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Language: Lihir (Sunglik)

Source/Author:  Veronica Tombeh, Malcolm Ross 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:lih  Glottocode: lihi1237 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:Tabar 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
85 to choose      
123 to flow      
157 thick word info      
183 thou      
208 Fifty word info      
3 right lolo      
7 to come yak      
19 shoulder kolan      
20 to know, be knowledgeable parketan      
21 to think nansenie      
22 to fear zakol      
26 hair word info alolokon      
31 tooth weniez      
31 tooth tur      
39 to cook word info weh      
39 to cook word info bolim < Tok Pisin   L
49 to lie down word info wil      
53 person/human being ziktun      
56 child zik      
62 thatch/roof belet Added by M Ross    
64 to say weng      
65 rope siio      
66 to tie up, fasten iotie      
68 needle tzunut      
69 to hunt word info pusul      
71 to stab, pierce taca      
72 to hit word info ersas      
74 to kill sie      
77 to scratch word info makat      
80 to split word info zirie      
81 sharp ros      
83 to work word info pez      
86 to grow word info oh      
89 to hold word info peztan      
92 to open, uncover zap      
93 to pound, beat word info patzo      
103 meat/flesh piniel      
105 tail bilkuon      
110 spider kuamelam      
112 rotten word info musir      
115 root boye      
119 earth/soil puor      
126 lake teslam      
127 woods/forest tambel      
128 sky malat      
134 thunder nunur also given: rotrot    
135 lightning yelyel      
137 to blow word info molmol = wind (blows)    
139 cold word info pong      
141 wet biez biez      
142 heavy kuakwi      
144 to burn word info zaktie      
145 smoke word info nos      
148 white kapiz      
150 yellow gangane      
153 big tamboh      
155 long word info kuon      
156 thin word info sel      
158 narrow gimgim      
159 wide peres      
160 painful, sick a ition      
160 painful, sick a pukenken      
161 shy, ashamed matmato      
161 shy, ashamed domdo      
162 old word info tiek      
164 good apet      
166 correct, true ros      
167 night lan      
170 when? word info haries Added my M Ross    
175 above mua      
178 that imel      
178 that imanok      
179 near kulien Added my M Ross    
180 far pang      
185 we word info da      
185 we word info ge      
185 we word info giet      
185 we word info getol could be ge tol    
190 other ar      
191 all die kindul      
193 if burbile      
194 how? word info lesa Added my M Ross    
195 no, not kapae      
197 One word info amin      
200 Four word info a burut      
202 Six word info a liem kamin      
203 Seven word info burut ka laktol      
204 Eight word info lo burut      
204 Eight word info a liem ka laktol      
205 Nine word info a liem ka burut could be kaburut    
207 Twenty word info a burut liem      
207 Twenty word info tziktun      
209 One Hundred word info puzep      
210 One Thousand word info puzep zaket      
4 leg/foot a kaken   1  
4 leg/foot pizi kaken   1  
12 skin a kulien   1  
16 intestines atien   1  
17 liver yet   1  
18 breast sus   1  
18 breast yaten   1  
23 blood a dalan   1  
27 nose a ision   1  
34 to cry ten   1  
35 to vomit muot   1  
37 to eat yen   1  
40 to drink yun   1  
41 to bite kalatie   1  
43 ear atenan   1  
45 eye a matan   1  
59 mother tinan   1  
60 father taman   1  
61 house liom   1  
70 to shoot word info puen   1  
78 to cut, hack word info tala   1  
79 stick/wood aye   1  
82 dull, blunt bot   1  
90 to dig kel   1  
91 to buy polie   1  
97 bird mon   1  
98 egg kator   1  
108 louse word info ut   1  
113 branch word info lak   1  
117 fruit weye Added by M Ross 1  
118 grass paliz   1  
120 stone ot   1  
121 sand kuen   1  
124 sea tes   1  
129 moon ulen   1  
133 rain wos   1  
143 fire ieh   1  
147 black maket   1  
147 black makiat   1  
163 new or   1  
165 bad, evil zaket   1  
173 at i Added by M Ross 1  
174 in, inside lilien Added my M Ross 1  
177 this ire   1  
184 he/she yie   1  
184 he/she yie   1  
185 we word info do   1  
188 what? word info sa   1  
189 who? word info se   1  
192 and kane   1  
198 Two word info alaklio could be a laklio 1  
201 Five word info a liem   1  
44 to hear lan   1, 36  
15 bone tio   1, 10  
55 woman/female weien   1, 106  
63 name a iasian 0r 1? 1, 18  
182 I yo   1, 21  
186 you go   1, 25  
168 day siat   1, 30  
1 hand a liman   1, 64  
1 hand liman   1, 64  
104 fat/grease maniok   1, 65  
171 to hide word info muninie Added by M Ross 1, 67  
50 to dream a nambial   10  
196 to count iasie   10  
140 dry word info mas   11  
9 to swim susul   12  
169 year lawir   12  
54 man/male tamat   12, 14  
13 back word info tuan   12?  
118 grass le   14  
36 to spit kamiz   14, 22  
2 left kais borrowing? TP kais 15  
46 to see tiar   15  
114 leaf pekelolo   15  
33 to laugh non   16  
116 flower zie ye   16  
11 dust kokoh   17  
100 wing palpalion   17  
103 meat/flesh pinies   17  
106 snake ze   17  
131 cloud word info lobalbal   17  
25 neck a luan   18  
95 to fall word info puok Added by M Ross 19  
47 to yawn palmah   19, 26  
14 belly a tinen   19, 34  
75 to die, be dead miat   1?  
199 Three word info alaktol could be a laktol 1?  
30 mouth a nizuon   2  
172 to climb word info selie   2  
52 to stand tute   2, 12  
6 road/path ne could be nes 20  
51 to sit kezte   20  
125 salt tes   20  
57 husband tomat   23  
28 to breathe manos 0r 17? 23, 24  
149 red dal   25  
187 they die   25  
38 to chew word info tok   27  
102 rat kues   3  
181 where? word info he Added by M Ross 3  
87 to swell word info rom   31  
122 water word info to   31  
130 star kemkem   35  
96 dog pol   36  
42 to suck dopkie   37  
10 dirty biet   39  
132 fog ioio   39  
206 Ten word info a lo liem   4  
109 mosquito nget nget   41  
88 to squeeze word info purazie   42  
176 below pakien Added my M Ross 43  
67 to sew word info samapie   46 L
66 to tie up, fasten kumzie   51  
99 feather lakuo   53  
111 fish mazien   53  
185 we word info datol   6  
73 to steal piel   62  
101 to fly lah   62  
8 to turn word info wir   66  
84 to plant sio   66  
152 small ialik   66, 82  
77 to scratch word info korzie   68  
146 ash kokoh   68  
32 tongue kalamen   7, 14  
5 to walk ka   70  
5 to walk ka   70  
136 wind mol   71  
144 to burn word info so   72  
94 to throw word info lo   73  
138 warm word info soso   73  
24 head akon   75  
76 to live, be alive to   8  
151 green makda   8, 79  
48 to sleep melam   82  
48 to sleep melam   82  
48 to sleep memelam   82  
107 worm (earthworm) zeze   84  
39 to cook word info tutun   9  
154 short word info pospos could be pos pos 9  
29 to sniff, smell suknan   91  
58 wife wen   98  
186 you wa   x  
186 you go tol   x  
187 they dul dul   x  
187 they die tol   x  

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