mu'upoko | muʔupoko | ‘banana bell, banana blossom, red bulb on the bottom of a bunch of bananas’ (eng) | |
| mucu | mutsu | ‘in’ (eng) | |
| mucu cene | mutsu tsene | ‘submit, reach out and put inside’ (eng) | |
| mucu co'e | mutsu tsoʔe | ‘stuck inside’ (eng) | |
| mucu he'e | mutsu heʔe | ‘stuck inside’ (eng) | |
| mucu hufuhufute | mutsu hufuhufute | ‘outraged’ (eng) | |
| mucune | mutsune | ‘in’ (eng) | |
| mucupe | mutsupe | ‘into’ (eng) | |
| muhare | muhare | ‘hungry’ (eng) | |
| mumina | mumina | ‘iron’ (eng) | |
| muralaku | muralaku | ‘take off (as of clothes)’ (eng) | |
| nā | naː | ‘at’ (eng) | |
| nā ceru | naː tseru | ‘call’ (eng) | |
| nā neluhe | naː neluhe | ‘want’ (eng) | |
| nā pale | naː pale | ‘touch’ (eng) | |
| nā pati | naː pati | ‘distribute’ (eng) | |
| na'a kēle | naʔa keːle | ‘laugh’ (eng) | |
| na'e | naʔe | 1. ‘at’ (eng) 2. ‘live, breathe’ (eng) | |
| na'u | naʔu | ‘yet’ (eng) | |
| na'u taya | naʔu taja | ‘go to sleep directly’ (eng) | |
| na'u'uku | naʔuʔuku | ‘all, everyone’ (eng) | |
| na'unope | naʔunope | ‘morning’ (eng) | |
| na'uwara | naʔuwara | ‘and’ (eng) | |
| nail taru | nail taru | ‘fishing line’ (eng) | |
| naile | naile | ‘hook out, fish’ (eng) | |
| nāl | naːl | 1. ‘mother’ (eng) 2. ‘father's brother's wife’ (eng) | |
| nāl kaka | naːl kaka | ‘mother's older sister’ (eng) | |
| nāl noko | naːl noko | ‘mother's younger sister’ (eng) | |
| nālpāl | naːlpaːl | ‘parents’ (eng) | |
| nami | nami | ‘male, man, gentleman’ (eng) | |
| nana | nana | ‘snake’ (eng) | |
| nanakēle | nanakeːle | ‘smile’ (eng) | |
| nānāl | naːnaːl | ‘big (wide)’ (eng) | |
| nananana | nananana | ‘crazy’ (eng) | |
| napaniki | napaniki | ‘not exactly, that's not right’ (eng) | |
| nara | nara | ‘then, and then’ (eng) | |
| naru'uru | naruʔuru | ‘buried underground’ (eng) | |
| nasional | nasional | ‘national’ (eng) | |
| natal | natal | ‘Christmas’ (eng) | |
| nāte | naːte | ‘stand’ (eng) | |
| naten | naten | ‘follow’ (eng) | |
| nawa | nawa | ‘eat’ (eng) | |
| naware | naware | 1. ‘know, understand’ (eng) 2. ‘know how to, able to’ (eng) | |
| nē | neː | ‘name’ (eng) | |
| nekulana | nekulana | ‘anger, frustration’ (eng) | |
| nekule | nekule | ‘angry’ (eng) | |
| nēl | neːl | ‘sky, heaven’ (eng) | |
| nēme | neːme | ‘six’ (eng) | |
| nērana | neːrana | ‘flat area’ (eng) | |
| nere | nere | ‘follow (a person; animal or a path)’ (eng) | |
| nēre | neːre | ‘flat’ (eng) | |
| nerenere nāte | nerenere naːte | ‘follow’ (eng) | |
| nerenu | nerenu | ‘follow, follow in order to do something’ (eng) | |
| neru | neru | ‘traditional kitchen item used to thresh plants’ (eng) | |
| neure | neure | ‘chase’ (eng) | |
| nikini | nikini | ‘mosquito’ (eng) | |
| ninau | ninau | ‘himself’ (eng) | |
| nita | nita | ‘reciprocal’ (eng) | |
| nita kurakura | nita kurakura | ‘argue with one another, try to undermine one another’ (eng) | |
