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Language: Piva

Source/Author:  PC Lincoln 
Notes:  v [bilabial]
[r] [l] = /r/
[glottal stop] /'/
morphological analysis incomplete
 
Problems:  e, a, vi [added to many words?]
/gh/ [Ɣ], /ng/ [ŋ], /g/ [g]; voiced velar fricative, nasal, and stop all phonemic and sometimes confused
 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Piet Lincoln  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic:Piva-Banoni 
Map  Sorry, no map co-ordinates found for this language. 

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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
38 to chew word info      
47 to yawn      
62 thatch/roof      
68 needle      
86 to grow word info      
113 branch word info      
161 shy, ashamed      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
208 Fifty word info      
60 father a tamana   1  
59 mother a tsinana   1  
185 we word info aghaita   1  
186 you agham   13  
183 thou agoi   1  
110 spider akadovi [article] ?    
102 rat akisova a [article] 3  
125 salt akuto      
187 they alia   1  
129 moon amadawa      
185 we word info amam   2  
156 thin word info ameame      
182 I ana      
58 wife ana maunu      
57 husband ana tsioni      
184 he/she ane      
191 all ane kota      
189 who? word info asee a [article] 1  
74 to kill atuna      
82 dull, blunt beboko      
151 green bebune      
204 Eight word info benatapisa      
203 Seven word info benatonua ...*rua    
167 night boŋi   1  
116 flower buaɁana [glottal stop] 1  
101 to fly bururu ?*Ropok [metath?]    
73 to steal butia      
143 fire dzai   1  
100 wing ebaina      
202 Six word info ebena bena 'cross over'    
111 fish ebosi e [article]    
91 to buy ebunava      
175 above eghaleghe e [article] 28?  
178 that eia      
188 what? word info eka'e [glottal stop]    
174 in, inside ekugona      
98 egg epanusu      
176 below epeta e [article]    
134 thunder epina e [article], ?*p(w)ilak 'lightning'    
99 feather epuata      
4 leg/foot eva-gu   1  
114 leaf evagini e [article]    
200 Four word info evati   1  
117 fruit evatsuna e [article]    
163 new evaunu   1  
4 leg/foot evi-gu   1  
145 smoke word info eviaso   2  
17 liver eviate e- [article]vi- [prefixal?] 1  
18 breast evisu e- [article]vi- [prefixal?] 1  
27 nose evisu-gu   1  
121 sand evuini e [article]    
26 hair word info evunu-gu      
29 to sniff, smell ghabo      
133 rain gharaghu      
150 yellow ghari      
146 ash ghavutana   1  
155 long word info gheghaleghe      
92 to open, uncover gholasia      
12 skin ghuni-gu   1  
108 louse word info ghutsu      
51 to sit gona      
195 no, not ka'ana [glottal stop]    
67 to sew word info kabea      
197 One word info kadaken      
148 white kakata      
41 to bite kanata   1  
135 lightning kanava      
49 to lie down word info kapurona      
46 to see katoa      
81 sharp kekanata      
39 to cook word info kekaru      
9 to swim kepene sisiu 'wash, bathe'    
180 far kesiagana      
179 near kesuruuna      
16 intestines kikirono      
20 to know, be knowledgeable kinai      
36 to spit kinogo      
65 rope kirono      
106 snake kolu      
107 worm (earthworm) koluavono      
118 grass komaru      
192 and kona      
140 dry word info koraga      
168 day korisai      
122 water word info koromo      
162 old word info kotavana      
40 to drink ku      
154 short word info kukubunu      
105 tail kulena      
70 to shoot word info kúm      
71 to stab, pierce kúm      
6 road/path laimi      
153 big loata   10  
164 good lovi      
166 correct, true magoto      
190 other mamisa      
206 Ten word info manogha      
207 Twenty word info manogha tonua      
97 bird manughu   1  
23 blood marana      
127 woods/forest marupa      
45 eye mata   1  
3 right matau-gu   5  
75 to die, be dead mate      
55 woman/female maunu   11?  
32 tongue mea   7  
149 red memerana   1  
104 fat/grease milingi      
22 to fear minago      
89 to hold word info mosoa      
169 year namare loan from Nagovisi (not AN)   L
177 this nanai      
128 sky nanitsi   1  
170 when? word info nasina      
209 One Hundred word info nasusu kadaken hundred one, *Ratus ?    
210 One Thousand word info nasusu maogha hundred ten, *Ratus ?    
53 person/human being natavana      
84 to plant nebea      
25 neck ngio-m -m 'thy'    
201 Five word info niima   1  
132 fog nikuta      
147 black ninupi      
31 tooth noki      
44 to hear nongono   1  
132 fog nukuta      
1 hand numa-gu -gu 'my' 1  
7 to come numai   1  
61 house nuuma   1  
94 to throw word info nuvuna      
139 cold word info omenaga      
120 stone palatsi      
142 heavy papatanga   1?  
196 to count pasia      
152 small pasuru      
56 child penana      
157 thick word info pepautsu      
78 to cut, hack word info pepeghi cut with knife    
130 star pipito   1  
88 to squeeze word info pisu      
85 to choose poai to tsuangiana      
95 to fall word info podongo      
80 to split word info potakia      
165 bad, evil sabau      
76 to live, be alive sabiri      
141 wet sagumana      
205 Nine word info sia *wisa [metath.] 5  
103 meat/flesh sighona      
15 bone sipanna      
14 belly sopagu      
126 lake tabanana      
8 to turn word info taberu      
5 to walk taghana      
13 back word info taghunu-gu      
43 ear tagina-gu taŋina [expected]    
124 sea tagisi *tasik [metath?] 1  
37 to eat tam eat starch / staples'    
34 to cry tanisi   1  
159 wide tarabana      
50 to dream tatara      
48 to sleep tee      
2 left tololo-gu      
198 Two word info tonua   1  
24 head tope-gu      
199 Three word info topisa pisa [loan]   L
66 to tie up, fasten tsiboria kirono      
136 wind tsighuvu      
54 man/male tsioni      
137 to blow word info tsopughu wind    
93 to pound, beat word info tsua   2  
52 to stand tsughonu   2  
90 to dig tsugia      
144 to burn word info tsumoko [intrans]    
87 to swell word info tubu   1  
194 how? word info vekoghaveiagoi e?      
181 where? word info viaie   3?  
115 root viaputu      
30 mouth viasene      
112 rotten word info viatanga vi- [prefixal?]    
96 dog vidaga vi- [prefixal?]    
64 to say vidagha      
131 cloud word info vikabu vi- [prefixal?], *kaput    
160 painful, sick vikamaliki      
21 to think vikinai      
10 dirty vikoipi vi- [prefixal?]    
33 to laugh vimai      
77 to scratch word info vimatakono      
35 to vomit vimuta   1  
109 mosquito vinogho      
19 shoulder vionoko      
119 earth/soil vipeta vi- [prefixal?]    
11 dust vipoga vi- [prefixal?] 1  
72 to hit word info vitoa      
79 stick/wood vitono      
83 to work word info viwoka < TP wok < E work    
158 narrow waikirumu      
138 warm word info waisiki      
69 to hunt word info wakavinu for pig    
42 to suck wakoi      
123 to flow wapikupiku      
63 name wasanga      
193 if wasi nana kenau      
28 to breathe wughasa      

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