Blust & Trussel (2019b): Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Search entries
| Headword | IPA | Glosses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| *<um> | ‘verbal infix marking actor voice for intransitive verbs, and of inchoatives’ | ||
| *-a | ‘3sg. object’ | ||
| *a | ‘article’ | ||
| *a | ‘conjunction: and’ | ||
| *a | ‘exclamation, interjection’ | ||
| *abaŋ | 1.‘ambush, block the way’ 2.‘obstacle, hindrance’ | ||
| *abaw | ‘high, lofty’ | ||
| *abuqaŋ | ‘beetle’ | ||
| *abus | ‘ash’ | ||
| *abut | ‘pull up, root up’ | ||
| *adamay | ‘plant: *Pipturus argenteus*’ | ||
| *adani | ‘near’ | ||
| *a-di | ‘that, there’ | ||
| *aduq | ‘exclamation of pain, distress, etc.’ | ||
| *a-epat | ‘four (of humans)’ | ||
| *agu | ‘and, also’ | ||
| *ajan | ‘name’ | ||
| *akak | ‘cackling laughter’ | ||
| *akaR | ‘root’ | ||
| *akerahaq | ‘cry of a monkey’ | ||
| *alali | ‘halibut, sole, flounder’ | ||
| *alem | ‘dark, night’ | ||
| *aliq | ‘move, change place’ | ||
| *aluluŋ | ‘to howl, of dogs’ | ||
| *aluŋ | ‘shade, shadow’ | ||
| *aluten | 1.‘burning brand’ 2.‘charred or smoldering wood’ | ||
| *ama-i | ‘father (voc.)’ | ||
| *amá-ŋ | ‘father (voc.)’ | ||
| *ama-q | ‘father (voc.)’ | ||
| *ambak | ‘stamp or smack against’ | ||
| *ambit | ‘seize with the hands’ | ||
| *ampaw | ‘empty husk (of rice, etc.)’ | ||
| *ampu | ‘grandparent/ grandchild (reciprocal)’ | ||
| *ampun | ‘pardon, forgiveness’ | ||
| *anaduq | ‘long (of objects)’ | ||
| *anak | 1.‘child, offspring’ 2.‘son, daughter’ 3.‘brother's child (man speaking), sister's child (woman speaking)’ 4.‘young animal or plant’ 5.‘young’ 6.‘small (for its kind)’ 7.‘dependent or component part of something larger’ 8.‘native, resident, inhabitant’ 9.‘interest on a loan’ | ||
| *anak a ma-iRaq | ‘neonate (lit. 'red child')’ | ||
| *anak a qulu | ‘first-born, eldest child (lit. 'head child')’ | ||
| *anak apij | ‘twin’ | ||
| *anak bahi, anak babahi, anak binahi | ‘wife-taking lineage’ | ||
| *anak buaq | ‘relative (?)’ | ||
| *anak i banua | ‘fellow villager, fellow community-member’ | ||
| *anak i batu | ‘small stones, gravel’ | ||
| *anak i kahiw | ‘young tree, sprout’ | ||
| *anak i lesuŋ | ‘rice pestle’ | ||
| *anak i lima | ‘little finger, pinkie’ | ||
| *anak i manuk | ‘chick, baby chicken’ | ||
| *anak i mata | ‘pupil of the eye’ | ||
| *anak i panaq | ‘arrow’ | ||
| *anak i qaRta | ‘slave (?)’ | ||
| *anak i sumpit | ‘blowpipe dart’ | ||
| *anak i tau | ‘someone else's child’ | ||
| *anak ma-Ruqanay, anak (la)laki | ‘wife-giving lineage’ | ||
| *anak nu mata | ‘pupil of the eye (‘child of the eye’)’ | ||
| *añam | ‘plait (mats, baskets, etc.)’ | ||
| *an-anak | ‘child’ | ||
| *anduŋ | ‘ancestors’ | ||
| *añem | ‘plait, braid’ | ||
| *aŋaq | ‘open the mouth wide’ | ||
| *aŋ(e)lem | ‘stench’ | ||
| *a(ŋ)kit | ‘bite’ | ||
| *aŋkub | ‘cover’ | ||
| *aŋkup | 1.‘scoop up with both hands’ 2.‘double handful’ | ||
| *aniŋal | ‘echo’ | ||
| *anipa | ‘large snake sp.’ | ||
| *a-nu | ‘thing whose name is unknown, avoided, or cannot be remembered: what?’ | ||
| *a-nu-ku | ‘my unnamed thing: mine’ | ||
| *añuliŋ | ‘fruit-bearing plant: *Pisonia umbellifera*’ | ||
| *a-nu-mu | ‘your unnamed thing: yours’ | ||
| *a-nu-ni a | ‘his/her unnamed thing: his/hers’ | ||
| *apa | ‘what?’ | ||
| *apa apa | 1.‘something’ 2.‘anything’ 3.‘everything’ | ||
| *apa-i | ‘what? which?’ | ||
| *apeled | 1.‘taste of unripe banana’ 2.‘slightly bitter or astringent taste’ | ||
| *apuk | ‘dust’ | ||
| *apuŋ | ‘float’ | ||
| *apuŋ apuŋ | ‘float’ | ||
| *apuni | ‘tree fern’ | ||
| *aRak | 1.‘walk single-file’ 2.‘positioned one behind the other’ | ||
| *aren | ‘class="findlink" href="acd-ak n htm#nobility">nobility, member of the chiefly class’ | ||
| *aResam | ‘kind of fern’ | ||
| *aRuhu | ‘shore tree: *Casuarina equisetifolia*’ | ||
| *asat | ‘dry out, become dry’ | ||
| *asu | ‘fetch water, scoop up water’ | ||
| *asuk | ‘smoke, soot’ | ||
| *asuŋ | ‘incite, spur to action’ | ||
| *atab | ‘cover’ | ||
| *ataŋ | ‘cross’ | ||
| *atas | ‘high, tall’ | ||
| *atay | ‘death’ | ||
| *atel | ‘itch, itchy’ | ||
| *aten | ‘1p plural absolute possessive pronoun: ours (incl.)’ | ||
| *ati | ‘negative marker’ | ||
| *atip | ‘pinch together’ | ||
| *a-tu | 1.‘away, outward, forward, onward’ 2.‘towards the hearer’ | ||
| *atu | ‘away from speaker’ | ||
| *aw | ‘question particle’ | ||
| *awaŋ | ‘atmosphere, space between earth and sky’ | ||
| *away | ‘beckon with the hand’ | ||
| *aya | ‘father’s sister, father’s sister’s husband’ |