| nita uca | nita utsa | ‘kill each other, kill one another’ (eng) | |
| nita uta | nita uta | ‘kill each other in mass quantities, commit genocide’ (eng) | |
| noko | noko | 1. ‘younger same-sex sibling’ (eng) 2. ‘younger same-sex cousin from one's mother's older sister’ (eng) | |
| noko tupur | noko tupur | ‘younger brother's wife’ (eng) | |
| nope | nope | ‘tomorrow’ (eng) | |
| nūcece | nuːtsetse | ‘wash, bathe’ (eng) | |
| nutu | nutu | ‘cover’ (eng) | |
| o | o | ‘also, too’ (eng) | |
| o'o | oʔo | 1. ‘mouth’ (eng) 2. ‘door’ (eng) | |
| o'opira | oʔopira | 1. ‘(physical) lip’ (eng) 2. ‘(metaphorical) edge (as in the edge of the ocean)’ (eng) | |
| o'ose | oʔose | ‘steal’ (eng) | |
| obrigadu | obriɡadu | ‘thank you’ (eng) | |
| oco | otso | ‘orchard, grove’ (eng) | |
| oco | otso | ‘touch’ (eng) | |
| ocoh | otsoh | ‘bracelet’ (eng) | |
| ofo'ofote | ofoʔofote | ‘cut, cut many times’ (eng) | |
| ofote | ofote | ‘cut’ (eng) | |
| okolewe | okolewe | ‘hug’ (eng) | |
| okon | okon | ‘general term for dried, edible roots’ (eng) | |
| olo | olo | ‘bird’ (eng) | |
| olo le'u | olo leʔu | ‘bird's feathers’ (eng) | |
| omo'omoke | omoʔomoke | ‘a quiet person’ (eng) | |
| omoke | omoke | ‘quiet’ (eng) | |
| ono | ono | ‘still’ (eng) | |
| ōp | oːp | ‘ashes’ (eng) | |
| oposana | oposana | ‘rotten’ (eng) | |
| opose | opose | 1. ‘rot, spoil’ (eng) 2. ‘rude’ (eng) | |
| oras | oras | ‘hour, hours’ (eng) | |
| orasen | orasen | ‘nowadays’ (eng) | |
| ore | ore | ‘quarrel’ (eng) | |
| ore | ore | 1. ‘weaving’ (eng) 2. ‘kind of rice cake consisting of rice wrapped in coconut leaves’ (eng); ‘katuba’ (tet) | |
| orite | orite | 1. ‘embarrassed, ashamed’ (eng) 2. ‘shy’ (eng) | |
| oroma'i | oromaʔi | ‘hide’ (eng) | |
| ōruma lalaruma | oːruma lalaruma | ‘loud (of people talking and chit-chatting)’ (eng) | |
| ote | ote | ‘bean’ (eng) | |
| otemina | otemina | ‘peanut’ (eng) | |
| pa'a | paʔa | ‘lot, much’ (eng) | |
| pa'in | paʔin | 1. ‘sister's child’ (eng) 2. ‘mother's older brother’ (eng) | |
| pa'in matu | paʔin matu | ‘father's sister's husband (whether sister is older or younger)’ (eng) | |
| pa'in noko | paʔin noko | ‘mother's younger brother’ (eng) | |
| pa'in tupur | paʔin tupur | ‘mother's brother's wife’ (eng) | |
| paca | patsa | ‘commoner, commoner class’ (eng) | |
| paca | patsa | ‘portion (of game, for instance) set aside for a particular person’ (eng) | |
| pacu | patsu | ‘forbid’ (eng) | |
| paha | paha | ‘slap, hit’ (eng) | |
| pahale | pahale | ‘wash (clothes)’ (eng) | |
| pai | pai | ‘pig’ (eng) | |
| paki | paki | ‘wall’ (eng) | |
| paksat | paksat | ‘force (someone to do something)’ (eng) | |
| pāl | paːl | 1. ‘father’ (eng) 2. ‘mother's sister's husband’ (eng) | |
| pāl kaka | paːl kaka | ‘father's older brother’ (eng) | |
| pāl noko | paːl noko | ‘father's younger brother’ (eng) | |
