OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Blust & Trussel (2019c): Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian

Original citation: Blust, Robert and Stephen Trussel. 2019. Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, web edition. URL: www.trussel2.com/ACD

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Headword IPA Glosses
*abat

‘wound, to wound’

*adiRi

‘housepost’

*anu

‘thing whose name is unknown’

*asa

‘one (of humans)’

*au

‘dew’

*b<in>ai

‘woman, female’

*ba

‘but, if’

*ba

‘go’

*baaq

‘flood’

*bai

‘woman, female’

*bail

‘plant: *Falcataria Moluccana*’

*bait

‘do, make’

*balaŋ

‘side, part’

*bali

‘dual division, moiety’

*balun

1.‘bind, bundle’

2.‘wrap in cloth’

3.‘death shroud’

4.‘cloth(ing)’

*banaR

‘thorny vine: *Smilax* spp.’

*baRi

‘beginning to spoil, tainted (of food left uneaten too long)’

*bayan

‘bait’

*bebel

1.‘dull, blunt’

2.‘blocked, plugged’

3.‘stupid’

*belen

‘to swallow’

*beŋel

‘mute, unable to speak’

*betis

‘calf of the leg’

*bina

‘shellfish sp.’

*biriŋ

‘to stone, throw a stone at’

*bisak

‘to split’

*bisik

‘to peel’

*bitak

‘mud’

*bitik

‘lightning’

*bitu

‘sword grass: *Imperata cylindrica*’

*bobo

‘upper surface, top, above’

*bua

‘only, just’

*bubu

1.‘sing’

2.‘song’

*budaq

1.‘foam, bubbles, lather, scum, froth’

2.‘bubble up’

*budeq

‘sponge’

*buek

‘head hair’

*buku

1.‘node (as in bamboo or sugarcane)’

2.‘joint’

3.‘knuckle’

4.‘knot in wood’

5.‘knot in string or rope’

6.‘Mons veneris’

*buku ni lima

‘wrist bone’

*buku ni qaqay

‘ankle bone’

*bulu

1.‘body hair’

2.‘fur’

3.‘feather’

4.‘down’

5.‘antenna of insect or crustacean’

6.‘spikes of sea urchin’

7.‘floss on plant skins, color’

8.‘type, kind’

*bunuq

‘constellation: the Pleiades’

*buqal

1.‘levered up’

2.‘uprooted’

*buqaya

1.‘crocodile’

2.‘seahorse’

*buqi

1.‘pour water on’

2.‘to douse (as a fire)’

*buRu

‘envious, jealous’

*buta

1.‘blind’

2.‘blindness’

*butiR

1.‘wart’

2.‘cyst’

3.‘non-purulent skin eruption’

*butu

‘group, crowd, flock, school, bunch, cluster’

*buu

‘conch shell trumpet’

*buu

‘corner, edge, point’

*buu

‘to blow’

*daŋi

‘near’

*daqi

1.‘forehead’

2.‘face’

*daun

1.‘leaf’

2.‘head hair’

3.‘classifier used in counting certain types of objects’

*dua-dua

1.‘two by two, two at a time’

2.‘two each’

*dədək

‘pound’

*erit

‘scratch, scrape’

*hadiRi bubuŋ-an

‘center post, main housepost’

*i

‘numeral prefix’

*ijuŋ mata

‘face’

*ima

‘kind of pandanus with leaves useful for plaiting’

*imi

‘2p. pl. pronoun: you’

*ina

1.‘mother, mother's sister’

2.‘female animal’

3.‘largest member of a set’

*iŋaR

1.‘loud, of the voice’

2.‘voice’

*isi

‘to peel, strip off’

*ka-dua

‘second’

*kalabaw

‘rat, mouse’

*kamiu

1.‘2pl. nominate and genitive’

2.‘you all, your’

*kampuŋ

‘abdomen, belly’

*kandoRa

‘cuscus, phalanger’

*kayu

1.‘wood’

2.‘tree’

*kazupay

‘rat’

*keli

‘to dig up’

*keRa

‘hawksbill turtle: *Chelonia imbricata*’

*keRan

‘hawksbill turtle: *Chelonia imbricata*’

*kese

1.‘keep to oneself’

2.‘different’

3.‘alone’

*kese-kese

‘varied, different (?)’

*kilaw

‘corner of the eye’

*laman

1.‘deep, of the sea’

2.‘deep sea’

*laur

‘toward the sea’

*liŋi

‘to pour’

*liqə

‘voice’

*madar

‘ripe, overripe’

*ma-dindiŋ

‘cold’

*ma-emis

1.‘sweet’

2.‘insipid, as fresh water’

*maka-dua

‘do something twice (?)’

*malaw

1.‘paper mulberry tree: *Brousonnetia papyrifera*, used to make bark cloth’

2.‘men’s loincloth made from this material’

*malip

‘laugh, smile’

*malua

‘soft, pliable’

*ma-mawab

‘to yawn’

*ma-mayaq

‘shame’

*mansar

‘bandicoot, marsupial ‘ rat’’

*mansər

‘bandicoot, marsupial ' rat'’

*maqasin

‘salty, brackish’

*ma-qetaq

‘raw, unripe, green (fruit), uncooked’

*ma-qitem, ma-qetem

1.‘black’

2.‘dirty’

*ma-Raŋu

‘dry’

*matay

1.‘die’

2.‘dead’

*matay

‘money, payment, medium of commercial exchange’

*matu

‘dry coconut’

*mawab

‘to yawn, yawning’

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