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Language: Numbami (Siboma)

Source/Author:  Joel Bradshaw 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:sij  Glottocode: numb1247 
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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:Huon Gulf:Numbami 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand nima   1, 66  
2 left kaze   15  
3 right ano   20  
4 leg/foot ae   1  
5 to walk -pa-andalowa   2, 64  
6 road/path andalawa <+in(s,j) ala path, t+awa inside or mother or AUG/DIM 1  
7 to come -ma   1  
8 to turn word info -kawewe      
9 to swim -yuma bathe 94  
9 to swim -kota tina 'pass through freshwater/river' 90  
9 to swim -kota tai 'pass through saltwater/sea' 90  
10 dirty kele   10  
11 dust bom fr. NAN Paiewa   L
12 skin usi skin as covering 50  
12 skin bolo skin as body, colon, health    
13 back word info dumakai   61  
14 belly tae bobdaba (chest), bobo (abdomen) 19  
15 bone tuatua   1, 10  
16 intestines tae[lalo]   29  
17 liver ate   1  
18 breast susu   1  
19 shoulder bageyala   30  
20 to know, be knowledgeable -yale fr. Yabem 118 L
21 to think taewembi belly-holds    
22 to fear -mandi <*matai <*matau 1  
23 blood masina   7  
24 head dabola   43  
25 neck gidu   66  
26 hair word info [dabola] uli   3  
27 nose nisinowa nosehole 27  
28 to breathe -so yagawa exhale 83  
28 to breathe -you yagawa inhale 83  
29 to sniff, smell -numusu      
30 mouth alolo      
31 tooth niwo   1  
32 tongue amala   7  
33 to laugh -momola   3?  
34 to cry -taŋi   1  
35 to vomit -luwa   8  
36 to spit -kanzuwa   19  
37 to eat -ani   1  
38 to chew word info -ŋaŋawi   8  
38 to chew word info -ani bua   63  
39 to cook word info -nisi bani boil food, +a>,i cf.70 +b>t,i cf 74,120    
40 to drink -numu   1  
41 to bite -saŋa      
41 to bite -you      
42 to suck -pipia[susu] squeeze    
42 to suck -numu drink; irregular *i > u 50, 36  
43 ear taŋanowa ear 1  
44 to hear -loŋoni   1, 36  
45 eye matano eye true 1  
46 to see -yoŋgo      
47 to yawn -maŋgawa splitmouth    
48 to sleep -iye wai wai: completive    
49 to lie down word info -iye   98  
50 to dream -niniwi   1, 60  
51 to sit -ndosua   18, 152  
52 to stand -walasa      
53 person/human being tamtamoŋa   68  
54 man/male kole      
54 man/male tamota   12, 14  
55 woman/female ewa   58  
56 child kolapa 'boy, young man' 45  
56 child natu offspring 5  
57 husband asowa   2  
58 wife asowa   1  
59 mother awa   85  
59 mother tina   1  
60 father mama   1, 10  
60 father tama   1  
61 house kapala   1  
62 thatch/roof atawa   1  
63 name ase cf Lau? 1, 18  
64 to say -ŋgo      
65 rope walasa   2  
66 to tie up, fasten -yota      
67 to sew word info -sali   50  
68 needle salina R>l. cf.78 1  
69 to hunt word info -ŋgewe      
70 to shoot word info -wani   1  
71 to stab, pierce -so   67  
72 to hit word info -lapa   42  
73 to steal -pai wena   1, 32  
74 to kill -lapa uni   42, 1  
75 to die, be dead -mande uni   1  
76 to live, be alive matalalaya      
77 to scratch word info wale   12  
78 to cut, hack word info -tala   1  
79 stick/wood ai papaka board / plank 1  
79 stick/wood ai pambu log shape    
80 to split word info -waga   32  
81 sharp mata   36  
82 dull, blunt mata mou sharp none x  
83 to work word info -pai kulakua      
84 to plant -so [iwoya] iwoya: seed, shoot, sucker 28  
85 to choose -kelele gi set apart    
86 to grow word info -tumbu   1  
87 to swell word info -woni   77  
88 to squeeze word info -pipia   21  
89 to hold word info gugumi   1  
90 to dig -tawi   59  
91 to buy -baga (arch.)    