| pala | pala | ‘farm’ (eng) | |
| palake | palake | ‘stick on’ (eng) | |
| palastiku | palastiku | ‘plastic bag’ (eng) | |
| pali | pali | ‘not exist’ (eng) | |
| palise | palise | ‘swim’ (eng) | |
| pān | paːn | ‘bread’ (eng) | |
| panak | panak | ‘heart’ (eng) | |
| panake | panake | ‘ache’ (eng) | |
| panleru | panleru | ‘man who acts feminine or who dresses like a woman’ (eng) | |
| pantai | pantai | ‘beach’ (eng) | |
| papanoko | papanoko | ‘uncle (specifically; mother's brother)’ (eng) | |
| papasiare | papasiare | ‘take a walk’ (eng) | |
| papu | papu | ‘great-grandparent’ (eng) | |
| papu nami | papu nami | ‘great-grandfather’ (eng) | |
| papu tupur | papu tupur | ‘great-grandmother’ (eng) | |
| para | para | ‘so, so that’ (eng) | |
| pari | pari | ‘wind’ (eng) | |
| pari olioli | pari olioli | ‘whistle’ (eng) | |
| pari silil | pari silil | ‘breeze’ (eng) | |
| parir | parir | ‘dry season, July-October’ (eng) | |
| parke | parke | ‘park’ (eng) | |
| pasar | pasar | ‘market’ (eng) | |
| pasar | pasar | ‘week’ (eng) | |
| pasiare | pasiare | ‘walk’ (eng) | |
| pasta | pasta | ‘bag’ (eng) | |
| pata | pata | ‘log (from a tree)’ (eng) | |
| pati | pati | ‘share, distribute’ (eng) | |
| patin | patin | ‘separate’ (eng) | |
| patu'e | patuʔe | ‘cough’ (eng) | |
| paya | paja | ‘liquid’ (eng) | |
| paya | paja | ‘special type of expensive necklace given from the husband to the wife when they get married’ (eng) | |
| payah | pajah | ‘mango’ (eng) | |
| payah ara | pajah ara | ‘mango tree’ (eng) | |
| payapayah | pajapajah | ‘necklace (in general)’ (eng) | |
| pelek | pelek | ‘boat’ (eng) | |
| pemandana | pemandana | ‘view’ (eng) | |
| pēt | peːt | ‘mattress’ (eng) | |
| petun | petun | ‘bamboo’ (eng) | |
| pī | piː | ‘type of hard seed from a palm tree’ (eng) | |
| pi'apara | piʔapara | ‘raise, take care of’ (eng) | |
| pinta | pinta | 1. ‘paint’ (eng) 2. ‘painting’ (eng) | |
| pipi | pipi | ‘goat’ (eng) | |
| pirapira | pirapira | ‘edge’ (eng) | |
| piri | piri | ‘lie, tell an untruth’ (eng) | |
| pirin | pirin | ‘lie’ (eng) | |
| piripiri | piripiri | ‘a liar’ (eng) | |
| pite | pite | ‘shine’ (eng) | |
| pitine | pitine | ‘white’ (eng) | |
| pitipitine | pitipitine | ‘white’ (eng) | |
| po'iteke | poʔiteke | ‘back’ (eng) | |
| po'opo'ote | poʔopoʔote | ‘sick’ (eng) | |
| po'ote | poʔote | ‘sick’ (eng) | |
| pohe | pohe | ‘cook’ (eng) | |
| pohepohe | pohepohe | ‘cook’ (eng) | |
| poki | poki | ‘punch’ (eng) | |
| polu | polu | ‘full’ (eng) | |
| pōpō | poːpoː | ‘grandparent’ (eng) | |
| pōpō nami | poːpoː nami | ‘grandfather’ (eng) | |
| pōpō tupur | poːpoː tupur | ‘grandmother’ (eng) | |
| pōpoke | poːpoke | ‘soggy’ (eng) | |
| poporawa | poporawa | ‘dragonfly’ (eng) | |
| por ejemplu | por ezemplu | ‘for example’ (eng) | |
| poron | poron | ‘in a circle’ (eng) | |
