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

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