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

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