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’ (eng)

*adiRi

‘housepost’ (eng)

*anu

‘thing whose name is unknown’ (eng)

*asa

‘one (of humans)’ (eng)

*au

‘dew’ (eng)

*b<in>ai

‘woman, female’ (eng)

*ba

‘but, if’ (eng)

*ba

‘go’ (eng)

*baaq

‘flood’ (eng)

*bai

‘woman, female’ (eng)

*bail

‘plant: *Falcataria Moluccana*’ (eng)

*bait

‘do, make’ (eng)

*balaŋ

‘side, part’ (eng)

*bali

‘dual division, moiety’ (eng)

*balun

1.‘bind, bundle’ (eng)

2.‘wrap in cloth’ (eng)

3.‘death shroud’ (eng)

4.‘cloth(ing)’ (eng)

*banaR

‘thorny vine: *Smilax* spp.’ (eng)

*baRi

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

*bayan

‘bait’ (eng)

*bebel

1.‘dull, blunt’ (eng)

2.‘blocked, plugged’ (eng)

3.‘stupid’ (eng)

*belen

‘to swallow’ (eng)

*beŋel

‘mute, unable to speak’ (eng)

*betis

‘calf of the leg’ (eng)

*bina

‘shellfish sp.’ (eng)

*biriŋ

‘to stone, throw a stone at’ (eng)

*bisak

‘to split’ (eng)

*bisik

‘to peel’ (eng)

*bitak

‘mud’ (eng)

*bitik

‘lightning’ (eng)

*bitu

‘sword grass: *Imperata cylindrica*’ (eng)

*bobo

‘upper surface, top, above’ (eng)

*bua

‘only, just’ (eng)

*bubu

1.‘sing’ (eng)

2.‘song’ (eng)

*budaq

1.‘foam, bubbles, lather, scum, froth’ (eng)

2.‘bubble up’ (eng)

*budeq

‘sponge’ (eng)

*buek

‘head hair’ (eng)

*buku

1.‘node (as in bamboo or sugarcane)’ (eng)

2.‘joint’ (eng)

3.‘knuckle’ (eng)

4.‘knot in wood’ (eng)

5.‘knot in string or rope’ (eng)

6.‘Mons veneris’ (eng)

*buku ni lima

‘wrist bone’ (eng)

*buku ni qaqay

‘ankle bone’ (eng)

*bulu

1.‘body hair’ (eng)

2.‘fur’ (eng)

3.‘feather’ (eng)

4.‘down’ (eng)

5.‘antenna of insect or crustacean’ (eng)

6.‘spikes of sea urchin’ (eng)

7.‘floss on plant skins, color’ (eng)

8.‘type, kind’ (eng)

*bunuq

‘constellation: the Pleiades’ (eng)

*buqal

1.‘levered up’ (eng)

2.‘uprooted’ (eng)

*buqaya

1.‘crocodile’ (eng)

2.‘seahorse’ (eng)

*buqi

1.‘pour water on’ (eng)

2.‘to douse (as a fire)’ (eng)

*buRu

‘envious, jealous’ (eng)

*buta

1.‘blind’ (eng)

2.‘blindness’ (eng)

*butiR

1.‘wart’ (eng)

2.‘cyst’ (eng)

3.‘non-purulent skin eruption’ (eng)

*butu

‘group, crowd, flock, school, bunch, cluster’ (eng)

*buu

‘conch shell trumpet’ (eng)

*buu

‘corner, edge, point’ (eng)

*buu

‘to blow’ (eng)

*daŋi

‘near’ (eng)

*daqi

1.‘forehead’ (eng)

2.‘face’ (eng)

*daun

1.‘leaf’ (eng)

2.‘head hair’ (eng)

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

*dua-dua

1.‘two by two, two at a time’ (eng)

2.‘two each’ (eng)

*dədək

‘pound’ (eng)

*erit

‘scratch, scrape’ (eng)

*hadiRi bubuŋ-an

‘center post, main housepost’ (eng)

*i

‘numeral prefix’ (eng)

*ijuŋ mata

‘face’ (eng)

*ima

‘kind of pandanus with leaves useful for plaiting’ (eng)

*imi

‘2p. pl. pronoun: you’ (eng)

*ina

1.‘mother, mother's sister’ (eng)

2.‘female animal’ (eng)

3.‘largest member of a set’ (eng)

*iŋaR

1.‘loud, of the voice’ (eng)

2.‘voice’ (eng)

*isi

‘to peel, strip off’ (eng)

*ka-dua

‘second’ (eng)

*kalabaw

‘rat, mouse’ (eng)

*kamiu

1.‘2pl. nominate and genitive’ (eng)

2.‘you all, your’ (eng)

*kampuŋ

‘abdomen, belly’ (eng)

*kandoRa

‘cuscus, phalanger’ (eng)

*kayu

1.‘wood’ (eng)

2.‘tree’ (eng)

*kazupay

‘rat’ (eng)

*keli

‘to dig up’ (eng)

*keRa

‘hawksbill turtle: *Chelonia imbricata*’ (eng)

*keRan

‘hawksbill turtle: *Chelonia imbricata*’ (eng)

*kese

1.‘keep to oneself’ (eng)

2.‘different’ (eng)

3.‘alone’ (eng)

*kese-kese

‘varied, different (?)’ (eng)

*kilaw

‘corner of the eye’ (eng)

*laman

1.‘deep, of the sea’ (eng)

2.‘deep sea’ (eng)

*laur

‘toward the sea’ (eng)

*liŋi

‘to pour’ (eng)

*liqə

‘voice’ (eng)

*madar

‘ripe, overripe’ (eng)

*ma-dindiŋ

‘cold’ (eng)

*ma-emis

1.‘sweet’ (eng)

2.‘insipid, as fresh water’ (eng)

*maka-dua

‘do something twice (?)’ (eng)

*malaw

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

2.‘men’s loincloth made from this material’ (eng)

*malip

‘laugh, smile’ (eng)

*malua

‘soft, pliable’ (eng)

*ma-mawab

‘to yawn’ (eng)

*ma-mayaq

‘shame’ (eng)

*mansar

‘bandicoot, marsupial ‘ rat’’ (eng)

*mansər

‘bandicoot, marsupial ' rat'’ (eng)

*maqasin

‘salty, brackish’ (eng)

*ma-qetaq

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

*ma-qitem, ma-qetem

1.‘black’ (eng)

2.‘dirty’ (eng)

*ma-Raŋu

‘dry’ (eng)

*matay

1.‘die’ (eng)

2.‘dead’ (eng)

*matay

‘money, payment, medium of commercial exchange’ (eng)

*matu

‘dry coconut’ (eng)

*mawab

‘to yawn, yawning’ (eng)

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