OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Fricke (2019c): Proto-Lamaholot

Original citation: Fricke, Hanna. 2019. Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia. PhD thesis, Leiden University.
Notes on this source: If no Proto-Flores-Lembata form can be reconstructed but a set of similar forms is attested, Fricke (2019) gives a form that could potentially be a PFL reconstruction based on reversing the sound changes they undergo in the subgroups. These unreconstructed forms are marked with a hash tag (#), instead of an asterisk (*). A form marked by # thus refers to a lexeme shared by several subgroups but which, based on current knowledge, is not reconstructable to a proto-language.

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Total entries: 69
Headword IPA Glosses
#(a)luŋu#(a)luŋu

‘river, stream’

#bati#bati

‘hunt’

#baya#baya

‘promise’

#bisu#bisu

‘cook’

#blolo#blolo

‘tall’

#bua#bua

‘sail’

#bərəkət#bərəkət

‘sharp’

#dani#dani

‘hit (drum)’

#dəkət#dəkət

‘sharp’

#esari nai#esari nai

‘breathe’

#gekay#ɡekay

‘laugh’

#gesak#ɡesak

‘other’

#glasa#ɡlasa

‘play’

#golo#ɡolo

‘tall’

#gəni#ɡəni

‘fight’

#henaku#henaku

‘who’

#hopi#hopi

‘buy’

#kiri#kiri

‘comb’

#kluok#kluok

‘uncooked rice’

#knaru#knaru

‘back’

#kote#kote

‘head’

#kromi#kromi

‘rat’

#latar#latar

‘hair’

#lerek#lerek

‘flat, stream, river’

#loka#loka

‘let go’

#luvak#luvak

‘sun’

#luʔo#luʔo

‘thatch for roofing’

#ləŋat#ləŋat

‘fall from above’

#m<an>akap#m<an>akap

‘sorcerer’

#madu#madu

‘grasshopper’

#magar#maɡar

‘rack above hearth’

#mopa#mopa

‘straight’

#məna#məna

‘vagina’

#nakiŋ#nakiŋ

‘promise’

#nudəp#nudəp

‘heel’

#oli#oli

‘come’

#pavaŋ#pavaŋ

‘lie (position for things)’

#pehen#pehen

‘grasp, hold’

#petən#petən

‘think’

#piʔuk#piʔuk

‘squeeze’

#plati#plati

‘hot’

#prəvak#prəvak

‘thick’

#puka#puka

‘stem’

#pənəŋe#pənəŋe

‘thick’

#pərino#pərino

‘spit’

#raaŋ#raaŋ

‘voice’

#ravuk#ravuk

‘body hair, feather’

#sodam#sodam

‘smell’

#soga#soɡa

‘hold’

#soroŋ#soroŋ

‘hide’

#svaol#svaol

‘all’

#səgat#səɡat

‘stab’

#tapan#tapan

‘answer’

#tnakar#tnakar

‘thatched roof’

#toʔu#toʔu

‘one’

#turu#turu

‘dream’

#ugadak#uɡadak

‘wound’

#umaŋ#umaŋ

‘hole’

#vahak#vahak

‘finished’

#vekan#vekan

‘divide’

#vidu#vidu

‘pull’

#əvan#əvan

‘accuse’

*blolo*blolo

‘tall’

*golo*ɡolo

‘tall’

*kati*kati

‘hot’

*knavi*knavi

‘door’

*kənito*kənito

‘forehead’

*maluv*maluv

‘hungry’

*navak*navak

‘body’