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Language: Xârâgurè

Resources:

•  ABVD: Alternate Wordlist for ‘Aragùrɛ
•  Ethnologue Information for axx
•  OLAC Information for axx
•  [Suggest a resource]

Change History:

Showing all of 10 entries

• Updated Language Details - Simon Greenhill (2021-05-14 05:18:21)
• Changed #3225002 from "mʷãrĩ (1) mʷetɨ (2)", "(1) Means 'to swim with the head obove the surface of the water' (2) Means 'to swim with the head under the surface of the water'", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Changed #3225028 from "mã: (1) xʷi: (2)", "(1) Seems to be related to the activity of chewing some leaf (2) Means 'to chew, suck some sugar cane'", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Changed #3225037 from "ⁿdomɛ (1) mʌruki (2)", "(1) This lexical item is used as a verb (2) This lexical item can be used as a verb or a noun", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Changed #3225055 from "pwɛkɛ (1) çikɛ (2)", "(1) This lexical item seems to used with the meaning of 'stabbing an animate entity' (2) This lexical item means 'to pierce with a khnife' with no further specification of wheiter it is used for animate or inanimate entities", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Changed #3225058 from "ʃamɛ (1) fiãmɛ (2) ta:mɛ (3)", "(1) With a sharp object (2) With a big peice of wood (3) With a knife", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Changed #3225113 from "a. mɔrɔ b. xamɔrɔ", "", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Changed #3225161 from "açi: (1) çiɛ, çi: (2)", "(1) Marking the negative polarity of a sentence (2) Means 'no', and 'denial'", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:59)
• Updated Language Details - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:56:08)
• Language Added - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 08:55:12)

Entries:

