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Language: Ifira-Mele (Mele-Fila)

Source/Author:  POLLEX 2000 (Bruce Biggs & Ross Clark) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mxe  Glottocode: mele1250 
Notes:  AKA Mele-Fila in Pollex 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Simon Greenhill  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:Central Pacific:East Fijian-Polynesian:Polynesian:Nuclear:Samoic-Outlier:Futunic 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
7 to come      
8 to turn word info      
12 skin      
13 back word info      
14 belly      
19 shoulder      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
30 mouth      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
53 person/human being      
57 husband      
59 mother      
60 father      
62 thatch/roof      
64 to say      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
76 to live, be alive      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
84 to plant      
88 to squeeze word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
106 snake      
115 root      
116 flower      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
130 star      
132 fog      
138 warm word info      
145 smoke word info      
150 yellow      
153 big      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
174 in, inside      
180 far      
187 they      
190 other      
193 if      
195 no, not      
196 to count      
208 Fifty word info      
152 small -riki Small (Clk) 66  
170 when? word info aafea When? (future) (Clk) 5  
188 what? word info afa What? 1  
143 fire afi Fire 1  
183 thou akoe Second person singular free-form pronoun 1  
183 thou akoe Second person singular free-form pronoun 1  
168 day ao Daylight 1, 54  
6 road/path ara Path, road (Clk) 1  
32 tongue arero Tongue (Clk) 15  
176 below aro Below, beneath [<] 8  
17 liver ate Liver 1  
182 I avau I, me (Clk) 1, 21  
136 wind aŋi Wind 1  
200 Four word info faa Four 1, 66  
55 woman/female faafine Women 1, 106  
55 woman/female faafine Women 1, 106  
61 house fare House 14  
78 to cut, hack word info fasia To split 13  
120 stone fatu Stone 1  
66 to tie up, fasten fausia Lash 11  
181 where? word info fea Where? 3, 35  
87 to swell word info ffura Swell up 7  
55 woman/female fine Woman 1, 41  
85 to choose firia Select, choose 1  
203 Seven word info fitu Seven.(Source: Pollex) 1  
163 new foou New 1  
117 fruit fua Fruit, roe, testicle, kidney (Clk) 1  
206 Ten word info gafuru Ten.(Source: Pollex) 5, 32  
173 at i At 1  
184 he/she ia Third person singular personal pronoun 1  
63 name igoa Name 6  
111 fish ika Fish (General term that includes whales and porpoises but not turtles, eels or octopus (Clk) 1  
15 bone ivi Bone 52, 5  
37 to eat kai Eat, food 1, 47  
73 to steal kaiaa Steal 7  
172 to climb word info kake Climb 32  
110 spider kalaalaa Spider [<] 1  
77 to scratch word info karukaru Scratch B. [<] 9  
33 to laugh kata Laugh 7  
41 to bite katia To bite 1, 55  
191 all katoa All 13  
9 to swim kau Swim (in a direction) 5  
152 small kelakela Small (Ebt) 13  
119 earth/soil kere(kere) Earth, ground, soil 10  
183 thou ki Second person singular preposed pronoun (Clk) 5  
183 thou ki Second person singular preposed pronoun (Clk) 5  
102 rat kimoa Pollex 06: Kimoa. :Rat. 14  
42 to suck koomia Suck on something in the mouth (Clk) 7  
186 you kooteu Second person plural cardinal pronoun (Clk) 16  
78 to cut, hack word info kootia Cut open cooked food 9  
96 dog korii Dog 7  
189 who? word info kuai Who? 1  
108 louse word info kutu Louse 1  
152 small leleka Small (Fla) (Cpl) 13  
119 earth/soil lepa L from Efate lgs (Clark 1998) 11 L
185 we word info ma We, dual exclusive (Clk) 2  
192 and ma And 2  
156 thin word info maamaa   1  
21 to think maanatu Think, remember 9  
160 painful, sick maasaki Sick 1  
157 thick word info maatoru Thick (of board etc.) (Clk) 3  
140 dry word info maatuu Pollex 06: Maatuu. :Dry (Clk). 66  
65 rope maea Rope (European type) 10  
113 branch word info maga Pollex 06: Maga. :Branch. 2, 35  
81 sharp majikai Sharp (Clk) 14, 16  
139 cold word info makariri Cold (Clk) 1, 52  
97 bird manu Bird 1  
210 One Thousand word info manu Thousand.(Source: Pollex) 2  
164 good marie Good (Bgs) 16  
2 left masui Left (not right) (Clk) 1, 59, 74  
45 eye mata Eye, face 1  
136 wind matagi Wind 1, 66  
22 to fear mataku Afraid, frightened 1  
3 right matau Right (not left) 5, 13  
75 to die, be dead mate Die 1  
149 red mea Red 1  
50 to dream memiti Dream 7, 36  
209 One Hundred word info mijikao Hundred *rima-tekau (Clk).(Source: Pollex) 2  
160 painful, sick mmae Be in pain, hurt 10  
142 heavy mmafa Heavy 46  
48 to sleep moe Sleep, lie down (Clk) 10, 109  
49 to lie down word info moe Sleep, lie down (Clk) 6  
151 green moto Immature (of fruit), green, unripe (Bgs) 1, 10  
124 sea muana Ocean 10  
171 to hide word info mumuni Hide an object 1, 67  
177 this naa Pollex 06: Naa. :This, that, near speaker or addressee (Clk). 1  
178 that naa Pollex 06: Naa. :This, that, near speaker or addressee (Clk). 1  
109 mosquito namu Mosquito Clk) 1  
207 Twenty word info ngofuru e'rua   6, 3  
31 tooth nifo Tooth 1  
51 to sit nofo Sit, stay, wait (Clk) 16  
58 wife nufine Old woman, wife (Clk) 5, 66  
202 Six word info ono   1  
72 to hit word info paakia Slap, hit with hammer, rock etc 6  
134 thunder pajjiri   14  
10 dirty paku   37  
147 black paku Pollex 06: Paku. :Black. 64  
194 how? word info peefea How? 11  
100 wing pekkau Wing (Clk) 1, 59  
25 neck penaua Neck 21, 18  
11 dust penu Pollex 06: Penu. :Dust, rubbish.    
