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Language: Suau

Source/Author:  Blust, from Cooper (1975) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:swp  Glottocode: suau1242 
Notes:  Cooper, R.E. (1975). Coastal Suau: A Preliminary Study of Internal Relationships. In T.E. Dutton (ed.) Studies in Languages of Central and South-East Papua. Pacific Linguistics Series C No. 29. Canberra: Australian National University.

3 pencilled forms from Capell, 1943 
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:Western Oceanic:Papuan Tip:Nuclear:Suauic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
47 to yawn      
62 thatch/roof      
65 rope      
68 needle      
70 to shoot word info      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
110 spider      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
175 above      
176 below      
205 Nine word info      
206 Ten word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
63 name [h]esa-   1, 18  
73 to steal aieahali   45  
160 painful, sick asiebo      
145 smoke word info asu   2  
44 to hear ataiei   75  
170 when? word info auyana      
100 wing bala-      
51 to sit bawa   158  
165 bad, evil baʔaya   18  
43 ear bea-   66  
162 old word info beabea-   50  
95 to fall word info beʔu   25  
10 dirty biʔi   139  
67 to sew word info bodi   7  
14 belly boga-   21  
169 year bolimai   15  
82 dull, blunt bou   21  
103 meat/flesh buluma   34  
141 wet buta   20  
149 red buyabuya   26  
19 shoulder dabaialou   27, 105  
13 back word info dagila-   22  
105 tail dele-   81  
6 road/path dobila   72  
53 person/human being doga   1, 66  
147 black dubaduba   21  
9 to swim dui   93  
194 how? word info edoha   19  
50 to dream eno-suai   1, 67  
190 other esau   68  
124 sea gabogabo   73  
144 to burn word info gabu   16  
25 neck gado-   30  
152 small gagili-   68  
77 to scratch word info gahili   96  
128 sky galewa   16  
191 all gamagali      
179 near gegesina      
121 sand gelegele cf PCPacific 'soil' 30, 74  
138 warm word info gigiboli   49  
139 cold word info gogoma waʔoʔo   49  
99 feather goi-      
122 water word info goila   2  
71 to stab, pierce goli   20  
132 fog goula   1, 55  
199 Three word info haiona   66  
201 Five word info haligigi   23  
202 Six word info haligigi esega      
204 Eight word info haligigi haiona      
203 Seven word info haligigi labui      
163 new halihaliu-   1, 63  
179 near hanahanau      
200 Four word info hasi   1, 65  
196 to count hasili   20  
69 to hunt word info he-kedewa (cf. 96) CAUS-'dog'    
88 to squeeze word info hihi   21  
11 dust huhua      
184 he/she ia   1  
78 to cut, hack word info ibo   51  
102 rat ibou   93  
123 to flow ie didi   52  
101 to fly ie lo|i   1?  
87 to swell word info ie pou irregular *b > p 81  
80 to split word info igali   31  
177 this ina   67  
187 they isi   62  
27 nose isu   1  
98 egg kasino   102  
96 dog kedewa (cf. 69) 18  
154 short word info kuʔukuʔu   94  
198 Two word info labuʔi   12  
79 stick/wood laga-   41  
113 branch word info laga-   1, 34  
118 grass lagau   33  
115 root lam-   3  
7 to come laoma   1, 85  
5 to walk laulau   1  
153 big laʔilaʔi   43  
41 to bite letai      
64 to say liba   158  
39 to cook word info liga   28  
155 long word info lohaloha   36  
180 far lohaloha   23  
164 good lolo   133  
72 to hit word info lubi      
114 leaf lugu-   16  
42 to suck madoi   20?  
167 night maiona   81  
35 to vomit maliwe   4  
33 to laugh maluhi   66  
166 correct, true mamohoi   59  
136 wind mana   21  
97 bird manu   1  
81 sharp mata   36  
45 eye mata-   1  
22 to fear matausi   1, 68  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
76 to live, be alive mauli   1, 76  
32 tongue memena   7, 40  
104 fat/grease momona-   1, 65  
58 wife mone sine   18  
57 husband mone tau   26  
158 narrow mosisi      
106 snake mota   12  
30 mouth moʔa   98  
11 dust muʔamuʔa      
133 rain nabu   28  
135 lightning namanamali   18  
56 child natu-   5  
129 moon nawalai   13  
178 that neʔi      
109 mosquito ni'ini'ili   17  
195 no, not nige   23, 24  
1 hand nima-   1, 66  
107 worm (earthworm) niʔoi   88  
40 to drink nom   1, 34  
21 to think nuatui   30  
61 house numa   1, 49  
127 woods/forest nuʔula gunuala   28, 39  
183 thou oa   1, 64  
134 thunder palepalele   15  
29 to sniff, smell pane   107  
116 flower pasa   33  
140 dry word info pitali   74  
142 heavy polohe   69  
112 rotten word info posa-   9, 74  
148 white posiposi   67  
157 thick word info potopoto   67  
98 egg pou   15  
126 lake pulu < 'pool' ?   L?
188 what? word info saha   1  
181 where? word info saha yai 'what at?'    
90 to dig sala   10  
2 left seuseuli   38  
15 bone siada-   26  
59 mother sina-   1  
16 intestines sinae   1  
55 woman/female sine   71  
18 breast susu-   1  
193 if taba   28, 83  
159 wide tabataba   51  
88 to squeeze word info tam   33  
60 father tama-   1  
34 to cry tani   1  
119 earth/soil tano   1  
54 man/male tau   22  
207 Twenty word info tau esega ie mate   33  
52 to stand tolo   2  
8 to turn word info tolo-bui      
78 to cut, hack word info tom   86  
94 to throw word info tu   31  
9 to swim tuba   17  
86 to grow word info tubu   1  
108 louse word info tuma   3  
3 right tutu   5, 70  
117 fruit ua-ua   1  
83 to work word info umai   1  
91 to buy une      
74 to kill unu|i   1  
120 stone weʔu   17  
131 cloud word info yada   102  
28 to breathe yahua   90  
173 at yai   12  
189 who? word info yai   56  
131 cloud word info yaloi   23  
156 thin word info yaloyalo   66  
111 fish yama   33  
182 I yau   1, 21  
192 and yo   62  
150 yellow yogeyoge   86  
137 to blow word info yuhi   4  
89 to hold word info ʔabi   23  
4 leg/foot ʔae   1  
146 ash ʔahu   1  
185 we word info ʔai   2  
37 to eat ʔaiʔai   1, 44  
151 green ʔalaʔalawa   13, 52  
125 salt ʔalita   12  
174 in, inside ʔalo-na yai   65  
168 day ʔasubena   1, 31  
20 to know, be knowledgeable ʔata   35  
17 liver ʔate   1  
66 to tie up, fasten ʔau   138  
30 mouth ʔawa   36  
31 tooth ʔawa   65  
48 to sleep ʔeno   8  
49 to lie down word info ʔeno   1  
197 One word info ʔesega   32  
130 star ʔipola   16  
46 to see ʔita   1  
185 we word info ʔita   1  
186 you ʔomi   1, 13  
12 skin ʔopi   15  
23 blood ʔosina-   21  
143 fire ʔoyagi alasi-      
24 head ʔulu   1  
26 hair word info ʔulu maiawa-   3  

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