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Language: Biliau

Source/Author:  Malcolm Ross 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:bcu  Glottocode: awad1244 
Notes:  Now known as "Awad Bing" 
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:North New Guinea:Ngero-Vitiaz:Vitiaz:Bel 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand dim      
2 left      
3 right wan   1  
4 leg/foot yei   1  
4 leg/foot yei   1  
5 to walk      
6 road/path dal   1  
7 to come -si   58  
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
11 dust      
12 skin tini   31  
13 back word info      
14 belly      
15 bone      
16 intestines      
17 liver atei   1  
18 breast sui   1  
19 shoulder      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
23 blood      
24 head batu   9  
25 neck      
26 hair word info      
27 nose      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
30 mouth au   36  
31 tooth      
32 tongue balei   33  
33 to laugh      
34 to cry -taŋiŋ (nn) 1  
34 to cry taŋtaŋ   1  
35 to vomit -luwu could be: lu wu 8  
36 to spit      
37 to eat -aŋ   1  
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
40 to drink      
41 to bite      
42 to suck -mus   6  
43 ear talaŋ   1  
44 to hear -luoŋ   1, 36  
45 eye mal   1  
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep -en   8  
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
51 to sit      
52 to stand      
53 person/human being      
54 man/male tamol   12, 14  
55 woman/female paen   1, 106  
56 child nalu/n   5  
57 husband      
58 wife      
59 mother tin   1  
59 mother nin   1, 83  
60 father tam   1  
61 house ab   23  
62 thatch/roof      
63 name wag   67  
64 to say      
65 rope      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info pan   1  
71 to stab, pierce      
72 to hit word info      
73 to steal      
74 to kill -fug      
75 to die, be dead -ma : t   1  
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
79 stick/wood      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info ab hold 78  
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig -sar   10  
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover -pas   31  
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
96 dog gaun   43  
97 bird man   1  
98 egg      
99 feather kaluŋ   9  
99 feather pupulu   1  
100 wing badi   20  
101 to fly -ruoi (bird) flies 1  
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh mudoi   23  
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
106 snake muat   12  
107 worm (earthworm)      
108 louse word info wut   1  
109 mosquito kumakum      
110 spider      
111 fish ii   1  
112 rotten word info      
113 branch word info      
114 leaf      
115 root      
116 flower      
117 fruit      
118 grass rei   14  
119 earth/soil tan   1  
120 stone      
121 sand      
122 water word info ran   1  
123 to flow      
124 sea mas   8  
125 salt -mas   3, 45  
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
128 sky      
129 moon      
130 star buai   81  
131 cloud word info      
132 fog      
133 rain      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
136 wind      
137 to blow word info      
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info adidiŋ   1  
140 dry word info      
141 wet      
142 heavy      
143 fire yau could be: ŋau 1  
144 to burn word info aniŋiŋ   74  
145 smoke word info ya/wos   61  
146 ash      
147 black      
148 white      
149 red      
150 yellow kayaŋayaŋ 'y' and 'ŋ' difficult to distinguish 9  
151 green      
152 small      
153 big      
154 short word info      
155 long word info      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
163 new fau   1, 26  
164 good      
165 bad, evil      
166 correct, true      
167 night idom   11  
168 day ad   1, 54  
169 year      
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
179 near      
180 far      
181 where? word info      
182 I nam   12, 68 L
183 thou on~un you (sing.) 1, 66 L
184 he/she in he 1, 66 L
184 he/she in she 1, 66  
185 we word info mam we two (excl) 1  
185 we word info yed ~id we two (incl.)   L
186 you an you (pl.) 1, 55 L
187 they in they two 29  
187 they innaŋi they (plural)    
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all fili rich 89  
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not team   10  
196 to count      
197 One word info      
198 Two word info ru   1  
199 Three word info tol   1  
200 Four word info val/bad   1, 65  
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
203 Seven word info      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
206 Ten word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      

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