ID:	Word:	Item:	Annotation:	Cognacy:	Loan:
1	hand	mɛ		14
2	left	xɛ̃ⁿdɛja:		39
3	right	xɛ̃ⁿdɛũrũ		23
4	leg/foot	pa		33
5	to walk
6	road/path	ɨfʌ̃ⁿdɔ
7	to come	mɛ		1
8	to turn
9	to swim	mʷãrĩ (1)	'to swim with the head above the surface of the water'
9	to swim	mʷetɨ (2)	'to swim with the head under the surface of the water'
10	dirty	xãⁿdɨ
11	dust	meⁿde
12	skin	kʌ̃rʌ̃	The distinction between those two lexical items is not clear	1
12	skin	pirɛ
13	back	ⁿdə:
14	belly	pwe
15	bone	ɲĩ:-
16	intestines
17	liver	ⁿdɛ̃
18	breast	ᶮɈi		1
19	shoulder	pu:mɛ̃
20	to know, be knowledgeable	nɛxʌ̃
21	to think	punʌ:
22	to fear	ᵐbara
23	blood	maⁿda
24	head	ᵐbʷa
25	neck	winɔ
26	hair
27	nose	kũ
28	to breathe
29	to sniff, smell	ᵐbu:rɛ
30	mouth	naxʷã
31	tooth	no
32	tongue	kurumɛ		7, 14
33	to laugh	mʷãrã
34	to cry	tɛ:i
35	to vomit	ᵑgɔ:
35	to vomit	ᵑgowi
36	to spit	mawi
37	to eat	ⁿda		39
38	to chew	mã:	Seems to be related to the activity of chewing some leaf
38	to chew	xʷi:	'to chew, suck some sugar cane'
39	to cook	ʃutã:	b.
39	to cook	xutã:
40	to drink
41	to bite	kɛkɛ		1
42	to suck	ᶮɈɨ
43	ear	xʷãnɛ
44	to hear	xʷara
45	eye
46	to see
47	to yawn	po:əa
48	to sleep	mʌruçe
49	to lie down	mʌru
50	to dream	ⁿdomɛ	This lexical item is used as a verb
50	to dream	mʌruki	This lexical item can be used as a verb or a noun
51	to sit	tũᵐbanɛ:	Means 'to sit on something'
52	to stand	tã:
53	person/human being	kamũrũ
54	man/male
55	woman/female	çɛ̃
56	child	xũ:ʃĩ
57	husband	kɔrɔ
58	wife	kʷɛ̃:
59	mother	mʷĩɲɛ
60	father	panɛ:
61	house	mʷã		1
62	thatch/roof	ᵐbʷa:mʷã
63	name	ne:
64	to say	xʌ̃
65	rope	kʷi:
66	to tie up, fasten	fʌi	The distinction between those two lexical items is not clear
66	to tie up, fasten	çuru
67	to sew	ᶮɈipuru
68	needle
69	to hunt
70	to shoot	pɔkɛ	Means ' to shoot with a rifle'
71	to stab, pierce	pwɛkɛ	This lexical item seems to used with the meaning of 'stabbing an animate entity'
71	to stab, pierce	çikɛ	This lexical item means 'to pierce with a knife' with no further specification of whether it is used for animate or inanimate entities
72	to hit	fĩwi	'To hit with a stick to make a fruit fall over'
73	to steal	pɛ̃ⁿdɛ
74	to kill	fiãmɛ	With a big piece of wood
74	to kill	ʃamɛ	With a sharp object
74	to kill	ta:mɛ	With a knife
75	to die, be dead	pahi	Also means 'to be sick'
76	to live, be alive
77	to scratch	ɨkon
78	to cut, hack	para
79	stick/wood
80	to split
81	sharp
82	dull, blunt
83	to work	ᵐba	The distinction between those two lexical items is not clear
83	to work	mara
84	to plant	nɛ̃ĩ
85	to choose	pi:cɛ
86	to grow	tuɛ	The examples provided in the source lexicon for this word only contain vegetable 'growing up'
87	to swell	ce:
88	to squeeze
89	to hold	çã:nɛ:
90	to dig	ᶮɈa
91	to buy	xãⁿdɨ:
91	to buy	hãⁿdɨ:
92	to open, uncover	cũ:
93	to pound, beat	çɔkai
94	to throw	ᵑgʷere
95	to fall	xʷɛ̃:
96	dog	to:ke		92
97	bird	mãⁿdɨ
98	egg	xɔ
99	feather	pũrũ
100	wing
101	to fly	cĩ:
102	rat	çi:ᵐbɨ
103	meat/flesh	piɔ
104	fat/grease
105	tail
106	snake	marãⁿdi:	'Sea snake', there are no land snake in New Caledonia
107	worm (earthworm)	xariⁿdɔ:
108	louse	kɨrɨ
109	mosquito	nõ:
110	spider	mʷãkũã
111	fish	maɛ
112	rotten	ʃə:xu
113	branch	mɛ:
114	leaf	nɛmɛ:
115	root	kɔ:-
116	flower	pũrũ
117	fruit	pwã
118	grass	mɛi
119	earth/soil	ⁿdawa		1
119	earth/soil	neⁿdawa
120	stone	pʌru
121	sand	çõkʷe
122	water
123	to flow	ᶮɈɔ
124	sea	nɛkʷeta:
125	salt	cɔ:rɔ
126	lake
127	woods/forest	nɛmɔ:
128	sky	nɛxoa
129	moon	mʷea		52
130	star	apɛ̃rɛ̃ⁿda
131	cloud	kɔ		12
132	fog	tika
133	rain	kʷiɛ
134	thunder	nɛtɔ
135	lightning	çĩmĩãkatɛ
136	wind	kʷãⁿdɛ
137	to blow	b. ʃuɛ
138	warm	mɛ̃ᵑgi
139	cold	mɨ̃:
140	dry	mɔrɔ	a.
140	dry	xamɔrɔ	b.
141	wet	mi:
142	heavy	mɛçe:
143	fire	nɛ		46
144	to burn	ʃũrũ
145	smoke	kũ
146	ash	xatɛ		94
147	black	ŋɨ̃rɨ̃		105
148	white	pwãrã
149	red	mea		1
150	yellow
151	green	kõⁿdɔ	Means 'blue, green'
152	small
153	big	çe	Means 'big, tall, elder'	125
154	short	xɨᵐbʷɛ
155	long	mʷaɛ	Given without any further specification
156	thin
157	thick
158	narrow
159	wide
160	painful, sick	paji	Also means 'to be bead'
161	shy, ashamed	cara	Means 'to be ashamed'
162	old	ᵐbjɛ̃:rĩ
163	new	mara	Also means 'green as food, uncooked' as well as 'new'
164	good	axɔru
165	bad, evil	ça:		1, 99
166	correct, true	ⁿdɔ		94
167	night	mõ
168	day	ⁿda:		6
169	year	xʷãⁿda:
170	when?	anĩ:
171	to hide	kɔ:		65
172	to climb	kɛ:
173	at	nɔ
173	at	nɔ:
174	in, inside	ʃu:	The distinction between the use of those two lexical items is not clear
174	in, inside	nɛpwe
175	above	ⁿdɛaxʷɛ
176	below	ⁿdɛanʌ̃
177	this	a
178	that
179	near	xɨᵐbɛ
180	far	mʷaɛ
181	where?	i	The distinction between those two lexical items is not clear
181	where?	nɔ:i
182	I	ᵑgɔ
183	thou	kɔ
184	he/she	ɲĩ
185	we	inɛ
186	you	niɛ
187	they	ɲʌ̃rʌ̃
188	what?	ᶮɈirɔ:
189	who?	-pɛ
190	other	we
191	all	wãnĩ:
192	and	mɛ̃		2
193	if	ⁿdɔ:mɛ
193	if	ⁿdɔ:nʌ̃mɛ
194	how?	xaɛkɛ:
195	no, not	açi:	Marking the negative polarity of a sentence
195	no, not	çiɛ	Means 'no', and 'denial'
195	no, not	çi:	Means 'no', and 'denial'
196	to count	fãrã	Also means 'to read'	1
197	One	xa:
197	One	ʃa:
198	Two	ᵐbaxuru
199	Three	ᵐbaʃe:
200	Four	kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ
201	Five	xã:rɛ̃ mɛ̃
202	Six	xã:rɛ̃ mɛ̃ mɛ̃ ʃa:
203	Seven	xã:rɛ̃ mɛ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaxuru
204	Eight	xã:rɛ̃ mɛ̃ mɛ̃ ᵐbaʃe:
205	Nine	xã:rɛ̃ mɛ̃ mɛ̃ kɛ̃rɛ̃fɨɛ
206	Ten	ᵐbaxuru mɛ̃
207	Twenty
208	Fifty
209	One Hundred
210	One Thousand

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Please cite: Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

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