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Language: Sewa

Source/Author:  Lithgow (1992) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:sew  Glottocode: sewa1251 
Notes:  Lithgow, D. (1992). Language change on Fergusson and Normanby Islands. In: Pacific Linguistics C-120 
Problems:  There are three lists given, from 1964, 1982, 1989; the 1982 is considered the one with the least amount of Dobu loans; that's the one I typed in. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Ger Reesink  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Papuan Tip:Nuclear:North Papuan Mainland-D'Entrecasteaux:Dobu-Duau 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
2 left      
3 right      
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
11 dust      
16 intestines      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
25 neck      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
33 to laugh      
34 to cry      
35 to vomit      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
40 to drink      
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
44 to hear      
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep      
50 to dream      
57 husband      
58 wife      
62 thatch/roof      
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      
71 to stab, pierce      
72 to hit word info      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
75 to die, be dead      
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      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
101 to fly      
102 rat      
107 worm (earthworm)      
109 mosquito      
110 spider      
112 rotten word info      
113 branch word info      
116 flower      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
124 sea      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
128 sky      
132 fog      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
137 to blow word info      
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info      
140 dry word info      
141 wet      
142 heavy      
144 to burn word info      
151 green      
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      
164 good      
165 bad, evil      
166 correct, true      
168 day      
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      
183 thou      
184 he/she      
185 we word info      
186 you      
187 they      
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not      
196 to count      
199 Three word info      
200 Four word info      
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      
19 shoulder aala   1  
49 to lie down word info abui   101  
37 to eat ai   1, 44  
6 road/path aiwalo      
17 liver ate   1  
133 rain augwa      
30 mouth awa   36  
119 earth/soil baleyu   20  
103 meat/flesh bayumana      
97 bird biwe      
23 blood buyai   33  
26 hair word info bwaima   80  
12 skin bwala   51  
99 feather dagulina   13  
120 stone dakule   32  
46 to see dune      
27 nose ebusu   1, 17  
6 road/path eda   12  
117 fruit ewani given for 'seed'    
147 black gaigai   60  
14 belly gamwa   45  
152 small giokuna      
147 black golos      
167 night goluwana   80  
56 child goma gomagale 'lad'; gomalaulau 'lass' 14  
13 back word info gwau   40  
115 root idoelolo      
111 fish iya   1  
143 fire kaama   35, 36  
4 leg/foot kae   1  
197 One word info kaikeda   73  
53 person/human being kaleya   41  
121 sand kaukau   17  
96 dog kedewa   18  
146 ash kopapa   1, 89  
153 big koyawe   122  
130 star kubwana   56  
24 head kuyakuya   85  
61 house lobe      
150 yellow loyawayawana      
149 red lupwalana      
198 Two word info manau      
45 eye mata   1  
149 red megayana      
32 tongue meya   7  
106 snake mwata   12  
145 smoke word info nabwau   23  
59 mother nawae      
129 moon nawalae   13  
121 sand negwanegwale   17  
1 hand nima   1, 66  
100 wing pape   21  
98 egg pou   15  
31 tooth sala   11  
18 breast susu   1  
60 father tamana   1  
54 man/male tau   22  
7 to come tauyama   1, 93  
5 to walk taya   137  
43 ear teniya   1  
52 to stand toolo   2  
51 to sit towa   80  
13 back word info tulu   12  
108 louse word info tuma   3  
15 bone tuwatuwa   1, 10  
133 rain use   1  
148 white wadawadaena   73  
63 name waeya   9  
129 moon waikena   14  
122 water word info waila   2  
55 woman/female waine   1, 106  
12 skin wapi   15  
122 water word info waupa      
45 eye wee   29  
106 snake weso   53  
105 tail wiyu metathesis 1  
136 wind yagila   1  
131 cloud word info yalowa   23  
104 fat/grease yapana   40  
136 wind yaumai   73  
114 leaf yawaina   17  

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