Lexicon and word definitions
| Lemma | Gloss |
|---|---|
| *abe• | see |
| *afe• | tree |
| *afuwu• | bark |
| *aga• | goods |
| *agi• | rain |
| *ago• | ice |
| *aji• | short |
| *ak• | negative particle |
| *ake• | two |
| *akia• | name |
| *akifi• | fire |
| *aku• | swim |
| *akwo• | sharp |
| *alid• | friend |
| *ama• | leaf |
| *amasakaojii• | penis |
| *anyaaki• | laugh |
| *anyako• | breath |
| *anyuke• | snake |
| *apa• | back |
| *arabi• | ground, earth |
| *are• | ten |
| *asi• | green |
| *aso• | moon |
| *awi• | child |
| *ayat• | me, i |
| *ayu• | feather |
| *baba• | feel smooth; be smooth |
| *badar• | leader, chief |
| *baka• | tie |
| *balu• | animal |
| *banwu• | belly |
| *bawa• | narrow |
| *beke• | sky |
| *beko• | man |
| *bekoala• | husband |
| *bekwu• | dig |
| *beleki• | to be wet |
| *bemii• | remain; to be left over |
| *bibiti• | liver |
| *bida• | drink, take in, sip |
| *bih• | dirty |
| *biihani• | yes |
| *biku• | vomit |
| *bini• | sand |
| *biwikigawa• | thumb |
| *bizo• | six |
| *bo• | with |
| *bobo• | small |
| *bozo• | seven |
| *bu• | suck |
| *bugifo• | five |
| *bukusiigu• | eighty |
| *cama• | know |
| *ci• | be; specifically for inanimate objects |
| *cifo• | if |
| *co• | earth |
| *dahua• | fire, volcano |
| *dawa• | where |
| *delado• | flow |
| *di• | stone |
| *digusulusahi• | twelve |
| *digusulutu• | fourteen |
| *digusumuku• | eleven |
| *digusutisuti• | fifteen |
| *digusuwura• | thirteen |
| *diji• | salt |
| *du• | at |
| *dulika• | mouse |
| *dusu• | red |
| *ebiazu• | worm |
| *efaako• | fear |
| *efi• | skin |
| *eki• | thing |
| *eku• | cloth |
| *elo• | star |
| *eziko• | non-human body |
| *fa• | grow |
| *faadaufaada• | to cry |
| *faakoefaako• | to fear |
| *faanyaaki• | to be funny |
| *fanwagho• | get dark; grow dark; have no lit vision due to absence of light, especially an environment |
| *fasufu• | to grow old |
| *feofe• | to be good in personality |
| *fi• | walk |
| *finwe• | pepper, spice, flavour |
| *fisi• | run |
| *fo• | take or follow a path or pattern or manner; from; through |
| *fofe• | from; through, based on; judging from |
| *fozo• | near |
| *funyi• | fish |
| *gadak• | bed |
| *gasi• | fall |
| *gawah• | stick |
| *gawahat• | sticks |
| *ge• | hand |
| *gho• | night |
| *ghutu• | head |
| *ghuzu• | build |
| *gi• | not |
| *gimig• | enemy |
| *giri• | rub |
| *gu• | or |
| *gubano• | water |
| *gwibago• | join in marriage; marry |
| *gwukwa• | return; back to former |
| *ha• | very; exaggerating the adjective |
| *haji• | push |
| *haki• | pull |
| *has• | brain |
| *have• | lie |
| *hegala• | love |
| *hilike• | wind |
| *hinaghi• | day |
| *hino• | to be younger than |
| *hnyo• | market |
| *hu• | she |
| *hul• | see, watch |
| *idi• | grass |
| *igu• | x10 |
| *ija• | arm |
| *iji• | leg |
| *ika• | hot |
| *ikuebu• | a false information; lie |
| *in• | you (singular) |
| *itabue• | vagina |
| *ite• | why |
| *iti• | nine |
| *jah• | bite |
| *jaja• | hunt |
| *je• | yellow |
| *jiki• | right |
| *jikiigu• | sixty |
| *jiku• | how |
| *jirak• | spear |
| *jowu• | bird |
| *jubu• | flower |
| *kabi• | straight |
| *kadubamaki• | kidney |
| *kagasahi• | danger; dangerous |
| *kaha• | father |
| *kahab• | but |
| *kahakat• | lungs |
| *kaibata• | throw |
| *karar• | obsidian |
| *kasamaraburu• | hate |
| *kasuk• | olive |
| *kasun• | year |
| *katahu• | warm |
| *katam• | freeze |
| *katid• | person |
| *katidakat• | human |
| *katil• | funny |
| *kawa• | we |
| *keko• | correct |
| *ki• | hour |
| *kigiokigi• | to be red in clour |
| *kigu• | cook |
| *kik• | grain |
| *kiki• | because |
| *kirakamabut• | buttocks |
| *kirakasakisahamuh• | yesterday |
| *kirakawaga• | spine |
| *kisakisahamuh• | today |
| *kitarawanu• | dickhead |
| *ku• | be (who, what, whose something or someone is); is; am; are |
| *kub• | rope |
| *kubadahi• | pee (urine) |
| *kubo• | wipe |
| *kuebuikuebu• | to tell a lie |
| *kuki• | left |
| *kukihianu• | throat |
| *kuoha• | to live |
| *kupayeukupaye• | to be narrow |
| *kwano• | heavy |
| *kwazila• | to be dirty |
| *kwe• | hold |
| *kwoakwo• | to be sharp |
| *labi• | blow |
| *lah• | eat |
| *lakat• | bug/insect |
| *le• | kneel; kneel down |
