interjection of surprise or terror

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grind (rice)

Onvlee 1984

sneeze

Onvlee 1984

sneeze

Onvlee 1984

dog

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witch ( = heavenly dog)

Onvlee 1984

exclamation

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wood

Onvlee 1984

stutter (onom.)

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stutter (onom.)

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a stutterer

Onvlee 1984

a stutterer

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dig, dig up

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dark woods

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(rice) pestle

Onvlee 1984

iron pestle (for crushing areca nut)

Onvlee 1984

father, FB

Onvlee 1984

metal; gold or silver ornament; money

Onvlee 1984

check, stop, hold back (as a horse); to hinder

Onvlee 1984

check, stop, hold back (as a horse); obstruct the way

Onvlee 1984

root; cause

Onvlee 1984

child; young; small

Onvlee 1984

youngest child

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B (w.s.)

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twin

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false twins (of opposite sex)

Onvlee 1984

small packet of steamed rice

Onvlee 1984

suckling, infant (lit. 'red child')

Onvlee 1984

someone else's child

Onvlee 1984

calf of the leg

Onvlee 1984

older child, older brother or sister

Onvlee 1984

eldest child

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Z (m.s.)

Onvlee 1984

first sounds of a small child learning to talk

Onvlee 1984

howl, bark

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grandmother (FM, MM)

Onvlee 1984

float, bob on the surface

Onvlee 1984

hard liquor

Onvlee 1984

exclamation of pain, disappointment, astonishment

Onvlee 1984

charcoal

Onvlee 1984

long, tall; high

Onvlee 1984

servant, slave

Onvlee 1984

hearth; ash; ash-colored, gray

Onvlee 1984

kind of think bamboo: Dendrocalamus strichus

Onvlee 1984

kind of fish: the milkfish, Chanos chanos

Onvlee 1984

atmosphere, firmament, sky

Onvlee 1984

exclamation of astonishment

Onvlee 1984

elder sibling

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iron

Onvlee 1984

bent, curved

Onvlee 1984

retribution, retaliation; compensation; result

Onvlee 1984

retaliation, compensation

Onvlee 1984

goods, property

Onvlee 1984

goods that make up the brideprice

Onvlee 1984

weapon, rifle

Onvlee 1984

with bowed head; ashamed

Onvlee 1984

with bowed head; ashamed

Onvlee 1984

sound of tearing

Onvlee 1984

to wink

Onvlee 1984

split in two

Onvlee 1984

curve, bend, twist (as in a road)

Onvlee 1984

bend, coil

Onvlee 1984

full of twists and turns

Onvlee 1984

kind of fruit tree the sap of which is used as an adhesive: Aegle marmelos

Onvlee 1984

value, worth (as of a horse for sale)

Onvlee 1984

room; family, household

Onvlee 1984

to turn (as a horse to the left or right), bend around (as a branch to break it off)

Onvlee 1984

bend, twist, distort

Onvlee 1984

spring up, as one end of a plank when the other end is stepped on

Onvlee 1984

pull on, pull out, extract

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bent, curved

Onvlee 1984

(lit. 'big liver') pleased, satisfied; proud, arrogant, haughty

Onvlee 1984

open (as the mouth)

Onvlee 1984

break off, interrupt, cut off

Onvlee 1984

rice porridge; cook porridge

Onvlee 1984

to ferment, pickle

Onvlee 1984

open, opened; visible

Onvlee 1984

eyelash; eyebrow

Onvlee 1984

well up (as water from a spring), arise, appear

Onvlee 1984

the water wells up from a spring

Onvlee 1984

elevated ground, hill

Onvlee 1984

design, decoration on a skirt or betel bag; kind of courtyard tree: Plumeria acuminata

Onvlee 1984

to open

Onvlee 1984

reveal the contents of a confidential conversation

Onvlee 1984

Buginese

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bent with age

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bent with age

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short and thick in build; a wad or plug

Onvlee 1984

sit wrapped in a cloth

Onvlee 1984

two, as in counting children

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one

Onvlee 1984

wall, walling; screening off

Onvlee 1984

interest on a loan

Onvlee 1984

fire

Onvlee 1984

younger sibling of the same sex

Onvlee 1984

liver, inner self, seat of the emotions, heart

Onvlee 1984

have concern for, intend to

Onvlee 1984

prefix for measure words and numerals, used to express unity

Onvlee 1984

immerse, plunge in; sound of plopping when something falls into the water

Onvlee 1984

incorrect, mistaken; fault, mistake

Onvlee 1984

leaning to one side (of a boat, pregnant woman, etc.)

