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Language: Lamenu (Nikaura)

Source/Author:  Tryon (1976) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:lmu  Glottocode: lame1260 
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:Epi:Lamenu-Baki:Lamenu-Lewo 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
175 above      
191 all      
192 and      
146 ash posno-yaβi   75  
173 at      
13 back word info mʷasu-u   35  
165 bad, evil piowa   101  
14 belly mʷopʷo-u   74  
176 below      
153 big keβiu   106  
97 bird mænu   1  
147 black melkolko   41  
147 black melolo   41?  
23 blood kuru-ta   45  
15 bone pur-iu   71  
113 branch word info      
18 breast mra-yu-u   47  
56 child nar-u   5  
131 cloud word info lul   93  
139 cold word info manin   1, 99  
139 cold word info miapa      
166 correct, true mesmesu straight x  
168 day leŋiena   6  
10 dirty namname   65  
96 dog lo-kuli   7 L
140 dry word info me-mæ   11  
82 dull, blunt      
11 dust yaw   1  
43 ear kiliŋa-u   1, 41  
119 earth/soil poro-tano   1, 67  
98 egg koβlu lakaporo   1, 70  
204 Eight word info o-relu   7  
45 eye kila-mæræ-u   1  
180 far      
104 fat/grease      
60 father ata Address term 19  
60 father tete Address term 19  
99 feather βilu-s   1  
208 Fifty word info      
143 fire kapi   19  
111 fish ika   1  
201 Five word info limæ   1  
116 flower βinasia   56  
132 fog mʷanin   64  
200 Four word info βæri   1, 65  
117 fruit məraki   36  
164 good po   108  
118 grass βilumʷini   31  
151 green memaena   8, 71  
26 hair word info βilu par-u   31, 60  
1 hand luma-u   1, 64  
184 he/she naŋa   1, 6  
24 head par-u   9  
142 heavy wurmi   78  
61 house yumʷa   1  
194 how? word info      
57 husband wo-u   2, 59  
182 I inu   1, 21, 22  
193 if      
174 in, inside      
16 intestines sine-u   1  
126 lake      
114 leaf mʷaki   46  
2 left mʷel   1, 59  
4 leg/foot la-u   30  
135 lightning yo-pila   26, 70, 72  
17 liver puri-are   34  
155 long word info piaβi   16  
108 louse word info kuru   1  
54 man/male yirumʷen   1, 14  
54 man/male yaru      
103 meat/flesh klamʷiyu   15, 81, 82  
129 moon kupario   6, 29  
109 mosquito nam   1  
59 mother awia   49  
59 mother mama   5  
30 mouth ŋo-u   80  
63 name sa·ki   1, 39  
63 name kia   66  
158 narrow βetomaki small x  
179 near      
25 neck komelkiu   82  
68 needle      
163 new wuru-βiu   10, 59  
167 night lemæliko   65  
205 Nine word info o-βæri   20  
195 no, not      
27 nose kunu-u   1, 58  
162 old word info wuru-mæruwa   1  
197 One word info taŋa   14, 78  
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
190 other      
160 painful, sick mai   1  
53 person/human being yaru   57  
133 rain yuwa   1  
102 rat kawe   3  
149 red pœwæŋa   91  
3 right mæruæ   5, 37  
6 road/path mrapa   41  
115 root pʷeliŋa   45, 47  
65 rope kelika   5  
112 rotten word info menunu   51  
125 salt      
121 sand n-one   1  
124 sea si   1  
203 Seven word info o-lua   2  
81 sharp ma·li   14, 79, 81  
154 short word info      
19 shoulder purkau ne-u   21  
161 shy, ashamed      
202 Six word info orai   24  
12 skin kulusia   1  
128 sky sinapani   29  
152 small βitokaki   104  
145 smoke word info piu      
106 snake lo-mʷara   12  
110 spider      
130 star weruwe   70  
79 stick/wood laki   1, 25  
120 stone kila-βæru   1, 40  
105 tail kesina   61  
206 Ten word info lualimæ   4  
178 that      
62 thatch/roof      
187 they lala they 1, 48  
187 they lalua they (dual) x  
157 thick word info merorol   3  
156 thin word info meniniβ   1  
177 this      
183 thou ko   1, 17  
199 Three word info telu   1  
134 thunder polilu   83  
41 to bite -karia   1, 55  
137 to blow word info -yuia   62  
28 to breathe -yuwewe   62  
144 to burn word info -skaβia   84  
91 to buy      
38 to chew word info      
85 to choose      
172 to climb word info      
7 to come -imi   1  
39 to cook word info manowa   21  
196 to count -wuloia **(wu)loia 81  
34 to cry -taŋi   1  
78 to cut, hack word info -tea   1  
75 to die, be dead -mære   1  
90 to dig -kilia   1  
50 to dream      
40 to drink -munia   1, 73  
37 to eat -kinana   1  
95 to fall word info -loru   7  
22 to fear -mærau   1  
123 to flow -kəriri =run 60  
101 to fly -ka   14  
86 to grow word info      
44 to hear -loŋe   1  
171 to hide word info      
72 to hit word info -wea   93  
89 to hold word info -lararia   3?  
69 to hunt word info -mʷena      
74 to kill -we mʷaria   66, 2  
20 to know, be knowledgeable -kilia   18  
33 to laugh -βitale   84  
49 to lie down word info -mono   15  
76 to live, be alive -mali   1, 76  
92 to open, uncover      
84 to plant      
93 to pound, beat word info      
64 to say -βisi   47  
77 to scratch word info -kupʷaria   73  
46 to see -βisuia   86  
67 to sew word info -suluia   60  
70 to shoot word info      
51 to sit -totano   1  
48 to sleep -mono   19  
29 to sniff, smell -loponia   76  
36 to spit -βlasir   104  
80 to split word info -tepaia   4, 6  
88 to squeeze word info -winia   87  
71 to stab, pierce -yelia   14  
71 to stab, pierce yuria   14  
52 to stand -sumalu   25  
73 to steal      
42 to suck -munia   11, 52  
87 to swell word info      
9 to swim -kulu   71  
21 to think -sdomia   13, 51  
94 to throw word info -koβenia   85  
66 to tie up, fasten -tərania   95  
8 to turn word info -βiloŋ-ko   4?  
35 to vomit -lilua   8  
5 to walk -yali Loan word from Mate/ Filakara/ Nul? 10, 63  
83 to work word info yumʷaena   1, 89  
47 to yawn      
32 tongue puru-mene-u   7, 43  
31 tooth mæ-luwo-u   1, 35, 43  
207 Twenty word info      
198 Two word info lua   1  
138 warm word info pisinu   89  
122 water word info wi   2  
185 we word info ita pl. incl. I  
185 we word info imimi pl. excl. E  
185 we word info ita lua dl. incl.    
185 we word info imimlua dl. excl.    
141 wet pa·pa      
188 what? word info yane   1  
170 when? word info poŋia   72  
181 where? word info pe   3, 59  
148 white miuwowo   98, 101  
189 who? word info hane   64  
189 who? word info ai   1  
159 wide      
58 wife wo-u   1, 57  
136 wind laŋ   1, 77  
100 wing kupena   2, 62  
55 woman/female sira   79  
127 woods/forest yomarua   79  
107 worm (earthworm)      
169 year kasia   66  
150 yellow m-leleru   76  
186 you amiu pl. 1, 13  
186 you amiulua dl. x  

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