| *leele• | to be swollen |
| *lika• | they |
| *lilitikama• | pussy |
| *luli• | white |
| *lusahiigu• | twenty |
| *lutigu• | forty |
| *m• | i |
| *mabul• | kill |
| *mabut• | sacred |
| *maha• | mother |
| *mahij• | farm |
| *majir• | face |
| *makiy• | poo, (faeces) |
| *mawurulilawi• | like |
| *mee• | four |
| *megaisiamegaisi• | to feel warm |
| *mife• | cold |
| *mifeha• | to freeze |
| *mita• | path |
| *miwikisa• | live |
| *mo• | me (only before a consonant) |
| *mu• | lake |
| *muha• | ear |
| *muki• | who |
| *mukukuma• | uniform |
| *muni• | many |
| *muo• | wait around something or someone in order to protect; guard |
| *musa• | water, river |
| *muuh• | cow |
| *naja• | dry |
| *najug• | attack |
| *najugiisi• | invade |
| *najuhu• | seed |
| *nakaw• | wet |
| *naluk• | land, territory |
| *naya• | mud |
| *ne• | in |
| *nigu• | black |
| *nka• | people |
| *nko• | think |
| *nkona• | river |
| *nomi• | sleep |
| *note• | full |
| *nunikatid• | language |
| *nusowo• | after |
| *nwagho• | darkness |
| *nwahio• | to be black (non-human) |
| *nwe• | hit |
| *nweci• | thin |
| *nyaakianyaaki• | to laugh |
| *nyaya• | dust |
| *nyazi• | rotten |
| *nyino• | to be older than |
| *nyo• | stand |
| *obo• | what |
| *ofa• | blood |
| *ofe• | good |
| *ofi• | mountain |
| *ofipi• | foot |
| *ofo• | root |
| *oga• | eight |
| *oha• | life |
| *oki• | new |
| *omoajoka• | planet |
| *onwoo• | body |
| *ope• | blue |
| *oyabo• | scratch |
| *ozunu• | nausea; cause a feeling to vomit |
| *oŋokwo• | fight |
| *paho• | few |
| *pai• | die |
| *paluo• | eye |
| *pamopefi• | horn |
| *papako• | spit |
| *peko• | big |
| *peope• | to be blue in colour |
| *peyiin• | dead |
| *po• | cloud |
| *poba• | all |
| *pono• | heart |
| *ponyo• | nose |
| *poŋo• | neck |
| *ribauriba• | to be round in shape |
| *rigise• | before |
| *rivo• | dog |
| *ro• | this |
| *ru• | tooth |
| *ruda• | ash |
| *ruli• | stomach |
| *rumrum• | louse |
| *saa• | after(wards); therefore or then (resulting from something else) |
| *sabi• | crash; collide |
| *sadikigu• | nineteen |
| *sagifi• | other |
| *sahakagawahat• | toes |
| *sahaluligu• | seventy |
| *sahikigawahat• | fingers |
| *salumi• | float |
| *sarah• | camp, settlement |
| *sawik• | road |
| *seki• | be able; be capable (have strength) may; might; be likely to happen |
| *semo• | swap |
| *semoaga• | trade |
| *si• | fast |
| *sia• | mouth |
| *siasi• | to be green |
| *so• | it |
| *soki• | smoke |
| *sufu• | old |
| *susahakan• | hidden, unknown |
| *tahabakaban• | work |
| *taki• | three |
| *tih• | dull |
| *tisutiigu• | fifty |
| *tu• | come |
| *tuk• | only |
| *ufaada• | cry |
| *uke• | breast |
| *uriba• | round |
| *uvokwu• | war |
| *uye• | forest |
| *uyo• | long |
| *uziiba• | to taste flavour |
| *vevu• | woman |
| *vevuala• | wife |
| *vo• | do; make happen |
| *vuewa• | tail |
| *waga• | bone |
| *wagamabut• | pelvis |
| *waganakisitamabut• | boner (erect penis) |
| *waka• | nail |
| *wi• | give |
| *wo• | auxiliary part of a future verb; will(future) |
| *wora• | of; which; one (pronoun) |
| *woraake• | second |
| *woraare• | tenth |
| *worabizo• | sixth |
| *worabozo• | seventh |
| *worabugifo• | fifth |
| *woraiti• | ninth |
| *woramee• | fourth |
| *worataki• | third |
| *worayagu• | first |
| *wosi• | here |
| *wosoku• | hear |
| *wu• | to fly; to levitate |
| *wunu• | knee |
| *wuonwoo• | shower; bath; to wash your body |
| *wurigu• | thirty |
| *yabo• | to scratch |
| *yagu• | one |
| *yaj• | chest |
| *yayo• | to be wide |
| *yi• | egg |
| *yiri• | squeeze |
| *yiyi• | breathe |
| *yowu• | fly |
| *yuce• | far |
| *yufovunu• | drink |
| *za• | usually attached to a verb or negator '-gị' to mean 'no longer' 'no more' 'any more' or 'not' to emphasize the first negator |
| *zamo• | play |
| *ze• | bad |
| *zeku• | say |
| *zeo• | sing |
| *ziwe• | turn |
| *zo• | and |
| *zofa• | burn |
| *zopa• | split |
| *zunu• | to vomit |
| *ŋeki• | minute |
| *ŋi• | hear; taste; feel (skin); smell; sense something with four of the five sense organs |
| *ŋo• | for |
| *ŋokwooŋokwo• | to fight |
| *ŋokwouvokwu• | to fight a war |
| *ŋosose• | hair |
| *ŋudi• | thick |
| *ŋusi• | cut |