Edwards (2021a): Proto-Rote-Meto
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| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| *aa | *aa | ‘the’ | |
| *aem | *aem | ‘domesticated, tame’ | |
| *afa | *afa | ‘insipid’ | |
| *afi | *afi | ‘yesterday’ | |
| *afu | *afu | ‘ash, dust’ | |
| *afu | *afu | ‘floor, ground’ | |
| *ahi | *ahi | ‘fire’ | |
| *ahi | *ahi | ‘trample, tread’ | |
| *aho | *aho | ‘lime (mineral)’ | |
| *ahu | *ahu | ‘dew’ | |
| *ala | *ala | ‘fetch, get, take’ | |
| *ama | *ama | ‘father’ | |
| *anak | *anak | ‘child, small’ | |
| *ane | *ane | ‘braid’ | |
| *aŋɡum | *aŋɡum | ‘dew’ | |
| *anin | *anin | ‘wind’ | |
| *ao | *ao | ‘body’ | |
| *aso | *aso | ‘scoop’ | |
| *asu | *asu | ‘dog’ | |
| *ata | *ata | ‘above, top, up’ | |
| *ata | *ata | ‘slave’ | |
| *ata | *ata | ‘we (incl.), 1PL INCL’ | |
| *ate | *ate | ‘liver’ | |
| *atis | *atis | ‘breast beam of loom’ | |
| *atu | *atu | ‘charcoal, soot’ | |
| *au | *au | ‘I, 1SG’ | |
| *auee | *auee | ‘oh!’ | |
| *baa | *baa | ‘lungs’ | |
| *badoe | *badoe | ‘grope’ | |
| *badoe | *badoe | ‘touch’ | |
| *bafi | *bafi | ‘pig’ | |
| *bafo | *bafo | ‘above, top’ | |
| *bali | *bali | ‘return, go back, turn around, turn back, again’ | |
| *balu | *balu | ‘cover, wrap up’ | |
| *balu | *balu | ‘mourn, widow, widower’ | |
| *baŋakuɗu | *baŋakuɗu | ‘Morinda citrifolia’ | |
| *batu | *batu | ‘rock, stone’ | |
| *bau | *bau | ‘Hibiscus tiliaceus’ | |
| *bei | *bei | ‘still, yet’ | |
| *belas | *belas | ‘machete’ | |
| *beli | *beli | ‘bride price, price, cost, buy’ | |
| *beni | *beni | ‘pass’ | |
| *beni | *beni | ‘yesterday, day after tomorrow, day before yesterday’ | |
| *berat | *berat | ‘heavy, weight’ | |
| *betə | *betə | ‘foxtail millet, millet’ | |
| *beu | *beu | ‘Garuga floribunda’ | |
| *beu | *beu | ‘new’ | |
| *bibi | *bibi | ‘pinch’ | |
| *bini | *bini | ‘seed’ | |
| *biti | *biti | ‘calf (of leg)’ | |
| *biti | *biti | ‘jerk, jump up’ | |
| *biti | *biti | ‘slingshot’ | |
| *boo | *boo | ‘herd (v.)’ | |
| *boo | *boo | ‘odour, smell, stink’ | |
| *bua | *bua | ‘fruit’ | |
| *bufu | *bufu | ‘fish trap’ | |
| *bulan | *bulan | ‘moon’ | |
| *bulu | *bulu | ‘feather, fur, hair’ | |
| *buni | *buni | ‘ringworm’ | |
| *buu | *buu | ‘blow’ | |
| *buu | *buu | ‘blowpipe’ | |
| *daa | *daa | ‘blood’ | |
| *dae | *dae | ‘earth, ground, land, soil’ | |
| *daem | *daem | ‘termite’ | |
| *daki | *daki | ‘dirt, filth’ | |
| *dalə | *dalə | ‘inside, in, feelings’ | |
| *damei | *damei | ‘lick’ | |
| *daru | *daru | ‘long’ | |
