OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Edwards (2021f): Proto-Meto

Original citation: Edwards, Owen. 2021. Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary. Canberra: ANU Press.

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Total entries: 39
Headword IPA Glosses
*arum*arum

‘cuscus’

*baba-ʔ*baba-ʔ

‘aunt, uncle’

*biae*biae

‘buffalo, cow’

*boaʔ*boaʔ

‘ten’

*dai*dai

‘comb (rooster), wattle (rooster)’

*dete*dete

‘blackboard tree’; ‘Alstonia scholaris’

*diʔu*diʔu

‘chase’

*domi*domi

‘like, love’

*etu*etu

‘therefore’

*fee*fee

‘wife, woman’

*fefa*fefa

‘mouth’

*fera*fera

‘decide, break’

*fua*fua

‘traditional religion’

*fufu*fufu

‘fontanelle’

*hae-ʔ*hae-ʔ

‘foot, leg’

*imun*imun

‘midge, mosquito’

*ka-benu*ka-benu

‘fly’

*kalusa*kalusa

‘claw, fingernail, toenail, nail’

*kase*kase

‘foreigner’

*kepe*kepe

‘tick’

*ketu-k*ketu-k

‘bedbug’

*k-teom*k-teom

‘sea urchin’

*kumu*kumu

‘wild dove, wild pigeon’

*kunu*kunu

‘breadfruit’

*kupu*kupu

‘fog’

*metam*metam

‘black, civet’

*mneas*mneas

‘husked rice’

*mone-ʔ*mone-ʔ

‘outside’

*nada*nada

‘gums’

*ŋinu*ŋinu

‘spit out’

*ruan*ruan

‘village’

*sana-ʔ*sana-ʔ

‘branch, bunch of fruit’

*sosa*sosa

‘buy, sell’

*tama*tama

‘enter’

*tana*tana

‘ask’

*teni*teni

‘again’

*tuu*tuu

‘knee’

*usi*usi

‘king, lord’

*ʔ-fenu*ʔ-fenu

‘candlenut’