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Language: Solos

Source/Author:  Helen N Hosian, Malcolm Ross 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:sol  Glottocode: solo1257 
Notes:  Some pages in Word Lists B, C, and D were missing. Spent time looking for them but not there. Some verbs were embedded in short sentences reflecting the way the question was asked.  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:Meso Melanesian:New Ireland:South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic:Nehan-North Bougainville:Solos 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand (mo) minouh   35  
1 hand mo mina uh arm 35  
2 left mina keruk = left (hand) 17  
3 right mina risiki = right (hand)    
4 leg/foot mo mouh   61  
4 leg/foot mo mow uh   61  
4 leg/foot mo mou te youh   61  
5 to walk tatan non   32  
5 to walk nanon (he) goes 1  
6 road/path barobaron      
7 to come naomeh   1, 85  
8 to turn word info biriton      
9 to swim nanahon   51  
10 dirty kute Added by M Ross    
11 dust kuahu   1  
12 skin mo toauh      
13 back word info mu tegen nuh   12  
14 belly mo tot tuh      
15 bone mu tinouh   9  
16 intestines mo tot tuh      
17 liver      
18 breast mu sus suh   1  
18 breast mo nunuma uh chest 3  
19 shoulder mu rosoat uh   99  
19 shoulder rosono   99  
20 to know, be knowledgeable natenon   98  
21 to think      
22 to fear napean e ratout non nakatua   1  
23 blood mo natiuh      
24 head (mo) bakuh   53  
25 neck (mo) nio te youh   1  
26 hair word info (mu) un nuh (to baku) = his hair on head 31  
27 nose (mo) osuh   1  
28 to breathe nuason Added by M Ross    
29 to sniff, smell puinon Added by M Ross    
30 mouth (mo) buruh      
31 tooth (mu) nihouh   1, 35  
31 tooth mo niho gukut tuh molar tooth 1, 35  
32 tongue (mo) mieuh   7  
33 to laugh gagason Added by M Ross    
34 to cry nganon   5  
35 to vomit e nunuanon   8  
36 to spit mo reret tuh      
37 to eat henon   1  
38 to chew word info e koranon (he) chews (betelnut) 29  
39 to cook word info hahuona 'bake'. Added by M Ross 54  
39 to cook word info hagonono 'boil'. Added by M Ross 53  
40 to drink kaunon   30  
41 to bite hekoton (dog) bites 12  
42 to suck (napean) suson (napean) = baby 25  
43 ear (mo) tengin nuh   1  
44 to hear nongon non   1, 36  
45 eye (mo) touh      
46 to see taranon   15  
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep sohon   13  
49 to lie down word info kanaton Added by M Ross    
50 to dream e sino sohon a dream    
51 to sit gungon is sitting 79  
52 to stand tonon is standing 2, 69  
53 person/human being nakatun   39  
54 man/male natinon   46  
55 woman/female natahon   56  
56 child mu napeani nuh      
57 husband mu natinon nuh   57  
58 wife mu natahon nuh      
59 mother (mu) tinen nuh   1  
60 father (mu) tamen nuh   1  
61 house numa   1  
62 thatch/roof      
63 name mu son nuh      
64 to say ketanon   55  
65 rope stiring string - loan?   L?
66 to tie up, fasten kit noni pusi   20, 32  
66 to tie up, fasten e kit nuh in pusi (he) ties (a knot) 20, 32  
67 to sew word info samapon   46 L
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info hahara mune non      
70 to shoot word info haneinon neireh   1  
71 to stab, pierce hesakon      
72 to hit word info henatungon (he) fights 50  
73 to steal      
74 to kill natungor could be: natungomuh; part of word crossed through    
75 to die, be dead maton   1  
76 to live, be alive toe non Added by M Ross 8  
77 to scratch word info (tua) makananon (tua) = skin    
77 to scratch word info e makana non an itch    
78 to cut, hack word info bopo nei (gu)      
79 stick/wood nen doi   32  
80 to split word info robakat nuh o roi      
81 sharp hen 'eats'. Added by M Ross 14  
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info kuinon   60  
84 to plant      
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info      
87 to swell word info (tua) potekon (tua) = skin 9  
88 to squeeze word info pot non i wen   18  
89 to hold word info namoton   50  
90 to dig ngahon      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover e panat nei bebene      
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info mit nei dako      
95 to fall word info pukuo Added by M Ross 19  
96 dog kus   31  
97 bird namune      
98 egg nat   17  
99 feather keam could be: keani    
100 wing bapahu      
101 to fly noh (bird) flies 1  
102 rat kiso   3, 88  
103 meat/flesh beno   19  
103 meat/flesh beno   19  
104 fat/grease mo bosokuh fat (on a person)    
105 tail his   44  
106 snake      
107 worm (earthworm) tirikopu      
108 louse word info pehut      
109 mosquito kuhenu   64  
110 spider kupat      
111 fish nayean   1  
112 rotten word info roi muna non = (wood is) rotten    
113 branch word info nen doi   1  
114 leaf un (o roi) = leaf (of tree)    
115 root ponog (o roi)      
116 flower plaua     L?
