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Language: Bilur

Resources:

•  Ethnologue Information for bxf
•  OLAC Information for bxf
•  Bill Palmer's Northwest Solomonic materials
•  [Suggest a resource]

Change History:

Showing all of 12 entries

• Changed "classification" from "Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Meso Melanesian, New Ireland, South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic" - Malcolm Ross (2015-05-27 18:39:43)
• Changed "problems" from "" - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105895 from "I tamo", "", "", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105910 from "I ke", "is sitting", "20", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105988 from "I ungian", "hot", "", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105989 from "I kotokoto", "'I' is a capital 'eye'", "", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105996 from "I mok morom", "", "", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105997 from "I pua", "", "29", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105998 from "I tar", "", "", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Changed #105999 from "Ingiliau", "", "", "" (Word 65535) - (2008-01-31 00:29:17)
• Updated Language Details - Simon Greenhill (2006-06-25 15:11:27)
• Language Added - Simon Greenhill (2006-06-25 15:05:55)

Entries:

ID:	Word:	Item:	Annotation:	Cognacy:	Loan:
1	hand	akuna		40
1	hand	a kuna	arm	40
2	left	ainor
3	right	a ot		18
4	leg/foot	a kikina		1
4	leg/foot	na kikina		1
5	to walk	i vanan		2
5	to walk	i van	(he) goes	2
6	road/path	a dip
7	to come	va go rit
8	to turn	i pupukuai		35
9	to swim	i a lin		44
10	dirty	idur		68
11	dust	otobon		62
12	skin	a palaono	could be: a pa la ono	30
13	back	a taruna		12
14	belly
15	bone	a urina		52
16	intestines	o unau no balana		26, 28
17	liver	o buaina		18
18	breast	o una		1
18	breast	a nun gir na box	chest	3
19	shoulder	a kaba kuna
20	to know, be knowledgeable	i nunuran		53
21	to think
22	to fear	i bukur vanatnat
23	blood	na gap		5
24	head	euna
25	neck	aruana
26	hair	akatkat-neuna		75
27	nose	oleuna
28	to breathe	ilo vuvu		49
29	to sniff, smell	i nug na ur magit	ur could be or
30	mouth	avana		36
31	tooth	nangiene		24
31	tooth	na goro na ngiene	molar tooth	24
32	tongue	okaramepipi	pipi could be: didi	7, 14
33	to laugh	i ar kobor
34	to cry	i tangi		1
35	to vomit
36	to spit	tarauset	Spittle
37	to eat	i tamo		40
38	to chew	i mame	(he) chews (betelnut)	1
39	to cook	it papava a tio ma ran	bakes (in earth oven)	52
39	to cook	i tutun a tio ma iap	bakes (over fire)	9
39	to cook	na malum iniap	water boils
40	to drink	iap	could be: iop	22
41	to bite	apap iarkakarat	(dog) bites	1
42	to suck	a kalikit i uu		25
43	ear	olingene		1
44	to hear	i logor		1, 36
45	eye	omatana		1
46	to see	i nei
47	to yawn	i muiap		19
48	to sleep	i bor bor		83
49	to lie down
50	to dream	i irereap	a dream	35
51	to sit	i ke	is sitting	20
52	to stand	i tuktur	is standing	2
53	person/human being	tulungen	could be: tulunyen
54	man/male	ame
55	woman/female	avaina		1, 106
56	child	a nuna kalkit
57	husband	nuna me
58	wife	nuna vaina		5, 68
59	mother	enano		1, 42
60	father	kokono		42
61	house	a pal		14
62	thatch/roof
63	name	aiana		66
64	to say	i urek
65	rope	ololo	string	2
66	to tie up, fasten	i kubu okukubu		51
66	to tie up, fasten	i kubu oina	(he) ties (a knot)	51
67	to sew	i git		43
68	needle
69	to hunt	i papanak tur va many		53
70	to shoot	i panak i mo vuvur		1
71	to stab, pierce
72	to hit	i varum	(he) fights	44
73	to steal
74	to kill	i amat a bor noi	could be: nai	2
75	to die, be dead	i mat		1
76	to live, be alive	a boroi ki do	living (pig)	30
