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Language: Simbo

Source/Author:  Palmer, Bill (1993) Simbo draft dictionary 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:sbb  Glottocode: simb1256 
Notes:  Orthography: <q> represents /g/, <g> represents /ɣ/. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Malcolm Ross  Checked By:  
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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:New Georgia:West 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
68 needle      
8 to turn word info gabala      
20 to know, be knowledgeable nonoga      
30 mouth seta      
39 to cook word info boŋo boil    
61 house vona      
62 thatch/roof pina sago thatch    
64 to say pito      
67 to sew word info uki      
70 to shoot word info poqa used when one uses a spear or gun to cause harm    
77 to scratch word info mimo      
78 to cut, hack word info ŋodo      
79 stick/wood viana firewood    
86 to grow word info vasage      
89 to hold word info tuqe      
97 bird baruku      
107 worm (earthworm) mumuno      
109 mosquito idiki      
110 spider igo bush spider    
112 rotten word info kikerena      
125 salt solo borrowed from Pijin?   L
126 lake ovuku      
130 star kikida      
132 fog resana misty rain    
141 wet peja      
141 wet moe      
156 thin word info kiliviqe      
161 shy, ashamed pamaŋa      
163 new garaba      
166 correct, true tojamo right, straight    
170 when? word info lokana when PAST    
175 above soto-na above    
178 that pora      
191 all dapu      
194 how? word info asa-vea if, suppose; how?, why? (what + if)    
195 no, not kati      
210 One Thousand word info hiako      
7 to come mai   1  
12 skin guliti   1  
14 belly tia-na   1  
18 breast susu   1  
19 shoulder vara   1  
22 to fear matutu   1  
27 nose isu   1  
37 to eat gani   1  
41 to bite garata   1  
43 ear taliŋa   1  
45 eye mata   1  
59 mother tina-na   1  
60 father tama-na   1  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
77 to scratch word info garo   1  
79 stick/wood gau wood, tree 1  
90 to dig geli   1  
98 egg toruru   1  
111 fish igana   1  
113 branch word info leŋana-na   1  
117 fruit vua   1  
120 stone patu   1  
165 bad, evil sea   1  
167 night boŋi   1  
177 this pini   1  
180 far sau   1  
183 thou nigo   1  
185 we word info qita   1  
188 what? word info na-sa   1  
189 who? word info i sei   1  
198 Two word info rua   1  
201 Five word info lima   1  
203 Seven word info vitu   1  
208 Fifty word info limaŋavulu   1  
42 to suck ñoñopo   1, 22  
44 to hear noŋoro   1, 37  
85 to choose vile   1, 24  
182 I ara   1, 24  
186 you gau   1, 25  
31 tooth livo   1, 35  
23 blood mamadara-na   1, 47  
202 Six word info vonomo   1, 55  
2 left mairi   1, 59  
1 hand lima   1, 64  
54 man/male marane   1, 69  
7 to come lame   1, 85  
53 person/human being tinoni   10  
153 big lavata   10  
159 wide revata   10  
209 One Hundred word info gogoto   10  
114 leaf elo   11  
199 Three word info ue   11  
87 to swell word info tubu sore, ulcer 12  
152 small ite   121  
66 to tie up, fasten piu   129  
66 to tie up, fasten piui-   129  
30 mouth maŋa   13  
73 to steal iko   13  
80 to split word info paqala   13  
135 lightning kapi   13  
176 below kauru   13  
184 he/she isa   13  
124 sea ivere salt water 14  
124 sea lamana ocean 14  
29 to sniff, smell umaŋa smell (NOUN) 15  
48 to sleep puta   15  
116 flower havoro   15  
157 thick word info mota   15  
106 snake dole   16  
119 earth/soil peso   16  
138 warm word info maŋini   16  
207 Twenty word info rubate   16  
83 to work word info taveti   17  
108 louse word info lodo   17  
160 painful, sick mo   17  
25 neck rua   18  
93 to pound, beat word info kija   18  
206 Ten word info manoga   18  
4 leg/foot nene   19  
47 to yawn mamavua   19  
67 to sew word info pipiti   19  
69 to hunt word info uku-ai   19  
115 root bagere   19  
118 grass bu-buru   19  
151 green bu blue, green 19  
175 above ulu-na top 19  
95 to fall word info uka   19, 22  
185 we word info qai   1?  