| *dei | *dei | ‘forehead’ | |
| *deki | *deki | ‘kiss’ | |
| *deŋe | *deŋe | ‘kapok tree’ | |
| *deras | *deras | ‘Erythrina sp.’ | |
| *dii | *dii | ‘house post’ | |
| *dii | *dii | ‘pillar, pole, post’ | |
| *dii | *dii | ‘stand’ | |
| *dindi | *dindi | ‘wall’ | |
| *diu | *diu | ‘bathe’ | |
| *doo | *doo | ‘leaf’ | |
| *dua | *dua | ‘two’ | |
| *dui | *dui | ‘bone’ | |
| *dui | *dui | ‘dugong’ | |
| *duman | *duman | ‘empty’ | |
| *duman | *duman | ‘few, some’ | |
| *ei | *ei | ‘foot, leg’ | |
| *eki | *eki | ‘cry out, shout’ | |
| *eko | *eko | ‘shake, sift’ | |
| *ekut | *ekut | ‘fibres’ | |
| *ela | *ela | ‘already’ | |
| *ele | *ele | ‘there’ | |
| *elus | *elus | ‘rainbow’ | |
| *ena | *ena | ‘have, own, possess’ | |
| *endən | *endən | ‘soak’ | |
| *eno | *eno | ‘door, gate, path, road, way’ | |
| *esa | *esa | ‘one’ | |
| *esak | *esak | ‘day after tomorrow, day before yesterday’ | |
| *eti | *eti | ‘come, go’ | |
| *etu | *etu | ‘catfish’ | |
| *eɗa | *eɗa | ‘ladder, stairs’ | |
| *fa | *fa | ‘just’ | |
| *fa | *fa | ‘no’ | |
| *faa | *faa | ‘current, flow, overflow’ | |
| *faat | *faat | ‘rainy season’ | |
| *fae | *fae | ‘lizard’ | |
| *fai | *fai | ‘day, night’ | |
| *faka | *faka | ‘crack, divide, split’ | |
| *fake | *fake | ‘Parkia speciosa’ | |
| *fakur | *fakur | ‘pull out’ | |
| *fali | *fali | ‘heel’ | |
| *fali | *fali | ‘stand with’ | |
| *falu | *falu | ‘eight’ | |
| *fandi | *fandi | ‘cut’ | |
| *fandu | *fandu | ‘dry season’ | |
| *fanduun | *fanduun | ‘star’ | |
| *faŋɡa | *faŋɡa | ‘nail’ | |
| *farəndən | *farəndən | ‘feelings, mind, thoughts, remember, hope, love, kiss (nose)’ | |
| *fase | *fase | ‘wash’ | |
| *fata | *fata | ‘female’ | |
| *fati | *fati | ‘feed’ | |
| *faɗa | *faɗa | ‘inform, say, speak, tell’ | |
| *fee | *fee | ‘give’ | |
| *fei | *fei | ‘open’ | |
| *feku | *feku | ‘flute’ | |
| *fekə | *fekə | ‘other, separate’ | |
| *fela | *fela | ‘spread out, unroll’ | |
| *felu | *felu | ‘bend’ | |
| *femba | *femba | ‘beat, hit, strike’ | |
| *fenu | *fenu | ‘bend’ | |
| *fera | *fera | ‘landslide, ravine’ | |
| *feto | *feto | ‘sister, female’ | |
| *fetu | *fetu | ‘snare, trap’ | |
| *feu | *feu | ‘in‑law’ | |
| *feɗu | *feɗu | ‘bent, flexible’ | |
| *fia | *fia | ‘taro, tuber’ | |
| *fiti | *fiti | ‘carry’ | |
| *fiti | *fiti | ‘jerk, kick’ | |
| *foe | *foe | ‘crocodile’ | |
| *foe | *foe | ‘move’ | |
| *foe | *foe | ‘spots’ | |
| *foe | *foe | ‘struggle, turbulent’ | |
| *foo | *foo | ‘Moringa oleifera’ | |
| *fora | *fora | ‘grate, scour’ | |
