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

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