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Language: Wuvulu

Source/Author:  Blust 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:wuv  Glottocode: wuvu1240 
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Data Entry:  Typed By: Simon Greenhill  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Admiralty Islands:Western 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
42 to suck      
49 to lie down word info      
67 to sew word info      
69 to hunt word info      
93 to pound, beat word info      
123 to flow      
126 lake      
150 yellow      
163 new      
169 year      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
190 other      
193 if      
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
203 Seven word info      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
206 Ten word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
198 Two word info -kua   1  
186 you [ama]   1  
189 who? word info [aveta]      
194 how? word info [bata nai      
187 they [lao]      
192 and [me]   2  
92 to open, uncover [onolao]      
165 bad, evil afelo   108  
143 fire afi   1  
72 to hit word info afuk-ia      
34 to cry ai   1  
185 we word info aia      
170 when? word info aika   1  
63 name aka-   1, 18  
157 thick word info akaʔaka      
168 day akewa      
90 to dig aki      
124 sea aki   1  
125 salt aki   20  
57 husband ako   2  
58 wife ako   1  
145 smoke word info aku   2  
14 belly ali-      
43 ear ali[a]   1  
144 to burn word info alu-ia   5  
60 father ama   1  
86 to grow word info amapu      
37 to eat anana   1  
156 thin word info apapa   14  
20 to know, be knowledgeable apaʔ-ia      
116 flower ape      
136 wind apisilo      
88 to squeeze word info apiʔ-ia      
29 to sniff, smell ato   1  
182 I au   1, 21  
194 how? word info aveta]      
147 black axaxana   61  
98 egg aʔolu pukuto (one), pukuo (plenty) 1  
138 warm word info babai      
109 mosquito baibai      
102 rat balafai      
153 big bawana   50  
83 to work word info biki      
62 thatch/roof boboʔai      
200 Four word info fa   1  
80 to split word info falak-ia   1  
33 to laugh fali   3, 54  
172 to climb word info fane   1  
46 to see fanunu word for eye with suffix    
8 to turn word info fanunumai      
84 to plant faxo-ia   6  
166 correct, true faʔua   92  
178 that fei      
178 that fe|na   1  
177 this fe|ni   1  
97 bird fifilau      
101 to fly filau      
19 shoulder foka-      
108 louse word info fouʔu   1  
74 to kill foʔa-ia      
117 fruit fua   1  
132 fog hau   1  
181 where? word info ia   3?  
59 mother ina   1  
184 he/she ina   1, 66  
189 who? word info ini   24  
40 to drink inu   1  
12 skin inu-   1  
179 near kafiʔi      
142 heavy kakapa      
53 person/human being kamaʔa   1, 66  
180 far kaoa   1  
32 tongue kawe-      
152 small kiki W. k < lenis *s 81, 83  
141 wet kokofa      
66 to tie up, fasten kokoʔin-ia      
133 rain kopa      
191 all koʔou    
44 to hear kuai   1  
15 bone kui-   2  
51 to sit kuta      
162 old word info lapunú < Tok Pisin? 42 L
31 tooth lifo   1, 35  
118 grass lilimoka      
158 narrow litatana      
159 wide litatanaa      
11 dust lu|afu   1  
192 and ma   2  
161 shy, ashamed mafa   79  
7 to come mai   1  
155 long word info mala   12  
151 green maliana      
140 dry word info mamaka   11  
54 man/male mamane   1  
47 to yawn mamawa   19  
76 to live, be alive mamaʔa   21  
79 stick/wood manumanu      
133 rain maunu   55  
2 left mawi   1, 59  
46 to see maʔa-ia word for eye with suffix 8  
3 right maʔau   5, 13  
22 to fear maʔau   1  
75 to die, be dead maʔe   1  
85 to choose maʔi   6  
48 to sleep maʔiku   1, 70  
50 to dream mefi   1, 37  
120 stone muko   48  
35 to vomit mumuʔa   1  
70 to shoot word info nafaʔ-ia with metathesis of initial and medial consonant 1  
21 to think nakanaka-ia      
164 good nakawani      
56 child naʔu   5  
77 to scratch word info nefi-a      
111 fish nia   1  
27 nose nuke-   27  
183 thou o   1  
52 to stand ofalakai   92  
199 Three word info olu   1  
28 to breathe ona fawenau   1?  
171 to hide word info opaʔai   50  
71 to stab, pierce otome-ia   55  
5 to walk oʔali   10, 63  
5 to walk oʔatatalai      
128 sky pafea      
89 to hold word info paloko      
1 hand pani   14  
95 to fall word info pati      
17 liver patio-      
104 fat/grease pau-      
100 wing pau-na   7  
16 intestines pepea-   25  
119 earth/soil pie   44  
121 sand pie   12  
55 woman/female pifine   1, 106  
103 meat/flesh pikio-   10  
4 leg/foot pine-      
130 star piʔu   1  
167 night poi   1  
127 woods/forest polu   112  
96 dog pono      
91 to buy ponoʔ-ia      
87 to swell word info popola   7  
148 white poʔi      
99 feather pukuo   72  
99 feather pukuto   72  
129 moon pula   1  
45 eye pula-   3  
152 small pusiko   14  
24 head taba-   68  
6 road/path tala   1  
41 to bite talu      
81 sharp talu      
188 what? word info tamanu   1  
68 needle tawi   20  
9 to swim tiki      
73 to steal topaʔai      
94 to throw word info tumin-ia      
18 breast tutu-   1  
25 neck ua   18  
52 to stand ufalakai   92  
36 to spit ui      
160 painful, sick uki      
26 hair word info uko   23  
13 back word info uku-      
137 to blow word info ukuf-ia < *urupi 71  
135 lightning ukuku   93  
12 skin uli-   1  
110 spider ulo      
61 house umu   1  
30 mouth umu-      
39 to cook word info unu   9  
12 skin unu-   1  
131 cloud word info uʔukafu      
139 cold word info waiwa      
64 to say wake-ia      
196 to count wakei   10  
146 ash walu      
65 rope wau   2  
105 tail wawa   73  
115 root waxa   2  
112 rotten word info waxaku      
106 snake waʔa   12  
107 worm (earthworm) waʔa maunu   10  
78 to cut, hack word info waʔa-ia      
154 short word info weloku      
134 thunder wikuku   2?  
122 water word info xanu   1  
114 leaf xau-na   1  
38 to chew word info xaweʔ-ia      
23 blood xaxa-   1  
113 branch word info xaxa-na   1  
197 One word info xia   56  
149 red xoa   12  
174 in, inside ļaļo   1  
10 dirty ļoļoa   6  
195 no, not ļoʔe      
82 dull, blunt ļoʔe talu   X  

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