| Portuges | portuɡes | ‘Portuguese’ (eng) | |
| poru | poru | ‘smooth’ (eng) | |
| posi | posi | ‘cat’ (eng) | |
| posi | posi | ‘push slowly’ (eng) | |
| pouke | pouke | ‘throw at and hit’ (eng) | |
| pu'ina | puʔina | ‘roof’ (eng) | |
| pua | pua | ‘betel nut’ (eng) | |
| puhu | puhu | ‘pot’ (eng) | |
| pui | pui | ‘man who acts like a girl’ (eng) | |
| puicina | puitsina | ‘flatland’ (eng) | |
| pulau | pulau | ‘island’ (eng) | |
| puluh | puluh | ‘tens’ (eng) | |
| pura | pura | ‘sell’ (eng) | |
| purupale | purupale | ‘take care’ (eng) | |
| ra'u | raʔu | ‘plate’ (eng) | |
| ra'ulukun | raʔulukun | ‘bowl’ (eng) | |
| rah | rah | ‘hundred’ (eng) | |
| rahine | rahine | ‘yesterday’ (eng) | |
| rakase | rakase | ‘fry’ (eng) | |
| rame | rame | ‘fun (when a lot of people are having a good time)’ (eng) | |
| ranuranu | ranuranu | ‘well’ (eng) | |
| raparapake | raparapake | ‘rough’ (eng) | |
| rapu | rapu | ‘type of leafy plant similar to spinach’ (eng) | |
| rapurapu | rapurapu | ‘insecurity, lack of self-confidence’ (eng) | |
| rarahe | rarahe | 1. ‘bloom, open wide’ (eng) 2. ‘twinkle (of stars)’ (eng) | |
| rata | rata | ‘old’ (eng) | |
| ratan | ratan | ‘long time ago’ (eng) | |
| ratarata | ratarata | ‘in a little bit’ (eng) | |
| ratu | ratu | 1. ‘tribe, clan’ (eng) 2. ‘ruling class’ (eng) | |
| rau | rau | ‘good’ (eng) | |
| raurau | raurau | ‘happy’ (eng) | |
| rehabi | rehabi | ‘rebuild’ (eng) | |
| rehun | rehun | ‘thousand’ (eng) | |
| rekise | rekise | ‘chop, cut down (for instance; a tree)’ (eng) | |
| ria | ria | ‘mother's brother's son’ (eng) | |
| riku | riku | ‘riches’ (eng) | |
| rohone | rohone | 1. ‘on the day before yesterday’ (eng) 2. ‘in the past’ (eng) | |
| rohorohone | rohorohone | ‘in the past’ (eng) | |
| roja | roza | ‘rose’ (eng) | |
| ropisaro | ropisaro | ‘sweet things’ (eng) | |
| rotoroto | rotoroto | ‘onomatopoeia for breathing’ (eng) | |
| rukus | rukus | ‘ring’ (eng) | |
| rūmau | ruːmau | ‘pomegranate’ (eng) | |
| sā | saː | ‘tea’ (eng) | |
| sai | sai | ‘finish’ (eng) | |
| saline | saline | ‘carry (as of a bag)’ (eng) | |
| salwa | salwa | ‘save’ (eng) | |
| salwasaun | salwasaun | ‘salvation’ (eng) | |
| sapu | sapu | ‘pomelo’ (eng) | |
| sapun | sapun | ‘lung’ (eng) | |
| sasake | sasake | ‘dry’ (eng) | |
| sasale | sasale | ‘stupid’ (eng) | |
| se | se | ‘if’ (eng) | |
| semu | semu | ‘receive’ (eng) | |
| senti | senti | ‘feel’ (eng) | |
| sepu | sepu | ‘watermelon’ (eng) | |
| sepusepu | sepusepu | ‘lawn’ (eng) | |
| serika | serika | ‘little, little bit’ (eng) | |
| siku | siku | ‘elbow’ (eng) | |
| silaki | silaki | ‘grasshopper’ (eng) | |
| sirike | sirike | ‘drive’ (eng) | |
| siriwisi | siriwisi | ‘work’ (eng) | |
| sīwa | siːwa | ‘nine’ (eng) | |
| soele | soele | ‘slither’ (eng) | |
| somone | somone | ‘carry (e g., a log)’ (eng) | |
