Language: Nemi (East cost area)
Source/Author: | F. OZANNE-RIVIERRE & A-G.HAUDRICOURT | |
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Identifiers: | ISO-639-3:nem Glottocode: nemi1240 | |
Notes: | The lexical data used here come from the book writen by two linguists : Françoise OZANNE-RIVIERRE and André-Georges HAUDRICOURT, Dictionnaire thématique des langues de la région de Hienghène (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : PIJE – FWÂI – NEMI – JAWE (published in 1982). This book presents a thematic lexicon and a phonological comparaison of four languages, based on several fieldworks made by André-Georges HAUDRICOURT (in 1959) and Françoise OZANNE-RIVIERRE (1973, 1976, 1978). The lexicon is translating french words into those four targeted languages. They are spoken on the north-west side of the Grande Terre island in New Caledonia. - If for an english word in the list, there are several lexical item including one single lexical unit, a compound (i.e made of several lexical units), or even a word resulting of a derivation, the word being a single lexical unit has been retained before anything else - If more than one word in Nemi, Jawe, has been found for a single english word, some specifications about the use of the different words not being morphological variables have been, when possible, provided in the 'Author annotation' column - As the authors provide sometimes the lexical item form within and out of a possessive construction (note that there is two types of possession in this language : alienable and unalienable), we have decided to retain the corresponding forms provided for unalienable possession, althought the possessive personal pronoun itself has not been retained. Only the word with a dash (for instance 'cii-', 'his/her skin') has been entered along with the world out of possessive contructions, when showed by the authors Some worlds have different forms depending on the geographical location. Those locations to which are related those different forms are put in parenthesis ('T' is for Tendo and 'C' is for Coulna) | |
Data Entry: | Typed By: David PIEKUT 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:Northern:North:Nemi | |
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Resources:
- ABVD: Alternate Wordlist for Nɛmi
- ABVD: Alternate Wordlist for Nemi (Temala area)
- Ethnologue Information for nem
- OLAC Information for nem
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Change History:
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- Updated Language Details - Simon Greenhill (2021-05-14 05:19:23)
- Changed #3225971 from "hʝo:m (1) nem (2)", "(1) Means 'to swim with the head above the water surface' (2) Means 'to swim with the head under the water surface'", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 09:23:42)
- Changed #3225976 from "ⁿɟic (1) ⁿɟie- (2)", "(1) The word when out of a possessive construction (2) The word when in a possessive construction", "", "" (Word 65535) - Simon Greenhill (2019-04-02 09:23:42)
Entries:
ID: | Word: | Item: | Annotation: | Cognacy: | Loan: |
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5 | to walk | ||||
29 | to sniff, smell | ||||
50 | to dream | ||||
70 | to shoot | ||||
71 | to stab, pierce | ||||
80 | to split | ||||
106 | snake | ||||
118 | grass | ||||
140 | dry | ||||
190 | other | ||||
191 | all | ||||
208 | Fifty | ||||
210 | One Thousand | ||||
6 | road/path | cne:ⁿdan | |||
8 | to turn | thewee | |||
9 | to swim | nem | 'to swim with the head under the water surface' | ||
10 | dirty | ⁿge:k | |||
13 | back | ⁿdai- | |||
16 | intestines | ho:na | The word when out of a possessive construction | ||
16 | intestines | ho:ne- | The word when in a possessive construction | ||
19 | shoulder | puɣe-i- | |||
19 | shoulder | pue-i- | |||
21 | to think | ɲiɲami | |||
22 | to fear | haⁿga | |||
28 | to breathe | po-hʝe:n hnana | |||
31 | tooth | paioa- | |||
35 | to vomit | ũⁿda | |||
36 | to spit | ҫuma | |||
37 | to eat | hu: | (C) | ||
