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Language: Solos

Source/Author:  Helen N Hosian, Malcolm Ross 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:sol  Glottocode: solo1257 
Notes:  Some pages in Word Lists B, C, and D were missing. Spent time looking for them but not there. Some verbs were embedded in short sentences reflecting the way the question was asked.  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic:Nehan-North Bougainville:Solos 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
17 liver      
21 to think      
47 to yawn      
62 thatch/roof      
68 needle      
73 to steal      
82 dull, blunt      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
91 to buy      
93 to pound, beat word info      
106 snake      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
142 heavy      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
174 in, inside      
180 far      
181 where? word info      
190 other      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
3 right mina risiki = right (hand)    
6 road/path barobaron      
8 to turn word info biriton      
10 dirty kute Added by M Ross    
12 skin mo toauh      
14 belly mo tot tuh      
16 intestines mo tot tuh      
23 blood mo natiuh      
28 to breathe nuason Added by M Ross    
29 to sniff, smell puinon Added by M Ross    
30 mouth (mo) buruh      
33 to laugh gagason Added by M Ross    
36 to spit mo reret tuh      
45 eye (mo) touh      
49 to lie down word info kanaton Added by M Ross    
50 to dream e sino sohon a dream    
56 child mu napeani nuh      
58 wife mu natahon nuh      
63 name mu son nuh      
65 rope stiring string - loan?   L?
69 to hunt word info hahara mune non      
71 to stab, pierce hesakon      
74 to kill natungor could be: natungomuh; part of word crossed through    
77 to scratch word info (tua) makananon (tua) = skin    
77 to scratch word info e makana non an itch    
78 to cut, hack word info bopo nei (gu)      
80 to split word info robakat nuh o roi      
90 to dig ngahon      
92 to open, uncover e panat nei bebene      
94 to throw word info mit nei dako      
97 bird namune      
99 feather keam could be: keani    
100 wing bapahu      
104 fat/grease mo bosokuh fat (on a person)    
107 worm (earthworm) tirikopu      
108 louse word info pehut      
110 spider kupat      
112 rotten word info roi muna non = (wood is) rotten    
114 leaf un (o roi) = leaf (of tree)    
115 root ponog (o roi)      
116 flower plaua     L?
119 earth/soil kopu      
120 stone rako      
120 stone dako      
121 sand kotonan      
122 water word info kua      
127 woods/forest duruh      
131 cloud word info wanean      
132 fog makesk      
133 rain na ruat      
136 wind seoung (wind) blows    
137 to blow word info seoung saku non = wing (blows)    
139 cold word info e koroan non      
143 fire tong      
144 to burn word info (tong) ngoton = fire burns    
148 white gekeani      
149 red kunuk      
152 small (gu) i gakei      
153 big (gu) pea      
153 big nakapea      
154 short word info runduŋ Added by M Ross    
155 long word info roron      
158 narrow tigakei Added by M Ross    
159 wide kapea Added by M Ross    
163 new (numa) in binit = new (house)    
164 good (numa) in daeh      
165 bad, evil roson Added by M Ross    
166 correct, true e youh raihon correct, right    
169 year yia Tok Pisin loan   L
177 this numai re = this (house here)    
178 that numai i toh that (nearby)    
178 that numai nehin that (far away)    
179 near sikut Added by M Ross    
185 we word info emen we two (excl)    
185 we word info emen nenanu we two (incl.)    
185 we word info emen bah we (excl.)    
185 we word info enit we (incl.)    
185 we word info e men nenapis we three (excl.)    
185 we word info e nit nenapis we three (incl.)    
