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Language: Mekeo

Source/Author:  Andrew Kavana 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mek  Glottocode: meke1243 
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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:Western Oceanic:Papuan Tip:Peripheral:Central Papuan:West Central Papuan:Nuclear 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
175 above a'oni   1  
191 all ma'oai      
192 and ke   63  
146 ash agafa      
173 at      
13 back word info ofa      
165 bad, evil apala   113  
14 belly gua   22  
176 below papa   1  
153 big apao   10  
97 bird inei      
147 black umu   18  
23 blood ifa   63  
15 bone unia   40  
113 branch word info aga   1, 34  
18 breast olaga      
56 child imoi   95  
131 cloud word info 'apuapu      
139 cold word info keke'a      
166 correct, true ko'a < *sota 50  
168 day kina   11  
10 dirty ofu   21  
96 dog amu'e   102  
140 dry word info fuga   102  
82 dull, blunt efugu   1, 33  
11 dust ae|apu   1  
43 ear aina   1  
119 earth/soil agoa   94  
98 egg aoi   1  
204 Eight word info imagea oiso      
45 eye ma   1  
180 far akai   1  
104 fat/grease 'o'o   22  
60 father ama   1  
99 feather pui   1  
208 Fifty word info      
143 fire lo   1  
111 fish ma'a   11  
201 Five word info ima   1  
116 flower kaikai   19  
132 fog ama   31  
200 Four word info pani   1, 69  
117 fruit au pua   1  
164 good felo      
118 grass afa   35  
151 green ageage   84  
26 hair word info fufu   13, 55  
1 hand ima   1, 65  
184 he/she isa   1  
184 he/she isa   1  
24 head kania   79  
142 heavy meau   48  
61 house 'e'a   75  
194 how? word info alakoa      
57 husband akafa   2  
182 I lau   1, 21  
193 if aisama   3  
174 in, inside alo   1  
16 intestines inae   1  
126 lake ofuga   15  
114 leaf au gagau au (tree) gagau (leaf)    
2 left lafani   88  
4 leg/foot ife      
135 lightning kimage      
17 liver 'a'e   1  
155 long word info maefa   67  
108 louse word info 'u   1  
54 man/male maguae   1  
103 meat/flesh tsitsi   31, 102  
103 meat/flesh 'a'o      
129 moon gafa      
109 mosquito eisei   16  
59 mother ina   1  
30 mouth ake   15  
63 name aka   1, 18  
158 narrow epo 'e'ele      
179 near egai      
25 neck aiso   1, 31  
68 needle nila     L
163 new mama   19  
167 night gapi   21  
205 Nine word info imagea pani      
195 no, not la'i   1  
27 nose kua   1  
162 old word info apao      
197 One word info agao   14, 79  
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
190 other isa'i      
160 painful, sick kiekie      
53 person/human being papiau   1, 68  
133 rain imu ufa (sky) eauga (hitting) 12  
102 rat inema      
149 red pito   37  
3 right kai   14  
6 road/path keaga   74  
115 root gagamu   3  
65 rope apa'u   87  
112 rotten word info foka   9, 74  
125 salt kikimalu   14  
125 salt 'i'ifo      
121 sand figu   68  
124 sea 'a'u   19  
203 Seven word info imagea gua      
81 sharp ako      
154 short word info fo'oa      
19 shoulder fago   17  
161 shy, ashamed mea|gai   1  
202 Six word info imagea      
12 skin faga      
128 sky 'ufa   17  
152 small 'e'ele      
145 smoke word info aku   2  
106 snake kapa      
110 spider      
130 star mi'imi'i   87  
79 stick/wood au   1  
120 stone kepo   14  
105 tail iu   1  
206 Ten word info ou'a'ga   46  
178 that ega'ina   1  
62 thatch/roof 'upi 'ofaofa   69  
187 they isa irregular *r > s 1  
157 thick word info afua   69  
156 thin word info manipi   1  
177 this i'ina   67  
183 thou isa      
199 Three word info oiso   1  
134 thunder ufa eauga   98, 27  
41 to bite kafina      
137 to blow word info pua   17  
28 to breathe guga      
144 to burn word info aga   17  
91 to buy afa   66  
38 to chew word info ufa      
85 to choose kinaga   13  
172 to climb word info 'agau      
7 to come mai   1  
39 to cook word info gaku   3  
196 to count pauga      
34 to cry 'apepe   64  
78 to cut, hack word info opia      
75 to die, be dead mae   1  
90 to dig apia   59  
50 to dream nipi   1, 60  
40 to drink inu   1  
37 to eat 'aniani   1  
95 to fall word info ufalai      
22 to fear mani'i      
123 to flow kipo   81  
101 to fly gopo   1  
86 to grow word info fauga   8?  
44 to hear aina logo aina (ear) logo (know) 1, 36  
171 to hide word info oge-vake derived verb form, transitive only, meaning literally 'put' + 'hide, be hidden' 57  
171 to hide word info au-vake hide (transitive) 57  
171 to hide word info oge-vake hide (transitive) 57  
72 to hit word info auga      
89 to hold word info afia   23  
69 to hunt word info kapukapu   89  
74 to kill au pugua   18  
20 to know, be knowledgeable logo   19  
33 to laugh 'a'a   68  
49 to lie down word info kakipo   103  
76 to live, be alive agu      
92 to open, uncover pagalaisa      
84 to plant fauga   17  
93 to pound, beat word info auga   65  
64 to say ifa   13  
77 to scratch word info 'a'i'ina   58  
46 to see isa East Mekeo, add in database 1  
67 to sew word info kai|na   2  
70 to shoot word info mo ipitina   22  
51 to sit agu   159  
48 to sleep feu      
29 to sniff, smell foga logo foga (smell) logo (know) 42  
36 to spit 'upe   19, 88  
80 to split word info fafa   1  
88 to squeeze word info fioka      
71 to stab, pierce fauga to plant, embed (e.g. a knife)    
71 to stab, pierce o-ga main transitive verb meaning 'pierce' (as with a spear).    
52 to stand apa   42  
73 to steal painao   1, 32  
42 to suck guga irregular *u > a 25  
87 to swell word info ufu   12  
9 to swim gau      
21 to think opola      
94 to throw word info piuga      
66 to tie up, fasten gope      
8 to turn word info me'e      
35 to vomit 'uga   7  
5 to walk pea      
83 to work word info pinauga   19, 31  
47 to yawn aufa'a   19  
32 tongue mala   7  
31 tooth nie   24  
207 Twenty word info      
198 Two word info gua   1  
138 warm word info isapu   21  
122 water word info fei   2  
185 we word info 'i'a   1  
185 we word info lai   8  
141 wet fei   25  
188 what? word info kapa|ina   1  
170 when? word info gaika   1  
181 where? word info kapai   3  
148 white kelo      
189 who? word info kai   1  
189 who? word info kaisau   1  
159 wide falapa   48  
58 wife akafa   1  
136 wind ameku south-east wind - a cool, pleasant wind    
136 wind lanina north-west wind 1  
100 wing pani   2  
55 woman/female papie   1, 120  
127 woods/forest aufa'i      
107 worm (earthworm) 'ima'ima   48  
169 year inipo   59  
150 yellow laofa   87  
186 you oi   19  

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