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Veloso (2016a): Naueti Uatolari

Original citation: Veloso, Alexandre. 2016. A grammar sketch of Naueti, a language of East Timor. MA thesis, Leiden University.

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Headword	IPA	Glosses
'laba	ˀlaba	vt.‘burn forest or field’
'lada	ˀlada	n.‘ginger’
'lae	ˀlae	vi.‘lazy’
'laha	ˀlaha	vi.‘live’
'laina-hira	ˀlaina-hira	int.‘when (in the past)’
'laina-rua	ˀlaina-rua	n.‘two days ago’
'lai-sei	ˀlai-sei	adv.‘yesterday’
'lara	ˀlara	1.n.‘sun’ 2.n.‘day’
'lara di 'lara mai	ˀlara di ˀlara mai	adv.‘usually’
'lara khai dia	ˀlara kʰai dia	adv.‘long ago’
'lara-'laran	ˀlara-ˀlaran	adv.‘everyday’
'lara-'mutu	ˀlara-ˀmutu	n.‘noon’
'lara-duu	ˀlara-duu	n.‘sunset, West’
'lara-nhuta	ˀlara-n̥uta	n.‘sunrise, East’
'lara-ria	ˀlara-ria	n.‘afternoon’
'lea	ˀlea	vt.‘mark, carve’
'lero-kai	ˀlero-kai	n.‘throat’
'lero-kai-wua	ˀlero-kai-wua	n.‘Adam's apple’
'leru	ˀleru	vt.‘move’
'lidi	ˀlidi	n.‘cockroach’
'loi	ˀloi	vi.‘pray’
'loke	ˀloke	vt.‘open, uncover’
'lura	ˀlura	vt.‘carry on shoulder’
'lutu	ˀlutu	n.‘fence’
'malakai	ˀmalakai	n.‘grasshopper’
'masa	ˀmasa	vt.‘taste’
'masi	ˀmasi	vt.‘try, attempt’
'mimi	ˀmimi	vt.‘mention’
'moko	ˀmoko	vt.‘suck, smoke’
'molu	ˀmolu	vi.‘crazy’
'moma	ˀmoma	vt.‘chew betelnut’
'mori	ˀmori	vt.‘cultivate grain’
'mota	ˀmota	vi.‘crush’
'mumu	ˀmumu	vt.‘hold between teeth’
'musi	ˀmusi	vi.‘same’
'mutu	ˀmutu	vi.‘hot’
'nai	ˀnai	vi.‘climb’
'nake	ˀnake	vt.‘remove from fire’
'nane	ˀnane	vt.‘bend’
'nara	ˀnara	vi.‘long’
'nasu	ˀnasu	n.‘smoke’
'nate	ˀnate	vi.‘itch’
'nau	ˀnau	vt.‘leave behind’
'nei	ˀnei	v.‘cry’
'nei-tasa	ˀnei-tasa	n.‘crybaby’
'neo	ˀneo	n.‘neck’
'neokai	ˀneokai	n.‘neck’
'neokai-wua	ˀneokai-wua	n.‘Adam’s apple’
'nero	ˀnero	vi.‘sleep, lie down’
'nete	ˀnete	vi.‘break off’
'niha	ˀniha	vt.‘count’
'nihi	ˀnihi	vt.‘request’
'nila	ˀnila	vt.‘steal’
'nila-bulu	ˀnila-bulu	n.‘thief’
'nini	ˀnini	vi.‘cold’
'noe	ˀnoe	vi.‘long ago’
'noka	ˀnoka	vi.‘dig a large hole (especially to bury corpses)’
'noka	ˀnoka	vt.‘hit with crowbar’
'noro	ˀnoro	vi.‘noisy, make noise’
'nuku	ˀnuku	vi.‘kneel’
'nuu	ˀnuu	n.‘mucus’
'raa	ˀraa	vt.‘open one's mouth’
'reo	ˀreo	vt.‘brush against someone’
'riga	ˀriga	vi.‘swear with dirty words’
'rii	ˀrii	vi.‘copulate’
'wai	ˀwai	vt.‘dry in sun’
aa	aa	n.‘reflexive noun’
aba	aba	asp.‘prospective aspect marker’
abiau	abiau	n.‘airplane’
ada-huu	ada-huu	n.‘window’
ae	ae	n.‘bamboo’; ‘Bambusoidae spp.’