77	to scratch	i karunono		44
78	to cut, hack	i poko a bo roi	= he cuts a pig	56
79	stick/wood	ovai		1
80	to split	i parak na vovai		88
81	sharp	o matan na pul		14
82	dull, blunt
83	to work	ipa piat
84	to plant	i ing na kau kau		41
85	to choose
86	to grow	na ur magit itur	(plant) grows
87	to swell	imaladir	could be: i maladir
88	to squeeze	i karu o marang
89	to hold	i tolo a kuma
90	to dig	igan	or: i gan	1
91	to buy
92	to open, uncover	i apang a taman		30
93	to pound, beat
94	to throw	i mibira o vai
95	to fall
96	dog	apap		37
97	bird	o manu		1
98	egg	okiau		31
99	feather	o pulina		1
100	wing	a bebeana	could be: a be beana	34
101	to fly	o manu i mobo	(bird) flies
102	rat	a kue		3
103	meat/flesh	na mit		38, 61
103	meat/flesh	viono		10
104	fat/grease
105	tail	otapupuna
106	snake	aoi		17
107	worm (earthworm)	ogagaulam
108	louse	aut		1
109	mosquito	onam		1
110	spider	a kabilak		28
111	fish	oi
112	rotten	ove i marut		49
113	branch	a rakana		1
114	leaf	opakavai		12
115	root	ovakarai		37
116	flower	o purpur	could be: o pur pur	13	L?
117	fruit
118	grass	o korkor		95
118	grass	ore	kunai
119	earth/soil	apiv		88
120	stone	ovat		1
121	sand	nana
122	water	namalum		44
123	to flow
124	sea	atai		1
125	salt	sol	loan		L
126	lake	a kabalom	lagoon
127	woods/forest	o lokor		46
128	sky	a bakut		30
129	moon	a ka lag		26
130	star	o kan kanmui		80
131	cloud	a bakut		45
132	fog	omi
133	rain	i to von
134	thunder	a pipi
135	lightning	a pala palai	could be: palapalai
136	wind	wuwu	(wind) blows	33
137	to blow	i wuwu		6
138	warm	i ungian	hot
139	cold	i kotokoto	'I' is a capital 'eye'	124
140	dry	na matetek na ma lu		101
141	wet	na polo na malu
142	heavy
143	fire	aiap		1
144	to burn	aiap-iot		72
144	to burn	na kor kor i muu	burns (grass)
145	smoke	omi		39
146	ash
147	black	i mok morom
148	white	i pua		29
149	red	i tar		72
150	yellow	ingiliau
151	green	i lan
152	small	a nat nabora		41
153	big	a gnir na boroi
154	short	a tuk		66
155	long	l ba ra barap	can't tell whether the 'l' is a capital 'eye' or a small 'ell'	16
156	thin
157	thick
158	narrow	a nat na ga
159	wide	i tamaba		37
160	painful, sick	a manua	a sore	49
160	painful, sick	i dik nono	a pain
161	shy, ashamed
162	old	a maula na pal	(of house)	x
163	new	a ka la ma na na pal
164	good	akonapal	could be: a konapal
165	bad, evil	kir	also koina
166	correct, true	i rail api koina	correct, right
167	night	i morom		20
168	day	i kiap
169	year	kilala		35
170	when?
171	to hide
172	to climb
173	at
174	in, inside
175	above
176	below
177	this	a pal kiti		15
178	that	a pa ire vatatap	that (nearby)
178	that	kara pal itapokot	that (far away)
179	near
180	far
181	where?
182	I	iau		1, 21
183	thou	vu	you (sing.)	34
184	he/she	toan	he	x
184	he/she	tean	she	x
185	we	mia	we two (excl)
185	we	mia vaurua	we two (incl.)
185	we	oala	we (excl.)
185	we	oala	we (incl.)
185	we	dotolvatulua	we three (excl.)
185	we	dala vatulua	we three (incl.)
186	you	mula	you (pl.)	26
186	you	mutol vatulua	you	x
187	they	diavaurua	they two	x
187	they	la	they (plural)	1, 70
187	they	la vatulua	they three	x
188	what?	a		1
189	who?	ii		1, 28
190	other	la
191	all	larap		88
192	and
193	if
194	how?
195	no, not	kir runa ta balbali tu ia tiri ano	= no (answer to question)
196	to count	i luluk		30
197	One	anig
198	Two	uru		1
199	Three	tulua		1
200	Four	vauat		1
201	Five	lima		1
202	Six	nono		1
203	Seven
204	Eight
205	Nine	latia		5
206	Ten	naaulu		5
207	Twenty
208	Fifty
209	One Hundred	a mar		6
210	One Thousand	a rip		5

© 2003-2024: Simon J. Greenhill , Robert Blust, & Russell Gray. (0.00855)

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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