Onvlee 1984

tobacco

Onvlee 1984

support, point of support, fulcrum

Onvlee 1984

hundred

Onvlee 1984

tongs

Onvlee 1984

individual movement of swallowing

Onvlee 1984

a pinch, as of tobacco #pa-witilu 'pinch one another'

Onvlee 1984

(lit. 'sick/painful liver') heartsick, offended, hurt; disgruntled

Onvlee 1984

to glow, gleam, flame

Onvlee 1984

to glow, shine, flame

Onvlee 1984

prop, support

Onvlee 1984

pinch between two fingers (as in pinching someone’s cheek

Onvlee 1984

to cleanse, separate by winnowing

Onvlee 1984

elbow; bend, curve

Onvlee 1984

to bake, roast (as maize or coffee beans)

Onvlee 1984

breast; suck at the breast

Onvlee 1984

stalactites

Onvlee 1984

torch

Onvlee 1984

end, finish

Onvlee 1984

spoon, ladle; scoop out or up with a ladle

Onvlee 1984

coconut shell ladle

Onvlee 1984

shriek of pain

Onvlee 1984

personal article, used with proper names or words that function as proper names

Onvlee 1984

salted fish

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alone, separate

Onvlee 1984

contents

Onvlee 1984

what is found in the belly: intestines, food

Onvlee 1984

bathe

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disappeared, gone, destroyed (as belongings when one's house has burned down)

Onvlee 1984

M

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title of authority; also: title of wife-givers

Onvlee 1984

sound of sighing or moaning; to pant or groan from burdens of pain

Onvlee 1984

paid off (debt)

Onvlee 1984

kind of thornless pandanus; the leaves are used for finely plaited mats

Onvlee 1984

cut into strips

Onvlee 1984

marine fish with poisonous fins

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shark

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glitter, sparkle, flicker

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pinch

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torn, ripped

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kind of ironwood tree: Schleichera oleosa

Mangili

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to blaze up brightly

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numb, stiff (as limbs)

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a stalwart tree: Sterculia foetida

Onvlee 1984

calf of the leg

Onvlee 1984

belly; womb

Onvlee 1984

belly; womb

Onvlee 1984

rear part; stern of a boat, rudder; lag behind, come later

Onvlee 1984

to fall

Onvlee 1984

be reflected in

Onvlee 1984

mix

Onvlee 1984

gall that lies on the lobe of the liver (favorable sign in searching for omens)

Onvlee 1984

mud, muddy

Onvlee 1984

to break wind, to fart

Onvlee 1984

flatus; break wind

Onvlee 1984

scratch, carve

Onvlee 1984

ask about, inquire

Onvlee 1984

caterpillar; snake

Onvlee 1984

wood plane

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to rap, tap, knock

Onvlee 1984

rap, tap, knock

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right side

Onvlee 1984

not entirely dry; still somewhat moist

Onvlee 1984

tail

Onvlee 1984

('dog's tail') kind of vegetation

Onvlee 1984

kind of large bivalve; also a symbol of the female genitalia

Onvlee 1984

narrow, tight

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mouth of a cave, tunnel near a cave

Onvlee 1984

kind of breadfruit, the seeds of which are eaten, Artocarpus communis

Onvlee 1984

hermit crab

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moustache

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sirih, which bears fruit, also sirih as fruit as distinct from the leaf

Onvlee 1984

anchor

Onvlee 1984

red onion

Onvlee 1984

penis; also used as a curse word

Onvlee 1984

to run (only in the expression #njara lai 'a racing horse')