38 | to chew | hwai | b. Means ' to chew some bark or magnania' | ||
39 | to cook | pwe-ʝilek | |||
40 | to drink | feloi | 'to drink a tisane' | ||
42 | to suck | huli | Means 'to eat by sucking a sugar canna' | ||
45 | eye | tnama:- | |||
46 | to see | hwene | |||
48 | to sleep | knoule:ŋ | |||
49 | to lie down | ho:k | |||
49 | to lie down | knoa | |||
52 | to stand | tu:t | |||
53 | person/human being | kha:k | (T) | ||
55 | woman/female | hno:k | |||
58 | wife | hno:e- | |||
59 | mother | tne- | |||
60 | father | tnau- | |||
64 | to say | pe:i | |||
65 | rope | wãk | Means 'rope', or 'liana' | ||
66 | to tie up, fasten | tha: | |||
67 | to sew | thoi | |||
68 | needle | ⁿdu-ᵐbwek | |||
69 | to hunt | vap | |||
69 | to hunt | vai | |||
72 | to hit | ka:i | 'To hit/strike/kill' without any further specification | ||
73 | to steal | ⁿgune | |||
74 | to kill | ka:i | |||
76 | to live, be alive | maric | |||
77 | to scratch | ʝawi | |||
78 | to cut, hack | te:-ᵐbune | |||
78 | to cut, hack | the-ⁿgavi | |||
79 | stick/wood | ᵐbwariⁿɟa | |||
81 | sharp | cac | |||
82 | dull, blunt | neɲ | |||
83 | to work | po-poɣa | |||
84 | to plant | tami | |||
85 | to choose | thamwi | |||
86 | to grow | te:p | Used for plants | ||
86 | to grow | cim | Means 'to grow', 'to spread' for the branches or parts of a plant | ||
87 | to swell | hiⁿguk | Used as an adjective | ||
88 | to squeeze | theᵐbile | |||
90 | to dig | hʝai | 'To dig, to havest (yam)' | ||
91 | to buy | thu: | |||
93 | to pound, beat | to-bi: | 'to pound something with the feet' | ||
93 | to pound, beat | te:-bi: | 'to pound something with the hands (coffee beans for instance)' | ||
94 | to throw | thai | |||
95 | to fall | tawa | 'Means 'to fall (for instance a coconut)' 'to fall' without any other specification | ||
95 | to fall | kholok | 'to fall by it self' | ||
95 | to fall | pwawe | |||
98 | egg | fi | The word out of a possessive construction | ||
98 | egg | fi:- | The word when in a possessive construction | ||
98 | egg | fiʝe- | The word when in a construction similar to 'the egg of-' | ||
99 | feather | puni- | The word when out of a possessive construction | ||
99 | feather | pun-manik | The word when in a possessive construction | ||
100 | wing | hi-manik | |||
100 | wing | pun-hi- | |||
102 | rat | ci:ᵐbwi | |||
103 | meat/flesh | hmai- | |||
103 | meat/flesh | hmave- | |||
104 | fat/grease | ⁿgere:c | |||
105 | tail | thiⁿge- | |||
108 | louse | ci:k | b. | ||
109 | mosquito | na:ⁿguk | |||
110 | spider | na:k | |||
113 | branch | hi-n ce:k | |||
114 | leaf | ⁿdo:- | |||
115 | root | wa:- | |||
116 | flower | pmu:- | |||
117 | fruit | pwe- | |||
119 | earth/soil | ⁿguc | |||
123 | to flow | hʝe | |||
125 | salt | ⁿdalik | |||
126 | lake | ⁿdan | |||
129 | moon | pmwe | |||
131 | cloud | ne:ɲ | |||
132 | fog | ҫa:mat | |||
135 | lightning | hnʝonim | |||
137 | to blow | thai | a. | ||
139 | cold | khim | |||
141 | wet | moⁿguk | |||
142 | heavy | the:c | |||
143 | fire | ʝa:k | |||
143 | fire | ʝa:u- | |||
144 | to burn | het | |||
145 | smoke | hmu:- | |||
147 | black | phom | |||
151 | green | pmuɲ | |||
152 | small | mwaɲ | |||
153 | big | hun | |||
154 | short | humwa | a. | ||
154 | short | terep | b. | ||
155 | long | ⁿgalia | |||
157 | thick | thaᵐbo | |||
157 | thick | huⁿɟu | |||
158 | narrow | uᵐbec | |||
160 | painful, sick | fali:c | |||
161 | shy, ashamed | ka-hũn | shy | ||
161 | shy, ashamed | maic | ashamed | ||
163 | new | kaʝa | Those lexical items are used for humans; for new objects, those items are combined with 'gaa', illustrated as followed : 'gaa kaya' | ||
164 | good | koa | |||
165 | bad, evil | ta:c | |||
166 | correct, true | ⁿduŋeⁿduk | |||
167 | night | ⁿgen | |||
169 | year | tok | |||
170 | when? | tne:n | |||
171 | to hide | ta-thiɲam | |||
172 | to climb | ʝova-ta | |||
172 | to climb | corai | |||
173 | at | ne | |||
174 | in, inside | ne | |||
175 | above | ᵐbwan- | |||
176 | below | kare- | |||
177 | this | -ⁿda | |||
178 | that | -ŋeni | Used for close to the speaker participants | ||
