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Language: Ramoaaina

Source/Author:  Malcolm Ross's fieldnotes, supplemented by Fritzell & Davies 1992, n.d. 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:rai  Glottocode: ramo1244 
Notes:  AKA Duke of York.

(1) Malcolm Ross's fieldnotes
(2) Lisbeth Fritzell & Robin Davies, n.d., Electronic dictionary of Ramoaaina
(3) Robyn Davies & Lisbeth Fritzell, 1992. Duke of York grammar essentials (Ramoaaina). Unpublished ms. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Malcolm Ross  Checked By: Malcolm Ross 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand lima   1, 64  
2 left maira   1, 59  
3 right ot   18  
4 leg/foot kaki   1  
5 to walk      
6 road/path akəpi   68  
7 to come iap      
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim rariu      
10 dirty durdur   68  
11 dust kabu   22  
12 skin pani      
13 back word info tamuru   12, 107  
14 belly bala-   18  
15 bone ur   52  
16 intestines lolo      
17 liver kəti   1  
18 breast u   1  
19 shoulder gaga      
20 to know, be knowledgeable mumure   53, 126  
21 to think nunuk      
22 to fear burut   28  
23 blood gap   5  
24 head lori      
25 neck kaboro   129  
26 hair word info vevu   13  
27 nose ŋirŋiro   90  
28 to breathe lodadaip      
29 to sniff, smell luŋi   29  
30 mouth ava   36  
31 tooth lako   64  
32 tongue karme   7, 14  
33 to laugh naŋon   16  
34 to cry taŋi   1  
35 to vomit marua   37  
36 to spit gar   117  
37 to eat vaŋan   1, 53  
38 to chew word info mama   1  
39 to cook word info tun   9  
40 to drink inim   1  
41 to bite vekarat   1  
42 to suck dumaruki      
43 ear taliŋa   1  
44 to hear valoŋor   1, 36  
45 eye mata   1  
46 to see bo   63  
47 to yawn mamaupial      
48 to sleep inep   8  
49 to lie down word info inep      
50 to dream ririvon   35  
51 to sit ki   20  
52 to stand tur   2, 69  
53 person/human being mulinə      
54 man/male muana   120  
55 woman/female tabuan < 'old woman'    
56 child natu   5  
57 husband      
58 wife      
59 mother na-   1, 83  
60 father tama   1  
61 house ruma   1  
62 thatch/roof kurə kunai grass used for roofing    
63 name ia   66  
64 to say pir      
65 rope aru   2  
66 to tie up, fasten wat      
67 to sew word info iŋit   43  
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info leve      
70 to shoot word info panak   1  
71 to stab, pierce goi   50  
72 to hit word info rapui      
73 to steal viloŋ   62  
74 to kill akdoko      
75 to die, be dead mat   1  
76 to live, be alive ləlaun   31  
77 to scratch word info bir      
78 to cut, hack word info buri      
79 stick/wood tikul      
80 to split word info pariki   88  
81 sharp kamen      
82 dull, blunt bulbul   6  
83 to work word info pam      
84 to plant marut   74  
85 to choose wəli      
86 to grow word info tava   4  
87 to swell word info uruŋ   56  
88 to squeeze word info puai      
89 to hold word info pam      
90 to dig kil   1  
91 to buy kip buy esp a pig    
91 to buy kukul   15  
91 to buy pəpa buy with shell money    
92 to open, uncover papa   34  
93 to pound, beat word info ulat      
94 to throw word info voŋ      
95 to fall word info pukapari   19, 118  
96 dog pap   37  
97 bird pika   25  
98 egg kiau   31  
99 feather lakua   53  
100 wing bibia   34  
101 to fly rovo   1  
102 rat kəopə   3  
103 meat/flesh kəməngong      
104 fat/grease birə      
105 tail tabubui   75  
106 snake vui   17  
107 worm (earthworm) kalolo   39  
108 louse word info ut   1  
109 mosquito namu   1  
110 spider kabulak   28  
111 fish ian   1  
111 fish up      
112 rotten word info marakup   39  
113 branch word info gaga   51  
114 leaf dodo   1  
115 root akakar   37  
116 flower purpur   13 L?
117 fruit bare      
118 grass valir   1  
119 earth/soil pia   16  
120 stone vat   1  
121 sand voio   96  
122 water word info pala      
123 to flow alir   24  
124 sea tai   1  
125 salt mapak      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest lakor   46  
128 sky bakut   30  
129 moon kalaŋ   26  
130 star naŋnaŋ   33  
131 cloud word info bakut   45  
132 fog aval   56  
133 rain bata   8  
134 thunder parparara   15  
135 lightning mamame   37  
136 wind dadaip   70  
137 to blow word info ipi   5  
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info madiriŋ   1  
140 dry word info mamage      
141 wet buibui   109  
142 heavy mavat   46  
143 fire kup      
143 fire uŋən      
144 to burn word info vakup      
145 smoke word info mi   39  
146 ash kabu   70  
147 black marut      
148 white kabaŋ      
149 red tar   72  
150 yellow vai      
151 green limut = 'algae' 76  
152 small natnat      
153 big ŋala   115  
154 short word info kukuri   13  
155 long word info alaviok      
156 thin word info məriri      
157 thick word info tubu = 'wide' 11  
158 narrow      
159 wide tubu = 'thick'    
160 painful, sick məlapang      
161 shy, ashamed wəwirwir   11  
162 old word info təkanə      
163 new mataki   19  
164 good koi      
165 bad, evil akə   1  
166 correct, true takado   13  
167 night marum   20  
168 day maget   69  
169 year tinaon infixed <in> 1  
170 when? word info naŋaian   1, 43  
171 to hide word info valipai      
172 to climb word info ka      
173 at u   52  
174 in, inside bəla-   62  
175 above inangə      
176 below bəne      
177 this bi      
178 that ba      
179 near mərəwai   108  
180 far velvelik   90  
181 where? word info ve   3  
182 I inəu   1, 22  
183 thou u   34  
184 he/she i   1  
185 we word info dat incl.    
185 we word info miat excl.    
186 you muat   30  
187 they diet   25, 41  
188 what? word info ava   1  
189 who? word info voi      
190 other      
191 all rəkrəkan      
192 and   2  
193 if ba   28  
194 how? word info      
195 no, not wəkir      
196 to count luluk      
197 One word info takai   53  
198 Two word info ru   1  
199 Three word info tulu   1  
200 Four word info vat   1, 65  
201 Five word info lima   1  
202 Six word info nom   1  
203 Seven word info vitu   1  
204 Eight word info valu   3  
205 Nine word info tiva   5  
206 Ten word info noina   48  
207 Twenty word info ru noinə      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info mar   6  
210 One Thousand word info      

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