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Language: ᵐBoewe

Source/Author:  Leenhardt (1946) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:bpk  Glottocode: orow1242 
Notes:  Leenhardt, Maurice. 1946. Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie 
Problems:  Transcription converteⁿd to IPA based on author's phonetic descriptions.

Except: some vowels;
[r̃] = "dental nasalised liquid"; and
[’], which I assume to be glottal stop but the author does not explicitly discuss.
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Mary Walworth  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:New Caledonian:Southern:South:Wailic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
10 dirty      
12 skin      
15 bone      
22 to fear      
28 to breathe      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
41 to bite      
47 to yawn      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
63 name      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
94 to throw word info      
98 egg      
99 feather      
100 wing      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
106 snake      
108 louse word info      
112 rotten word info      
116 flower      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
132 fog      
137 to blow word info      
142 heavy      
144 to burn word info      
154 short word info      
155 long word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
169 year      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
194 how? word info      
208 Fifty word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
48 to sleep ona: rei      
65 rope ju      
120 stone ane      
151 green jia      
152 small ira      
174 in, inside t̪o aᵐbexemi      
185 we word info ⁿde      
185 we word info ᵐbe      
202 Six word info keni a rʃake      
203 Seven word info keni me keuru      
204 Eight word info keni me kerere      
205 Nine word info keni me keve      
207 Twenty word info rʃake o:      
209 One Hundred word info keni o:      
7 to come mi   1  
20 to know, be knowledgeable ewai   1  
55 woman/female osawe   1  
55 woman/female o sawe xiɛ   1  
61 house moa   1  
75 to die, be dead mat̪e   1  
109 mosquito nao   1  
117 fruit poẽ ɛ   1  
119 earth/soil jëri   1  
122 water word info rʃë   1  
135 lightning kasø   1  
140 dry word info møø   1  
164 good wesa   1  
167 night ᵐboet̪e   1  
170 when? word info ani   1  
182 I o   1  
183 thou i   1  
184 he/she e   1  
186 you   1  
188 what? word info jiɛ   1  
196 to count sivar̃a   1  
198 Two word info keuru   1  
199 Three word info kerere   1  
201 Five word info keni:   1, 15  
58 wife koe ɛ   1, 53  
168 day moara   1, 54  
149 red mi:   1, 55  
200 Four word info keve   1, 65  
187 they ⁿde   1, 70  
59 mother ɲaɲa xiɛ   1, 83  
195 no, not ae   10  
21 to think ᵐbara   101  
153 big au   101?  
153 big au nu   101?  
49 to lie down word info ona:   106  
179 near t̪o ve ovo   109  
72 to hit word info rʃexɛ verʃakɛ   11  
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
141 wet awø   112  
29 to sniff, smell t̪apɛ   113  
131 cloud word info o:   12  
193 if ŋe   12  
206 Ten word info pauru   12  
46 to see t̪onamoa   129  
78 to cut, hack word info socia   131  
95 to fall word info t̪ùa   133  
27 nose omoa ɛ   14  
197 One word info rʃake   14  
13 back word info negoa ɛ   15  
113 branch word info jiø   15  
121 sand ⁿdea:   15  
43 ear ᵐboaⁿdeã e   16  
162 old word info o peani   16  
64 to say er̃e   165  
163 new ⁿdovo   18  
166 correct, true amar̃i   1?  
5 to walk var̃a   2  
57 husband koe ɛ   2  
65 rope aru   2  
134 thunder oro   2  
192 and me   2  
115 root koɛ ɛ   2, 41, 42  
146 ash rʃɛxeu   20  
11 dust puru jëri   20, 6  
31 tooth pewa ɛ   21  
129 moon ᵐbevarʃù   21  
148 white oamɛ   22, 121  
25 neck koeo ɛ   23  
124 sea neⁿdi   23  
42 to suck ji   25  
42 to suck jui   25  
133 rain wi   27?  
1 hand gawi ɛ   28  
2 left o ⁿdara   29  
162 old word info joe   29  
102 rat ørø sipù   3  
181 where? word info t̪o we   3  
6 road/path wei   30  
114 leaf mã e   30  
26 hair word info pʷar̃aᵐboe ɛ   31  
45 eye pimɛ ɛ   31, 1  
128 sky nero   35  
180 far t̪o ve noro   35  
14 belly poe ɛ   36  
30 mouth newe ɛ   36  
165 bad, evil mu   36  
60 father pøva xiɛ   37  
138 warm word info pekẽ   37  
37 to eat ara   39  
35 to vomit go:wi   39?  
54 man/male   4  
54 man/male ẽ xiɛ   4  
68 needle uᵐbe   40  
85 to choose pamir̃i   42  
84 to plant nã   44  
143 fire nɛne   46  
9 to swim u   5  
139 cold word info mae   51  
160 painful, sick pei ma   51, 1  
97 bird poe kãĩ   52  
4 leg/foot keurujuã ɛ   56  
4 leg/foot moaneã e   56  
3 right e gamë   60  
156 thin word info aranavi   60  
17 liver puio: ɛ   63  
19 shoulder ᵐboeo ɛ   64  
50 to dream axë   64  
23 blood werʃø xiɛ   65, 1  
40 to drink weʝo   66  
93 to pound, beat word info sa na   67  
32 tongue meoromea ɛ   7  
44 to hear t̪o poer̃e   7  
79 stick/wood ùrù   7  
157 thick word info rʃãva   70  
8 to turn word info t̪okami   73  
8 to turn word info t̪okoe   73  
62 thatch/roof sirʃu:   73  
92 to open, uncover sɛrɛ   78  
18 breast mɛsã e   8, 60  
16 intestines kona ɛ   82  
130 star poea kuia   88  
145 smoke word info puro   89  
24 head ᵐboe e   9  
111 fish no:   9  
147 black werɛ   90  
110 spider navo   91  
96 dog t̪aiki   92  
101 to fly sia   93  
136 wind koa:   93, 18?  
53 person/human being o xiɛ   94  
150 yellow opeⁿdøxaru   97, 95  
56 child urʃaxi xiɛ   98  
1 hand neã ɛ   x  
150 yellow mi:   x  

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