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Language: Bulu

Source/Author:  Ross, M. Pers. Comm 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:bjl  Glottocode: bulu1253 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:Willaumez 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
10 dirty      
21 to think      
50 to dream      
64 to say      
65 rope      
68 needle      
82 dull, blunt      
85 to choose      
91 to buy      
93 to pound, beat word info      
101 to fly      
116 flower      
117 fruit      
123 to flow      
126 lake      
132 fog      
135 lightning      
142 heavy      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
179 near      
181 where? word info      
190 other      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
203 Seven word info      
204 Eight word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
3 right kalapana      
4 leg/foot virichona      
5 to walk rarachurachu      
11 dust milimili      
20 to know, be knowledgeable save Tok Pisin loan   L
22 to fear kuani      
24 head varuna Looks like a loan from an Oceanic language   L
28 to breathe hua nginoro      
29 to sniff, smell rigo      
39 to cook word info kuku Probable loan   L
42 to suck ruru      
46 to see vusivusi      
47 to yawn ngavalolo      
48 to sleep makalukalu      
49 to lie down word info makalu dua      
57 husband matuchana      
58 wife matuchana      
59 mother tamarena      
62 thatch/roof kapi      
66 to tie up, fasten topi      
71 to stab, pierce padi      
80 to split word info tate      
83 to work word info wokowoko bokoboko   L?
84 to plant vano      
86 to grow word info laba      
87 to swell word info vari      
92 to open, uncover lobe      
94 to throw word info tapu      
103 meat/flesh balimomo      
107 worm (earthworm) balichua      
110 spider kumuge      
112 rotten word info ropo      
115 root akalaka chai      
118 grass garasi     L
119 earth/soil sitano      
121 sand bike      
134 thunder mariaba upu      
139 cold word info kalolova      
140 dry word info kere      
141 wet bune      
144 to burn word info rorocho      
146 ash kato      
147 black kavuvu      
153 big koru      
162 old word info huma ka rapurapuka      
164 good gora      
165 bad, evil bauka      
166 correct, true rochotaka      
171 to hide word info rusiche      
177 this kanakoi      
178 that kanakai kanakaie    
185 we word info sitou incl.    
185 we word info mami excl.    
189 who? word info ene      
191 all reteu      
195 no, not banika      
209 One Hundred word info rangavulu rangavulu      
210 One Thousand word info vulunga      
6 road/path dala   1  
7 to come maimai   1  
12 skin kulina   1  
17 liver chateburaburana   1  
18 breast ruruna   1  
23 blood darana   1  
27 nose iruna   1  
34 to cry tangitangi   1  
37 to eat chani   1  
38 to chew word info mamama   1  
40 to drink chinu   1  
43 ear talingana   1  
45 eye matana   1  
60 father tamana   1  
61 house luma   1  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
79 stick/wood chai   1  
97 bird manu   1  
98 egg chatelu   1  
105 tail ikuna   1  
108 louse word info ɣutu   1  
111 fish icha   1  
113 branch word info lachana chai   1  
114 leaf lalauna chai   1  
124 sea dari   1  
167 night bongi   1  
184 he/she i   1  
188 what? word info ira   1  
198 Two word info lua   1  
199 Three word info tolu   1  
200 Four word info va   1  
201 Five word info leina   1  
202 Six word info chono   1  
44 to hear longolongoni   1, 36  
168 day charo   1, 54  
76 to live, be alive machulichuli machulichulika 1, 76  
15 bone tuchane   1, 10  
54 man/male tamochane(ka) "-ka" demonstrative 1, 14  
182 I au   1, 21  
186 you motou pl. 1, 32  
55 woman/female tavine(ka) "-ka" demonstrative 1, 35  
100 wing kavena   1, 39  
122 water word info nalu   1, 43  
73 to steal panacho   1, 58  
2 left maulina   1, 59  
1 hand limana   1, 64  
53 person/human being sino   10, 49  
53 person/human being sina   10, 49  
160 painful, sick vidi pain 110  
106 snake mata   12  
155 long word info malaku   12  
26 hair word info ivuna   13  
151 green kobokobo   15  
33 to laugh nongonongo   16  
69 to hunt word info pango   16  
196 to count gi   17  
16 intestines tamoduia   18  
143 fire charocho   18, 34  
127 woods/forest koruna sibulu   19  
36 to spit kalupe   19, 93  
67 to sew word info rachi   2  
145 smoke word info charo   2  
125 salt dari   20  
148 white kea   20  
131 cloud word info bubu   21  
180 far malaku   21  
95 to fall word info puru   23  
133 rain kadavu   24  
120 stone kedo   25  
187 they ria pl. 25  
25 neck lochona   28  
102 rat kuruve   3  
31 tooth ngingina   30  
70 to shoot word info pedenga   31  
13 back word info botona   32  
8 to turn word info pulo   33  
30 mouth ngauana   36, 96  
41 to bite kani   38  
32 tongue tabelena   39  
72 to hit word info vaubi na lima   44  
74 to kill ubi   45  
128 sky chunu   46  
109 mosquito makinikini   47  
129 moon keva   48  
77 to scratch word info kari   5  
88 to squeeze word info humu   5  
205 Nine word info rio   5  
206 Ten word info rangavulu   5  
14 belly kavutuna   5, 15  
56 child tuna   5, 36  
81 sharp vere   50  
52 to stand paisisi   53  
197 One word info takena   53  
130 star chadachada   55  
78 to cut, hack word info poka   56  
137 to blow word info pori   6  
63 name riona metathesis? 66  
96 dog bute   67  
104 fat/grease vika   68  
149 red vununu   69  
152 small koteka   70  
9 to swim churuchuru   71  
136 wind wini   72  
138 warm word info rorongo hot 73  
89 to hold word info nugunugu   74  
99 feather lalavena   76  
19 shoulder lochona   77  
35 to vomit lualua   8  
51 to sit matatau   80, 133  
90 to dig kavu   82  
150 yellow ngango   9  
154 short word info botoka   9  
163 new kalabaka   9  
183 thou echo sing. s  
186 you mulu dual x  
187 they rilu dual x  

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