| *foti | *foti | ‘dance’ | |
| *foti | *foti | ‘racing’ | |
| *foʔa | *foʔa | ‘get up, wake up’ | |
| *foʔi | *foʔi | ‘lever’ | |
| *fua | *fua | ‘carry, load’ | |
| *fue | *fue | ‘bean, legume’ | |
| *fufu | *fufu | ‘weevil’ | |
| *fui | *fui | ‘douse, pour, wash’ | |
| *fui | *fui | ‘wild’ | |
| *fuka | *fuka | ‘dig’ | |
| *fula | *fula | ‘white’ | |
| *fuli | *fuli | ‘cowrie shell’ | |
| *fuloat | *fuloat | ‘Sterculia urceolata’ | |
| *fulə | *fulə | ‘twist, wrap’ | |
| *fumbu | *fumbu | ‘fontanelle, peak, ridgepole’ | |
| *fumbu | *fumbu | ‘midday’ | |
| *funi | *funi | ‘afterbirth, placenta’ | |
| *funi | *funi | ‘hide’ | |
| *fura | *fura | ‘cut’ | |
| *futu | *futu | ‘bind, tie, bundle’ | |
| *fuu | *fuu | ‘blow’ | |
| *fuɗi | *fuɗi | ‘persuade’ | |
| *fuʤə | *fuʤə | ‘foam’ | |
| *ha | *ha | ‘earwax’ | |
| *haa | *haa | ‘four’ | |
| *haa | *haa | ‘lontar thorn’ | |
| *hade | *hade | ‘paddy rice’ | |
| *hae | *hae | ‘breathe, rest, tired’ | |
| *hai | *hai | ‘bucket’ | |
| *hai | *hai | ‘stingray’ | |
| *hai | *hai | ‘wild basil’ | |
| *halu | *halu | ‘pestle’ | |
| *hambu | *hambu | ‘find’ | |
| *hambu | *hambu | ‘overtake’ | |
| *hanas | *hanas | ‘hot’ | |
| *hani | *hani | ‘bait’ | |
| *hani | *hani | ‘feed (v.)’ | |
| *hano | *hano | ‘rash’ | |
| *hano | *hano | ‘spots’ | |
| *hao | *hao | ‘feed’ | |
| *hapi | *hapi | ‘clamp, pinch’ | |
| *hara | *hara | ‘sound, voice’ | |
| *haru | *haru | ‘shoulder’ | |
| *hatahori | *hatahori | ‘man, person’ | |
| *hauk | *hauk | ‘calm down, soothe’ | |
| *ha(ʔ)i | *ha(ʔ)i | ‘take’ | |
| *hedu | *hedu | ‘gall bladder, bitter’ | |
| *hee | *hee | ‘lobster’ | |
| *hee | *hee | ‘press’ | |
| *hela | *hela | ‘pull’ | |
| *helu | *helu | ‘bend’ | |
| *hena | *hena | ‘hope’ | |
| *hendam | *hendam | ‘wild pandanus’ | |
| *hene | *hene | ‘climb’ | |
| *heŋɡe | *heŋɡe | ‘hang’ | |
| *heŋɡe | *heŋɡe | ‘necklace’ | |
| *heŋɡu | *heŋɡu | ‘earwax’ | |
| *henu | *henu | ‘fill, full’ | |
| *henuh | *henuh | ‘beads’ | |
| *heo | *heo | ‘move’ | |
| *heɗis | *heɗis | ‘pain, sick’ | |
| *hia | *hia | ‘want’ | |
| *hida | *hida | ‘how much?’ | |
| *hiri | *hiri | ‘choose’ | |
| *hitu | *hitu | ‘seven’ | |
| *hoi | *hoi | ‘dry in sun’ | |
| *hoka | *hoka | ‘call up, invite’ | |
| *holas | *holas | ‘naked’ | |
| *holu | *holu | ‘embrace, hug’ | |
| *holu | *holu | ‘heel’ | |
| *horis | *horis | ‘living’ | |
| *hosu | *hosu | ‘loosen’ | |
| *hosu | *hosu | ‘pull out’ | |
| *hotu | *hotu | ‘burn’ | |
| *huka | *huka | ‘open’ | |
| *hulu | *hulu | ‘first, in front’ | |