| sorot | sorot | ‘book, paper’ (eng) | |
| sorot hasa | sorot hasa | ‘paper’ (eng) | |
| sorot tein | sorot tein | ‘Bible’ (eng) | |
| sosike | sosike | ‘slip’ (eng) | |
| sūke | suːke | ‘duck’ (eng) | |
| sumurelu | sumurelu | ‘umbrella’ (eng) | |
| sune | sune | ‘blow (as of the wind)’ (eng) | |
| susuka | susuka | ‘fork’ (eng) | |
| sūsūke | suːsuːke | ‘walk while ducking, walk hunched, crawl’ (eng) | |
| ta | ta | ‘despite’ (eng) | |
| ta | ta | ‘in order to’ (eng) | |
| ta'a | taʔa | ‘talk’ (eng) | |
| ta'ane | taʔane | ‘tens’ (eng) | |
| tafa | tafa | 1. ‘shoot (as with a spear, gun or catapult)’ (eng) 2. ‘pound (as with a morter and pestle)’ (eng) | |
| tahi | tahi | ‘ocean, beach’ (eng) | |
| tahi ira | tahi ira | ‘ocean water’ (eng) | |
| tahi o'opira | tahi oʔopira | ‘beach’ (eng) | |
| tahi wehe mocori | tahi wehe motsori | ‘child of the sea, person with salt water in their veins’ (eng) | |
| tahinana | tahinana | ‘beauty’ (eng) | |
| tahine | tahine | ‘good-looking, handsome, pretty’ (eng) | |
| tahun | tahun | ‘year’ (eng) | |
| tain | tain | ‘earlier today’ (eng) | |
| tali | tali | 1. ‘beyond, surpassing’ (eng) 2. ‘very’ (eng) | |
| taline | taline | ‘beyond, past, physically over’ (eng) | |
| tamba | tamba | ‘because’ (eng) | |
| tamu | tamu | ‘name (someone) (something), give someone a name’ (eng) | |
| tamu kaka | tamu kaka | ‘father's older sister’ (eng) | |
| tamu noko | tamu noko | ‘father's younger sister’ (eng) | |
| tana | tana | ‘hand, arm’ (eng) | |
| tana fukar | tana fukar | ‘finger’ (eng) | |
| tana ocoh | tana otsoh | ‘bracelet’ (eng) | |
| tanapungal | tanapunɡal | ‘bicep’ (eng) | |
| tanu | tanu | ‘against’ (eng) | |
| tapa | tapa | ‘don't!, negative imperative’ (eng) | |
| tapalana | tapalana | ‘saddle’ (eng) | |
| tapule | tapule | ‘buy’ (eng) | |
| tapun | tapun | ‘round (thing)’ (eng) | |
| tār | taːr | ‘third person plural pronoun’ (eng) | |
| taru | taru | ‘gamble’ (eng) | |
| taru | taru | ‘twine, rope’ (eng) | |
| tarunu | tarunu | ‘gambling’ (eng) | |
| tarupaha | tarupaha | ‘how many?, how much?’ (eng) | |
| tarute | tarute | ‘when?’ (eng) | |
| tatu | tatu | ‘tattooed’ (eng) | |
| tatun | tatun | ‘on the day after tomorrow’ (eng) | |
| taukawa | taukawa | ‘fat’ (eng) | |
| tawa | tawa | ‘third person singular pronoun’ (eng) | |
| tawar | tawar | ‘third person plural pronoun’ (eng) | |
| taya | taja | ‘sleep, lay down’ (eng) | |
| tayan | tajan | ‘sleep (as a noun)’ (eng) | |
| teane | teane | ‘what, how’ (eng) | |
| tefu'ana | tefuʔana | ‘broken one’ (eng) | |
| tefu'e | tefuʔe | ‘broken (because someone broke it, refers to a long object that is broken along the short axis)’ (eng) | |
| tei | tei | ‘holy, taboo’ (eng) | |
| teile | teile | ‘slow’ (eng) | |
| teiteile | teiteile | ‘slow’ (eng) | |
| teku | teku | ‘stir’ (eng) | |
| telewisaun | telewisaun | ‘television’ (eng) | |
