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Language: Piva

Source/Author:  PC Lincoln 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:tgi  Glottocode: lawu1237 
Notes:  v [bilabial]
[r] [l] = /r/
[glottal stop] /'/
morphological analysis incomplete
 
Problems:  e, a, vi [added to many words?]
/gh/ [Ɣ], /ng/ [ŋ], /g/ [g]; voiced velar fricative, nasal, and stop all phonemic and sometimes confused
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Piet Lincoln  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic:Piva-Banoni 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
38 to chew word info      
47 to yawn      
62 thatch/roof      
68 needle      
86 to grow word info      
113 branch word info      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
208 Fifty word info      
60 father a tamana   1  
59 mother a tsinana   1  
185 we word info aghaita   1  
186 you agham   1  
183 thou agoi   1  
110 spider akadovi [article] ?    
102 rat akisova a [article] 3  
125 salt akuto      
187 they alia   25  
129 moon amadawa   40  
185 we word info amam   2  
156 thin word info ameame      
182 I ana   1, 22  
58 wife ana maunu   45  
57 husband ana tsioni   56  
184 he/she ane   1, 6  
191 all ane kota      
189 who? word info asee a [article] 1  
74 to kill atuna   18  
82 dull, blunt beboko      
151 green bebune   17  
204 Eight word info benatapisa      
203 Seven word info benatonua ...*rua    
167 night boŋi   1  
116 flower buaɁana [glottal stop] 1  
101 to fly bururu ?*Ropok [metath?] 29  
73 to steal butia      
143 fire dzai   1  
100 wing ebaina   16  
202 Six word info ebena bena 'cross over' 22  
111 fish ebosi e [article] 70  
91 to buy ebunava   38  
175 above eghaleghe e [article] 28?  
178 that eia      
188 what? word info eka'e [glottal stop]    
174 in, inside ekugona      
98 egg epanusu   46  
176 below epeta e [article]    
134 thunder epina e [article], ?*p(w)ilak 'lightning' 23  
99 feather epuata   51  
4 leg/foot eva-gu   67  
114 leaf evagini e [article]    
200 Four word info evati   1, 65  
117 fruit evatsuna e [article] 8  
163 new evaunu   1  
4 leg/foot evi-gu   67  
145 smoke word info eviaso   2  
17 liver eviate e- [article]vi- [prefixal?] 1  
18 breast evisu e- [article]vi- [prefixal?] 1  
27 nose evisu-gu   1  
121 sand evuini e [article]    
26 hair word info evunu-gu   31  
29 to sniff, smell ghabo      
133 rain gharaghu   24  
150 yellow ghari      
146 ash ghavutana   68  
155 long word info gheghaleghe      
92 to open, uncover gholasia      
12 skin ghuni-gu   1  
108 louse word info ghutsu   1  
51 to sit gona      
195 no, not ka'ana [glottal stop]    
67 to sew word info kabea   49  
197 One word info kadaken   52  
148 white kakata   43  
41 to bite kanata   1  
135 lightning kanava   14  
49 to lie down word info kapurona      
46 to see katoa      
81 sharp kekanata   69  
39 to cook word info kekaru      
9 to swim kepene sisiu 'wash, bathe'    
180 far kesiagana      
179 near kesuruuna      
16 intestines kikirono      
20 to know, be knowledgeable kinai   18  
36 to spit kinogo      
65 rope kirono      
106 snake kolu   21  
107 worm (earthworm) koluavono      
118 grass komaru      
192 and kona      
140 dry word info koraga      
168 day korisai   68  
122 water word info koromo   7  
162 old word info kotavana      
40 to drink ku   30  
154 short word info kukubunu   72  
105 tail kulena   27  
70 to shoot word info kúm   32  
71 to stab, pierce kúm      
6 road/path laimi      
153 big loata   10  
164 good lovi      
166 correct, true magoto   13  
190 other mamisa      
206 Ten word info manogha   18  
207 Twenty word info manogha tonua      
97 bird manughu   1  
23 blood marana      
127 woods/forest marupa      
45 eye mata   1  
3 right matau-gu   5, 13  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
55 woman/female maunu   11  
32 tongue mea   7  
149 red memerana   1  
104 fat/grease milingi   66  
22 to fear minago      
89 to hold word info mosoa      
169 year namare loan from Nagovisi (not AN), but should be treated as shared innovation 57  
177 this nanai      
128 sky nanitsi   1  
170 when? word info nasina metathesis 1, 24  
209 One Hundred word info nasusu kadaken hundred one, *Ratus ?    
210 One Thousand word info nasusu maogha hundred ten, *Ratus ?    
53 person/human being natavana   47  
84 to plant nebea      
25 neck ngio-m -m 'thy'    
201 Five word info niima   1  
132 fog nikuta   83  
147 black ninupi      
31 tooth noki   67  
44 to hear nongono   1  
132 fog nukuta   83  
1 hand numa-gu   1, 66  
7 to come numai   1  
61 house nuuma   1  
94 to throw word info nuvuna      
139 cold word info omenaga      
120 stone palatsi   30  
142 heavy papatanga   46, 80  
196 to count pasia      
152 small pasuru      
56 child penana      
157 thick word info pepautsu      
78 to cut, hack word info pepeghi cut with knife    
130 star pipito   1, 81  
88 to squeeze word info pisu   31  
85 to choose poai to tsuangiana      
95 to fall word info podongo   78  
80 to split word info potakia   41  
165 bad, evil sabau   57  
76 to live, be alive sabiri      
141 wet sagumana      
205 Nine word info sia *wisa [metath.] 5  
103 meat/flesh sighona      
15 bone sipanna   73  
14 belly sopagu   17  
126 lake tabanana      
8 to turn word info taberu      
5 to walk taghana      
13 back word info taghunu-gu   12  
43 ear tagina-gu taŋina [expected] 1  
124 sea tagisi *tasik [metath?] 1  
37 to eat tam eat starch / staples' 40  
34 to cry tanisi   1  
159 wide tarabana   3  
50 to dream tatara   16  
48 to sleep tee      
2 left tololo-gu   66  
198 Two word info tonua   1  
24 head tope-gu      
199 Three word info topisa pisa [loan] 4  
66 to tie up, fasten tsiboria kirono      
136 wind tsighuvu      
54 man/male tsioni   46, 68  
137 to blow word info tsopughu wind 82  
93 to pound, beat word info tsua   20  
52 to stand tsughonu   2  
90 to dig tsugia      
144 to burn word info tsumoko [intrans]    
87 to swell word info tubu   12  
194 how? word info vekoghaveiagoi e?      
181 where? word info viaie   3, 35  
115 root viaputu      
30 mouth viasene      
112 rotten word info viatanga vi- [prefixal?]    
96 dog vidaga vi- [prefixal?]    
64 to say vidagha      
131 cloud word info vikabu vi- [prefixal?], *kaput    
160 painful, sick vikamaliki      
21 to think vikinai      
10 dirty vikoipi vi- [prefixal?]    
33 to laugh vimai      
77 to scratch word info vimatakono      
35 to vomit vimuta   1  
109 mosquito vinogho      
19 shoulder vionoko      
119 earth/soil vipeta vi- [prefixal?]    
11 dust vipoga vi- [prefixal?] 1  
72 to hit word info vitoa      
79 stick/wood vitono      
83 to work word info viwoka < TP wok < E work   L
158 narrow waikirumu      
138 warm word info waisiki   29  
69 to hunt word info wakavinu for pig    
42 to suck wakoi      
123 to flow wapikupiku      
63 name wasanga   1, 18  
193 if wasi nana kenau      
28 to breathe wughasa   66  

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