| *humək | *humək | ‘face, smile’ | |
| *hundi | *hundi | ‘banana’ | |
| *huŋɡa | *huŋɡa | ‘chop’ | |
| *husə | *husə | ‘navel’ | |
| *huti | *huti | ‘incite, provoke’ | |
| *hutu | *hutu | ‘rub’ | |
| *huu | *huu | ‘tree trunk, source’ | |
| *həndi | *həndi | ‘finish’ | |
| *ia | *ia | ‘here, this’ | |
| *ifa | *ifa | ‘lap’ | |
| *ika | *ika | ‘fish’ | |
| *iko | *iko | ‘tail’ | |
| *ikə | *ikə | ‘noose, snare’ | |
| *ila | *ila | ‘birthmark, freckle, mole (skin)’ | |
| *ina | *ina | ‘mother, woman’ | |
| *iŋɡu | *iŋɡu | ‘country, land, village’ | |
| *inu | *inu | ‘drink’ | |
| *inus | *inus | ‘kind of bird’ | |
| *isa | *isa | ‘bind’ | |
| *isa | *isa | ‘completely’ | |
| *isa | *isa | ‘kill’ | |
| *isa | *isa | ‘tie’ | |
| *isa | *isa | ‘win’ | |
| *isi | *isi | ‘contents, flesh of fruit’ | |
| *ita | *ita | ‘look, see’ | |
| *iu | *iu | ‘shark’ | |
| *iɗu | *iɗu | ‘nose, kiss’ | |
| *kaa | *kaa | ‘bite, clamp, pinch’ | |
| *kaa | *kaa | ‘crow’ | |
| *kae | *kae | ‘cockatoo’ | |
| *kahi | *kahi | ‘count’ | |
| *kahi | *kahi | ‘pull, push’ | |
| *kahin | *kahin | ‘prohibit, stop’ | |
| *kahu | *kahu | ‘kind of fish’ | |
| *kai | *kai | ‘hook’ | |
| *kai | *kai | ‘stiff’ | |
| *kai usu | *kai usu | ‘ribs’ | |
| *kai/ou | *kai/ou | ‘Casuarina sp.’ | |
| *kais | *kais | ‘sour’ | |
| *kaiu | *kaiu | ‘tree, wood’ | |
| *kaka | *kaka | ‘elder sibling’ | |
| *kalati | *kalati | ‘earthworm, worm’ | |
| *kali | *kali | ‘dig’ | |
| *kambe | *kambe | ‘saliva, splittle’ | |
| *kame | *kame | ‘knead’ | |
| *ka(m)i | *ka(m)i | ‘we (excl.), 1PL EXCL’ | |
| *kamiri | *kamiri | ‘candlenut’ | |
| *kao | *kao | ‘scrape, scratch’ | |
| *kara | *kara | ‘chest’ | |
| *karu | *karu | ‘scrape, scratch’ | |
| *katefuan | *katefuan | ‘hornet, wasp’ | |
| *kati | *kati | ‘call, summon’ | |
| *katə | *katə | ‘itchy’ | |
| *kaɗe | *kaɗe | ‘charcoal’ | |
| *kea | *kea | ‘turtle, tortoise’ | |
| *kees | *kees | ‘squeeze’ | |
| *kei | *kei | ‘tickle’ | |
| *kei | *kei | ‘touch’ | |
| *kela | *kela | ‘leave’ | |
| *kelas | *kelas | ‘gourd, winter melon’ | |
| *kele | *kele | ‘breathe, pant’ | |
| *kele | *kele | ‘neigh, whinny’ | |
| *keme | *keme | ‘knead’ | |
| *ke(m)i | *ke(m)i | ‘you (pl.), 2PL’ | |
| *kendi | *kendi | ‘slippery, smooth’ | |
| *keŋɡa | *keŋɡa | ‘seaweed’ | |
| *keni | *keni | ‘keel’ | |
| *kera | *kera | ‘brother‑in‑law’ | |
| *kera | *kera | ‘tickle, ticklish’ | |
| *kerumatu | *kerumatu | ‘leech’ | |
| *kesu/fani | *kesu/fani | ‘sneeze’ | |
| *ketembau | *ketembau | ‘kind of insect’ | |
