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

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