ae-ita	ae-ita	n.‘Timor black bamboo’; ‘Bambusa lako’
agadiru	agadiru	n.‘Asian palmyra palm’; ‘Borassus flabellifer’
agarae	agarae	n.‘palm sp.’
ai	ai	conj.‘if’
aku	aku	pro.‘1SG, I, first person singular pronoun’
ala	ala	n.‘forest’
ala	ala	vt.‘take’
ala-oli	ala-oli	n.‘jungle’
alo-kai	alo-kai	n.‘big pestle’
ama	ama	n.‘father’
ama-bo'o	ama-boʔo	n.‘father’s older (classificatory) male sibling’
ama-dae	ama-dae	n.‘father’s sister’s husband’
ama-rai	ama-rai	n.‘father’s younger (classificatory) male sibling’
amau	amau	n.‘honorific address term for a man, usually old’
amu	amu	n.‘master’
ana	ana	adv.‘little, diminutive adverb’
ana	ana	n.‘offspring’
ana-dau	ana-dau	n.‘sibling's child’
ana-nura	ana-nura	n.‘woman that just delivered a baby’
anaulu-anaiku	anaulu-anaiku	n.‘descendants’
ana-walu	ana-walu	n.‘orphan’
ana-whati	ana-w̥ati	n.‘womb’
ani	ani	vt.‘bring’
animál	animal	n.‘animal’
arame	arame	n.‘wire’
área	area	n.‘area’
arepende	arepende	vi.‘regret’
asalae	asalae	n.‘sand’
asi	asi	n.‘salt’
asi-masi	asi-masi	n.‘sugar’
asukai	asukai	n.‘man’
ata	ata	n.‘liver’
ata	ata	n.‘slave’
ata-mata	ata-mata	n.‘ancestor’
au	au	poss.‘1SG POSS, my, first person singular possessive pronoun’
azuda	azuda	vt.‘help’
ba'e	baʔe	vi.‘sneeze’
ba'i	baʔi	vi.‘bitter’
babora	babora	n.‘crab’
bada	bada	n.‘friend’
badu	badu	n.‘candlenut’; ‘Aleurites moluccana’
badu-malae	badu-malae	n.‘purging nut’; ‘Jatropha curcas’
bagi	bagi	vt.‘split’
Bagia	bagia	n.‘Baguia’
baha	baha	n.‘hamlet, village’
bai	bai	vt.‘check’
bai	bai	vt.‘open with force’
baki	baki	n.‘concrete wall’
bale	bale	vi.‘become’
balidi-wua	balidi-wua	n.‘starfruit’; ‘Averrhoa carambola’
bani-wua	bani-wua	n.‘Java olive’; ‘Sterculia foetida’
bara	bara	n.‘collective noun’
baru	baru	vt.‘not want, refuse’
baru ini	baru ini	vi.‘get divorced’
baru ini	baru ini	‘get divorced’
basa	basa	vi.‘applause’
basi	basi	n.‘co-wife’
bata ini	bata ini	vi.‘share’
bati	bati	v.‘divide’
bau	bau	n.‘elephant foot yam’; ‘Amorphophallus paeoniifolius’
behu	behu	vt.‘shell (corn)’
bei-bulu	bei-bulu	n.‘grasping person’
beki	beki	adv.‘can’
benu	benu	vi.‘full’
bera	bera	1.vi.‘ill’ 2.vi.‘sore, hurt’
besa	besa	vi.‘blossom (of rice flower)’
besu	besu	vi.‘sated, satisfied, full’
beta	beta	vi.‘pointed’
betu	betu	n.‘giant bamboo’; ‘Dendrocalamus asper’
bia	bia	n.‘term for a taxon including several kinds of tuber, such as yiu and biawulu’
bia-wulu	bia-wulu	n.‘tuber characterized by a hairy skin’
bibi	bibi	n.‘goat’
bibi-ata	bibi-ata	n.‘goatherd’
bibi-malae	bibi-malae	n.‘sheep’
bibirusa	bibirusa	n.‘deer’
bika-wua	bika-wua	‘wax apple’; ‘Syzygium spp., Syzigium malaccense, Syzigium samarangense’
bilimbi	bilimbi	n.‘cucumber tree’; ‘Averrhoa bilimbi’
biru	biru	vt.‘leave, abandon’
bisa	bisa	vt.‘tear with hands’
bisu	bisu	vt.‘murmur’
bizinu	bizinu	n.‘neighbor’
bo'o	boʔo	n.‘term used for any respected person because of their age, knowledge or social status’
boakoa	boakoa	n.‘crow’
boboraka	boboraka	n.‘kind of house spider sp.’