| *ketu | *ketu | ‘break off, cut off’ | |
| *kibo | *kibo | ‘shellfish’ | |
| *kili | *kili | ‘tickle’ | |
| *kilu | *kilu | ‘crooked, twisted’ | |
| *kima | *kima | ‘clam’ | |
| *kiŋɡi | *kiŋɡi | ‘cockroach’ | |
| *kira | *kira | ‘hold’ | |
| *kira | *kira | ‘stingy’ | |
| *kiri | *kiri | ‘bell’ | |
| *kiri | *kiri | ‘sharpen’ | |
| *kisa | *kisa | ‘unique’ | |
| *kisi | *kisi | ‘peel’ | |
| *kita | *kita | ‘we (incl.), 1PL INCL’ | |
| *klaha | *klaha | ‘coals, embers’ | |
| *kleet | *kleet | ‘mock, tease’ | |
| *klou | *klou | ‘bow (arrow)’ | |
| *koaʔ | *koaʔ | ‘cry out’ | |
| *koaʔ | *koaʔ | ‘Friarbird’ | |
| *kodo | *kodo | ‘bird’ | |
| *koko | *koko | ‘carry’ | |
| *kona | *kona | ‘right’ | |
| *koo | *koo | ‘you (sg.), 2SG’ | |
| *koo | *koo | ‘Ziziphus mauritiana’ | |
| *koro | *koro | ‘bird, Rainbow Bee‑eater’ | |
| *koru | *koru | ‘harvest, strip leaves’ | |
| *kose | *kose | ‘rub, wipe’ | |
| *koti | *koti | ‘cut’ | |
| *koɓa | *koɓa | ‘cover’ | |
| *koɗe | *koɗe | ‘monkey’ | |
| *koɗo | *koɗo | ‘swallow’ | |
| *kua | *kua | ‘nit’ | |
| *kue | *kue | ‘civet’ | |
| *kuku | *kuku | ‘finger, toe’ | |
| *kukur | *kukur | ‘wallow’ | |
| *kumu | *kumu | ‘knead, fist’ | |
| *kuni | *kuni | ‘turmeric’ | |
| *kunu | *kunu | ‘kind of plant’ | |
| *kura | *kura | ‘scorpion’ | |
| *kuru | *kuru | ‘call chickens’ | |
| *kuru | *kuru | ‘wrinkly’ | |
| *kurus | *kurus | ‘chilli’ | |
| *kurə | *kurə | ‘jar, pot’ | |
| *kutu | *kutu | ‘head louse’ | |
| *kutus | *kutus | ‘cyclone, storm, whirlwind’ | |
| *kutə | *kutə | ‘brains’ | |
| *kutə | *kutə | ‘mantle’ | |
| *kuu | *kuu | ‘blow’ | |
| *kuun | *kuun | ‘grass’ | |
| *kənda | *kənda | ‘close (v.)’ | |
| *laa | *laa | ‘hut’ | |
| *laa | *laa | ‘kind of tree’ | |
| *laa | *laa | ‘open the eyes’ | |
| *laa | *laa | ‘sail’ | |
| *ladu | *ladu | ‘palm wine’ | |
| *lafa | *lafa | ‘kind of cloth’ | |
| *lafo | *lafo | ‘mouse, rat’ | |
| *laha | *laha | ‘hungry’ | |
| *lai | *lai | ‘fast, quick’ | |
| *lai | *lai | ‘run, flee’ | |
| *laia | *laia | ‘ginger’ | |
| *laisona | *laisona | ‘eschalot, onion, shallot’ | |
| *lako | *lako | ‘go’ | |
| *lamat | *lamat | ‘grasshopper’ | |
| *lamu | *lamu | ‘algae, seaweed’ | |
| *laŋɡa | *laŋɡa | ‘head, head hair’ | |
| *laŋɡe | *laŋɡe | ‘stocks’ | |
| *lani | *lani | ‘air, firmament, heaven’ | |
| *lanu | *lanu | ‘tired’ | |
| *lanu | *lanu | ‘uncomfortable’ | |
| *lari | *lari | ‘comb (rooster)’ | |
| *lari | *lari | ‘move location’ | |
| *larum | *larum | ‘Ficus variegata’ | |
| *lasa | *lasa | ‘underlay’ | |