| telira | telira | ‘other’ (eng) | |
| tena | tena | ‘which one (used in questions)’ (eng) | |
| tena'e | tenaʔe | ‘where’ (eng) | |
| tenen | tenen | ‘right (not left)’ (eng) | |
| teni'it | teniʔit | ‘which’ (eng) | |
| tenke | tenke | ‘must, have to’ (eng) | |
| terlambati | terlambati | ‘to come late, to arrive late’ (eng) | |
| tetere | tetere | ‘cut grass’ (eng) | |
| tewa'ane | tewaʔane | ‘how?, what is it like?’ (eng) | |
| tewa'awa'ane | tewaʔawaʔane | ‘what is it like?’ (eng) | |
| ti'ele | tiʔele | ‘kick’ (eng) | |
| tia | tia | ‘chew (betel nut)’ (eng) | |
| tia | tia | ‘mother's brother's wife’ (eng) | |
| tifare | tifare | ‘run’ (eng) | |
| tifatifale | tifatifale | ‘jog’ (eng) | |
| tiga | tiɡa | ‘three’ (eng) | |
| tigri | tiɡri | ‘tiger’ (eng) | |
| timine | timine | ‘feel hot’ (eng) | |
| tīmuna | tiːmuna | ‘cucumber’ (eng) | |
| tina | tina | ‘blow on embers to start a fire’ (eng) | |
| tini | tini | ‘can come at the end of an imperative sentence to show respect to the individual you are commanding’ (eng) | |
| tipal | tipal | ‘drum’ (eng) | |
| tipal kakale | tipal kakale | ‘play the drum with one's hand’ (eng) | |
| titiriri | titiriri | ‘shiver’ (eng) | |
| tiu | tiu | ‘uncle (specifically, mother's brother)’ (eng) | |
| to | to | ‘quotative particle introducing a direct quote’ (eng) | |
| tō | toː | ‘cup’ (eng) | |
| toko | toko | ‘store’ (eng) | |
| tomati | tomati | ‘tomato’ (eng) | |
| tomoke | tomoke | ‘soft’ (eng) | |
| tomotomoke | tomotomoke | ‘soft’ (eng) | |
| totana | totana | ‘something separated’ (eng) | |
| tote | tote | ‘cut’ (eng) | |
| toto | toto | ‘see, look at, watch’ (eng) | |
| totole | totole | ‘cut’ (eng) | |
| toton | toton | ‘observing, observation, observer’ (eng) | |
| totonana | totonana | ‘taken care of’ (eng) | |
| totototo | totototo | ‘look at’ (eng) | |
| tour na'u'uku | tour naʔuʔuku | ‘everyone’ (eng) | |
| toure | toure | ‘many (only of animates, such as animals or people)’ (eng) | |
| tu'u | tuʔu | ‘shows respect (unclear meaning)’ (eng) | |
| tu'ulere | tuʔulere | ‘beat to death’ (eng) | |
| tua | tua | 1. ‘palm wine’ (eng) 2. ‘palm tree from which palm wine is made, sugar palm’ (eng); ‘Borassus flabellifer’ (lat) 3. ‘alcohol in general’ (eng) | |
| tua harak | tua harak | ‘distilled palm wine’ (eng) | |
| tua pitin | tua pitin | ‘white palm wine’ (eng) | |
| tuahasa | tuahasa | ‘palm leaves, thatch’ (eng) | |
| tuana | tuana | ‘plantation’ (eng) | |
| tugas | tuɡas | ‘assignment’ (eng) | |
| tuku | tuku | ‘o'clock’ (eng) | |
| tunangan | tunanɡan | ‘fiance’ (eng) | |
| tupukur | tupukur | ‘owl’ (eng) | |
| tupur | tupur | ‘woman’ (eng) | |
| tuputupur pa'i | tuputupur paʔi | ‘make more feminine’ (eng) | |
| turista | turista | ‘tourist’ (eng) | |
| tutu | tutu | ‘drink’ (eng) | |
| tutu | tutu | ‘like, love’ (eng) | |
