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

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