Onvlee 1984

to walk, go, leave

Onvlee 1984

oily, shiny

Onvlee 1984

very, extreme

Onvlee 1984

very

Onvlee 1984

tongue

Onvlee 1984

leech

Onvlee 1984

buffalo leech, Hirudinea

Onvlee 1984

to fold

Onvlee 1984

kind of tree generally found in the estuaries of rivers

Onvlee 1984

charred; charcoal

Onvlee 1984

charcoal

Onvlee 1984

sea; downstream, at a lower elevation

Onvlee 1984

spiderweb

Onvlee 1984

ginger

Onvlee 1984

abundant, more than usual, royal, excessive

Onvlee 1984

sound, word, story; happen

Onvlee 1984

hole; cave, grotto

Onvlee 1984

hole in the ground

Onvlee 1984

gleam, shine, glitter

Onvlee 1984

flash, shine

Onvlee 1984

five

Onvlee 1984

hairy hands

Onvlee 1984

bridge

Onvlee 1984

bridge

Onvlee 1984

sail; banner

Onvlee 1984

day

Onvlee 1984

shine, glitter

Onvlee 1984

deep pit; whirlpool in water

Onvlee 1984

sack for storing rice

Onvlee 1984

moss, duckweed, seaweed

Onvlee 1984

straight, true

Onvlee 1984

to come

Onvlee 1984

biting, sharp (of taste)

Onvlee 1984

to cook, boil (meat, rice, lontar sap)

Onvlee 1984

a fathom long, said of the horns of buffalos

Onvlee 1984

to fear, be afraid of

Onvlee 1984

fine, of plaitwork (as a mat)

Onvlee 1984

drenched, saturated

Onvlee 1984

drenched, saturated

Onvlee 1984

four (stative; cf. #tau ma-patu 'the four men')

Onvlee 1984

thin, fine

Onvlee 1984

sad, sorrowful ( = 'small liver')

Onvlee 1984

(lit. 'small liver') afraid; sad, sorrowful

Onvlee 1984

corpse, cadaver

Onvlee 1984

oldest, now deified ancestors from whom superior lineages trace their ancestry

Onvlee 1984

far, at a great distance

Onvlee 1984

raw, unripe (rice, maize, etc.)

Onvlee 1984

eye

Onvlee 1984

kind of mollusc

Onvlee 1984

hearth for the cooking fire

Onvlee 1984

mesh of a net (< #Malay)

Onvlee 1984

anus (‘eye of buttocks’)

Onvlee 1984

sun (‘eye of the day’)

Onvlee 1984

the white spot in an egg yolk

Onvlee 1984

blue eyes (‘cat eyes’)

Onvlee 1984

favorite, ‘apple of the eye’ (‘black eye’)

Onvlee 1984

spring, source

Onvlee 1984

old; grown up, adult; what follows the rule or is the norm; venerable, holy or sacred

Onvlee 1984

woman

Onvlee 1984

sour, tart, as a mango (also of painful feeling or discomfort in the body)

Onvlee 1984

wet, damp

Onvlee 1984

spoiled, musty (as rice)

Onvlee 1984

hot, warm; hot-tempered

Onvlee 1984

warm (as land)

Onvlee 1984

solar heat, the heat of the day

Onvlee 1984

bitter salty, too salty, of food

Onvlee 1984

brave, courageous, dare to do something; angry, malicious

Onvlee 1984

full, as a house full of people, a village full of graves, a boat full of water

Onvlee 1984

ten

Onvlee 1984

salt

Onvlee 1984

die; dead; go out (fire); be eclipsed (sun)

Onvlee 1984

die a cool (natural) death

Onvlee 1984

die a hot (unnatural) death (as when dying in an accident)

Onvlee 1984

soft, pleasant; tasty, delicious

Onvlee 1984

2sg. subject pronoun

Onvlee 1984

2sg. possessor, your

Onvlee 1984

to vomit

Onvlee 1984

definite article (#na uma ‘the house’)

Onvlee 1984

impenetrable forest (lit. 'dark forest')

Onvlee 1984

arrow

Onvlee 1984

to bloom, blossom

Onvlee 1984

the first

Onvlee 1984

3sg. pronoun; as a prefix #na- signals the actor: #na-laku 'he is going'; as a suffix #-na marks a) possession: #na ama-na 'his father', b) the agent in substantive constructions: #mbàda laku-na-ka 'he has gone already', c) reference to past time: #la nomu wula-na 'six months ago'

Onvlee 1984

front yard of a house, village square

Onvlee 1984

particle of negation

Onvlee 1984

Sumbanese year, of six months

Onvlee 1984

non-Sumbanese year, of twelve months

Onvlee 1984

year, annual

Onvlee 1984

not

Onvlee 1984

to leak, drip

Onvlee 1984

sound of thunder or of the hooves of galloping horses

Onvlee 1984

shadow, shadow-image; reflection (as in water)

Onvlee 1984

horse

Onvlee 1984

land, island

Onvlee 1984

enter (< *-sek?)

