Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

to fill, make complete

to massage

to choose, select, pick out

base of a tree; beginning; origin

source, origin

greenish fruit dove

wipe off, wipe out

greenish fruit dove

greenish fruit dove

pick up with the fingers

flower, blossom

crowded; mass of people

(gloss uncertain)

affines of the first ascending or zero generation

lonely, forlorn

prune, cut off the tip

prune, cut off the tip

tailless, of birds

prune, cut off the tip

break off

stump, remnant

bunch, cluster (of grain, fruit, areca nuts, etc.)

bunch, cluster (of grain, fruit, areca nuts, etc.)

whiteness

tree fern

hide, conceal

ringworm: Tinea imbricata

to hide, conceal

assemble, gather

puffer fish sp.

banana

kind of marine fish

small hill, knoll

brain, marrow

a constellation: the Pleiades

strike, beat; pierce; kill; extinguish (a fire)

strike, beat; kill

strike, beat; kill

pick up

pick, pluck (as fruit)

conical bamboo basket trap for fish

pound

insect that infests wood and bamboo; dust produced by the boring of this insect

fish sp.: herring

raised flesh over a wound

swell up

ridge of the roof

rinse the mouth, gargle

leak, pour out; loose or crumbling; crumble and fall

drip or pour out

leak

pluck (as fruit), strip off (as leaves)

blow

pull out, uproot (as plants); pluck (as hair or feathers)

levered up; uprooted

to abate, of strong feelings

crocodile

pour water on; to douse (as a fire)

pick, pluck (as fruit)

base of a tree; cause; source, origin; beginning; foot of a hill or mountain; first wife; model or e…

(gloss uncertain)

tree (lit. ‘foundation/ origin of wood’)

horizon (lit. ‘foundation/ beginning of the sky’); stranger, foreigner

spray water from the mouth; spray a mixture of saliva and masticated medicinal herbs on an ailing bo…

to appear

unnaturally white; albino

immerse, dip in water

foam, bubbles; bubble up

spurt or gush out

be lifted up or deposited on the beach by tide or current

navel

wash, as the hands

sponge

foam, bubbles

foam, bubbles

a bird, the quail

hiss, whizzing sound

originate; related by common origin

rotten

twice

whirlpool, eddy, vortex

navel, umbilicus; mid-point or center of something

hypogastrium, abdomen below the navel

white

glutton

navel, umbilicus

foam, bubbles

finished, completed; all gone

tie up

heart; heart of banana

heart of a person or animal; purple heart-shaped inflorescence of banana plant

sticky rice cake

hunting bow

puff

coconut husk

fishnet float

to turn

gummy secretion

to turn

white