boé	boe	vi.‘spin’
bohorai	bohorai	n.‘python’
boko	boko	vi.‘lay down’
boku	boku	vi.‘fat, round’
bolu	bolu	vt.‘call’
borogoé	borogoe	vt.‘surround’
bosa	bosa	n.‘orchard’
botili	botili	n.‘bottle’
botu	botu	adv.‘too, alike, likewise’
bou	bou	adv.‘certainly, definitely’
bua	bua	n.‘betel nut (nut of)’; ‘Areca catechu’
buahona	buahona	n.‘wasp’
buamara-wua	buamara-wua	n.‘aubergine’
bubu	bubu	vi.‘swell’
buga	buga	n.‘buttocks’
buga kuu	buga kuu	vi.‘fart’
buga-daga	buga-daga	n.‘butt crack’
buga-huu	buga-huu	n.‘anus’
bui	bui	n.‘cat’
buidiki	buidiki	n.‘stupid person’
buititi	buititi	n.‘swallow’; ‘Hirundininae sp.’
buku	buku	vt.‘hit with stick’
buni	buni	vt.‘see’
buru	buru	n.‘monkey’
busu	busu	n.‘kidney’
buta	buta	asp.‘complete aspect marker in SVCs’
buta	buta	n.‘sago’; ‘Metroxylon sagu’
buta	buta	1.vi.‘white’ 2.vi.‘blank’
buti	buti	vt.‘squash’
buu	buu	n.‘grandparent, 2nd generation’
da	da	adv.‘not, general pre-predicate negator’
da ha'o	da haʔo	adv.‘no, negative answer’
da'e	daʔe	vi.‘bad’
dabe	dabe	vi.‘fall’
dadau	dadau	adv.‘must’
daha	daha	n.‘fire’
daha	daha	adv.‘not yet’
daha-mata	daha-mata	n.‘fireplace’
daha-ou	daha-ou	n.‘ash’
dala	dala	n.‘road’
dala-wata	dala-wata	n.‘pavement’
dambua	dambua	n.‘pomelo’; ‘Citrus maxima’
damu	damu	vt.‘chew’
daraha	daraha	adv.‘otherwise’
dare-kai	dare-kai	n.‘corncob flower’
dasa	dasa	vt.‘sweep’
dase	dase	vi.‘near’
dasu	dasu	n.‘dog’
dasutiti	dasutiti	n.‘cricket’; ‘Gryllidae sp.’
dateni	dateni	adv.‘need not’
dau	dau	vi.‘far’
dau	dau	n.‘needle’
de'e-nau	deʔe-nau	vi.‘stay’
deba	deba	asp.‘INCEP, TERM, inceptive or terminative aspectual marker’
debe	debe	n.‘debt’
degu	degu	n.‘night’
degu-sei dia	degu-sei dia	adv.‘long ago but still recent enough for people to remember’
dei	dei	vt.‘plough’
deka	deka	vi.‘abort a baby’
dene	dene	vt.‘hear’
deni	deni	n.‘great morinda tree’; ‘Morinda citrifolia’
deo	deo	adv.‘even if, even though, although’
depois	depois	adv.‘afterwards’
dere	dere	vi.‘flat (of surfaces)’
derepente	derepente	adv.‘suddenly’
dero	dero	n.‘lime’
desa	desa	vt.‘cut with machete’
di	di	adv.‘ALL, allative directional’
di	di	part.‘imperative marker’
di khata	di kʰata	adv.‘always’
di naga	di naga	adv.‘always’
diha	diha	vi.‘lose’
dihaana	dihaana	n.‘child’
dii	dii	vi.‘there be, have, exist’
diri	diri	vi.‘yellow’
diribua	diribua	n.‘kind of green cricket’; ‘Tettigonia sp.’