| *lasi | *lasi | ‘bush, forest’ | |
| *lasi | *lasi | ‘old’ | |
| *lasə | *lasə | ‘scrotum, testicles’ | |
| *latu | *latu | ‘ripe’ | |
| *latu | *latu | ‘seaweed’ | |
| *laɓa | *laɓa | ‘entwine, wind (v.)’ | |
| *laʔus | *laʔus | ‘cactus’ | |
| *ledo | *ledo | ‘sun, day, sky’ | |
| *lee | *lee | ‘river’ | |
| *leke | *leke | ‘coil’ | |
| *leko | *leko | ‘lure’ | |
| *leku | *leku | ‘coil, winding’ | |
| *lele | *lele | ‘tight’ | |
| *lema | *lema | ‘eel, sea‑snake’ | |
| *lemba | *lemba | ‘carry’ | |
| *lemuk | *lemuk | ‘dolphin’ | |
| *lena | *lena | ‘sesame’ | |
| *lendo | *lendo | ‘dance’ | |
| *leŋɡe | *leŋɡe | ‘too much’ | |
| *leŋɡu | *leŋɡu | ‘throw’ | |
| *leo | *leo | ‘clan’ | |
| *lesu | *lesu | ‘come out’ | |
| *lesu | *lesu | ‘neck’ | |
| *lete | *lete | ‘bridge’ | |
| *lete | *lete | ‘hill, mountain’ | |
| *leu | *leu | ‘already’ | |
| *leu | *leu | ‘now’ | |
| *lifu | *lifu | ‘pool, lake, billabong’ | |
| *liha | *liha | ‘centipede’ | |
| *lii | *lii | ‘neck, sound’ | |
| *liku | *liku | ‘back’ | |
| *liku | *liku | ‘hit, knock, strike’ | |
| *lili | *lili | ‘wax’ | |
| *lilis | *lilis | ‘Calophyllum teysmannii’ | |
| *lilo | *lilo | ‘gold, silver’ | |
| *lima | *lima | ‘arm, hand’ | |
| *lima | *lima | ‘five’ | |
| *lino | *lino | ‘Grewia slutaris’ | |
| *lise | *lise | ‘Terminalia catappa’ | |
| *lisum | *lisum | ‘kind of plant’ | |
| *liɓu | *liɓu | ‘abound, teem, surround’ | |
| *liɗa | *liɗa | ‘fin, wing, edge’ | |
| *liɗe | *liɗe | ‘nerve of palm leaf’ | |
| *loe | *loe | ‘go down’ | |
| *loe | *loe | ‘listless, weak’ | |
| *lohas | *lohas | ‘clothes, equipment’ | |
| *loke | *loke | ‘hang’ | |
| *lole | *lole | ‘spool’ | |
| *lole | *lole | ‘sweet potato, taro, tuber’ | |
| *lolir | *lolir | ‘wallow, roll’ | |
| *lolo | *lolo | ‘beam, stick’ | |
| *lolo | *lolo | ‘liana, thread’ | |
| *lolo | *lolo | ‘strait, watercourse, valley’ | |
| *lolo | *lolo | ‘stretch’ | |
| *lombu | *lombu | ‘algae, duckweed, moss’ | |
| *loo | *loo | ‘household’ | |
| *loo | *loo | ‘stretch’ | |
| *lopo | *lopo | ‘hut, shelter’ | |
| *losa | *losa | ‘arrive, reach, until, up to’ | |
| *loɓa | *loɓa | ‘kind of bark (n)’ | |
| *loɓo | *loɓo | ‘hurt, tire out’ | |
| *loɗe | *loɗe | ‘stick out’ | |
| *loɗo | *loɗo | ‘straight’ | |
| *lua | *lua | ‘boil, seethe’ | |
| *lua | *lua | ‘open (adj.), wide, outside’ | |
| *lua-t | *lua-t | ‘cave’ | |
| *lui | *lui | ‘pull off, remove’ | |
| *luku | *luku | ‘bent, paralysed’ | |
| *luku | *luku | ‘spy, watch, brood’ | |
| *luli | *luli | ‘taboo’ | |