167 night poo Night 1  
154 short word info poopoto Short 9  
112 rotten word info popo Decayed, of wood (Clk) 14  
131 cloud word info puao Cloud 12  
79 stick/wood raakau Tree, wood 1, 26  
128 sky ragi Sky 1  
114 leaf rau Leaf 1  
26 hair word info rauru Hair, wig (Clk) 40  
146 ash refu Ashes 67  
101 to fly rere Fly 11  
1 hand rima Five; hand-arm 1, 64  
201 Five word info rima Five, hand-arm.(Source: Pollex) 1  
44 to hear rorogo Hear 1  
35 to vomit rrua Vomit 8  
198 Two word info rua Two 1  
175 above ruga Top, above (Clk) 9  
165 bad, evil saa Bad 1  
72 to hit word info saa-ia Hit, beat, thrash 12  
5 to walk sale Walk in free-and -easy way, stroll, float, drift, put out to sea B. [<] 6, 76  
191 all sara All, every kind of ?B. (Clk) [<] 49  
137 to blow word info sau Blow (of wind) 12  
78 to cut, hack word info serea To cut 16  
16 intestines sinae irregular 1  
129 moon sinamarama Moon (Clk) 37, 7  
205 Nine word info siva Nine (Clk)[>].(Source: Pollex) 5  
86 to grow word info somo Grow (of plant) (Clk) 7  
141 wet ssuu Wet 11  
71 to stab, pierce sukia Pierce, stab 1, 8  
105 tail suku Tail of animal or fish, but not bird (Ebt) 13  
18 breast susu Breast (Bgs) 1  
107 worm (earthworm) suulaji Worm 1, 8  
54 man/male taane Male 1, 11  
71 to stab, pierce taaroa Spear, throw a spear or knife at something (Clk) 10  
34 to cry tagi Weep 1  
72 to hit word info taia Hit, kill 8  
74 to kill taia Hit, kill 8  
54 man/male tamaaroa Young man (Clk) x  
39 to cook word info taona To cook 10  
80 to split word info tapasia Break, split, separate (Clk) 4  
43 ear tariga Ear 1  
56 child tariki Pollex 06: Tariki. :Child (of man). 6, 63  
197 One word info tasi One 41  
179 near tata Be near 9  
169 year tau Year 1  
55 woman/female te Women 35  
148 white teatea White 8  
98 egg tolu   1  
155 long word info tootoe Pollex 06: Tootoe. :Long (Clk). 73  
166 correct, true tootonu Straight, true, correct 8  
199 Three word info toru Three 1  
23 blood toto Blood 4  
185 we word info tu Pron. we (inclusive, plural i, subject ii) (Clk) 39  
67 to sew word info tuia Sew, string (Clk) 13, 16  
72 to hit word info tukia Strike, pound 8  
93 to pound, beat word info tukia Strike, pound 2  
86 to grow word info tupu Grow (of a person) 1  
52 to stand tuu Stand 2  
162 old word info tuuai Old (of things); long ago 48  
144 to burn word info tuugia Put on the fire, burn; light (fire, lamp) 1, 7  
78 to cut, hack word info tuujia Cut 17  
133 rain ua Rain 1  
24 head ulu Uru/ga 1  
40 to drink unu Drink (Clk) 1  
27 nose usu Nose 1  
204 Eight word info va'u Pollex 06: VA`U. :Eight (I). 3  
4 leg/foot vae Leg 1, 100  
99 feather vaero Pollex 06: Vaero. :Feather (Clk). 80  
122 water word info vai Fresh water 2  
204 Eight word info varu Pollex 06: Varu. :Eight. 3  
16 intestines vava (Clk) 11  
135 lightning wira Lightning 2  
121 sand woraone Sand (Clk) 1  

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