distritu	distritu	n.‘district’
ditu	ditu	vi.‘stand up’
dobe	dobe	n.‘big rice container’
dohu-kuli	dohu-kuli	n.‘fresh water fish sp.’
doki	doki	vt.‘tease’
doko	doko	vt.‘shake’
doku	doku	vt.‘flip’
dolar	dolar	n.‘dollar’
dora	dora	n.‘bamboo tool to store water’
dora	dora	vt.‘show off power’
dotu	dotu	1.n.‘meat’ 2.n.‘fish (only in certain compounds)’
dotu-ita	dotu-ita	n.‘black fish sp.’
dotu-kaibela	dotu-kaibela	n.‘sand-coloured, flat fish sp.’
dotu-mee	dotu-mee	n.‘red fish sp.’
dotu-sa'ukira	dotu-saʔukira	n.‘scorpionfish’; ‘Scorpaenidae sp.’
dotu-wai	dotu-wai	n.‘fish’
dudu	dudu	vt.‘push’
duhu	duhu	vt.‘pierce’
duma	duma	n.‘possession, belonging’
dumigu	dumigu	n.‘Sunday’
dura	dura	vt.‘promise’
durubasa	durubasa	n.‘interpreter’
eda	eda	n.‘traditional short ladder to enter house’
ede	ede	vi.‘bend down (of a dry plant)’
ehe	ehe	vt.‘say’
ehe	ehe	conj.‘that, complementizer’
ehe hila	ehe hila	vt.‘repeat, aware of what one is saying’
ehe osi	ehe osi	vt.‘reproduce someone's words’
ei	ei	vt.‘see’
eka	eka	vt.‘untie’
ekarae	ekarae	n.‘maize’
ekarae-wua	ekarae-wua	n.‘foxtail millet’; ‘Setaria italica’
ekarae-wuli	ekarae-wuli	n.‘sorghum’; ‘Sorghum sp.’
ele-wai	ele-wai	n.‘wave’
emo	emo	dem.‘NONFAM, that still unknown or non-visible, nonfamiliar demonstrative’
ene	ene	1.vi.‘first’
engineiru	engineiru	n.‘engineer’
enkuantu	enkuantu	conj.‘while’
entau	entau	conj.‘then’
entaun	entaun	conj.‘then’
entre	entre	prep.‘between’
enzineiru	enzineiru	n.‘engineer’
estrada	estrada	n.‘highway’
estraga	estraga	vt.‘destroy’
estrondu	estrondu	n.‘tumult’
estuda	estuda	vt.‘study’
estudante	estudante	n.‘student’
esu	esu	1.vt.‘steam’ 2.vt.‘make soup’
eti	eti	dem.‘this close to the speaker, proximal demonstrative’
eto	eto	pro.‘3SG, he, she, it, third person singular pronoun’
eto	eto	dem.‘DIST, yonder far from speaker and addressee, distal demonstrative’
ga	ga	poss.‘2SG POSS, your, second person singular possessive pronoun’
ga'a	gaʔa	vi.‘sour’
gaa	gaa	n.‘branch’
gaba	gaba	vi.‘boast’
gaga-busu	gaga-busu	vi.‘a gluttonous eater of meat’
gai	gai	vt.‘harvest’
gali hila	gali hila	vt.‘look back’
gami	gami	poss.‘2PL POSS, your, second person plural possessive pronoun’
gana	gana	vi.‘crawl’
gara	gara	n.‘ear’
gara-da'e	gara-daʔe	vi.‘naughty’
gara-kai	gara-kai	n.‘ear’
garu	garu	vi.‘skinny’
gasarai	gasarai	vi.‘lean’
gata	gata	vt.‘tease verbally’
gatekai	gatekai	n.‘(leg) calf’
gea	gea	n.‘frog’
gea-nahamau	gea-nahamau	n.‘common tree frog’; ‘Polypedates leucomystax’
gene-la	gene-la	prep.‘about’
gere	gere	vt.‘write, make stripes’
gese	gese	vt.‘bump into’
godi	godi	1.vi.‘correct (of an assertion)’ 2.vi.‘right (of a person)’
gohe	gohe	vi.‘row’
gua	gua	n.‘fruit’
gua	gua	vt.‘sow’
guahira	guahira	int.‘how many people’
gugu	gugu	vi.‘quiet (of a person)’
ha'akai	haʔakai	n.‘(leg) calf’
ha'o	haʔo	adv.‘expletive post-predicate negator always accompanied by pre-predicate da’
habu	habu	vi.‘lie, tell lies’
habu-bulu	habu-bulu	n.‘liar’
hae	hae	n.‘grass’
hae-tii	hae-tii	n.‘plant fibers hanging from both sides of a traditional Naueti house roof’
hae-whoumuni	hae-w̥oumuni	n.‘lemongrass’; ‘Cymbopogon sp.’
