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Language: Kis

Source/Author:  D.C. Laycock 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:kis  Glottocode: kiss1246 
Notes:  no inalienable possession 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Peng Du  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:North New Guinea:Schouten:Kairiru-Manam:Manam 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
11 dust      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry      
35 to vomit      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
47 to yawn      
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
53 person/human being      
57 husband      
58 wife      
62 thatch/roof      
63 name      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
79 stick/wood      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
101 to fly      
103 meat/flesh      
107 worm (earthworm)      
110 spider      
112 rotten word info      
115 root      
116 flower      
123 to flow      
128 sky      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
137 to blow word info      
140 dry word info      
141 wet      
144 to burn word info      
150 yellow      
151 green      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
166 correct, true      
169 year      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
179 near      
180 far      
190 other      
192 and      
196 to count      
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 dəmá[kei]      
2 left dəmá yigi      
3 right dəmá ŋgo      
4 leg/foot beka[i]      
10 dirty wisuk      
13 back word info bʷapkei      
14 belly keŋí      
16 intestines keŋélo      
19 shoulder təpákei      
24 head tapikái      
25 neck bwaŋ      
32 tongue mintu      
39 to cook word info yuwani cooked    
40 to drink kwuŋiya      
42 to suck iya breast    
43 ear kəŋabi      
52 to stand raigwa      
59 mother taya      
61 house bazá      
64 to say rimu noun    
64 to say sapa verb    
72 to hit word info se      
75 to die, be dead yime      
99 feather dʒipwá (=body hair)    
102 rat kəpéi      
104 fat/grease mwiyá      
105 tail kuŋkái      
106 snake ukwin maybe species    
109 mosquito nugur      
111 fish ŋgam      
118 grass mus      
119 earth/soil bulá ground    
121 sand dʒiŋai      
127 woods/forest məráḇ      
130 star domára      
131 cloud word info buna      
132 fog dʒim      
138 warm word info gap      
139 cold word info katakip      
142 heavy meyiwakŋa      
146 ash oisáp white    
146 ash nugum black    
147 black nugun-don d=r    
148 white ŋgau-ron      
152 small pepene      
153 big kəŋáŋgo      
154 short word info pokep b.    
155 long word info kʷoliŋgo      
160 painful, sick kai wáro      
162 old word info pam      
164 good kainene      
165 bad, evil sepám      
170 when? word info uzyem asumo ? what day    
181 where? word info wano (?)    
185 we word info tukwa      
185 we word info m-      
186 you ikpo      
188 what? word info təka      
191 all souŋgwu (?)    
194 how? word info təkata why    
195 no, not bəráwa      
197 One word info ageiḇ      
6 road/path dʒera   1  
7 to come me   1  
7 to come may   1  
12 skin kulí   1  
17 liver até   1  
18 breast sus   1  
23 blood dara   1  
37 to eat an   1  
44 to hear raŋaŋa   1  
45 eye məta   1  
97 bird man   1  
98 egg altó (<M?) 1  
108 louse word info kukut   1  
114 leaf rou   1  
120 stone pat   1  
122 water word info dan   1  
133 rain úla   1  
143 fire yuwá   1  
183 thou iu[po]   1  
183 thou k-   1  
184 he/she e   1  
184 he/she a-   1  
185 we word info t-   1  
198 Two word info urá|ni   1  
199 Three word info to|ni   1  
200 Four word info owá|ni   1  
41 to bite [a]kəti   1, 55  
60 father mama   1, 10  
55 woman/female win   1, 106  
182 I au   1, 21  
31 tooth aro   10  
167 night doma   11  
54 man/male mata   12  
129 moon alewa   12  
15 bone kekái   13  
46 to see re   13  
113 branch word info sipá   16  
96 dog kióu   17  
136 wind wau   18  
65 rope war made string 2  
145 smoke word info kasík   2  
185 we word info am   2  
100 wing bəzí   20  
149 red dara-ron blood colour 25  
187 they dei   25  
51 to sit miya posu   26  
27 nose ŋwak   27  
193 if takei (?) 33  
163 new yuwáune   36  
30 mouth awábot   36?  
26 hair word info rou   40  
126 lake dan buli   43  
56 child matantu   5  
125 salt masak metathesis of 3, 45 ?? 54  
189 who? word info ta   54  
5 to walk kei (=go) 70  
168 day uzyem sun 70  
48 to sleep wena   8  
117 fruit putú [pətú]   8  
124 sea masak metathesis 8  
182 I u-   x  
186 you m-   x  
187 they r-   x  

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