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Language: Amahai

Source/Author:  Margaret Florey 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:amq  Glottocode: amah1245 
Notes:  Recorded in Rutah village with Bpk Haji Nasrum Latarissa and Bpk Abubakar Latarissa. Note that people in the 5 villages in which this language is spoken do not recognise "Amahai" as the language name. There is no unified name for the language. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Margaret Florey  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern:Central Malayo-Polynesian:Central Maluku:East:Seram:Nunusaku:Piru Bay:East:Seram Straits:Uliase:Hatuhaha:Elpaputi 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
82 dull, blunt      
131 cloud word info      
7 to come hoka      
8 to turn word info para      
11 dust hau ma'ano      
13 back word info ria'e      
14 belly ehu      
19 shoulder kari      
22 to fear m'au      
33 to laugh moo      
34 to cry ele      
37 to eat yane      
39 to cook word info pamaka      
41 to bite yoko      
42 to suck mono'e      
43 ear irina      
46 to see keru      
51 to sit suwo      
53 person/human being mansia < SKT (SA)   L
62 thatch/roof a'oolo      
65 rope alo'olo      
68 needle ruitaalo      
75 to die, be dead ma'a      
78 to cut, hack word info ko'o      
83 to work word info poko tanei LIT: to work at something    
88 to squeeze word info mola'e      
89 to hold word info kaka'e      
93 to pound, beat word info su'uro      
94 to throw word info lape'e      
106 snake inyalo      
107 worm (earthworm) hiau      
113 branch word info ai kanano      
116 flower puteiro      
117 fruit huuwano      
118 grass irihu'uno      
119 earth/soil umeelo      
120 stone ha'uro      
121 sand ume siino      
122 water word info aelo      
123 to flow hoono      
124 sea awaero      
125 salt asiolo      
127 woods/forest esiolo      
128 sky laɲolo      
129 moon huraano      
132 fog weweu'o      
133 rain sialo      
134 thunder u'urolo      
138 warm word info pu'u'olo      
139 cold word info pursi'e      
142 heavy pira      
143 fire hauro      
144 to burn word info sunuro      
145 smoke word info hau po'iro      
146 ash hau ma'ano      
147 black me'eno      
148 white pu'iro      
149 red kakauro      
150 yellow poposurolo      
156 thin word info mdala      
157 thick word info hu'oro      
158 narrow ke'e      
159 wide ira      
161 shy, ashamed m'ira      
162 old word info m'uma      
164 good malopi      
166 correct, true panuhu      
167 night omole'e      
168 day po'u'olo      
170 when? word info pou ayira      
171 to hide word info huɲelo      
173 at se      
174 in, inside laloono      
176 below olohu      
178 that me      
181 where? word info se oi      
185 we word info eko      
188 what? word info kaalo      
189 who? word info kei      
190 other ameeno      
192 and rua'e difference between these is not clear    
192 and le difference between these is not clear    
194 how? word info komo      
195 no, not aya      
4 leg/foot ai   1  
18 breast susuro   1  
23 blood lalalo   1  
24 head uru   1  
26 hair word info uhuwo   1  
27 nose iri   1  
31 tooth niha'u   1  
38 to chew word info mama   1  
40 to drink yunu   1  
45 eye ma'a   1  
48 to sleep m'uru   1  
54 man/male manawalo   1  
56 child ana   1  
59 mother ina   1  
60 father ama   1  
61 house rumalo   1  
63 name nala   1  
70 to shoot word info pana   1  
79 stick/wood ai ha'ano   1  
90 to dig ari   1  
96 dog asuro   1  
97 bird manuwolo   1  
99 feather huruno   1  
104 fat/grease minairo   1  
111 fish iano   1  
114 leaf launo   1  
136 wind anino   1  
140 dry word info mamala   1  
163 new horu'iro distinction between these is not clear 1  
163 new hooro distinction between these is not clear 1  
177 this ne   1  
180 far lau   1  
182 I au   1  
187 they siri   1  
198 Two word info rua   1  
199 Three word info oru   1  
200 Four word info ha'a   1  
201 Five word info rima   1  
202 Six word info no'o   1  
203 Seven word info hitu   1  
208 Fifty word info hu'u rima   1  
55 woman/female pipinalo   1, 106  
95 to fall word info mnahu   1, 106  
186 you imi   1, 13  
3 right au minalo   1, 29  
44 to hear poono   1, 30  
52 to stand olo   1, 32  
9 to swim annanu   1, 45  
73 to steal nanawa   1, 59, 60?  
50 to dream munie   1, 60, 3  
1 hand rima   1, 64  
197 One word info sane   1, 65  
102 rat mdahalo also means "gecko" 1, 82  
66 to tie up, fasten ho'olo   118  
17 liver hu'uwa   14  
193 if kalo   14  
29 to sniff, smell suma   15  
64 to say repa'e   152  
206 Ten word info hutae   17  
47 to yawn amamoa   19  
6 road/path lalairalo   1?  
12 skin huiro   1?  
35 to vomit momo'a   1?  
98 egg e'ero   1?  
108 louse word info u'uwo   1?  
110 spider ala'alaalo   1?  
15 bone riri   2  
30 mouth nusu   2  
49 to lie down word info huruhuru'e   2  
74 to kill pama'a   2  
172 to climb word info ka'a   2  
185 we word info ama   2  
85 to choose akayeri   21  
21 to think pikir Malay loan 22 L
91 to buy kahe   24  
175 above hahaano   24  
5 to walk oi   26  
28 to breathe napas Malay loan 29 L
92 to open, uncover heka   29  
76 to live, be alive mahai   3  
169 year naalo   3  
184 he/she iri   3  
204 Eight word info waru   3  
2 left au papao   30  
103 meat/flesh isiino   31  
135 lightning ita'itaaro   32  
141 wet popo'a   33  
191 all pese'esi   34  
84 to plant kahu'e   36  
100 wing ihiroono   36  
80 to split word info ha'a   37  
196 to count nehe'e   37  
10 dirty tatai   38  
154 short word info kokoru   38  
20 to know, be knowledgeable kikia   39  
72 to hit word info hi'a   39  
137 to blow word info huro   39  
86 to grow word info suhu   3?  
115 root lamu'iro   3?  
69 to hunt word info kasare   4  
183 thou ale   4  
165 bad, evil ahia   40  
160 painful, sick masele   43  
112 rotten word info peperi   44  
77 to scratch word info yala   46  
57 husband manawalo   47  
155 long word info aka   48  
58 wife ahinalo   5  
71 to stab, pierce siha   5  
126 lake ihu   5  
205 Nine word info siwa   5  
209 One Hundred word info utuno   5  
87 to swell word info poporu   59  
210 One Thousand word info rihuno   5?  
101 to fly sihu   6  
105 tail aru'iro   6  
179 near masu   6  
151 green lalaalo   6?  
32 tongue mei   7  
81 sharp meu   7  
130 star umaaro   7  
16 intestines hu'uwa   8  
67 to sew word info kai   8  
109 mosquito ummolo   8  
152 small anna'i   8  
207 Twenty word info hu'u rua   8, 3  
25 neck o'olo   8?  
153 big ira   8?  
36 to spit tuhura   9  

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