hagu	hagu	n.‘corncob leaf’
hai	hai	1.prep.‘INSTR, with, instrumental prepositional verb’ 2.prep.‘in order to, instrumental prepositional verb’
hai	hai	n.‘stingray’; ‘Myliobatidae sp.’
haka	haka	vt.‘feed animals’
haku	haku	n.‘plate’
hama'a	hamaʔa	1.vt.‘want’ 2.vt.‘like, love’
hamae	hamae	n.‘breath’
hare	hare	n.‘uncooked rice’
hare-behe	hare-behe	n.‘husked rice’
hare-wai	hare-wai	n.‘paddy field’
hati	hati	adv.‘still’
he'a	heʔa	vt.‘milk an animal’
he'e	heʔe	adv.‘yes’
heba	heba	vi.‘big, strong, robust’
hede	hede	n.‘screwpine’; ‘Pandanus sp.’
hede-malae	hede-malae	n.‘pineapple’
heki	heki	vt.‘remove with effort’
heta	heta	vt.‘cut with axe’
heta	heta	vt.‘find’
hia	hia	vi.‘good’
hida	hida	vt.‘kill’
hika rua	hika rua	vt.‘bring’
hila	hila	adv.‘back’
hili	hili	vt.‘encounter’
hira	hira	1.pro.‘1PL INCL, we and you, first person plural inclusive pronoun’ 2.pro.‘you, second person singular polite pronoun’
hira-ata	hira-ata	pro.‘I, first person singular polite pronominal expression’
hira-ata sira	hira-ata sira	pro.‘we, first person plural polite pronominal expression’
hira-rua	hira-rua	pro.‘1DU INCL, you and me two, first person dual inclusive pronoun’
hita	hita	vt.‘go over’
hiu	hiu	n.‘shark’
ho'u	hoʔu	vi.‘agree’
hoka	hoka	vt.‘sell’
horo	horo	vi.‘hide’
hoti	hoti	vt.‘feed people’
hua	hua	1.vi.‘fly, soar, floar’ 2.vi.‘above, over (a place) in directionals SVCs’
hudi	hudi	n.‘banana’; ‘Musa sp.’
