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

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