Onvlee 1984

wooden headrest; pillow

Onvlee 1984

prop, support

Onvlee 1984

knock, tap, rap, tick

Onvlee 1984

knock, beat, tap on

Onvlee 1984

opening of the mouth; also: mouth

Onvlee 1984

to clip, pinch

Onvlee 1984

wide open mouth

Onvlee 1984

to swim

Onvlee 1984

suffixed form of the 2pl. personal pronoun

Onvlee 1984

1sg possessive suffix: my

Onvlee 1984

scissors; to cut the hair

Onvlee 1984

sound of scratching, as of a file on something

Onvlee 1984

to drink

Onvlee 1984

to drink

Onvlee 1984

causative prefix

Onvlee 1984

winding, curving, not straight

Onvlee 1984

stew until ripe (as bananas)

Onvlee 1984

payment made for a transgression

Onvlee 1984

pair; form a pair; agree or fit with one another

Onvlee 1984

bitter

Onvlee 1984

run, run away, flee

Onvlee 1984

five times

Onvlee 1984

lamp

Onvlee 1984

to beat, strike; anything used to hit or strike

Onvlee 1984

stick used to cudgel a dog

Onvlee 1984

to bend, bend around

Onvlee 1984

to bend and break off, as a branch

Onvlee 1984

bad-tempered as a Buginese, irascible

Onvlee 1984

kill, bring to an end

Onvlee 1984

to heat (as coffee)

Onvlee 1984

bow; shoot with bow and arrow

Onvlee 1984

warm up; insist on, coerce

Onvlee 1984

short, squat and compact in stature

Onvlee 1984

feed chickens or pigs

Onvlee 1984

bait for fishing

Onvlee 1984

flying fox

Onvlee 1984

six times

Onvlee 1984

kind of skin disease coupled with spots on the skin

Onvlee 1984

divide into (numeral)

Onvlee 1984

position, rank, station

Onvlee 1984

to water animals

Onvlee 1984

by fours, in groups of four

Onvlee 1984

stingray

Onvlee 1984

rice plant

Onvlee 1984

four

Onvlee 1984

to stun fish with a pounded extract from the roots of Derris elliptica

Onvlee 1984

mango: Mangifera indica

Onvlee 1984

what is drunk: a drink, beverage; give someone something to drink

Onvlee 1984

make the edge or rim of (a pot, etc.)

Onvlee 1984

having hair, hairy

Onvlee 1984

to fill

Onvlee 1984

the cheeks

Onvlee 1984

how much?, how many?

Onvlee 1984

when?

Onvlee 1984

mother’s brother (#pola = ‘trunk, stem’) (Fox 1980:14)

Onvlee 1984

navel

Onvlee 1984

heart (as of pig or chicken)

Onvlee 1984

enter (< *-sek?)

Onvlee 1984

hack, chop down

Onvlee 1984

post, tree trunk; classifier for long objects; upper arm, hand

Onvlee 1984

to blow, blow on

Onvlee 1984

rotate, turn

Onvlee 1984

fathom

Onvlee 1984

red, brown

Onvlee 1984

leader in religious ritual; priest

Onvlee 1984

leaf; hair

Onvlee 1984

cough, clear one's throat

Onvlee 1984

dugong: Halicore dugong

Onvlee 1984

fern

Onvlee 1984

take between the fingers; pinch, pluck

Onvlee 1984

take between the fingers, pinch, pluck

Onvlee 1984

second wife, co-wife

Onvlee 1984

to stick, adhere to something; to paste or glue to something

Onvlee 1984

two; companion; half

Onvlee 1984

leaf (lontar palm, coconut) used for a torch

Onvlee 1984

dark; night

Onvlee 1984

prefix on non-intentional, accidental, sudden or unexpected intransitive verbs

Onvlee 1984

feces, excrement, filth; accretion

Onvlee 1984

rust

Onvlee 1984

to arrive, come; therefore; next, afterwards

Onvlee 1984

gecko

Onvlee 1984

to ladle, scoop up, draw water

Onvlee 1984

flute; to play a flute

Onvlee 1984

pars pudenda mulieris (also used of animals)

