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Language: Lihir (Sunglik)

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

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