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Language: Vitu

Source/Author:  Malcolm Ross 
Notes:  Items extracted from René van den Berg and Peter Bachet, (2006) Vitu grammar sketch (Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics) 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Debasish Roy  Checked By: Simon Greenhill 
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:Bali-Vitu 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand lima   1  
2 left mauri   1  
3 right maroro      
4 leg/foot kabe      
5 to walk vana vano would be more regular 2, 64  
6 road/path dala   1  
7 to come mai   1  
8 to turn word info      
9 to swim ǥuḏu      
10 dirty molumolua      
11 dust ǥabulo      
12 skin livu      
12 skin ǥuli   1  
13 back word info ǥama-      
14 belly magali      
15 bone toŋa      
16 intestines magali-   19  
16 intestines parokapai      
17 liver ŋepe      
18 breast ḏuḏu   1  
19 shoulder loǥora      
20 to know, be knowledgeable lala   18  
21 to think lohoi      
22 to fear ǥatewawani      
23 blood topo   12  
24 head baka   9  
25 neck loǥo      
26 hair word info vulu   31  
27 nose ǥiḏu [cp. 111]    
28 to breathe ǥivu      
29 to sniff, smell ḏuŋia      
30 mouth ǥava   36  
31 tooth ǥaḏe   27  
32 tongue lave   21  
33 to laugh noŋo   16  
34 to cry ǥaloho      
35 to vomit lua   8  
36 to spit livoroka (Spittle)    
37 to eat ǥani   1  
38 to chew word info mama   1  
39 to cook word info tunu   9  
39 to cook word info ǥulo'   57  
40 to drink ǥinu   1  
41 to bite warihara   1  
42 to suck ḏuḏu   25  
43 ear taliŋa   1  
44 to hear loŋo   1, 36  
45 eye mata   1  
46 to see ǥada chance similarity with ada in Lau? 45  
47 to yawn maraŋavi      
48 to sleep ŋoro   63  
49 to lie down word info lama      
50 to dream maŋi|nuvia   1  
51 to sit mia   26  
52 to stand madi   1  
53 person/human being kaka      
53 person/human being tinoni tinoni - SE Solomons 10  
54 man/male tamoǥane   22, 1  
55 woman/female tavine   1, 35  
56 child kapiru      
57 husband gena [cp. Tabar] 21  
58 wife gena [cp. Tabar] 14  
59 mother titina-na   1  
60 father tama-na   1  
61 house ruma   1  
62 thatch/roof barema      
63 name ǥiḏa   1, 66  
64 to say tania      
65 rope mota   13  
66 to tie up, fasten vutuǥia      
67 to sew word info turia   13  
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info paŋo   16  
70 to shoot word info rabebenia      
71 to stab, pierce pandea      
72 to hit word info waritutu      
72 to hit word info tutuǥia   8  
73 to steal wanaǥo   1  
74 to kill ǥubi   45  
75 to die, be dead mate   1  
76 to live, be alive maǥuri   1  
77 to scratch word info koria   12  
78 to cut, hack word info dopia      
79 stick/wood ǥada|ǥai   1  
80 to split word info ǥutuwalagia      
81 sharp mataŋa   36  
82 dull, blunt malugu Smooth    
83 to work word info ḏaǥaḏaǥa      
84 to plant vaḏaǥia      
85 to choose maki      
86 to grow word info galuḏu      
87 to swell word info wata      
87 to swell word info bubu   3  
88 to squeeze word info bebeǥia   21?  
89 to hold word info paǥoria   42  
90 to dig ǥovi   1?  
91 to buy kade      
92 to open, uncover      
93 to pound, beat word info hubi      
94 to throw word info voḏo      
95 to fall word info dua      
95 to fall word info poke   19  
96 dog kaua   43  
97 bird manu   1  
98 egg koru   1  
99 feather vovoi-na      
99 feather kora kora      
100 wing banita   2  
101 to fly bebe      
102 rat kuǥuḏe   3  
103 meat/flesh midana      
104 fat/grease puḏupuḏu      
105 tail liko   1?  
106 snake matabunu   12  
107 worm (earthworm) matamata   10  
108 louse word info ǥutu   1  
109 mosquito niki      
110 spider pakuku      
111 fish ǥiǥa [cp. 27] 1  
112 rotten word info mapu   52  
113 branch word info daŋa-na   11  
114 leaf raurau   1  
115 root voraka   2  
116 flower [palaua] L   L
117 fruit ǥara-na =seed    
118 grass raburabu   29  
119 earth/soil garigari      
119 earth/soil vulavulo      
120 stone kendo      
121 sand maga maga   14  
122 water word info naru [<M] 1  
123 to flow maliki   24  
124 sea daḏi   1  
125 salt maḏihu borrowed from Tok Pisin /sol/?   L
126 lake patihutu      
127 woods/forest muŋomuŋo      
128 sky mariaba      
129 moon liŋabo      
130 star vitovito   1  
131 cloud word info mariaba      
132 fog ǥabuǥabu   1  
133 rain ǥuḏa   1  
134 thunder mariaba vurupelele      
135 lightning ǥanimata      
136 wind kavili   11?  
137 to blow word info kavili      
138 warm word info kurupalia      
139 cold word info magaratia      
140 dry word info koŋa      
140 dry word info baba      
141 wet puripuria      
142 heavy bize      
143 fire ǥarogo      
143 fire baritunu      
144 to burn word info kalakala      
145 smoke word info ǥaḏu   2  
146 ash ǥabulo   1  
147 black ǥalo      
148 white kavukavua      
149 red baritunutunua      
149 red ŋereŋereǥa      
150 yellow ǥaŋoǥaŋoa   9  
151 green kobokoboa      
152 small kote      
153 big kapou      
154 short word info boto   9  
155 long word info malaku   12  
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow galakote      
159 wide kapoupone      
160 painful, sick varitihi      
161 shy, ashamed puae      
162 old word info      
163 new vaǥoru   1  
164 good kemi      
165 bad, evil ḏaha   1  
166 correct, true maǥotomatoto      
167 night mariŋo      
168 day dama =Daylight    
169 year krismas borrowing from Tok Pisin   L
170 when? word info ŋiḏa ? 1  
171 to hide word info parizigi      
172 to climb word info ḏaǥe      
173 at na or 13? 20?  
173 at ni   1  
174 in, inside polok-      
175 above ǥudu-      
176 below tauru-      
177 this kua      
178 that kuari kena - [further] 1  
178 that kena kena - [further] 1  
179 near ǥiripi-      
180 far ḏau   1  
181 where? word info nive   10  
182 I ǥau   1  
183 thou ǥo   1  
184 he/she ia   1  
185 we word info ḇolu      
185 we word info ǥita   1  
186 you miu   1  
187 they dia   1, 27  
188 what? word info naḏia ?    
189 who? word info aḏei ? 1  
190 other kakamotu      
191 all laveve      
192 and kamana      
193 if ta   1?  
194 how? word info ḏiǥaʔ      
195 no, not beu      
195 no, not beta      
196 to count ǥaḏenia      
197 One word info kaziu      
198 Two word info rua   1  
199 Three word info tolu   1  
200 Four word info wata   1  
201 Five word info lima   1  
202 Six word info polokatiu      
203 Seven word info polorua   11, 2  
204 Eight word info polotolu   7  
205 Nine word info polovata      
206 Ten word info zaŋavulu   5  
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      

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