Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

sound of knocking or bubbling

pluck, uproot

gaseous defecation

do eight times

divide into x (x = numeral)

hurt someone; make someone sick

(gloss uncertain)

(gloss uncertain)

pair, matching set

insert, wedge in

shoulder pole; carry with a shoulder pole

shoulder pole; carry with a shoulder pole

send (?)

wooden nail, dowel; drive in, as a wooden nail, dowel, or fencepost

drive in, as a stake; to plant (crops)

lend

to give shelter to

to show off

knock someone or something with the elbow

sandbank, shoal in river or sea

sandbar, shoal in river or sea

to plant (crops)

beat out, thresh

cheek bone

cheek bone

give the breast to, nurse a child

to nurse, give a child the breast (to be sucked)

stack

four

four (in counting certain referents)

to frighten, make afraid

twine together, as strands of rope

four (combination form)

to make someone cry; to let someone cry

break, broken, cut through

shelf

something given to another for safekeeping (?)

tattoo

tattoo

kill

(gloss uncertain)

click

(gloss uncertain)

four

mottled pattern

four at a time

(gloss uncertain)

sticks that connect the float to the booms of an outrigger canoe

joint, node

stone

to stun fish with plant poisons

let something grow, make something grow

let something grow, make something grow

put someone down to sleep

sleep

to make someone listen

large, thick, bamboo sp.

(gloss uncertain)

to point out, give directions (?)

behind, after

return, send back

a tree: Ochrosia oppositifolia

to send away

cause to vomit

sea turtle

kind of small fish, probably sardine or anchovy

bait

to wave, flap

to wave the hand, as in beckoning someone or in fanning oneself

sweep

make something go or move

(gloss uncertain)

[mother]

where?

squeeze with the hand

break into several large pieces

break into several large pieces; to hatch, of an egg

snap, as the fingers or a slingshot

a whip

wink, blink

to wring out, as water from wet clothes

tight in tightly

press together, pack solid

hold firmly, firm

triggerfish

to box, give a blow

separate, disconnect

to cackle

stretch open or apart

split

ritual shout(?)

beat, hit

swarm together

bend, curve

nape of the neck

shout, exclaim

astringent taste, as of unripe bananas

slip off

steal

dull sound