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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]      
5 to walk kei (=go) 70  
6 road/path dʒera   1  
7 to come me   1  
7 to come may   1  
10 dirty wisuk      
12 skin kulí   1  
13 back word info bʷapkei      
14 belly keŋí      
15 bone kekái   13  
16 intestines keŋélo      
17 liver até   1  
18 breast sus   1  
19 shoulder təpákei      
23 blood dara   1  
24 head tapikái      
25 neck bwaŋ      
26 hair word info rou   40  
27 nose ŋwak   27  
30 mouth awábot   36?  
31 tooth aro   10  
32 tongue mintu      
37 to eat an   1  
39 to cook word info yuwani cooked    
40 to drink kwuŋiya      
41 to bite [a]kəti   1, 55  
42 to suck iya breast    
43 ear kəŋabi      
44 to hear raŋaŋa   1  
45 eye məta   1  
46 to see re   13  
48 to sleep wena   8  
51 to sit miya posu   26  
52 to stand raigwa      
54 man/male mata   12  
55 woman/female win   1, 106  
56 child matantu   5  
59 mother taya      
60 father mama   1, 10  
61 house bazá      
64 to say rimu noun    
64 to say sapa verb    
65 rope war made string 2  
72 to hit word info se      
75 to die, be dead yime      
96 dog kióu   17  
97 bird man   1  
98 egg altó (<M?) 1  
99 feather dʒipwá (=body hair)    
100 wing bəzí   20  
102 rat kəpéi      
104 fat/grease mwiyá      
105 tail kuŋkái      
106 snake ukwin maybe species    
108 louse word info kukut   1  
109 mosquito nugur      
111 fish ŋgam      
113 branch word info sipá   16  
114 leaf rou   1  
117 fruit putú [pətú]   8  
118 grass mus      
119 earth/soil bulá ground    
120 stone pat   1  
121 sand dʒiŋai      
122 water word info dan   1  
124 sea masak metathesis 8  
125 salt masak metathesis of 3, 45 ?? 54  
126 lake dan buli   43  
127 woods/forest məráḇ      
129 moon alewa   12  
130 star domára      
131 cloud word info buna      
132 fog dʒim      
133 rain úla   1  
136 wind wau   18  
138 warm word info gap      
139 cold word info katakip      
142 heavy meyiwakŋa      
143 fire yuwá   1  
145 smoke word info kasík   2  
146 ash oisáp white    
146 ash nugum black    
147 black nugun-don d=r    
148 white ŋgau-ron      
149 red dara-ron blood colour 25  
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      
163 new yuwáune   36  
164 good kainene      
165 bad, evil sepám      
167 night doma   11  
168 day uzyem sun 70  
170 when? word info uzyem asumo ? what day    
181 where? word info wano (?)    
182 I au   1, 21  
182 I u-   x  
183 thou iu[po]   1  
183 thou k-   1  
184 he/she e   1  
184 he/she a-   1  
185 we word info tukwa      
185 we word info t-   1  
185 we word info am   2  
185 we word info m-      
186 you ikpo      
186 you m-   x  
187 they dei   25  
187 they r-   x  
188 what? word info təka      
189 who? word info ta   54  
191 all souŋgwu (?)    
193 if takei (?) 33  
194 how? word info təkata why    
195 no, not bəráwa      
197 One word info ageiḇ      
198 Two word info urá|ni   1  
199 Three word info to|ni   1  
200 Four word info owá|ni   1  

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