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Language: Niuafo'ou

Source/Author:  Dye (1980) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:num  Glottocode: niua1240 
Notes:  Dye, TS (1980). The Linguistic Position Of Niuafo'ou. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 89, 349-358. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Simon Greenhill  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Central-Eastern Oceanic:Remote Oceanic:Central Pacific:East Fijian-Polynesian:Polynesian:Nuclear:Samoic-Outlier:East Uvean-Niuafo'ou 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand      
5 to walk      
7 to come      
8 to turn word info      
11 dust      
14 belly      
15 bone      
16 intestines      
18 breast      
19 shoulder      
21 to think      
25 neck      
27 nose      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
34 to cry      
39 to cook word info      
41 to bite      
42 to suck      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
50 to dream      
53 person/human being      
57 husband      
58 wife      
60 father      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
77 to scratch word info      
80 to split word info      
82 dull, blunt      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
97 bird      
98 egg      
99 feather      
101 to fly      
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh      
104 fat/grease      
106 snake      
107 worm (earthworm)      
110 spider      
113 branch word info      
116 flower      
118 grass      
119 earth/soil      
121 sand      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
129 moon      
132 fog      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
137 to blow word info      
139 cold word info      
141 wet      
144 to burn word info      
145 smoke word info      
148 white      
152 small      
153 big      
154 short word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
165 bad, evil      
168 day      
169 year      
171 to hide word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
179 near      
181 where? word info      
182 I      
183 thou      
184 he/she      
185 we word info      
186 you      
187 they      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
192 and      
193 if      
195 no, not      
196 to count      
197 One word info      
198 Two word info      
199 Three word info      
200 Four word info      
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
2 left hema   11  
3 right mata'u   5, 13  
4 leg/foot va'e   1, 100  
9 to swim kakau   5  
12 skin kili   1  
13 back word info tu'a   11  
17 liver 'ate   1  
20 to know, be knowledgeable 'ilo   13  
23 blood toto   4  
24 head nima   1  
24 head 'ulu   1  
26 hair word info fulufulu   31  
26 hair word info fulufulu'i'ulu   31  
30 mouth ngutu   2  
31 tooth nifo   1  
32 tongue 'alelo   15  
33 to laugh kata   7  
35 to vomit lua   8  
36 to spit 'a'anu   14, 84, 121  
37 to eat kai   1, 47  
38 to chew word info lamu   7  
40 to drink inu   1  
43 ear talinga   1  
44 to hear fanongo   1, 59  
48 to sleep moe   10, 109  
51 to sit nofo   16  
52 to stand tu'u   2  
54 man/male tangata   12, 14  
55 woman/female fafine   1, 106  
59 mother fa'ē   6  
61 house fale   14  
65 rope maea   10  
72 to hit word info tuki   8  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
78 to cut, hack word info tu'usi   17, 10?  
89 to hold word info puke   13  
94 to throw word info tolo   128  
95 to fall word info   14  
96 dog kuli   7  
100 wing kapakau   1, 59  
105 tail hiku   13  
108 louse word info kutu   1  
109 mosquito namu   1  
111 fish ika   1  
112 rotten word info popo   14  
114 leaf lau   1  
115 root aka   2  
117 fruit fua   1  
122 water word info vai   2  
123 to flow tafe   10  
124 sea moana   10  
124 sea tai   1  
128 sky langi   1  
130 star fetu'u   1  
131 cloud word info 'ao   12  
136 wind matangi   1, 66  
138 warm word info māfana   1, 72  
142 heavy mamafa   46  
143 fire afi   1  
147 black 'uli'uli   7  
150 yellow engeenga   10  
151 green lanumata   1, 12  
155 long word info loaloa   12, 105  
156 thin word info manifi   1  
157 thick word info mātolu   3  
163 new fo'ou   1  
164 good lelei   17  
166 correct, true totonu   8  
167 night   1  
170 when? word info 'A fe?      
191 all kātoa   13  
203 Seven word info fitu   1  
22 to fear 'ilifia afraid 92  
10 dirty kelekele dirt 10  
180 far mama'o distant 13  
140 dry word info pakupaku dry, hard 38  
45 eye mata eye, see 1  
194 how? word info fiha how many? x  
174 in, inside loto inside 5  
188 what? word info ā interrogative part. 84  
6 road/path hala L from Tongan 1 L
49 to lie down word info tokoto L from Tongan 7, 10 L
62 thatch/roof hohoki L from Tongan   L
63 name hingoa L from Tongan 6 L
66 to tie up, fasten ha'i L from Tongan   L
76 to live, be alive mo'ui L from Tongan 1, 76 L
79 stick/wood 'akau L from Tongan 1, 26 L
83 to work word info ŋāue L from Tongan   L
124 sea tahi L from Tongan 1 L
133 rain 'uha L from Tongan 1 L
146 ash 'efu'efu L from Tongan 67 L
149 red kulokula L from Tongan 13 L
172 to climb word info kaka L from Tongan 32 L
206 Ten word info hongofulu L from Tongan 5 L
56 child tama male child 6  
120 stone maka rock 4  
81 sharp tala sharp, pointed object    
64 to say lea speak 88  
87 to swell word info pula swelling 7  

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