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