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Language: Motu

Information:

Glottocode: motu1246
ISO 639: meu

Sources: Dutton (1970)

Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, Papuan Tip linkage, Peripheral Papuan Tip linkage, Central Papuan Oceanic, West Central Papuan linkage

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Lexicon:

IDWordEntryAnnotationLoanSourceSource Gloss
257450you (pronoun d:2s)oiDutton (1970)you (sing.
257488you pl. (pronoun d:2p)umuiDutton (1970)you (pl.)
257332young boymeroDutton (1970)young boy (manki)
259003yellowlaboraDutton (1970)yellow
258505yam (taitu)bikuDutton (1970)yam (taitu)
258491yam (maho)taituDutton (1970)yam (maho)
258490yam (maho)mahoDutton (1970)yam (maho)
258835woman's clothes (pulpul)sihiDutton (1970)"woman's clothes, pulpul"
257272womanhahineDutton (1970)woman
260341with (accompanying)idaDutton (1970)together with
258677wingkokokokoDutton (1970)wing
258262windiaiDutton (1970)wind
257358wifeadava-Dutton (1970)wife
259781widelababaDutton (1970)[(wide)]
260009who?daikaDutton (1970)who
258978whitekurokuroDutton (1970)white
260033where?edeseni aiDutton (1970)where (at)
260045when?edena nega aiDutton (1970)when
260021what?dahakaDutton (1970)what
259832wetparipari-Dutton (1970)wet
257477we incl. (pronoun d:1p, incl)itaDutton (1970)we incl.
258136waterranuDutton (1970)water
260094underneathhenunaiDutton (1970)underneath (of house) stationary
258352trunk (of tree)gabaka-Dutton (1970)trunk of tree
258416tree topdori-Dutton (1970)tree top
258340treeauDutton (1970)tree
259508to washdigu-Dutton (1970)wash onself
259259to walkraka-Dutton (1970)walk
259686to vomitmumuta-Dutton (1970)vomit
260386to understanddibaDutton (1970)understand (language)
259588to turn (change one's direction)hegiro-Dutton (1970)turn (oneself) (intr.)
260258to towrua (rua)Dutton (1970)tow
259988to tiekwatu-Dutton (1970)tie rope
259488to throwtaho-Dutton (1970)throw
259271to takeabi-Dutton (1970)take
259497to swimnahu-Dutton (1970)swim
259890to swellgudu-Dutton (1970)skin swells up
259948to swallowhadono-Dutton (1970)swallow (v)
259871to stopdoko-Dutton (1970)stop (intr.)
260115to stand uphagini-Dutton (1970)stand up (post) (tr.)
259190to standgini-Dutton (1970)stand
259214to speakhereva heni-Dutton (1970)speak
259215to speakgwauDutton (1970)speak
259530to smell (something)bona-Dutton (1970)smell (tr.)
259350to sleepmahuta-Dutton (1970)sleep
259201to sithelaldihoDutton (1970)sit down
259412to singane abi-Dutton (1970)singsing (v)
259663to shootpidi-Dutton (1970)shoot
259957to sewturi-Dutton (1970)sew up
259374to seeita-Dutton (1970)see