65 rope aroso   2  
74 to kill va-mate-   2  
52 to stand turu   2, 69  
28 to breathe siŋo   20  
82 dull, blunt pato   20  
46 to see doma   21  
46 to see doma-   21  
171 to hide word info golomo   21  
190 other kaki   21  
5 to walk soana walk; path 22  
88 to squeeze word info moño   23  
172 to climb word info kesa   24  
174 in, inside korapa   24  
192 and beto   24, 36  
70 to shoot word info gona usually means to throw. 25  
81 sharp najulu   25  
187 they ria   25  
63 name isoŋo-na   26  
57 husband marane-na   26, 53  
143 fire iku   28  
91 to buy vagi   29  
185 we word info gai   2?  
13 back word info mudi   3  
181 where? word info pa vei   3  
200 Four word info made   3  
204 Eight word info alu   3  
102 rat karuje irreg reflex 3, 62  
193 if vea if, suppose 30  
26 hair word info pupulu body hair 31  
38 to chew word info napulu   31  
40 to drink buku   31  
197 One word info ka-me   31, 50  
133 rain okoro   33  
50 to dream puta-qita sleep - see 34, 38  
6 road/path soana walk; path 35  
129 moon popu   35  
170 when? word info pa na via when FUT 35  
122 water word info pie   36  
105 tail pikutu   37  
112 rotten word info ñabo   37  
181 where? word info ai   37  
58 wife maqota-na   38  
158 narrow ŋizuku   38  
16 intestines lagu   39  
16 intestines lagu ite intestines 39  
16 intestines lagu lavata small intestines 39  
86 to grow word info va toa   4  
144 to burn word info sulu   4  
55 woman/female rereko   40  
34 to cry kiu   42  
37 to eat teteku respect term for 'eat' 42  
100 wing babana   42  
110 spider kolobai house spider 42  
128 sky oka   42  
26 hair word info vutuŋu-na hair, feathers 43  
99 feather vutuŋu-na hair, feathers 43  
103 meat/flesh masa   43  
142 heavy mamata   46, 35  
84 to plant lete   47  
169 year aoro year, age 47  
191 all doru   47  
196 to count añi   47  
101 to fly tatava   48  
123 to flow ñoro   49  
147 black kuduru   49  
149 red jimiri   49  
137 to blow word info ivu   5  
205 Nine word info sia   5  
56 child tu-na   5, 36  
3 right matua   5, 37  
21 to think roroqu   50  
154 short word info papaka   50  
166 correct, true soto-na true 50  
127 woods/forest muqu   51  
150 yellow boe   51  
96 dog sie   52  
136 wind ivoro   52  
145 smoke word info tula   52  
148 white keala   52  
9 to swim ponu   53  
141 wet tubulu   53  
121 sand nagasa   54  
72 to hit word info uma 'hit with fist, punch' 55  
94 to throw word info gona   55  
131 cloud word info lei   56  
46 to see bata   58  
46 to see bati-   58  
139 cold word info lomoso cold (of weather) 59  
195 no, not dai   59  
168 day rane   6  
139 cold word info diana cold (of body) 60  
162 old word info baragoso old (of people) 60  
33 to laugh avu   61  
155 long word info kakasa   61  
36 to spit odolo   63  
134 thunder paka   65  
140 dry word info pidili dry, thirsty 65  
104 fat/grease noboko   66  
146 ash kavu   68  
32 tongue mea   7  
10 dirty paji   70  
92 to open, uncover levana   71  
92 to open, uncover levani-   71  
11 dust kavuru   72  
164 good joŋa   74  
51 to sit toqo   77  
15 bone pupuda   8  
17 liver kola   8  
35 to vomit lua   8  
76 to live, be alive toa   8  
173 at pa   8  
24 head batu   9  
179 near tata   9  
71 to stab, pierce paleka   95  
49 to lie down word info pepu   99  
49 to lie down word info pepu opo to lie face down/prone 99  
49 to lie down word info pepu enga face up/supine 99  
162 old word info matua-na old (of things) x  
162 old word info toiri-na old, derelict x  

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