Onvlee 1984

conquer, overcome, be dominant

Onvlee 1984

kind of silk used as a veil

Onvlee 1984

to enter

Onvlee 1984

a dam; to dam

Onvlee 1984

afterbirth, placenta

Onvlee 1984

kind of thin bamboo: Schistostachyum blumei, used for spears, trail or pitfall spikes, and plaited to make walling

Onvlee 1984

land, district, territory

Onvlee 1984

uplands, east Sumba; the visible world

Onvlee 1984

the island of Sumba

Onvlee 1984

intestines

Onvlee 1984

saly-laden earth (usually by river mouths)

Onvlee 1984

lowlands, west Sumba; the unseen world

Onvlee 1984

sign, signal, mark

Onvlee 1984

to bury

Onvlee 1984

lid, cover

Onvlee 1984

look upward toward something (as in gazing at the moon)

Onvlee 1984

step of a ladder, tied to the stem of a lontar palm to facilitate climbing it

Onvlee 1984

kind of large sea fish: Scomberomorus Cybium

Onvlee 1984

to winnow, as rice

Onvlee 1984

thorn, spine, pandanus leaf

Onvlee 1984

kind of large bamboo used as a water container

Onvlee 1984

man with much heart: wise man, man with much insight

Onvlee 1984

killer, murderer

Onvlee 1984

someone with legs like a deer, with spindly legs

Onvlee 1984

afterbirth, placenta

Onvlee 1984

large wasp sp.

Onvlee 1984

sea

Onvlee 1984

‘female’ sea: area on both sides of a river’s debouchment into the sea, that is dry at ebbtide

Onvlee 1984

‘male’ sea: shoreline that is not dry even in ebbtide, where a river exits into the sea

Onvlee 1984

shield

Onvlee 1984

sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum

Onvlee 1984

false sugarcane (resembles it, but is different)

Onvlee 1984

carry on the head (as a water pot)

Onvlee 1984

ticking sound (as of a watch)

Onvlee 1984

sound of cracking or tapping

Onvlee 1984

egg

Onvlee 1984

egg; lay and egg; testicle (because of this meaning the word #tílu 'three' is replaced by #tailu or #dua haàta in counting persons, and by #dàmba hau in counting things)

Onvlee 1984

three

Onvlee 1984

chicken egg

Onvlee 1984

three houses

Onvlee 1984

scoop up water

Onvlee 1984

to weave

Onvlee 1984

lift up, wrench up, as in lifting a gravestone from its place, a towel from covering someone’s face

Onvlee 1984

listen

Onvlee 1984

sound of large objects ringing or pounding

Onvlee 1984

old, older

Onvlee 1984

to point out, indicate

Onvlee 1984

to prop, support; give a push or shove, push off

Onvlee 1984

to help, assist

Onvlee 1984

strike, knock against (as a buffalo butting with its horns against a fence)

Onvlee 1984

strike, knock against (as a buffalo butting with its horns against a fence)

Onvlee 1984

strike, punch; to forge

Onvlee 1984

eel, sp. of Anguilla

Onvlee 1984

direction, course, goal

Onvlee 1984

set on fire (as a house); burn (as lime), roast, bake (as a chicken or young corn

Onvlee 1984

single, alone, by oneself

Onvlee 1984

creeper with poisonous roots used to stun fish (Derris elliptica); to stun fish with this poison (several types)

Onvlee 1984

yes -- expression of confirmation or agreement

Onvlee 1984

sound of retching when vomiting

Onvlee 1984

measure, measure out

Onvlee 1984

repeat

Onvlee 1984

snake

Onvlee 1984

rudder; steer with a rudder

Onvlee 1984

rudder; steer with a rudder

Onvlee 1984

haft, handle (as of a knife, axe, etc.)