| Tutuala | tutuala | ‘Tutuala, a place in the Fataluku-speaking region of East Timor’ (eng) | |
| tūtūana | tuːtuːana | ‘plantation’ (eng) | |
| u'a | uʔa | ‘under’ (eng) | |
| u'ane | uʔane | ‘under, below’ (eng) | |
| ū'ūkani | uːʔuːkani | ‘one at a time’ (eng) | |
| u'ureke | uʔureke | ‘green’ (eng) | |
| uan | uan | ‘heart’ (eng) | |
| uca | utsa | ‘kill’ (eng) | |
| ucu | utsu | ‘egg’ (eng) | |
| ucu'ete | utsuʔete | ‘thick’ (eng) | |
| ufale | ufale | ‘hold’ (eng) | |
| ufane | ufane | ‘feed’ (eng) | |
| ufarana | ufarana | ‘dream, have a dream’ (eng) | |
| ufur | ufur | ‘body’ (eng) | |
| ufutana | ufutana | ‘froth, bubbled up stuff’ (eng) | |
| ufute | ufute | ‘bubbling (when cooking)’ (eng) | |
| uhule | uhule | ‘able’ (eng) | |
| uja | uza | ‘use’ (eng) | |
| ūkani | uːkani | ‘one’ (eng) | |
| uku | uku | 1. ‘finished’ (eng) 2. ‘all’ (eng) | |
| ukusina | ukusina | ‘reachable’ (eng) | |
| ula | ula | 1. ‘maybe’ (eng) 2. ‘about’ (eng) | |
| ulafuka | ulafuka | ‘tail’ (eng) | |
| ulahuca | ulahutsa | ‘killer’ (eng) | |
| ulan | ulan | ‘for (duration)’ (eng) | |
| ulawarin | ulawarin | ‘hip’ (eng) | |
| ulawere | ulawere | ‘wear’ (eng) | |
| ulu'ulu | uluʔulu | ‘greedy’ (eng) | |
| ulun | ulun | ‘tadpole’ (eng) | |
| ulur | ulur | ‘breadfruit’ (eng) | |
| ulure | ulure | ‘sweep’ (eng) | |
| uman | uman | ‘who?’ (eng) | |
| umu | umu | ‘die’ (eng) | |
| una | una | ‘eat’ (eng) | |
| uname | uname | ‘catch (as of animals)’ (eng) | |
| undani | undani | ‘invite’ (eng) | |
| uni | uni | ‘one’ (eng) | |
| unu | unu | ‘indefinite article, a, one some’ (eng) | |
| upe | upe | ‘no, not, there is not’ (eng) | |
| upu | upu | ‘back’ (eng) | |
| upu | upu | ‘white soil’ (eng) | |
| upu hicine | upu hitsine | ‘behind’ (eng) | |
| upu na'e | upu naʔe | ‘behind’ (eng) | |
| upur | upur | ‘fly (the insect)’ (eng) | |
| uru | uru | ‘moon’ (eng) | |
| uru'uru | uruʔuru | ‘burn’ (eng) | |
| uta | uta | ‘fall (especially of rain)’ (eng) | |
| uta | uta | ‘play a musical instrument’ (eng) | |
| utu | utu | ‘block, interfere’ (eng) | |
| utu | utu | ‘draw water, get water’ (eng) | |
| utu co'e | utu tsoʔe | ‘block (as in dirt blocking a pipe)’ (eng) | |
| utu'e | utuʔe | ‘plant, sow’ (eng) | |
| utu'e | utuʔe | ‘three’ (eng) | |
| utu'utu'e | utuʔutuʔe | ‘pretend to plant something’ (eng) | |
| utu'utu'e | utuʔutuʔe | ‘three at a time’ (eng) | |
| utune | utune | ‘block, interfere, block from a stationary position (used if the thing that is blocking is not moving)’ (eng) | |
| 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)’ (eng) | |
| ututefe | ututefe | ‘blow, blow air’ (eng) | |
| wa'an | waʔan | 1. ‘same as, alike’ (eng) 2. ‘like, similar to’ (eng) 3. ‘around, approximately at’ (eng) | |
| wa'ane | waʔane | 1. ‘similar, like, the same as’ (eng) 2. ‘approximately, about’ (eng) | |
| wa'awa'ane | waʔawaʔane | ‘same’ (eng) | |
