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Language: Bulu

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

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