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Language: Pulau (Arguni)

Source/Author:  Blust, from Grace Notebooks 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:agf  Glottocode: argu1237 
Notes:  "In conclusion, then, the language of Arguni Island may be a divergent member of the North Bomberai group, or its similarity to these languages may be a product of borrowing as a result of prolonged contact between small language communities." (Blust, 1993, p.274) 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Penny Keenan  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern:Central Malayo-Polynesian:North Bomberai 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
175 above apo   2  
191 all fasigerig      
192 and      
146 ash avu|ne   1  
173 at      
13 back word info [i]umbasi      
165 bad, evil ofi      
14 belly sige-      
176 below pepene      
153 big matuʔen   41  
97 bird mani   1  
147 black udude   4  
23 blood rare   1  
15 bone tor   1?  
113 branch word info      
18 breast sus   1  
56 child gamimi      
131 cloud word info ta...      
139 cold word info popʷat...      
166 correct, true marore   4?  
168 day damere      
10 dirty koturo   31? L
96 dog afun   1  
140 dry word info mer...   1  
82 dull, blunt tumbie   3  
11 dust avuvune   1?  
43 ear etiga-   1?  
119 earth/soil mbose      
98 egg ude      
204 Eight word info      
45 eye taputu-      
180 far dawan      
104 fat/grease      
60 father baba   43  
99 feather pupure   1?  
208 Fifty word info      
143 fire yaf   1  
111 fish sair   6  
201 Five word info      
116 flower rarare      
132 fog      
200 Four word info fat   1  
117 fruit tutu      
164 good miñan      
118 grass ricot   45  
151 green sasioror      
26 hair word info aru-g...      
1 hand ruma- (+OC) 1, 64  
184 he/she i   1  
24 head aru-   1?  
142 heavy manaser      
61 house rume   1  
194 how? word info surie      
57 husband [i]maran   47  
182 I embie      
193 if      
174 in, inside ramo      
16 intestines sige-g umbum      
126 lake      
114 leaf nane (cf.26)    
2 left parambimbe      
4 leg/foot [e]va-   7?  
135 lightning riripipit      
17 liver atane   1  
155 long word info mbara...      
108 louse word info ut   1  
54 man/male mañañane   1?  
103 meat/flesh dagim   26 L
129 moon purin   1  
109 mosquito asev      
59 mother yai      
30 mouth efe-   1  
63 name gadin   1?  
158 narrow      
179 near tanaten      
25 neck one-      
68 needle      
163 new popʷaro      
167 night magagev      
205 Nine word info      
195 no, not afe      
27 nose asigo-      
162 old word info      
197 One word info sia (<M) 1?  
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
190 other firisia   50  
160 painful, sick tari-ga-movi      
53 person/human being misier      
133 rain umun   1?  
102 rat adombar      
149 red kasumbe   10  
3 right pararare      
6 road/path rarin   1  
115 root dare      
65 rope warir   2  
112 rotten word info miaʔo      
125 salt sire|r   1  
121 sand ain   1  
124 sea fayoret      
203 Seven word info      
81 sharp mijarum   1  
154 short word info tam...      
19 shoulder aru      
161 shy, ashamed      
202 Six word info      
12 skin urut   1?  
128 sky ragit   1  
152 small natu      
145 smoke word info evas      
106 snake gor      
110 spider orier      
130 star atere      
79 stick/wood a   1  
120 stone puat   1?  
105 tail raʔur      
206 Ten word info      
178 that tuoto      
62 thatch/roof erar      
187 they sire   1  
157 thick word info      
156 thin word info      
177 this tieti      
183 thou umbua      
199 Three word info taor   1  
134 thunder dudum   8  
41 to bite -ret      
137 to blow word info sera...      
28 to breathe binapes   29? L
144 to burn word info      
91 to buy -taʔun      
38 to chew word info      
85 to choose -pili   1 L
172 to climb word info u-sua      
7 to come -ma   1  
39 to cook word info -fo... Photocopy cutoff    
196 to count uferam      
34 to cry -tagis   1  
78 to cut, hack word info orar      
75 to die, be dead -mat   1  
90 to dig -ʔe      
50 to dream [ga-vaʔanev] sinin...      
40 to drink -umun   1  
37 to eat -madenan      
95 to fall word info      
22 to fear gamberad      
123 to flow      
101 to fly i-tiʔir   6  
86 to grow word info      
44 to hear -tanem   2  
171 to hide word info      
72 to hit word info -pʷaper   4  
89 to hold word info -wagit      
69 to hunt word info -mbam      
74 to kill -demi      
20 to know, be knowledgeable garuʔu      
33 to laugh -marif   3  
49 to lie down word info ga-soso ga-daderembi...      
76 to live, be alive -rarewer      
92 to open, uncover -peg      
84 to plant -tanem   2  
93 to pound, beat word info -so      
64 to say -ga      
77 to scratch word info gaʔor   1?  
46 to see -rewer      
67 to sew word info -ture   1  
70 to shoot word info -mbaref      
51 to sit -mdagen   148  
48 to sleep -reʔenef   8?  
29 to sniff, smell -sigir   12, 7  
36 to spit -fures   9?  
80 to split word info -pʷaʔus      
88 to squeeze word info -wame      
71 to stab, pierce -sambe      
52 to stand -ser      
73 to steal -menena   1, 59, 60  
42 to suck sus   1  
87 to swell word info fofor   59  
9 to swim -rur   59  
21 to think gamaŋgati      
94 to throw word info -so   35  
66 to tie up, fasten -sir   119?  
8 to turn word info suvuren      
35 to vomit -preʔe      
5 to walk -ra   1  
83 to work word info -voʔit      
47 to yawn      
32 tongue ater   35?  
31 tooth efe-g tutu      
207 Twenty word info      
198 Two word info ru   1  
138 warm word info bamba...   1  
122 water word info wir   2  
185 we word info ite   1  
185 we word info ambami   2  
141 wet pʷages   34  
188 what? word info sanane   1?  
170 when? word info      
181 where? word info menaye      
148 white rigigit      
189 who? word info itia      
159 wide      
58 wife popin   5, 68  
136 wind rembember      
100 wing aven   2  
55 woman/female bimbine   1, 106  
127 woods/forest waririr      
107 worm (earthworm) wata-gor   6  
169 year gare   6  
150 yellow kuniŋ   1 L
186 you mbu|amu   1  

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