| *lulun | *lulun | ‘roll up’ | |
| *lunu | *lunu | ‘cushion, pillow’ | |
| *lusə | *lusə | ‘wrap’ | |
| *lutu | *lutu | ‘fine, small, tiny’ | |
| *lutu | *lutu | ‘pile up’ | |
| *lutə | *lutə | ‘firebrand’ | |
| *luu | *luu | ‘Ricinus communis’ | |
| *luu | *luu | ‘tears (crying)’ | |
| *ma | *ma | ‘and’ | |
| *maa | *maa | ‘tongue’ | |
| *mae | *mae | ‘ashamed, embarrassed, shy’ | |
| *mae | *mae | ‘itchy tuber’; ‘Amorphophallus sp’ | |
| *mafo | *mafo | ‘cool, shadow’ | |
| *mafu | *mafu | ‘drunk’ | |
| *mai | *mai | ‘come’ | |
| *mali | *mali | ‘bitter, brackish’ | |
| *malus | *malus | ‘betel‑pepper’ | |
| *mama | *mama | ‘chew’ | |
| *mamis | *mamis | ‘insipid, sweet’ | |
| *mamər | *mamər | ‘garden’ | |
| *mana | *mana | ‘place (n.)’ | |
| *mana | *mana | ‘relativiser’ | |
| *ma(n)at | *ma(n)at | ‘orphan, tame’ | |
| *mane | *mane | ‘king, male, prince’ | |
| *maneu | *maneu | ‘bright’ | |
| *maŋɡu | *maŋɡu | ‘dry’ | |
| *maŋɡu | *maŋɡu | ‘tired’ | |
| *manu | *manu | ‘chicken’ | |
| *masi | *masi | ‘salty’ | |
| *masu | *masu | ‘smoke, steam, vapour’ | |
| *mata | *mata | ‘eye’ | |
| *mata | *mata | ‘green, raw, unripe’ | |
| *mate | *mate | ‘die, thoroughly’ | |
| *mau | *mau | ‘grass, kind of plant’ | |
| *maus | *maus | ‘domesticated, tame, docile’ | |
| *maɗa | *maɗa | ‘dry up, evaporate’ | |
| *maɗo | *maɗo | ‘medicine, tobacco’ | |
| *mbaa | *mbaa | ‘flesh, meat’ | |
| *mbada | *mbada | ‘short’ | |
| *mbae | *mbae | ‘swell’ | |
| *mbai | *mbai | ‘rotten’ | |
| *mbaki | *mbaki | ‘beetle’ | |
| *mbala | *mbala | ‘co‑wife, concubine’ | |
| *mbalu | *mbalu | ‘cover, enclose’ | |
| *mbana | *mbana | ‘nose, tip’ | |
| *mbao | *mbao | ‘mango’ | |
| *mba-raa | *mba-raa | ‘old’ | |
| *mbau | *mbau | ‘beam’ | |
| *mbau | *mbau | ‘prick, stab, pound’ | |
| *mbela | *mbela | ‘maize, sorghum’ | |
| *mbena | *mbena | ‘fly’ | |
| *mbesik | *mbesik | ‘throw’ | |
| *mbeta | *mbeta | ‘wet’ | |
| *mbetak | *mbetak | ‘swell’ | |
| *mbeɗa | *mbeɗa | ‘place (v.), put’ | |
| *mbeʔu | *mbeʔu | ‘lie down, sleep, sleepy’ | |
| *mbii | *mbii | ‘Achilles’ tendon’ | |
| *mbii | *mbii | ‘tight’ | |
| *mbiko | *mbiko | ‘kind of coniferous tree’; ‘Podocarpus rumphii’ | |
| *mbila | *mbila | ‘blaze, flame (v.), red’ | |
| *mbinu | *mbinu | ‘snot’ | |
| *mbisa | *mbisa | ‘wild basil’ | |
| *mboes | *mboes | ‘prawn, shrimp’ | |
| *mbonu | *mbonu | ‘eyebrows, moustache, hair, mane’ | |
| *mboo | *mboo | ‘hole, wide open’ | |
| *mbori | *mbori | ‘pour’ | |
| *mboro | *mboro | ‘palm leaf’ | |
| *mbosi | *mbosi | ‘release’ |