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Language: Mentawai (Bosua)

Source/Author:  Arifin, Syamsir, et al. 1992. Fonologi bahasa Mentawai. [Jakarta]: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaa[n] 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:mwv  Glottocode: ment1249 
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Data Entry:  Typed By: Andrew Hsiu  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Northwest Sumatra-Barrier Islands 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
4 leg/foot      
6 road/path      
7 to come      
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim      
10 dirty      
16 intestines      
17 liver      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear      
36 to spit      
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info      
42 to suck      
44 to hear      
46 to see      
47 to yawn      
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
52 to stand      
53 person/human being      
56 child      
60 father      
63 name      
64 to say      
65 rope      
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info      
71 to stab, pierce      
72 to hit word info      
73 to steal      
74 to kill      
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info      
79 stick/wood      
83 to work word info      
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info      
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
100 wing      
101 to fly      
102 rat      
104 fat/grease      
105 tail      
107 worm (earthworm)      
109 mosquito      
110 spider      
112 rotten word info      
113 branch word info      
114 leaf      
115 root      
116 flower      
117 fruit      
118 grass      
123 to flow      
125 salt      
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
128 sky      
130 star      
131 cloud word info      
132 fog      
133 rain      
134 thunder      
135 lightning      
136 wind      
137 to blow word info      
138 warm word info      
144 to burn word info      
146 ash      
150 yellow      
151 green      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
161 shy, ashamed      
165 bad, evil      
166 correct, true      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this      
178 that      
181 where? word info      
186 you      
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info      
190 other      
191 all      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not      
199 Three word info      
200 Four word info      
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      
5 to walk muʷenuŋ      
13 back word info teytey      
14 belly baga      
15 bone tolat      
18 breast tottot      
19 shoulder boku      
23 blood logaw      
24 head ʔuteʔ      
25 neck lolokat      
26 hair word info ʔalay      
27 nose ʔasak      
28 to breathe murimanuʷa      
29 to sniff, smell sigguʔ      
30 mouth ŋuŋu      
31 tooth soːt      
33 to laugh mugaʔgaʔ      
34 to cry musow      
35 to vomit gelek      
37 to eat mukom      
40 to drink muloʔ      
43 ear taliŋa      
45 eye mata      
48 to sleep merep      
51 to sit tukkuʔ      
54 man/male simanteu      
55 woman/female sinanalep      
57 husband simantew      
58 wife koy      
59 mother ʔina      
61 house lalep      
62 thatch/roof tobat      
75 to die, be dead matey      
80 to split word info silaʔ      
81 sharp marawru      
82 dull, blunt makummuʔ      
91 to buy kaw      
96 dog jouʔjouʔ      
97 bird ʔumaʔ      
98 egg ʔattelu      
99 feather bulu      
103 meat/flesh ʔakkulaʔ      
106 snake leytiʔ      
108 louse word info goset      
111 fish ʔiba      
119 earth/soil polak      
120 stone bukkuʔ      
121 sand ŋaiʔ      
122 water word info ʔoynan      
124 sea koʷat      
129 moon laggoʔ      
139 cold word info maleppet      
140 dry word info magaraʔ      
141 wet masuʷah      
142 heavy ma'oruʔ      
143 fire ʔapi      
147 black mapusuʔ      
148 white mabulaw      
149 red mabogat      
152 small magoysoʔ      
153 big ʔabeu      
154 short word info mateteʔ      
155 long word info ma'ata      
156 thin word info manippi      
157 thick word info makeppu      
160 painful, sick mabesiʔ      
162 old word info magaraʔ      
163 new mabaw      
164 good ma'eruʔ      
167 night soyboʔ      
168 day matat sulu b    
179 near mareggre      
180 far marewot      
182 I ʔaku      
183 thou ʔekew      
184 he/she siya      
185 we word info kay      
185 we word info sita b    
187 they siya      
196 to count ʔadde      
198 Two word info ruʷa      
203 Seven word info pitu      
206 Ten word info pulu      
207 Twenty word info ruʷa pulu      
11 dust ʔabu   1  
12 skin kulit   1  
92 to open, uncover bukaʔ   1  
197 One word info sara   1, 86  
32 tongue jalay   4  
1 hand kabey   42  
3 right sikattoeʔ   80  
41 to bite sont   82  
2 left katciu   84  
145 smoke word info kujug   91  

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