Onvlee 1984

house

Onvlee 1984

Sir, lord, title of address for a man of high origin; grandfather

Onvlee 1984

marine fish with horn on the head, unicorn fish: Siganus javus

Onvlee 1984

interior, pith

Onvlee 1984

poison, venom of a snake

Onvlee 1984

lines in the palm of the hand; lot, fate, destiny

Onvlee 1984

rain; to rain

Onvlee 1984

lines in the palm of the hand; read the palm to foretell one's future

Onvlee 1984

nose

Onvlee 1984

chaff

Onvlee 1984

forest, woods

Onvlee 1984

row, string; to string beads

Onvlee 1984

advantage, profit, gain

Onvlee 1984

gray (of hair)

Onvlee 1984

water

Onvlee 1984

ginger water, infusion of ginger used as a stimulant

Onvlee 1984

river water

Onvlee 1984

foaming water

Onvlee 1984

drinking water

Onvlee 1984

blood

Onvlee 1984

seawater

Onvlee 1984

saltwater, seawater

Onvlee 1984

cracked, torn, split

Onvlee 1984

loosen, undo (as the tie of a basket)

Onvlee 1984

break, fall to pieces (as cornflour dough that has been kneaded together)

Onvlee 1984

cracks in dry ground

Onvlee 1984

to open (as the hand), spread out (as a mat)

Onvlee 1984

eight

Onvlee 1984

bend around (as in coiling rattan); break

Onvlee 1984

bind together, bundle

Onvlee 1984

make an opening, take apart

Onvlee 1984

twist, wind around; belt; rope that is tied around the loincloth

Onvlee 1984

to bend, bow, curve

Onvlee 1984

bend, duck, bow to, curve, bent downward

Onvlee 1984

clean, clear, smooth

Onvlee 1984

west, west wind

Onvlee 1984

kind of hibiscus

Onvlee 1984

maize

Onvlee 1984

sound of dripping water

Onvlee 1984

anchor stone

Onvlee 1984

odor, stench; to smell, to stink

Onvlee 1984

penetrating, of an odor

Onvlee 1984

beneath; west

Onvlee 1984

group, collection of things that belong together

Onvlee 1984

return, turn back

Onvlee 1984

return, turn back

Onvlee 1984

leg, foot

Onvlee 1984

to peel, shell, skin, remove the rind, peeling or skin

Onvlee 1984

shine, gleam, glitter

Onvlee 1984

price, value; brideprice

Onvlee 1984

seed, grains for dibbling

Onvlee 1984

to bite

Onvlee 1984

to pinch

Onvlee 1984

sword grass: Imperata cylindrica

Onvlee 1984

lip

Onvlee 1984

side, edge, border

Onvlee 1984

fruit, seed, grain; numeral classifier for fruits, houses, months, villages, gardens, etc.

Onvlee 1984

fruit of a tree

Onvlee 1984

kidneys; testicles

Onvlee 1984

finger

Onvlee 1984

pupil of the eye; to bear fruit

Onvlee 1984

dark moon, time of the new moon

Onvlee 1984

moon; month

Onvlee 1984

body hair, feathers

Onvlee 1984

chicken feathers

Onvlee 1984

inflated, swollen (as the belly after eating something)

Onvlee 1984

first (as a first child), earlier

Onvlee 1984

rustling or whizzing sound produced by sudden movement

Onvlee 1984

foam, froth, bubbles, scum; to foam, to froth, to bubble

Onvlee 1984

bleached, whitened, as a piece of material that has lost its color

Onvlee 1984

foam, froth, bubbles, scum; to foam, to froth, to bubble

Onvlee 1984

foam on the surface of water

Onvlee 1984

iron pot

Onvlee 1984

pot, vessel

Onvlee 1984

earthenware pot (native)

Onvlee 1984

flea, louse

Onvlee 1984

dog louse

Onvlee 1984

louse on a person

Onvlee 1984

small insects that fly about in the evening during the rainy season (‘rain lice’)

Onvlee 1984

sour (both taste and feeling of unease in body)

Onvlee 1984