187 they erun they (plural)    
191 all erun naobot      
195 no, not meiyah      
200 Four word info nina      
210 One Thousand word info o nean mes or paraonh as written. 'or' could be English    
5 to walk nanon (he) goes 1  
11 dust kuahu   1  
18 breast mu sus suh   1  
22 to fear napean e ratout non nakatua   1  
25 neck (mo) nio te youh   1  
27 nose (mo) osuh   1  
37 to eat henon   1  
43 ear (mo) tengin nuh   1  
59 mother (mu) tinen nuh   1  
60 father (mu) tamen nuh   1  
61 house numa   1  
70 to shoot word info haneinon neireh   1  
75 to die, be dead maton   1  
101 to fly noh (bird) flies 1  
111 fish nayean   1  
113 branch word info nen doi   1  
117 fruit ua Added by M Ross 1  
118 grass hasini   1  
124 sea tasi   1  
128 sky nengit   1  
167 night bong   1  
173 at i Added by M Ross 1  
175 above i yas Added by M Ross 1  
184 he/she e he 1  
184 he/she e she 1  
186 you emu nenanu you (pl.) 1  
188 what? word info nasah   1  
198 Two word info huanu < *pua- 'round obj' + *rua '2' 1  
201 Five word info taning   1  
202 Six word info neiyonong   1  
203 Seven word info hit Added by M Ross 1  
44 to hear nongon non   1, 36  
182 I ena   1, 22  
189 who? word info esi   1, 28  
31 tooth (mu) nihouh   1, 35  
31 tooth mo niho gukut tuh molar tooth 1, 35  
170 when? word info haŋis Added by M Ross 1, 49  
130 star bipit   1, 81  
7 to come naomeh   1, 85  
196 to count kason   10  
13 back word info mu tegen nuh   12  
41 to bite hekoton (dog) bites 12  
138 warm word info e hetunon hot 12  
146 ash kumahoan   12  
48 to sleep sohon   13  
116 flower purpur   13 L?
81 sharp hen 'eats'. Added by M Ross 14  
135 lightning kanah   14  
46 to see taranon   15  
141 wet bupus Added by M Ross 16  
2 left mina keruk = left (hand) 17  
98 egg nat   17  
140 dry word info parak Added by M Ross 17  
151 green buin Added by M Ross 17  
88 to squeeze word info pot non i wen   18  
206 Ten word info manot   18  
95 to fall word info pukuo Added by M Ross 19  
103 meat/flesh beno   19  
103 meat/flesh beno   19  
52 to stand tonon is standing 2, 69  
66 to tie up, fasten kit noni pusi   20, 32  
66 to tie up, fasten e kit nuh in pusi (he) ties (a knot) 20, 32  
134 thunder pina   23  
42 to suck (napean) suson (napean) = baby 25  
145 smoke word info ruh   25  
126 lake kopu kopu lagoon 27  
38 to chew word info e koranon (he) chews (betelnut) 29  
18 breast mo nunuma uh chest 3  
204 Eight word info toan Added by M Ross 3, 14  
102 rat kiso   3, 88  
40 to drink kaunon   30  
26 hair word info (mu) un nuh (to baku) = his hair on head 31  
96 dog kus   31  
197 One word info meg query 'g'. Unclear. 31, 33  
5 to walk tatan non   32  
79 stick/wood nen doi   32  
147 black koung   34  
1 hand (mo) minouh   35  
1 hand mo mina uh arm 35  
53 person/human being nakatun   39  
199 Three word info huapis   4  
209 One Hundred word info natus irregular *R > n 4  
118 grass kunei kunai 43 L
105 tail his   44  
176 below i kopu Added by M Ross 45  
54 man/male natinon   46  
67 to sew word info samapon   46 L
129 moon natihao   49  
34 to cry nganon   5  
205 Nine word info nei sie   5  
72 to hit word info henatungon (he) fights 50  
89 to hold word info namoton   50  
9 to swim nanahon   51  
24 head (mo) bakuh   53  
39 to cook word info hagonono 'boil'. Added by M Ross 53  
39 to cook word info hahuona 'bake'. Added by M Ross 54  
64 to say ketanon   55  
55 woman/female natahon   56  
57 husband mu natinon nuh   57  
168 day nan   6  
83 to work word info kuinon   60  
4 leg/foot mo mouh   61  
4 leg/foot mo mow uh   61  
4 leg/foot mo mou te youh   61  
109 mosquito kuhenu   64  
32 tongue (mo) mieuh   7  
51 to sit gungon is sitting 79  
35 to vomit e nunuanon   8  
76 to live, be alive toe non Added by M Ross 8  
15 bone mu tinouh   9  
87 to swell word info (tua) potekon (tua) = skin 9  
150 yellow ngoa ngoan pehao   9  
20 to know, be knowledgeable natenon   98  
19 shoulder mu rosoat uh   99  
19 shoulder rosono   99  
183 thou eno you (sing.) s  
162 old word info konohan Added by M Ross x  
186 you e mu nenapis you x  
187 they erun nenanu they two x  
187 they e erun nenapis they three x  

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