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Language: Mele

Source/Author:  Tryon (1976) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mxe  Glottocode: mele1251 
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:Central Pacific:East Fijian-Polynesian:Polynesian:Nuclear:Samoic-Outlier:Futunic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
38 to chew word info      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
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      
104 fat/grease      
107 worm (earthworm)      
110 spider      
113 branch word info      
125 salt      
128 sky      
132 fog      
151 green      
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      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
188 what? word info afa   1  
143 fire afi   1  
117 fruit afua   1  
184 he/she aia   1  
183 thou akoe   1  
6 road/path ara   1  
146 ash arefu   67  
103 meat/flesh atai      
17 liver ate   1  
98 egg atolu   1  
182 I aβau   1, 21, 18  
138 warm word info efera   8  
188 what? word info ekua      
60 father emama L from Efate lgs 1, 10 L
149 red emea   1  
180 far emʷap      
59 mother etata      
191 all eueči   60  
200 Four word info fa   1, 66  
5 to walk fano   2  
120 stone fatu   1  
7 to come finimai   1, 23  
8 to turn word info firiu   2  
203 Seven word info fitu   1  
163 new fou   1  
157 thick word info fuka      
116 flower fuma   72  
174 in, inside i roto   5  
181 where? word info ifea   3, 35  
111 fish ika   1  
63 name iŋoa   6  
34 to cry ka   58  
37 to eat kaina   1, 47  
152 small kalakela   13  
89 to hold word info kamoa      
77 to scratch word info karučia   10  
115 root kasikoa   2, 28  
33 to laugh kata   7  
9 to swim kaukau   5  
41 to bite kačia   1, 55  
119 earth/soil kere   10  
90 to dig keria   1  
102 rat kimoa   14  
102 rat kisue   3, 88  
42 to suck komia   7  
96 dog kori   7  
186 you korua dl. x  
186 you koteu pl. 16?  
189 who? word info kuai   1  
108 louse word info kutu   1  
66 to tie up, fasten laia   14  
156 thin word info lakela      
141 wet leusa      
32 tongue limena cf. Vanuatu languages 7, 17  
142 heavy mafa   46  
139 cold word info makariri   1, 52  
158 narrow malakaokao      
127 woods/forest malasi L from Namakura or Nakanamanga 18 L
49 to lie down word info malesi      
118 grass manamu   68  
21 to think manatunatu   9  
97 bird manu   1  
164 good marie   16  
166 correct, true marie   106  
28 to breathe maro   13  
160 painful, sick masaki   1  
130 star masoi   13  
2 left masui   1, 59, 74  
45 eye mata   1  
22 to fear mataku   1  
3 right matau   5, 13  
136 wind mataŋi   1, 66  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
185 we word info mateu pl. excl. 2, 39  
140 dry word info matu   66  
185 we word info maua dl. excl. 2, 29  
81 sharp mačikai   14, 16  
95 to fall word info melu   89  
116 flower memea   18  
39 to cook word info moa   51  
48 to sleep moe   10, 109  
150 yellow monomono      
170 when? word info nafea   5  
109 mosquito namu   1  
31 tooth nifo   1  
194 how? word info nofeiŋa   11  
76 to live, be alive nofo   x  
51 to sit nofoiaro   16  
202 Six word info ono   1  
147 black paku   64  
14 belly paleleke      
19 shoulder pamu   79  
89 to hold word info pačia      
134 thunder pačiri   14  
126 lake paŋolulukutai      
100 wing pekau   1, 59  
25 neck penaua   21, 18  
11 dust penu   X  
10 dirty penupenu      
167 night po   1  
153 big poulapa L from Efate lgs 10 L
131 cloud word info puao   12, 67  
69 to hunt word info puapua      
105 tail pupue   11  
26 hair word info ra-uru   40  
187 they rateu they 1, 72  
190 other rateu   19?  
114 leaf rau   1  
187 they raua they (dual) x  
44 to hear raŋona   1, 83  
168 day rea   7  
101 to fly rere   11  
201 Five word info rima   1  
35 to vomit rua   8  
198 Two word info rua   1  
112 rotten word info sa      
165 bad, evil sa   1  
195 no, not sai   10, 84  
123 to flow sale   24  
29 to sniff, smell sauŋa   10  
46 to see seia   104  
145 smoke word info silaŋo   63  
16 intestines sinae   1  
206 Ten word info siŋafuru   5  
205 Nine word info siβa   5  
137 to blow word info suia   12  
18 breast susu   1  
20 to know, be knowledgeable taea   95  
124 sea tai   1  
72 to hit word info taia   10  
78 to cut, hack word info taia   1  
74 to kill taia-fakamatea   2  
64 to say takua   27  
56 child tama   6  
36 to spit tanue   85  
43 ear tariŋa   1  
71 to stab, pierce taroa   10  
197 One word info tasi   41  
179 near tata   9  
185 we word info tateu pl. incl. 1, 39  
169 year tau   1  
185 we word info taua dl. incl. 1, 29  
193 if tausia      
80 to split word info tawotaia   4  
53 person/human being taŋata   1, 66, 97  
54 man/male taŋata   12, 14  
57 husband taŋata   23  
61 house te-fare   14  
12 skin te-kiri   1  
1 hand te-rima   1, 64  
55 woman/female tefine   1, 35  
58 wife tefine   5, 69  
15 bone teiβi   52, 5  
52 to stand telawo   79  
94 to throw word info temala      
178 that tena   1  
177 this tenei   7, 1  
13 back word info tepua   62  
196 to count tetao   8  
148 white tetea   8  
155 long word info toetoe   73  
199 Three word info toru   1  
23 blood toto   4  
162 old word info tuai   48  
67 to sew word info tuitui   13, 16  
24 head tukonoa      
133 rain ua   1  
79 stick/wood uipa      
40 to drink unu   1  
27 nose usu   1  
121 sand waraone   1, 75  
135 lightning wira   2  
88 to squeeze word info worasukina      
83 to work word info wosiana   10, 67  
129 moon ŋale   3  
106 snake ŋata   12  
192 and ŋo L from Nakanamanga   L
30 mouth ŋutu   2  
4 leg/foot βae   1, 100  
99 feather βaero   80  
122 water word info βai   2  
204 Eight word info βaru   3  
65 rope βaβa   74  
144 to burn word info βera   63  

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