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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      
1 hand gawi ɛ   28  
1 hand neã ɛ   x  
2 left o ⁿdara   29  
3 right e gamë   60  
4 leg/foot keurujuã ɛ   56  
4 leg/foot moaneã e   56  
5 to walk var̃a   2  
6 road/path wei   30  
7 to come mi   1  
8 to turn word info t̪okami   73  
8 to turn word info t̪okoe   73  
9 to swim u   5  
11 dust puru jëri   20, 6  
13 back word info negoa ɛ   15  
14 belly poe ɛ   36  
16 intestines kona ɛ   82  
17 liver puio: ɛ   63  
18 breast mɛsã e   8, 60  
19 shoulder ᵐboeo ɛ   64  
20 to know, be knowledgeable ewai   1  
21 to think ᵐbara   101  
23 blood werʃø xiɛ   65, 1  
24 head ᵐboe e   9  
25 neck koeo ɛ   23  
26 hair word info pʷar̃aᵐboe ɛ   31  
27 nose omoa ɛ   14  
29 to sniff, smell t̪apɛ   113  
30 mouth newe ɛ   36  
31 tooth pewa ɛ   21  
32 tongue meoromea ɛ   7  
35 to vomit go:wi   39?  
37 to eat ara   39  
40 to drink weʝo   66  
42 to suck ji   25  
42 to suck jui   25  
43 ear ᵐboaⁿdeã e   16  
44 to hear t̪o poer̃e   7  
45 eye pimɛ ɛ   31, 1  
46 to see t̪onamoa   129  
48 to sleep ona: rei      
49 to lie down word info ona:   106  
50 to dream axë   64  
53 person/human being o xiɛ   94  
54 man/male   4  
54 man/male ẽ xiɛ   4  
55 woman/female osawe   1  
55 woman/female o sawe xiɛ   1  
56 child urʃaxi xiɛ   98  
57 husband koe ɛ   2  
58 wife koe ɛ   1, 53  
59 mother ɲaɲa xiɛ   1, 83  
60 father pøva xiɛ   37  
61 house moa   1  
62 thatch/roof sirʃu:   73  
64 to say er̃e   165  
65 rope ju      
65 rope aru   2  
68 needle uᵐbe   40  
72 to hit word info rʃexɛ verʃakɛ   11  
75 to die, be dead mat̪e   1  
78 to cut, hack word info socia   131  
79 stick/wood ùrù   7  
84 to plant nã   44  
85 to choose pamir̃i   42  
92 to open, uncover sɛrɛ   78  
93 to pound, beat word info sa na   67  
95 to fall word info t̪ùa   133  
96 dog t̪aiki   92  
97 bird poe kãĩ   52  
101 to fly sia   93  
102 rat ørø sipù   3  
107 worm (earthworm) ᵐbe   11  
109 mosquito nao   1  
110 spider navo   91  
111 fish no:   9  
113 branch word info jiø   15  
114 leaf mã e   30  
115 root koɛ ɛ   2, 41, 42  
117 fruit poẽ ɛ   1  
119 earth/soil jëri   1  
120 stone ane      
121 sand ⁿdea:   15  
122 water word info rʃë   1  
124 sea neⁿdi   23  
128 sky nero   35  
129 moon ᵐbevarʃù   21  
130 star poea kuia   88  
131 cloud word info o:   12  
133 rain wi   27?  
134 thunder oro   2  
135 lightning kasø   1  
136 wind koa:   93, 18?  
138 warm word info pekẽ   37  
139 cold word info mae   51  
140 dry word info møø   1  
141 wet awø   112  
143 fire nɛne   46  
145 smoke word info puro   89  
146 ash rʃɛxeu   20  
147 black werɛ   90  
148 white oamɛ   22, 121  
149 red mi:   1, 55  
150 yellow mi:   x  
150 yellow opeⁿdøxaru   97, 95  
151 green jia      
152 small ira      
153 big au   101?  
153 big au nu   101?  
156 thin word info aranavi   60  
157 thick word info rʃãva   70  
160 painful, sick pei ma   51, 1  
162 old word info o peani   16  
162 old word info joe   29  
163 new ⁿdovo   18  
164 good wesa   1  
165 bad, evil mu   36  
166 correct, true amar̃i   1?  
167 night ᵐboet̪e   1  
168 day moara   1, 54  
170 when? word info ani   1  
174 in, inside t̪o aᵐbexemi      
179 near t̪o ve ovo   109  
180 far t̪o ve noro   35  
181 where? word info t̪o we   3  
182 I o   1  
183 thou i   1  
184 he/she e   1  
185 we word info ⁿde      
185 we word info ᵐbe      
186 you   1  
187 they ⁿde   1, 70  
188 what? word info jiɛ   1  
192 and me   2  
193 if ŋe   12  
195 no, not ae   10  
196 to count sivar̃a   1  
197 One word info rʃake   14  
198 Two word info keuru   1  
199 Three word info kerere   1  
200 Four word info keve   1, 65  
201 Five word info keni:   1, 15  
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      
206 Ten word info pauru   12  
207 Twenty word info rʃake o:      
209 One Hundred word info keni o:      

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