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Language: Teanu

Source/Author:  P. C. Lincoln, 18 Feb 1981 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:tkw  Glottocode: tean1237 
Notes:  Puma village in Vanikoro Island 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Debasish Roy  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Temotu:Utupua-Vanikoro 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
50 to dream      
70 to shoot word info      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
171 to hide word info      
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      
1 hand ma   1, 78  
2 left mouro   1, 59  
3 right moso   5  
4 leg/foot aele   90  
5 to walk -le      
6 road/path anoko   17  
7 to come -ka      
8 to turn word info -lubi      
9 to swim -wou   25  
10 dirty sukuro   36  
11 dust awi niawa [< awi + ne + iawo] 16  
12 skin bele   23  
13 back word info ute   28  
13 back word info uta   28  
14 belly sa   1  
15 bone die   2  
16 intestines bea   25  
17 liver owo [? 'heart'] 11  
18 breast masasa chest 10  
18 breast ero nipple 11  
19 shoulder utele bisa      
20 to know, be knowledgeable -ovei   125  
21 to think -vodo   10  
22 to fear -madau   1  
23 blood abo   19  
24 head basa   9  
25 neck awa   18  
26 hair word info vie   21  
27 nose veseŋele   24  
28 to breathe -katei mevia      
29 to sniff, smell -leŋi mie   95  
30 mouth mua   29  
31 tooth ije   20  
32 tongue memia   7  
33 to laugh -ekeke   83  
34 to cry -eteŋi   1  
35 to vomit -loro   8  
36 to spit -ravioe   57  
37 to eat -e [transitive] 1  
37 to eat -voŋo [intransitive] 1, 53  
38 to chew word info -kanu   63  
39 to cook word info -apinu      
40 to drink -anu   1  
41 to bite -ke   41  
42 to suck -katei [pull]    
43 ear tania   1  
44 to hear -leŋi   1?  
45 eye mata   1  
46 to see -romo   21  
47 to yawn -mo   19  
48 to sleep -mokoio   1  
49 to lie down word info -wene   1  
51 to sit -te      
52 to stand -vio   103  
53 person/human being mwaliko   21  
54 man/male mwalikote   28  
55 woman/female emele   21  
56 child menu   17  
57 husband mwalikote      
58 wife emele      
59 mother ete   13  
60 father aia   22  
61 house moe   1  
62 thatch/roof ote [< m] 1  
63 name eŋa   20  
64 to say -ko   64  
65 rope veve   26  
66 to tie up, fasten -nago   145  
67 to sew word info -a|sai   2  
68 needle nadakele      
69 to hunt word info -vio      
71 to stab, pierce -woi   60  
72 to hit word info -wete   29?  
73 to steal -punuo   1, 58  
74 to kill -abu   51  
75 to die, be dead -bu   19  
76 to live, be alive -maluo   21  
77 to scratch word info -akale   10  
78 to cut, hack word info -toe   74  
79 stick/wood -vilo      
80 to split word info -tevele   33?  
80 to split word info -panade      
81 sharp metene   36  
82 dull, blunt basa   30  
83 to work word info - la ŋatene      
84 to plant -do      
87 to swell word info -osubu   12  
88 to squeeze word info -epele   1?  
89 to hold word info -labu      
90 to dig -ae      
91 to buy -sava      
92 to open, uncover -ko      
93 to pound, beat word info -vo      
94 to throw word info -laioi      
95 to fall word info -sabu   41?  
97 bird menuko   1  
98 egg waluluo   1  
99 feather via menu ko ['hair bird']    
100 wing ava   28  
101 to fly -ava   36?  
102 rat uvilo   29  
103 meat/flesh anise   40  
104 fat/grease teia   28  
105 tail dekele   19  
106 snake abilo   28  
107 worm (earthworm) mebele      
108 louse word info uko   12  
109 mosquito muko 1,99 1, 99  
110 spider ave   38  
111 fish namuko   28  
112 rotten word info -mwaulu   1  
113 branch word info ela vilo   12  
114 leaf uie vilo   22  
115 root kara   2  
116 flower mana   25  
117 fruit ua   1  
117 fruit wa   1  
118 grass abo   29  
119 earth/soil tanoe   1  
120 stone voko   20  
121 sand ole   28  
122 water word info ero   20  
123 to flow -pu   11  
124 sea revo   32  
125 salt kidisa revo      
126 lake toloto ne ŋogoro lagoon in bush 6?  
127 woods/forest ŋogoro      
127 woods/forest atero hunting ground    
128 sky meteliko   20  
129 moon metele   20  
130 star kani moro   22  
131 cloud word info adawo   11  
132 fog miawo   20  
133 rain tebo   30  
134 thunder i-abu i-epa      
135 lightning megilo   22  
136 wind ŋiro   32  
137 to blow word info -aka   27  
138 warm word info pana   1  
139 cold word info medigo   1  
140 dry word info kokoro   29  
141 wet -dobuo      
142 heavy motoro      
143 fire iawo   24  
144 to burn word info -voŋo [see #37] 104  
145 smoke word info kaiawo   48  
146 ash beniawo   18  
147 black boro   25  
148 white koro   32  
149 red moloe   1  
150 yellow ŋalukilo imodo   31  
151 green abuaŋa toloto   32  
152 small apiɬaka   25  
153 big pine   30  
154 short word info kuledi   29  
155 long word info biouro   16  
156 thin word info menieviro   1  
157 thick word info abia   24  
158 narrow mona tae much plenty    
159 wide mona      
160 painful, sick -tavie   31  
161 shy, ashamed -metei      
162 old word info velia      
163 new motoe   19  
164 good wako   35  
165 bad, evil tamwaliko   21  
166 correct, true susuko   11  
167 night bogo   1  
170 when? word info miŋa coral tree 15  
172 to climb word info -vene   7  
173 at ne up 18  
174 in, inside ne lema   1  
175 above -vene      
176 below -abu up    
177 this pwene down    
178 that ponu      
179 near vitoko   12  
180 far somu   1  
181 where? word info vele   22  
182 I ene   1, 22  
183 thou eo   1?  
184 he/she ini   1, 6  
185 we word info kia pa   1  
185 we word info ku pa      
186 you kai pa   x  
187 they da pa   14  
188 what? word info ŋanae   15  
189 who? word info ŋele   18  
190 other iote      
191 all abia ['indep']    
192 and ka   1  
193 if ŋa   31  
194 how? word info ŋa pwae      
195 no, not tae   4  
196 to count -wo      
197 One word info iune   19  
198 Two word info ti|lu   1?  
199 Three word info te|te   1  
200 Four word info te|va   1  
96 dog kuli [PNL] 7 L
168 day tomoro   14 L?
169 year ebieve   21 L?

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