Edwards (2021a): Proto-Rote-Meto
Search entries
| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
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| *aa | *aa | ‘the’ |
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| *aem | *aem | ‘domesticated, tame’ |
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| *afa | *afa | ‘insipid’ |
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| *afi | *afi | ‘yesterday’ |
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| *afu | *afu | ‘ash, dust’ |
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| *afu | *afu | ‘floor, ground’ |
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| *ahi | *ahi | ‘fire’ |
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| *ahi | *ahi | ‘trample, tread’ |
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| *aho | *aho | ‘lime (mineral)’ |
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| *ahu | *ahu | ‘dew’ |
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| *ala | *ala | ‘fetch, get, take’ |
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| *ama | *ama | ‘father’ |
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| *anak | *anak | ‘child, small’ |
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| *ane | *ane | ‘braid’ |
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| *aŋɡum | *aŋɡum | ‘dew’ |
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| *anin | *anin | ‘wind’ |
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| *ao | *ao | ‘body’ |
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| *aso | *aso | ‘scoop’ |
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| *asu | *asu | ‘dog’ |
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| *ata | *ata | ‘above, top, up’ |
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| *ata | *ata | ‘slave’ |
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| *ata | *ata | ‘we (incl.), 1PL INCL’ |
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| *ate | *ate | ‘liver’ |
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| *atis | *atis | ‘breast beam of loom’ |
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| *atu | *atu | ‘charcoal, soot’ |
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| *au | *au | ‘I, 1SG’ |
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| *auee | *auee | ‘oh!’ |
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| *baa | *baa | ‘lungs’ |
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| *badoe | *badoe | ‘grope’ |
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| *badoe | *badoe | ‘touch’ |
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| *bafi | *bafi | ‘pig’ |
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| *bafo | *bafo | ‘above, top’ |
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| *bali | *bali | ‘return, go back, turn around, turn back, again’ |
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| *balu | *balu | ‘cover, wrap up’ |
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| *balu | *balu | ‘mourn, widow, widower’ |
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| *baŋakuɗu | *baŋakuɗu | ‘Morinda citrifolia’ |
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| *batu | *batu | ‘rock, stone’ |
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| *bau | *bau | ‘Hibiscus tiliaceus’ |
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| *bei | *bei | ‘still, yet’ |
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| *belas | *belas | ‘machete’ |
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| *beli | *beli | ‘bride price, price, cost, buy’ |
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| *beni | *beni | ‘pass’ |
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| *beni | *beni | ‘yesterday, day after tomorrow, day before yesterday’ |
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| *berat | *berat | ‘heavy, weight’ |
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| *betə | *betə | ‘foxtail millet, millet’ |
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| *beu | *beu | ‘Garuga floribunda’ |
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| *beu | *beu | ‘new’ |
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| *bibi | *bibi | ‘pinch’ |
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| *bini | *bini | ‘seed’ |
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| *biti | *biti | ‘calf (of leg)’ |
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| *biti | *biti | ‘jerk, jump up’ |
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| *biti | *biti | ‘slingshot’ |
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| *boo | *boo | ‘herd (v.)’ |
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| *boo | *boo | ‘odour, smell, stink’ |
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| *bua | *bua | ‘fruit’ |
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| *bufu | *bufu | ‘fish trap’ |
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| *bulan | *bulan | ‘moon’ |
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| *bulu | *bulu | ‘feather, fur, hair’ |
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| *buni | *buni | ‘ringworm’ |
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| *buu | *buu | ‘blow’ |
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| *buu | *buu | ‘blowpipe’ |
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| *daa | *daa | ‘blood’ |
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| *dae | *dae | ‘earth, ground, land, soil’ |
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| *daem | *daem | ‘termite’ |
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| *daki | *daki | ‘dirt, filth’ |
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| *dalə | *dalə | ‘inside, in, feelings’ |
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| *damei | *damei | ‘lick’ |
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| *daru | *daru | ‘long’ |
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| *dei | *dei | ‘forehead’ |
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| *deki | *deki | ‘kiss’ |
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| *deŋe | *deŋe | ‘kapok tree’ |
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| *deras | *deras | ‘Erythrina sp.’ |
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| *dii | *dii | ‘house post’ |
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| *dii | *dii | ‘pillar, pole, post’ |
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| *dii | *dii | ‘stand’ |
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| *dindi | *dindi | ‘wall’ |
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| *diu | *diu | ‘bathe’ |
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| *doo | *doo | ‘leaf’ |
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| *dua | *dua | ‘two’ |
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| *dui | *dui | ‘bone’ |
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| *dui | *dui | ‘dugong’ |
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| *duman | *duman | ‘empty’ |
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| *duman | *duman | ‘few, some’ |
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| *ei | *ei | ‘foot, leg’ |
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| *eki | *eki | ‘cry out, shout’ |
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| *eko | *eko | ‘shake, sift’ |
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| *ekut | *ekut | ‘fibres’ |
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| *ela | *ela | ‘already’ |
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| *ele | *ele | ‘there’ |
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| *elus | *elus | ‘rainbow’ |
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| *ena | *ena | ‘have, own, possess’ |
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| *endən | *endən | ‘soak’ |
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| *eno | *eno | ‘door, gate, path, road, way’ |
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| *esa | *esa | ‘one’ |
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| *esak | *esak | ‘day after tomorrow, day before yesterday’ |
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| *eti | *eti | ‘come, go’ |
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| *etu | *etu | ‘catfish’ |
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| *eɗa | *eɗa | ‘ladder, stairs’ |
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| *fa | *fa | ‘just’ |
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| *fa | *fa | ‘no’ |