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Language: Mussau

Source/Author:  Blust (1984) 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:emi  Glottocode: muss1248 
Notes:  Blust, R. (1984). A Mussau vocabulary with phonological notes. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 23, 159-208. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Simon Greenhill  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:St. Matthias 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
11 dust      
85 to choose      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info      
123 to flow      
132 fog      
151 green      
157 thick word info      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
173 at      
175 above      
176 below      
186 you      
190 other      
192 and      
193 if      
195 no, not      
5 to walk kasukasu      
8 to turn word info kiriola      
10 dirty kulukuluta-na      
19 shoulder pappa      
20 to know, be knowledgeable alomasaaŋa      
32 tongue ramuramuti pa      
41 to bite samusamu-a      
48 to sleep asekanue      
49 to lie down word info aso sio      
50 to dream e asoasopoi      
55 woman/female bause      
57 husband taita (=54)    
58 wife bause (=55)    
62 thatch/roof ai pake ŋ...-ale      
64 to say auli-a      
66 to tie up, fasten nagi-ela      
69 to hunt word info ameti-ela      
72 to hit word info tumari-ela      
78 to cut, hack word info isoi-ela      
80 to split word info sairi-el      
81 sharp raramuka-na      
82 dull, blunt tumtumŋa-na      
83 to work word info uuŋu      
86 to grow word info piipinosa      
87 to swell word info roŋo      
89 to hold word info posoposo      
97 bird gila      
100 wing kaikai gila      
102 rat rariao      
103 meat/flesh malatau      
104 fat/grease iina      
106 snake otuana      
107 worm (earthworm) toliti      
109 mosquito noko      
110 spider batibati      
111 fish koko      
118 grass rarrasa Loan?    
119 earth/soil kosa      
122 water word info ateio      
124 sea malioŋe (deep)    
125 salt uela      
126 lake ateio      
126 lake talia      
127 woods/forest tubui      
128 sky e lo marase      
131 cloud word info karaane      
141 wet manu      
143 fire kuraa      
147 black beroberoŋa-na      
150 yellow talaki-ena      
152 small pisike      
153 big namuu      
155 long word info aluse      
156 thin word info malallake      
158 narrow pisike      
159 wide namuu      
160 painful, sick palata      
162 old word info pokane      
164 good masina      
165 bad, evil sesa      
166 correct, true gulugulu-ena      
168 day ella      
169 year ninamanama      
174 in, inside tale      
177 this atiulu toko      
178 that atiulu too ai teke (far)    
178 that ai teke ai teke (far)    
191 all akapa      
194 how? word info talesaa      
196 to count ioi      
196 to count ira      
210 One Thousand word info airari      
210 One Thousand word info airare      
4 leg/foot keke-   1  
6 road/path salana   1  
7 to come kasu mai   1  
16 intestines tine   1  
17 liver ate|a   1  
18 breast susu   1  
22 to fear matautu   1  
23 blood rae   1  
24 head uru   1  
28 to breathe inoa-na   1  
30 mouth pa   1  
43 ear taliŋa   1  
45 eye mata   1  
60 father tama   1  
68 needle raum (raumu?), (for +z/Z) r cf #15 1  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
77 to scratch word info kalokalo-a   1  
79 stick/wood ai   1  
90 to dig kaikai   1  
98 egg otolu   1  
101 to fly e looloo (for +R) 1  
105 tail wi (<M) 1  
112 rotten word info mauu ('rotten, stink') 1  
113 branch word info laa ŋ-ai   1  
116 flower pua ŋ-ai   1  
117 fruit ue ŋ-ai   1  
120 stone atu   1  
129 moon ulana   1  
138 warm word info a anasa   1  
140 dry word info malaŋo-na   1  
163 new ou-na   1  
167 night boŋ|a   1  
174 in, inside lo   1  
182 I agi   1  
183 thou io   1  
184 he/she ia   1  
185 we word info ita   1  
187 they ila-   1  
188 what? word info saa   1  
189 who? word info se   1  
198 Two word info lua   1  
199 Three word info tolu   1  
200 Four word info ata   1  
201 Five word info lima   1  
202 Six word info nomo   1  
203 Seven word info itu   1  
208 Fifty word info limangaulu   1  
44 to hear noŋonoŋo   1, 37  
76 to live, be alive ma|maul|ue   1, 76  
63 name arari   1, 18  
59 mother kina   1, 27  
3 right muenna   1, 29  
73 to steal ainao   1, 32  
139 cold word info makariŋe   1, 53  
180 far masau   1, 6  
1 hand nima-   1, 66  
53 person/human being taumata   1, 66  
179 near kalakalaŋi-na   1, 75  
31 tooth ŋaluŋalu   10  
52 to stand tiŋina   102  
12 skin biliki skin, body 103  
33 to laugh agi akaŋkaya   11  
42 to suck e mumumu   11  
84 to plant pasapasa   12  
25 neck alo   122  
64 to say poa   13, 93  
54 man/male taita   14  
61 house ale   14  
124 sea laman   14  
36 to spit kanusu   14, 90 z
2 left oaise   15  
46 to see tara   15  
67 to sew word info suli-ela (<+susuR-i?) 15  
134 thunder palapalaŋa   15  
21 to think ninanna   16  
95 to fall word info katuu   17  
88 to squeeze word info poposoa   18  
47 to yawn mamma   19  
9 to swim asaasa   19?  
146 ash au   1?  
170 when? word info elobisaa   1?  
14 belly koba-[koβa]   2  
15 bone riu   2  
115 root oa ŋ-ai   2  
145 smoke word info asu   2  
172 to climb word info sae   2  
185 we word info ami   2  
40 to drink ropi   22  
149 red raerae-ana   25  
27 nose ŋusu   27  
65 rope oasa   27  
78 to cut, hack word info toai-e   27  
204 Eight word info qaoalu   3  
181 where? word info ea   3, 35  
207 Twenty word info luengaulu   3, 6  
66 to tie up, fasten iri-la   31  
130 star katoto   31  
197 One word info s|esa   32  
38 to chew word info rame   34  
148 white usouso-ana   34  
81 sharp matakereŋa-na   36  
96 dog paua   37  
94 to throw word info belu-e   38  
144 to burn word info sulu-ia   4  
209 One Hundred word info ai   4  
114 leaf uru n-ai   40  
26 hair word info uŋuru = u-ŋ-uru 41  
137 to blow word info kuukuu (of wind) 43  
74 to kill ubi e mate ala   45, 2  
37 to eat anamanama   46  
142 heavy mamaata-na   46, 35  
121 sand rira   47  
136 wind kuukuu   47  
34 to cry agi aŋaŋŋala   5  
56 child natu   5  
205 Nine word info sio   5  
206 Ten word info sangaulu   5  
13 back word info bili   52  
133 rain baoo cf *ba(p)o cloud 58  
168 day laŋ|a   6  
29 to sniff, smell ŋusu   64  
154 short word info tukuna   66  
71 to stab, pierce soai-ela   67  
39 to cook word info tuutuu   7  
70 to shoot word info soai-ela   7  
70 to shoot word info soasoa-la   7  
99 feather uu gile   7, 55  
35 to vomit lueki   8  
51 to sit toka   80  
135 lightning rabaraba-ia   9  
108 louse word info lisa   x20  

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