| wa'i | waʔi | ‘carry (a baby)’ (eng) | |
| waci | watsi | ‘today’ (eng) | |
| wacin | watsin | ‘day’ (eng) | |
| wacu | watsu | ‘sun’ (eng) | |
| wacu hi'amoi | watsu hiʔamoi | 1. ‘sunrise’ (eng) 2. ‘east’ (eng) | |
| wacu isi | watsu isi | 1. ‘sunset’ (eng) 2. ‘west’ (eng) | |
| wacuwici | watsuwitsi | ‘afternoon’ (eng) | |
| wāhe | waːhe | ‘leak (as in to drip water)’ (eng) | |
| wahilan | wahilan | ‘male (of animals, offensive if applied to people)’ (eng) | |
| wahin | wahin | ‘tooth’ (eng) | |
| wahu | wahu | ‘eel’ (eng) | |
| wahu | wahu | ‘wash’ (eng) | |
| waihoho | waihoho | ‘sing (used of traditional songs)’ (eng) | |
| waihulai | waihulai | ‘window’ (eng) | |
| wainhira | wainhira | ‘when’ (eng) | |
| waka arapou | waka arapou | ‘cow’ (eng) | |
| wakahana | wakahana | ‘lightweight’ (eng) | |
| wakahi | wakahi | ‘active, athletic’ (eng) | |
| walahana | walahana | ‘bride-price, gift given from the husband to the wife at marriage’ (eng) | |
| walale | walale | ‘fast’ (eng) | |
| wāle | waːle | ‘give birth’ (eng) | |
| wali | wali | ‘ear’ (eng) | |
| wāli'ara | waːliʔara | ‘side of saw’ (eng) | |
| walik | walik | ‘corner’ (eng) | |
| walikana | walikana | ‘corner’ (eng) | |
| walikasa | walikasa | ‘ear, physical part of your ear’ (eng) | |
| walipali | walipali | ‘keep (doing), continue to (do)’ (eng) | |
| Walu | walu | ‘place on the eastern coast of Timor, on the mainland near Jaco island’ (eng) | |
| walur | walur | ‘particular sp. of bird, dark blue wild dove’ (eng) | |
| wani | wani | ‘bee’ (eng) | |
| wanifahu | wanifahu | ‘beeswax’ (eng) | |
| wār | waːr | ‘dew’ (eng) | |
| wāreseni | waːreseni | ‘clean, clear’ (eng) | |
| wari | wari | ‘always’ (eng) | |
| wari | wari | ‘hear, listen’ (eng) | |
| wari | wari | ‘nest’ (eng) | |
| waru | waru | ‘sp. of tree’ (eng) | |
| wasi | wasi | ‘very, really’ (eng) | |
| wasitali | wasitali | ‘more, very’ (eng) | |
| wata | wata | ‘coconut’ (eng) | |
| wata ara | wata ara | ‘coconut tree’ (eng) | |
| wata ira | wata ira | ‘coconut water, juice from a coconut’ (eng) | |
| wata tō | wata toː | ‘coconut shell’ (eng) | |
| wāwārese | waːwaːrese | ‘clean’ (eng) | |
| waya | waja | ‘juice (occuring after the name of various fruits)’ (eng) | |
| wayan | wajan | 1. ‘mother's brother's son (same word whether it is the mother's older brother or younger brother)’ (eng) 2. ‘sister's husband’ (eng) | |
| wehe | wehe | ‘blood’ (eng) | |
| wele | wele | ‘skin, bark’ (eng) | |
| wele taru | wele taru | ‘skin (of a human or animal)’ (eng) | |
| wēlika | weːlika | ‘left (not right)’ (eng) | |
| wēr | weːr | ‘stream, river’ (eng) | |
| wēteru | weːteru | ‘trip, fall, stumble’ (eng) | |
| wetik | wetik | ‘beating’ (eng) | |
| wetike | wetike | ‘flick someone’ (eng) | |
| wetiwetike | wetiwetike | ‘beating (as of one's heart)’ (eng) | |
| wuru | wuru | ‘oil’ (eng) |