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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:
175 above      
191 all      
192 and      
146 ash kopapa   1, 89  
173 at      
13 back word info gwau   40  
13 back word info tulu   12  
165 bad, evil      
14 belly gamwa   45  
176 below      
153 big koyawe   122  
97 bird biwe      
147 black gaigai   60  
147 black golos      
23 blood buyai   33  
15 bone tuwatuwa   1, 10  
113 branch word info      
18 breast susu   1  
56 child goma gomagale 'lad'; gomalaulau 'lass' 14  
131 cloud word info yalowa   23  
139 cold word info      
166 correct, true      
168 day      
10 dirty      
96 dog kedewa   18  
140 dry word info      
82 dull, blunt      
11 dust      
43 ear teniya   1  
119 earth/soil baleyu   20  
98 egg pou   15  
204 Eight word info      
45 eye mata   1  
45 eye wee   29  
180 far      
104 fat/grease yapana   40  
60 father tamana   1  
99 feather dagulina   13  
208 Fifty word info      
143 fire kaama   35, 36  
111 fish iya   1  
201 Five word info      
116 flower      
132 fog      
200 Four word info      
117 fruit ewani given for 'seed'    
164 good      
118 grass      
151 green      
26 hair word info bwaima   80  
1 hand nima   1, 66  
184 he/she      
24 head kuyakuya   85  
142 heavy      
61 house lobe      
194 how? word info      
57 husband      
182 I      
193 if      
174 in, inside      
16 intestines      
126 lake      
114 leaf yawaina   17  
2 left      
4 leg/foot kae   1  
135 lightning      
17 liver ate   1  
155 long word info      
108 louse word info tuma   3  
54 man/male tau   22  
103 meat/flesh bayumana      
129 moon waikena   14  
129 moon nawalae   13  
109 mosquito      
59 mother nawae      
30 mouth awa   36  
63 name waeya   9  
158 narrow      
179 near      
25 neck      
68 needle      
163 new      
167 night goluwana   80  
205 Nine word info      
195 no, not      
27 nose ebusu   1, 17  
162 old word info      
197 One word info kaikeda   73  
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
190 other      
160 painful, sick      
53 person/human being kaleya   41  
133 rain augwa      
133 rain use   1  
102 rat      
149 red megayana      
149 red lupwalana      
3 right      
6 road/path aiwalo      
6 road/path eda   12  
115 root idoelolo      
65 rope      
112 rotten word info      
125 salt      
121 sand negwanegwale   17  
121 sand kaukau   17  
124 sea      
203 Seven word info      
81 sharp      
154 short word info      
19 shoulder aala   1  
161 shy, ashamed      
202 Six word info      
12 skin bwala   51  
12 skin wapi   15  
128 sky      
152 small giokuna      
145 smoke word info nabwau   23  
106 snake weso   53  
106 snake mwata   12  
110 spider      
130 star kubwana   56  
79 stick/wood      
120 stone dakule   32  
105 tail wiyu metathesis 1  
206 Ten word info      
178 that      
62 thatch/roof      
187 they      
157 thick word info      
156 thin word info      
177 this      
183 thou      
199 Three word info      
134 thunder      
41 to bite      
137 to blow word info      
28 to breathe      
144 to burn word info      
91 to buy      
38 to chew word info      
85 to choose      
172 to climb word info      
7 to come tauyama   1, 93  
39 to cook word info      
196 to count      
34 to cry      
78 to cut, hack word info      
75 to die, be dead      
90 to dig      
50 to dream      
40 to drink      
37 to eat ai   1, 44  
95 to fall word info      
22 to fear      
123 to flow      
101 to fly      
86 to grow word info      
44 to hear      
171 to hide word info      
72 to hit word info      
89 to hold word info      
69 to hunt word info      
74 to kill      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
33 to laugh      
49 to lie down word info abui   101  
76 to live, be alive      
92 to open, uncover      
84 to plant      
93 to pound, beat word info      
64 to say      
77 to scratch word info      
46 to see dune      
67 to sew word info      
70 to shoot word info      
51 to sit towa   80  
48 to sleep      
29 to sniff, smell      
36 to spit      
80 to split word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
52 to stand toolo   2  
73 to steal      
42 to suck      
87 to swell word info      
9 to swim      
21 to think      
94 to throw word info      
66 to tie up, fasten      
8 to turn word info      
35 to vomit      
5 to walk taya   137  
83 to work word info      
47 to yawn      
32 tongue meya   7  
31 tooth sala   11  
207 Twenty word info      
198 Two word info manau      
138 warm word info      
122 water word info waupa      
122 water word info waila   2  
185 we word info      
141 wet      
188 what? word info      
170 when? word info      
181 where? word info      
148 white wadawadaena   73  
189 who? word info      
159 wide      
58 wife      
136 wind yaumai   73  
136 wind yagila   1  
100 wing pape   21  
55 woman/female waine   1, 106  
127 woods/forest      
107 worm (earthworm)      
169 year      
150 yellow loyawayawana      
186 you      

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