178 | that | -ŋena | Used for far away from the speaker participants | ||
179 | near | le file- | |||
180 | far | ho:t | |||
181 | where? | e | Without movement | ||
181 | where? | eve | With movement | ||
181 | where? | e: | With movement | ||
182 | I | wo | |||
183 | thou | ⁿdo | |||
184 | he/she | ʝe | |||
185 | we | nei | incl. | ||
185 | we | nemi | excl. | ||
186 | you | ⁿda: | |||
187 | they | ʝele | |||
189 | who? | rhu: | |||
189 | who? | rhu:ⁿde | |||
193 | if | pmwane | |||
194 | how? | hweᵐbe: | |||
195 | no, not | hʝan | Negative polarity sentence marker | ||
197 | One | he:c | |||
198 | Two | heluk | |||
199 | Three | heʝen | |||
202 | Six | ni-ᵐbwe:c | |||
203 | Seven | ni-ᵐbweluk | |||
204 | Eight | ni-ᵐbweʝen | |||
205 | Nine | ni-ᵐbovac | |||
207 | Twenty | he:c kha:k | |||
209 | One Hundred | nim kha:k | |||
7 | to come | he-me | 1 | ||
12 | skin | ci:- | 1 | ||
14 | belly | ⁿɟic | The word when out of a possessive construction | 1 | |
14 | belly | ⁿɟie- | The word when in a possessive construction | 1 | |
17 | liver | kec | The word when out of a possessive construction | 1 | |
17 | liver | kei- | The word when in a possessive construction | 1 | |
18 | breast | thi | 1 | ||
43 | ear | ⁿɟe:na | The word when out of a possessive construction | 1 | |
43 | ear | ⁿɟe:ne- | The word when in a possessive construction | 1 | |
61 | house | ŋa | 1 | ||
61 | house | ŋe- | 1 | ||
75 | to die, be dead | mac | 1 | ||
89 | to hold | cimwi | 1 | ||
97 | bird | manik | 1 | ||
114 | leaf | ⁿdo | 1 | ||
120 | stone | paik | 1 | ||
121 | sand | kon | 1 | ||
124 | sea | ⁿdalik | 1 | ||
130 | star | piuk | 1 | ||
133 | rain | kut | 1 | ||
136 | wind | ⁿda:n | 1 | ||
146 | ash | ⁿdap | 1 | ||
188 | what? | ta | 1 | ||
11 | dust | hmu:n-ⁿguc | 1, 105 | ||
201 | Five | nim | 1, 15 | ||
63 | name | ʝat | 1, 18 | ||
63 | name | ʝale- | 1, 18 | ||
23 | blood | kura | The word out of a possessive construction | 1, 45 | |
23 | blood | kura:- | The word when in a possessive construction | 1, 45 | |
168 | day | mala | 1, 54 | ||
37 | to eat | hwi-aman | (T) | 1, 55 | |
149 | red | mia | 1, 55 | ||
2 | left | mo | 1, 59 | ||
2 | left | mo:- | 1, 59 | ||
200 | Four | phoec | 1, 65 | ||
1 | hand | hi | 10 | ||
56 | child | hʝaok | 104 | ||
107 | worm (earthworm) | ᵐbe | 11 | ||
138 | warm | hinu | 11 | ||
33 | to laugh | ŋa:n | 110 | ||
20 | to know, be knowledgeable | hina | 116 | ||
112 | rotten | hnʝat | 118 | ||
206 | Ten | paiⁿdu | 12 | ||
27 | nose | hwãⁿdi- | 14 | ||
150 | yellow | kari | 14 | ||
25 | neck | no:- | 18 | ||
62 | thatch/roof | ᵐbwan-ŋa | 19 | ||
47 | to yawn | oahem | 19, 30 | ||
15 | bone | ⁿdu | The word when out of a possessive construction | 2 | |
15 | bone | ⁿdu:- | The word when in a possessive construction | 2 | |
122 | water | we | 2 | ||
192 | and | ma | 2 | ||
57 | husband | kalo:- | 2, 31 | ||
145 | smoke | hmu | 2, 76 | ||
54 | man/male | -kaʝuk | 22 | ||
54 | man/male | -ɣaʝuk | 22 | ||
3 | right | ⁿduhi | 24 | ||
196 | to count | fine | 26 | ||
148 | white | pulo | 3 | ||
181 | where? | ve | Without movement | 3 | |
26 | hair | pun-ᵐbwa | 31 | ||
30 | mouth | hwa- | 36 | ||
92 | to open, uncover | tami | 37 | ||
53 | person/human being | kac | (C) | 4 | |
137 | to blow | uvi | b. | 4 | |
51 | to sit | taⁿgo | 42 | ||
134 | thunder | niuk | 43 | ||
96 | dog | cawek | 45 | ||
195 | no, not | koi | As a reply meaning 'no' | 45 | |
159 | wide | kalava | 48 | ||
41 | to bite | hwi: | Means 'to bite in order to eat meat' | 57 | |
40 | to drink | knuⁿduk | 'to drink water' | 6 | |
40 | to drink | knuⁿdi | 'to drink something cold' | 6 | |
156 | thin | terep | 63 | ||
40 | to drink | felo | 'to drink a tea' | 67 | |
127 | woods/forest | kuc | 7 | ||
32 | tongue | kuvema- | 7, 14 | ||
162 | old | vai | 71 | ||
128 | sky | poa | 75 | ||
34 | to cry | hʝe | 80 | ||
44 | to hear | tena | 80 | ||
4 | leg/foot | ho- | 88 | ||
24 | head | ᵐbwa- | 9 | ||
111 | fish | nuk | 9 | ||
101 | to fly | tan | 90 | ||
9 | to swim | hʝo:m | to swim with the head above the water surface' | 97 |