hudi-gada	hudi-gada	n.‘probably Saba banana’; ‘Musa acuminata x balbisiana’
hudi-mandar	hudi-mandar	n.‘probably Gros Michel banana’; ‘Musa acuminata (AAA)’
hudi-mee	hudi-mee	n.‘probably Red Dacca banana’; ‘Musa acuminata (AAA)’
hudi-na'i	hudi-naʔi	n.‘banana flower’
hudi-Sigapura	hudi-sigapura	n.‘most common kind of cooking banana, typically served fried, probably Latundan banana’; ‘Musa acuminata x balbisiana’
huu	huu	n.‘hole’
ia	ia	vt.‘give’
ida	ida	vi.‘expand’
igi	igi	n.‘edge’
igreza	igreza	n.‘church’
iku	iku	n.‘tail’
ili-wai	ili-wai	n.‘saliva’
ilu	ilu	n.‘greater yam’; ‘Dioscorea alata’
ilu-wai	ilu-wai	n.‘saliva’
ina	ina	n.‘mother’
ina-ama	ina-ama	n.‘parents’
ina-bo'o	ina-boʔo	n.‘mother’s older (classificatory) male sibling’
ina-rai	ina-rai	n.‘mother’s younger (classificatory) male sibling’
ina-tua	ina-tua	n.‘father’s (classificatory) female sibling’
inau	inau	n.‘honorific address term for a woman’
ini	ini	pro.‘RECP, each other, reciprocal pronoun’
ini	ini	dem.‘that close to the addresse, medial demonstrative’
inihu	inihu	n.‘earlobe’
inihu-'molu	inihu-ˀmolu	vi.‘deaf’
inihu-ta'i	inihu-taʔi	n.‘earwax’
iri	iri	n.‘wind’
iru	iru	n.‘bow’
iru	iru	n.‘nose’
iru-ana	iru-ana	n.‘arrow’
iru-kai	iru-kai	n.‘nose’
isi	isi	clf.‘classifier for tuber crops’
isi	isi	n.‘flesh’
isi-hia	isi-hia	vi.‘healthy’
isikeru	isikeru	n.‘lighter’
isikola	isikola	n.‘school’
isi-loloona	isi-loloona	n.‘body’
ita	ita	vi.‘black, dark’
ita-mata	ita-mata	n.‘door’
iti	iti	vt.‘hold a baby’
izemplu	izemplu	n.‘example’
ka	ka	pro.‘2SG, you, second person singular pronoun’
kaba	kaba	n.‘thread’
kaba-limu	kaba-limu	n.‘cotton’
kaben	kaben	vt.‘marry’
kabu	kabu	vt.‘tear up’
kaburea	kaburea	n.‘palm tree sp.’
kada	kada	det.‘each’
kadeira	kadeira	n.‘chair’
kadera	kadera	n.‘chair’
kaha	kaha	vi.‘thick’
kaha	kaha	1.vi.‘wild’
kahu	kahu	1.vt.‘mix’ 2.vt.‘disturb’
kai	kai	n.‘wood, tree’
kai rui	kai rui	n.‘thorn’
kai-bara	kai-bara	n.‘thatch’
kai-bira	kai-bira	n.‘traditional totem pole used in ritual ceremonies with two curved branches, one on each side, where certain objects are hung’
kai-boe	kai-boe	n.‘peg-top’
kai-dawa	kai-dawa	n.‘Macassar oil tree’; ‘Schleichera oleosa’
kai-dila	kai-dila	n.‘papaya tree’; ‘Carica papaya’
kaidila-watu	kaidila-watu	n.‘Indian bael’; ‘Aegle marmelos’
kaihaa	kaihaa	num.‘four’
kai-haku	kai-haku	n.‘quinine tree’; ‘Cinchona sp.)’
kaihira	kaihira	int.‘how many, how much’
kai-ho'o	kai-hoʔo	n.‘tree, tree trunk’
kai-kaphé	kai-kapʰe	n.‘white leadtree’; ‘Leucaena leucocephala’
kai-kata	kai-kata	n.‘parallel wooden sticks used as a flat surface’
kai-kia	kai-kia	n.‘canarium tree’; ‘Canarium indicum’
kai-kobi	kai-kobi	n.‘Indian jujube’; ‘Ziziphus mauritiana’
kai-kulu	kai-kulu	n.‘soursop’; ‘Annona muricata’
kai-kuri	kai-kuri	n.‘poison’
kai-laha	kai-laha	n.‘plant’
kai-leba	kai-leba	n.‘wooden structure joining the pillars, rafter’
kai-lelete	kai-lelete	n.‘bridge’
kailima	kailima	num.‘five’
kailima resi kaihaa	kailima resi kaihaa	num.‘nine’
kailima resi kairua	kailima resi kairua	num.‘seven’
kailima resi kaitelu	kailima resi kaitelu	num.‘eight’
kailima resin	kailima resin	num.‘six’
kai-lolo	kai-lolo	n.‘log’
kai-malae	kai-malae	n.‘manioc’; ‘Manihot esculenta’
kai-mali	kai-mali	n.‘tamarind tree’; ‘Tamarindus indica’
kaimaliwua-kroki	kaimaliwua-kroki	n.‘sweetsop’; ‘Annona squamosa’
kai-oka	kai-oka	n.‘root’
kai-rae	kai-rae	1.n.‘leaf’ 2.n.‘medicine’
kai-ria	kai-ria	n.‘tree shade’
kairua	kairua	num.‘two’
kai-satu	kai-satu	n.‘frangipani tree’; ‘Plumeria sp.’
