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Language: Amahai

Source/Author:  Margaret Florey 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:amq  Glottocode: amah1245 
Notes:  Recorded in Rutah village with Bpk Haji Nasrum Latarissa and Bpk Abubakar Latarissa. Note that people in the 5 villages in which this language is spoken do not recognise "Amahai" as the language name. There is no unified name for the language. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Margaret Florey  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern:Central Malayo-Polynesian:Central Maluku:East:Seram:Nunusaku:Piru Bay:East:Seram Straits:Uliase:Hatuhaha:Elpaputi 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand rima   1, 64  
2 left au papao   30  
3 right au minalo   1, 29  
4 leg/foot ai   1  
5 to walk oi   26  
6 road/path lalairalo   1?  
7 to come hoka      
8 to turn word info para      
9 to swim annanu   1, 45  
10 dirty tatai   38  
11 dust hau ma'ano      
12 skin huiro   1?  
13 back word info ria'e      
14 belly ehu      
15 bone riri   2  
16 intestines hu'uwa   8  
17 liver hu'uwa   14  
18 breast susuro   1  
19 shoulder kari      
20 to know, be knowledgeable kikia   39  
21 to think pikir Malay loan 22 L
22 to fear m'au      
23 blood lalalo   1  
24 head uru   1  
25 neck o'olo   8?  
26 hair word info uhuwo   1  
27 nose iri   1  
28 to breathe napas Malay loan 29 L
29 to sniff, smell suma   15  
30 mouth nusu   2  
31 tooth niha'u   1  
32 tongue mei   7  
33 to laugh moo      
34 to cry ele      
35 to vomit momo'a   1?  
36 to spit tuhura   9  
37 to eat yane      
38 to chew word info mama   1  
39 to cook word info pamaka      
40 to drink yunu   1  
41 to bite yoko      
42 to suck mono'e      
43 ear irina      
44 to hear poono   1, 30  
45 eye ma'a   1  
46 to see keru      
47 to yawn amamoa   19  
48 to sleep m'uru   1  
49 to lie down word info huruhuru'e   2  
50 to dream munie   1, 60, 3  
51 to sit suwo      
52 to stand olo   1, 32  
53 person/human being mansia < SKT (SA)   L
54 man/male manawalo   1  
55 woman/female pipinalo   1, 106  
56 child ana   1  
57 husband manawalo   47  
58 wife ahinalo   5  
59 mother ina   1  
60 father ama   1  
61 house rumalo   1  
62 thatch/roof a'oolo      
63 name nala   1  
64 to say repa'e   152  
65 rope alo'olo      
66 to tie up, fasten ho'olo   118  
67 to sew word info kai   8  
68 needle ruitaalo      
69 to hunt word info kasare   4  
70 to shoot word info pana   1  
71 to stab, pierce siha   5  
72 to hit word info hi'a   39  
73 to steal nanawa   1, 59, 60?  
74 to kill pama'a   2  
75 to die, be dead ma'a      
76 to live, be alive mahai   3  
77 to scratch word info yala   46  
78 to cut, hack word info ko'o      
79 stick/wood ai ha'ano   1  
80 to split word info ha'a   37  
81 sharp meu   7  
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info poko tanei LIT: to work at something    
84 to plant kahu'e   36  
85 to choose akayeri   21  
86 to grow word info suhu   3?  
87 to swell word info poporu   59  
88 to squeeze word info mola'e      
89 to hold word info kaka'e      
90 to dig ari   1  
91 to buy kahe   24  
92 to open, uncover heka   29  
93 to pound, beat word info su'uro      
94 to throw word info lape'e      
95 to fall word info mnahu   1, 106  
96 dog asuro   1  
97 bird manuwolo   1  
98 egg e'ero   1?  
99 feather huruno   1  
100 wing ihiroono   36  
101 to fly sihu   6  
102 rat mdahalo also means "gecko" 1, 82  
103 meat/flesh isiino   31  
104 fat/grease minairo   1  
105 tail aru'iro   6  
106 snake inyalo      
107 worm (earthworm) hiau      
108 louse word info u'uwo   1?  
109 mosquito ummolo   8  
110 spider ala'alaalo   1?  
111 fish iano   1  
112 rotten word info peperi   44  
113 branch word info ai kanano      
114 leaf launo   1  
115 root lamu'iro   3?  
116 flower puteiro      
117 fruit huuwano      
118 grass irihu'uno      
119 earth/soil umeelo      
120 stone ha'uro      
121 sand ume siino      
122 water word info aelo      
123 to flow hoono      
124 sea awaero      
125 salt asiolo      
126 lake ihu   5  
127 woods/forest esiolo      
128 sky laɲolo      
129 moon huraano      
130 star umaaro   7  
131 cloud word info      
132 fog weweu'o      
133 rain sialo      
134 thunder u'urolo      
135 lightning ita'itaaro   32  
136 wind anino   1  
137 to blow word info huro   39  
138 warm word info pu'u'olo      
139 cold word info pursi'e      
140 dry word info mamala   1  
141 wet popo'a   33  
142 heavy pira      
143 fire hauro      
144 to burn word info sunuro      
145 smoke word info hau po'iro      
146 ash hau ma'ano      
147 black me'eno      
148 white pu'iro      
149 red kakauro      
150 yellow poposurolo      
151 green lalaalo   6?  
152 small anna'i   8  
153 big ira   8?  
154 short word info kokoru   38  
155 long word info aka   48  
156 thin word info mdala      
157 thick word info hu'oro      
158 narrow ke'e      
159 wide ira      
160 painful, sick masele   43  
161 shy, ashamed m'ira      
162 old word info m'uma      
163 new horu'iro distinction between these is not clear 1  
163 new hooro distinction between these is not clear 1  
164 good malopi      
165 bad, evil ahia   40  
166 correct, true panuhu      
167 night omole'e      
168 day po'u'olo      
169 year naalo   3  
170 when? word info pou ayira      
171 to hide word info huɲelo      
172 to climb word info ka'a   2  
173 at se      
174 in, inside laloono      
175 above hahaano   24  
176 below olohu      
177 this ne   1  
178 that me      
179 near masu   6  
180 far lau   1  
181 where? word info se oi      
182 I au   1  
183 thou ale   4  
184 he/she iri   3  
185 we word info eko      
185 we word info ama   2  
186 you imi   1, 13  
187 they siri   1  
188 what? word info kaalo      
189 who? word info kei      
190 other ameeno      
191 all pese'esi   34  
192 and rua'e difference between these is not clear    
192 and le difference between these is not clear    
193 if kalo   14  
194 how? word info komo      
195 no, not aya      
196 to count nehe'e   37  
197 One word info sane   1, 65  
198 Two word info rua   1  
199 Three word info oru   1  
200 Four word info ha'a   1  
201 Five word info rima   1  
202 Six word info no'o   1  
203 Seven word info hitu   1  
204 Eight word info waru   3  
205 Nine word info siwa   5  
206 Ten word info hutae   17  
207 Twenty word info hu'u rua   8, 3  
208 Fifty word info hu'u rima   1  
209 One Hundred word info utuno   5  
210 One Thousand word info rihuno   5?  

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