116 flower purpur   13 L?
117 fruit ua Added by M Ross 1  
118 grass hasini   1  
118 grass kunei kunai 43 L
119 earth/soil kopu      
120 stone rako      
120 stone dako      
121 sand kotonan      
122 water word info kua      
123 to flow      
124 sea tasi   1  
125 salt      
126 lake kopu kopu lagoon 27  
127 woods/forest duruh      
128 sky nengit   1  
129 moon natihao   49  
130 star bipit   1, 81  
131 cloud word info wanean      
132 fog makesk      
133 rain na ruat      
134 thunder pina   23  
135 lightning kanah   14  
136 wind seoung (wind) blows    
137 to blow word info seoung saku non = wing (blows)    
138 warm word info e hetunon hot 12  
139 cold word info e koroan non      
140 dry word info parak Added by M Ross 17  
141 wet bupus Added by M Ross 16  
142 heavy      
143 fire tong      
144 to burn word info (tong) ngoton = fire burns    
145 smoke word info ruh   25  
146 ash kumahoan   12  
147 black koung   34  
148 white gekeani      
149 red kunuk      
150 yellow ngoa ngoan pehao   9  
151 green buin Added by M Ross 17  
152 small (gu) i gakei      
153 big (gu) pea      
153 big nakapea      
154 short word info runduŋ Added by M Ross    
155 long word info roron      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow tigakei Added by M Ross    
159 wide kapea Added by M Ross    
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info konohan Added by M Ross x  
163 new (numa) in binit = new (house)    
164 good (numa) in daeh      
165 bad, evil roson Added by M Ross    
166 correct, true e youh raihon correct, right    
167 night bong   1  
168 day nan   6  
169 year yia Tok Pisin loan   L
170 when? word info haŋis Added by M Ross 1, 49  
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at i Added by M Ross 1  
174 in, inside      
175 above i yas Added by M Ross 1  
176 below i kopu Added by M Ross 45  
177 this numai re = this (house here)    
178 that numai i toh that (nearby)    
178 that numai nehin that (far away)    
179 near sikut Added by M Ross    
180 far      
181 where? word info      
182 I ena   1, 22  
183 thou eno you (sing.) s  
184 he/she e he 1  
184 he/she e she 1  
185 we word info emen we two (excl)    
185 we word info emen nenanu we two (incl.)    
185 we word info emen bah we (excl.)    
185 we word info enit we (incl.)    
185 we word info e men nenapis we three (excl.)    
185 we word info e nit nenapis we three (incl.)    
186 you emu nenanu you (pl.) 1  
186 you e mu nenapis you x  
187 they erun nenanu they two x  
187 they erun they (plural)    
187 they e erun nenapis they three x  
188 what? word info nasah   1  
189 who? word info esi   1, 28  
190 other      
191 all erun naobot      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not meiyah      
196 to count kason   10  
197 One word info meg query 'g'. Unclear. 31, 33  
198 Two word info huanu < *pua- 'round obj' + *rua '2' 1  
199 Three word info huapis   4  
200 Four word info nina      
201 Five word info taning   1  
202 Six word info neiyonong   1  
203 Seven word info hit Added by M Ross 1  
204 Eight word info toan Added by M Ross 3, 14  
205 Nine word info nei sie   5  
206 Ten word info manot   18  
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info natus irregular *R > n 4  
210 One Thousand word info o nean mes or paraonh as written. 'or' could be English    

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