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Language: Riwo

Source/Author:  Malcolm Ross 
Identifiers:  ISO-639-3:gdd  Glottocode: geda1237 
Notes:  Where the letter 'z' appears, the handwritten form looked a bit like a 2 with a hyphen across the middle, but think these were z.

<z> represents a voiceless lateral. 
Data Entry:  Typed By: Janet Moody  Checked By:  
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Classification:  Austronesian:Malayo-Polynesian:Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian:Oceanic:Western Oceanic:North New Guinea:Ngero-Vitiaz:Vitiaz:Bel 
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ID: Word: Item: Annotation: Cognacy: Loan:
1 hand ni man   1, 66  
2 left ŋas   19  
3 right von   1  
4 leg/foot nien   63  
4 leg/foot nien   63  
5 to walk -tor   37  
5 to walk -la (he) goes 1, 69  
6 road/path dal   1  
7 to come -so   21  
8 to turn word info -daŋsa   77  
9 to swim -log   28  
10 dirty      
11 dust      
12 skin tinin   31  
13 back word info      
14 belly      
15 bone dog   23  
16 intestines teŋaen   1  
17 liver aten   1  
18 breast sus   1  
19 shoulder      
20 to know, be knowledgeable      
21 to think      
22 to fear -zez   29  
23 blood daz   1  
24 head patu/n   9  
25 neck buzu/n   68  
26 hair word info      
27 nose      
28 to breathe      
29 to sniff, smell      
30 mouth auan could be: anan 36  
31 tooth livo/n   1, 35  
31 tooth gamaun molar tooth 29  
32 tongue balen   33  
33 to laugh      
34 to cry -ta   1  
35 to vomit -lu   8  
36 to spit      
37 to eat -ani   1  
38 to chew word info      
39 to cook word info -mozi bakes (in earth oven) 77  
39 to cook word info -nai bakes (over fire) 3  
40 to drink      
41 to bite      
42 to suck -musi   6  
43 ear tiliŋa/n   1  
44 to hear -loŋ   1, 36  
45 eye matan   1  
46 to see -lale   14  
47 to yawn      
48 to sleep -en   8  
49 to lie down word info      
50 to dream      
51 to sit -mado is sitting 18  
52 to stand      
53 person/human being      
54 man/male tamot   12, 14  
55 woman/female pain   1, 106  
56 child natu/n   5  
57 husband      
58 wife      
59 mother tinan nen   1  
60 father tamari   1  
61 house ab   23  
62 thatch/roof      
63 name jaŋan   66  
64 to say -bol   50  
65 rope mol string 29  
66 to tie up, fasten      
67 to sew word info      
68 needle      
69 to hunt word info      
70 to shoot word info -pane   1  
71 to stab, pierce      
72 to hit word info      
73 to steal      
74 to kill funi   1  
75 to die, be dead -mat   1  
76 to live, be alive      
77 to scratch word info      
78 to cut, hack word info -tale   1  
79 stick/wood      
80 to split word info      
81 sharp      
82 dull, blunt      
83 to work word info uzat   41  
84 to plant -pai   64  
85 to choose      
86 to grow word info -sa (plant) grows < *sake 'go up' 28  
87 to swell word info      
88 to squeeze word info abi -pipi abi is written above -pipi 21  
89 to hold word info      
90 to dig      
91 to buy      
92 to open, uncover -pasi   31  
93 to pound, beat word info      
94 to throw word info      
95 to fall word info      
96 dog gaun   43  
97 bird ma   1  
98 egg      
99 feather kaluŋ   9  
99 feather sazo/n   37  
99 feather fufulu/n   1  
100 wing banin   2  
101 to fly zou (bird) flies 1  
102 rat      
103 meat/flesh mudan   23  
104 fat/grease      
105 tail nyun could be: uyun 1  
106 snake mot   12  
107 worm (earthworm)      
108 louse word info utu   1  
109 mosquito na   1, 66  
110 spider      
111 fish i   1  
112 rotten word info      
113 branch word info zai/n   1  
114 leaf      
115 root dabi/n   14  
116 flower moz   31  
117 fruit      
118 grass ze   14  
119 earth/soil tan   1  
120 stone pat   1  
121 sand lul   47  
122 water word info naz   1, 43  
123 to flow      
124 sea mas   8  
125 salt mas   3, 45  
126 lake      
127 woods/forest      
128 sky did   53  
129 moon fule   1  
130 star patui   1, 37  
131 cloud word info timtaen   36, 41  
132 fog      
133 rain ui   1  
134 thunder vail   44  
135 lightning lelei   41  
136 wind tim (wind) blows 43  
137 to blow word info -fui   17  
138 warm word info      
139 cold word info      
140 dry word info -gos   70  
141 wet      
142 heavy      
143 fire ya   1  
144 to burn word info i/nini   27  
145 smoke word info kas   2  
146 ash      
147 black mumum   93  
148 white kebakab   70  
149 red dazan   25  
150 yellow jaŋjaŋ   9  
151 green      
152 small      
153 big ujan      
154 short word info tukuzan   66  
155 long word info      
156 thin word info      
157 thick word info      
158 narrow      
159 wide      
160 painful, sick      
161 shy, ashamed      
162 old word info      
163 new faun   1, 26  
164 good gua written above gua is uyan 1  
165 bad, evil      
166 correct, true      
167 night tidom   11  
168 day rude      
169 year      
170 when? word info      
171 to hide word info      
172 to climb word info      
173 at      
174 in, inside      
175 above      
176 below      
177 this enim      
178 that      
179 near      
180 far      
181 where? word info      
182 I ŋa   12  
183 thou you (sing.) 1, 66  
184 he/she i he 1  
184 he/she i she 1  
185 we word info ŋam we two (excl) 12  
185 we word info id we two (incl.) 1  
186 you you (pl.) 1, 55  
187 they i they two x  
188 what? word info      
189 who? word info maitai could be: mai tai 21  
190 other      
191 all dedaŋan      
192 and      
193 if      
194 how? word info      
195 no, not tea could be: l-ea 10  
196 to count -suti   51  
197 One word info      
198 Two word info zupa   1  
199 Three word info tol   1  
200 Four word info pal   1, 65  
201 Five word info      
202 Six word info      
203 Seven word info      
204 Eight word info      
205 Nine word info      
206 Ten word info      
207 Twenty word info      
208 Fifty word info      
209 One Hundred word info      
210 One Thousand word info      

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