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Language: Malo (North)

Source/Author:  Tryon (1976) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mla  Glottocode: malo1243 
Notes:  Tryon, DT. 1976. New Hebrides Languages: An internal classification. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Kirsty Maurits  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:North and Central Vanuatu:Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands:West Santo 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
4 leg/foot      
29 to sniff, smell      
38 to chew word info      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
58 wife      
62 thatch/roof      
68 needle      
70 to shoot word info      
73 to steal      
82 dull, blunt      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
107 worm (earthworm)      
110 spider      
113 branch word info      
125 salt      
132 fog      
154 short word info      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
192 and      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
1 hand lima   1, 64  
2 left mar̃au   2  
3 right matua   5, 37  
5 to walk βʷanoβʷano   2  
6 road/path sala   1  
7 to come mai   1  
8 to turn word info bosi   20  
9 to swim loloso   8  
10 dirty βurixa   13  
11 dust taŋotaŋo   45  
12 skin xuri   1, 80  
13 back word info tur̃a   12  
14 belly pʰaŋe-   76  
15 bone sui   52  
16 intestines tine   1  
17 liver maᵐbue   7  
18 breast susu   1  
19 shoulder ᵐbʷili-ku   38  
20 to know, be knowledgeable roŋoβosai   19, 90  
21 to think domdom   13  
22 to fear mataxu   1  
23 blood ⁿdai   1  
24 head patu   9  
25 neck xali-   62  
26 hair word info βulu   31  
27 nose ᵐbona   51  
28 to breathe maᵐbu   14  
30 mouth čiŋo   55  
31 tooth xuⁿdu   18, 40  
32 tongue mɛmɛ   7, 41  
33 to laugh mana   51  
34 to cry ŋara   5  
35 to vomit lua   8  
36 to spit lito   37, 101  
37 to eat xanxan   1  
39 to cook word info noɣa   21  
40 to drink inu   1  
41 to bite xati   1, 55  
42 to suck romi   50, 64  
43 ear pʷeṁo   44  
44 to hear roŋo   1  
45 eye mata   1  
46 to see swari   95  
48 to sleep maturu   1  
49 to lie down word info ⁿdanⁿdan   77  
49 to lie down word info eno   1  
51 to sit ate   109  
52 to stand turu   2, 69  
53 person/human being tamaloxi   4, 53  
54 man/male tamaloxi   83  
55 woman/female βaβine   1, 106  
56 child xur̃anči      
56 child natu-   5  
57 husband tamanatu   17  
59 mother tina   1  
60 father tama   1  
61 house βanua   7  
63 name xisa   1, 35  
64 to say βiti   47  
65 rope asi   58  
66 to tie up, fasten lasi   87  
67 to sew word info siliβi   60  
69 to hunt word info unu      
71 to stab, pierce toxi      
72 to hit word info tuβa   103  
74 to kill lɔsu   59  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
76 to live, be alive mauru   1, 76  
77 to scratch word info xarosi   1, 88  
78 to cut, hack word info tai   1  
79 stick/wood sobʷe βuxai      
80 to split word info madare   62  
81 sharp βoro   78  
83 to work word info saɣasaɣa   33  
88 to squeeze word info tatani      
89 to hold word info tawri   35  
90 to dig xeli   1  
94 to throw word info blaxi   86  
95 to fall word info coβi   13  
96 dog βur̃ia   7, 75, 79  
97 bird manči aβʷaβu   24, 42  
98 egg tolu   1  
99 feather βulu   1  
100 wing xaᵐba   1, 12  
101 to fly aβu   14  
102 rat xariβi   18  
103 meat/flesh βixino   10  
104 fat/grease par̃u   45  
105 tail βiⁿdi   76  
106 snake mata   12  
108 louse word info xutu   1  
109 mosquito moɣi   1, 80  
111 fish manči   53  
112 rotten word info doβo   96  
114 leaf r̃auxai   47  
115 root xoar̃i   2, 41  
116 flower tete      
117 fruit βir̃a   38  
118 grass r̃amesumesu   51  
119 earth/soil tʰano   1  
120 stone taxasi   30  
121 sand oneone   1  
122 water word info reu   1?  
123 to flow sale   38  
124 sea tarusa      
126 lake reu sorutoxo      
127 woods/forest loβxai   2, 89  
128 sky tailaŋe   1, 61  
129 moon βitu   53  
130 star βitu sar̃asar̃a   1, 73  
131 cloud word info tʰailaŋi   3, 36  
133 rain kiri   50  
134 thunder ᵐbʷatu sari   84  
135 lightning βila   26  
136 wind laŋi   1, 77  
137 to blow word info soro   26  
138 warm word info tuntunu   12  
139 cold word info maxariri   1, 104  
140 dry word info mamasa   11  
140 dry word info roβoroβo      
141 wet aira   35, 47  
142 heavy pupuxoni   73, 74  
143 fire xaᵐbu   19  
144 to burn word info suli   4  
145 smoke word info asu   2  
146 ash ᵐbatiauβu   1, 52  
147 black βurixa   29  
148 white lulu   89, 91  
149 red ⁿdaixa   88  
150 yellow čorixa   77  
151 green malaxɛnča   8, 43  
152 small βoriβori   42  
153 big taβʷera   104  
155 long word info paraβu   16  
156 thin word info taniβniβ   1  
157 thick word info βonoxaxa   35  
158 narrow βoriβori      
160 painful, sick rončo   32  
162 old word info marancea      
162 old word info xinatuai   1, 35  
163 new xaraᵐba   9  
164 good ⁿduxu   67?  
165 bad, evil sasati   1  
166 correct, true maxɛre      
167 night ⁿdoⁿdo   68  
168 day rani   6  
169 year tauni   1  
170 when? word info saβai   73  
174 in, inside alola   1  
177 this niani      
178 that niala      
179 near maraβitu      
180 far atiɣai      
181 where? word info aᵐbe   3, 59  
182 I yaw   1, 21  
183 thou nixo   1, 18  
184 he/she nia   1, 6  
185 we word info xiⁿda pl. incl. 45  
185 we word info kamam pl. excl. 42  
185 we word info xiⁿda ɣarua dl. incl.    
185 we word info kamam ɣarua dl. excl.    
186 you kamim pl. 1, 33  
186 you kamim ɣarua dl. x  
187 they nira they 1, 33  
187 they niraɣarua they (dual) x  
188 what? word info saβa   1  
189 who? word info xise   1, 43  
190 other tinaᵐbu      
191 all isoⁿduɣu      
193 if ale      
194 how? word info soɣenasoβa      
195 no, not tete      
196 to count soⁿdo      
197 One word info atea   9  
198 Two word info a-rua   1  
199 Three word info a-tolu   1  
200 Four word info a-βati   1, 65  
201 Five word info a-lima   1  
202 Six word info ayono   1  
203 Seven word info a-ᵐbitu   1  
204 Eight word info a-walu   3  
205 Nine word info a-suwa   5  
206 Ten word info saŋaβulu   5  

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