OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Mead (1998m): Mori Atas

Original citation: Mead, David. 1998. Proto-Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. PhD thesis, Rice University.

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Headword IPA Glosses
ahuiahui

‘bamboo water container’

anaana

‘child, offspring’

andand

‘big, large’

apuiapui

‘fire’

ariari

‘already’

aroaro

‘front’

asaasa

‘one’

asease

‘chin’

asoaso

‘one’

ateate

‘liver’

atoato

‘roofing thatch, sad, small carry basket made of sagopalm bark (for men)’

benubenu

‘coconut’

biribiri

‘ear’

bongoboŋo

‘deaf’

bungabuŋa

‘flower’

bungkubuŋku

‘back’

buukebuuke

‘full’

dahudahu

‘dog’

eloelo

‘tongue’

emeeme

‘liquid’

enseense

‘ladder’

gawuɡaβu

‘mist’

hakahaka

‘root’

henuhenu

‘shame’

hikuhiku

‘elbow’

hoduhodu

‘hiccup’

holueholue

‘ladle’

horihori

‘side, rib’

hulehule

‘heart’

hulohulo

‘torch, resin’

iaia

‘lines in the palm of the hand, leaf veins’

ihiihi

‘flesh, contents’

inieinie

‘village’

inipieinipie

‘some unspecified time before today, other day, when?’

inipuainipua

‘day after tomorrow’

ipaliipali

‘forbidden, taboo’

irowaiiroβai

‘female’

kekekeke

‘carry under the arm’

kirekire

‘eyebrow’

kolorokoloro

‘twine’

kombisikombisi

‘cheek’

kompokompo

‘belly’

konokono

‘hit, touch’

kulikuli

‘skin’

kurokuro

‘cooking pot’

kusukusu

‘louse’

laloilaloi

‘fly’

langkailaŋkai

‘great, big’

larolaro

‘inside’

li'oholiʔoho

‘louse egg’

limalima

‘five’

lintalinta

‘leech’

maimai

‘go in a hither direction, come’

masa'amasaʔa

‘bad, foul, rotten’

matamata

‘eye’

matemate

‘dead, breath’

mehapumehapu

‘deny’

mekarasimekarasi

‘very strong’

menanimenani

‘sing’

mentaamentaa

‘long’

mewangumeβaŋu

‘wake up’

mewunsomeβunso

‘fill’

mo'etomoʔeto

‘black’

mo'ipimoʔipi

‘dream’

mo'o'owimoʔoʔoβi

‘brood’

mo'usemoʔuse

‘pound, stamp’

moaimoai

‘burn (trans.)’

mobongomoboŋo

‘deaf’

moholeimoholei

‘roast’

mokokatomokokato

‘itch, itchy’

moluemolue

‘great in surface area, extensive, vast, broad’

momaamomaa

‘yawn’

momonemomone

‘ascend, climb (as a tree)’

mompoweamompoβea

‘give’

mompoweangakomompoβeaŋako

‘give’

mompoweimompoβei

‘give’

mompuaimompuai

‘dry in the sun’

monahumonahu

‘cook’

monangoimonaŋoi

‘swim’

mondasumondasu

‘blunt’

monggaamoŋɡaa

‘eat’

monggitomoŋɡito

‘see’

monggunimoŋɡuni

‘yellow’

mongkitomoŋkito

‘see’

mongkunimoŋkuni

‘yellow’

monguromoŋuro

‘young’

monseremonsere

‘kill (with a cut in the neck)’

monsu'umonsuʔu

‘carry on the head’

monta'amontaʔa

‘id’

montanumontanu

‘bury s.th.’

montulumontulu

‘invitation’

mopa'imopaʔi

‘bitter’

morinimorini

‘cold (as of water)’

morongoimoroŋoi

‘hear’

mosu'imosuʔi

‘dry’

mosuimosui

‘dry’

motahamotaha

‘red’

mototaomototao

‘laugh’

moturimoturi

‘sleep’

mowawomoβaβo

‘bring’

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