kai-tae	kai-tae	n.‘bush’
kaitelu	kaitelu	num.‘three’
kai-whoumuni	kai-w̥oumuni	n.‘sandalwood’; ‘Santalum sp.’
kai-wua	kai-wua	n.‘fruit’
kaka	kaka	n.‘elder (classificatory) male sibling’
kakoraka	kakoraka	n.‘Asian tiger shrimp’; ‘Penaeus monodon’
kalsa	kalsa	n.‘trousers’
kama	kama	n.‘bed’
kami	kami	pro.‘2PL, you (plural), second person plural pronoun’
kami-rua	kami-rua	pro.‘you two, you and someone else, second person dual pronoun’
kantor	kantor	n.‘office’
kaphé	kapʰe	n.‘coffee’
karabou	karabou	n.‘water buffalo’
karabou-ata	karabou-ata	n.‘cattleherd’
karabou-waka	karabou-waka	n.‘cow, typically banteng’; ‘Bos javanicus’
kareta	kareta	n.‘car’
karu	karu	vt.‘make a hole with teeth’
kasa	kasa	vt.‘send’
kastigu	kastigu	n.‘punishment’
kata	kata	vt.‘lay something on two parallel sticks’
kata	kata	vt.‘sew’
kataloi	kataloi	n.‘air potato’; ‘Dioscorea bulbifera’
kateri	kateri	n.‘scissors’
katolika	katolika	n.‘catholic religion’
kau	kau	vi.‘crunchy’
keke	keke	n.‘bracelet’
kekehu	kekehu	vi.‘random’
keku	keku	vi.‘crooked’
kele	kele	n.‘leg, foot’
kele-lhari	kele-l̥ari	n.‘shin’
kele-matauku	kele-matauku	n.‘patella, kneecap’
kele-na'i	kele-naʔi	n.‘leg calf’
kele-siku	kele-siku	n.‘knee hock’
kele-timu	kele-timu	n.‘heel’
kele-uku	kele-uku	n.‘knee’
kele-una	kele-una	n.‘toe’
kele-wala	kele-wala	n.‘foot instep’
kesi	kesi	vt.‘tie’
kete-di	kete-di	vi.‘pass’
khaa	kʰaa	vt.‘eat’
khaana	kʰaana	n.‘cooked rice’
khai	kʰai	vi.‘hard’
khai	kʰai	asp.‘PROG, progressive aspectual marker’
khakhaana	kʰakʰaana	n.‘food’
khakhi	kʰakʰi	vi.‘obstruct’
khali	kʰali	vt.‘dig a hole to plant’
kheba	kʰeba	vt.‘slip into a place’
khee	kʰee	vt.‘cut with knife’
kheu	kʰeu	vt.‘scrape’
kho	kʰo	n.‘COLL’
kholai-mee	kʰolai-mee	n.‘olive tree skink’; ‘Dasia olivacea’
khole	kʰole	vi.‘tired’
kholi	kʰoli	vt.‘choose’
khoo	kʰoo	vi.‘narrow’
khoo-khai	kʰoo-kʰai	vt.‘hug’
khose	kʰose	vt.‘rub on body’
khutu	kʰutu	n.‘louse’
khuu-wua	kʰuu-wua	n.‘chilli pepper’
kidakai	kidakai	n.‘dragonfly’
kii	kii	n.‘person’
kilibí	kilibi	vt.‘trickle’

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OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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