91 to buy -ambuli (semi calque fr. Yabem)    
92 to open, uncover -wosa Verb of manner + wosa    
93 to pound, beat word info -lapa      
94 to throw word info -tiŋa   110  
95 to fall word info -peka (intr) 25  
96 dog kiyami   42  
97 bird mani   1  
98 egg ketu   1  
99 feather [mani]uli   1  
100 wing bagelau   16  
101 to fly -lowa   1  
102 rat gobe      
103 meat/flesh wiso   10?  
104 fat/grease didi   69  
105 tail unae      
106 snake mota   12  
107 worm (earthworm) mota   10  
108 louse word info tuma   3  
109 mosquito kawanda   67  
110 spider lala   1  
111 fish iya   1  
112 rotten word info sapupu      
113 branch word info [ai]lakalaka   1  
114 leaf [ai]lau   1  
115 root woka   2  
116 flower plawa (English)   L
117 fruit aiano      
118 grass kalasi (English)   L
119 earth/soil puta cf YAP 41  
120 stone wati   1  
121 sand alundi   93  
122 water word info tina      
123 to flow -zuzula   79  
124 sea tai   1  
125 salt tai   20  
126 lake tina kapulawa water round    
127 woods/forest weni      
128 sky gulubu   25  
129 moon kambalaŋa      
130 star gitimana      
131 cloud word info bubuluma   21  
132 fog yawaluŋu      
133 rain usana   1  
134 thunder dubeleleki      
135 lightning sa iwewe 'it flashes'    
136 wind aula      
137 to blow word info -pusie   6  
138 warm word info wawana   1  
139 cold word info luluwila   77  
140 dry word info masoso   11  
140 dry word info -mamasa   11  
141 wet totowi      
142 heavy bunama      
143 fire yawi   1  
144 to burn word info -lalaŋi scald / burnt skin 75  
144 to burn word info -mbosi roast    
144 to burn word info -tutuni set fire 1  
144 to burn word info yaweni fire-eat    
145 smoke word info yabokole      
146 ash yawi gaula black    
146 ash wowai white    
147 black kikiya      
148 white usouso   34  
149 red misina cf. blood 50, 75  
150 yellow meyaŋo   9  
151 green daŋala      
152 small kae      
152 small kateako      
153 big bamo      
153 big boboŋa   24  
154 short word info tula      
154 short word info tupe      
155 long word info molosa   5  
156 thin word info yawayawa   53  
157 thick word info dendeliŋa      
158 narrow kateako small    
159 wide bamo big    
160 painful, sick -witi ache 110  
160 painful, sick -mata be sick 71  
161 shy, ashamed memeya   1  
162 old word info embamoto [F]    
162 old word info kombamoto [M]    
163 new wou   1, 26  
164 good wiya   1  
165 bad, evil maya      
166 correct, true ano truth 17  
166 correct, true biŋano truth 17  
167 night towambana      
168 day yawela sun    
169 year damana pleiades 80  
170 when? word info gesina-ma past 1  
170 when? word info gesina-go future 1  
171 to hide word info -uŋa ata reflexive 1  
172 to climb word info -pi   14  
173 at iye it-lie/be at    
174 in, inside lalo   1  
175 above wao above 2  
175 above dudu on top    
175 above gawagawa up above    
176 below idubu underneath    
176 below owe below    
177 this tatena 1p 68  
177 this tatona 2p 68  
178 that koena 3p    
179 near -tabiŋa be closest to 20  
180 far -iye molosa it lie far    
181 where? word info iye tenda it.lie, where    
182 I woya   1, 21  
183 thou aiya   35  
184 he/she e   1  
185 we word info aita   1  
185 we word info i      
186 you amu   1  
187 they ai      
188 what? word info sawa   1  
189 who? word info sai   1  
190 other mainama      
191 all tiyamama      
192 and wa      
193 if iŋgo says    
194 how? word info ka kaitenda      
195 no, not mou none 73  
195 no, not kote not    
196 to count -wete      
197 One word info sesemi   1  
198 Two word info luwa   1  
199 Three word info toli   1  
200 Four word info wata   1  
201 Five word info nima teula   1, 15  
202 Six word info Nima teula ano sesem      
203 Seven word info nima teula ano lua      
204 Eight word info nima teula ano toli      
205 Nine word info nima teula ano wata      
206 Ten word info nima besua      
207 Twenty word info tamota te 'man one' 32  
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      

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