Micronesian Comparative Dictionary
Index to Sets
(click on a *proto-form for its set)
a c e f i k l m mʷ n ñ ŋ o p pʷ r s S t T u w x y
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aa ae af ak al am an aŋ ap ar as aS at aT au aw ay *-a ‘him, her, it’ (object pronoun) *-a, -Ta reality mode marker (suffixed to subject pronoun) *aa-, aa-ni- CMc alienable object (with possessive suffix), acquire an alienable object *aapʷa WMc ‘no’ *ae₁ ‘crawl’ *ae₂ ‘this’ *afafi ‘coconut crab’ *afaŋi ‘north’ *afara ‘shoulder’ *afe CMc ‘swim’ *afi, afi-Si- ‘carry on the hip or under the arm’ *afi₁ ‘fire’ *afi₂ ‘pull on a line’ *-aki ‘passive suffix’ *aki, akiaki WMc ‘to hide, hidden’ *-aki-ni ‘passive suffix’ *ako ‘tie together’ *ako, akoako ‘steer a boat’ *ala₁ ‘path, road’ *ala₂ ‘to take, get’ *ala[iu], alala[iu] ‘long’ *ale CMc ‘kind of coral’ *alele ‘to reckon, sing’ *-ali, -aliali, mʷa-aliali WMc ‘circle, circling, dizzy’ *ali-maŋo ‘mangrove crab’ *al[iu]ta ‘beard’ *alo ‘sun’ *alo, aloalo, alo-[fØ]i ‘to wave, beckon’ *amata CMc ‘undercooked, raw’ *amʷa CMc ‘pertaining to nurture’ *[aØ]mʷi, [aØ]mʷi ni ‘to wash one’s hands’ *amʷii CMc ‘bunch or cluster of nuts’ *aneane ‘to wish, need’ *anitu ‘god, spirit’ *anu[sS]a ‘small, uninhabited island’ *aŋa₁ ‘to have or take in hand, to handle’ *aŋa₂ or *yaŋa ‘spider shell (Strombidae) *aŋi, aŋiaŋi ‘wind’ *aŋo ‘curcuma, turmeric, ginger, yellow’ *apara WMc ‘make alignment’ *apili ‘a fish’ *ara-mata ‘person, people’ *are, are-ki ‘haul, pull, tow’ *ar[eo]ŋu CMc ‘coconut cream, scraped coconut meat’ *ari ‘to scoop up’ *aro- ‘shore, beach, vicinity’ *aroŋo ‘a Carangid fish, pompano, skipjack’ *aru, aruaru, aru-ti- ‘to stir’ *a[sS]a ‘to grate, scrape’ *a[sS]e ‘jaw, chin’ *asi ‘gallbladder, gall’ *asi CMc ‘spathe, unopened bud’ *a[sS]o ‘time’ *a[sS]u ‘smoke’ *aSiŋi ‘kind of crab’ *ata ‘upper part, top’ *ata-i- ‘to know’ *atarei CMc ‘child’ *ate ‘liver’ *atu ‘tuna, bonito’ *aTo ‘thatch’ *-au ‘me’ (suffixed object pronoun) *au- CMc ‘appearance, condition, shape’ *aua ‘kind of fish’ *[ao]ut[ae] ‘blanket, coverlet’ *awo ‘fishline’ *ayu, ayuSa ‘current’ |