Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

lop off, cut off

to see at a distance (?)

slap, hit with open hand

poultice, plaster for sealing a wound

plug or dam up

attach, connect, join

telescoping basket, double basket

attach, connect, join

grandparent/ grandchild (reciprocal)

clap, thud

sacred place

stem, stalk of a plant

gather, assemble

collect, gather

sulk; feel remorse

smack the lips

smack the lips while eating

turmeric: Curcuma zedoaria

red

to taste, try

try, taste

malodorous insect that damages rice plants

a plant: Aralia decaisneana (Hance)

to stare, look fixedly at something

village; place of residence

bamboo sp.

to stamp the feet

remember

state explicitly, stipulate

compare two things

plant sp.

to cook anything but rice

to cook

cook

cook

grave; to bury; to plant

area that is planted(?)

to plant on or in

earth, soil, land

clay, sticky earth

anthill, termite mound (lit, ‘growing earth’)

sound of a clang or bang

to gape stupidly, gawk

to open

netbag, sack, pocket

a shrub with edible figs: Ficus tinctoria

look upward

to look upward

finger, toe

finger, toe

incapable, incompetent

look upward

destructive insect

to seize property and run off with it; to elope

lid, cover

kind of coarse grass

payment for services

rung of a ladder; runged ladder

unfastened, detached

receive, accept

Spanish mackerel, kingfish: Scomberomorus spp.

defend oneself, parry a blow

carry on a shoulder pole

wedge

ear

Spanish mackerel, kingfish: Scomberomorini spp.

weep, cry; mourn

to cry over something or someone

to cry over something or someone (?)

to cry for, cry over, mourn, bewail, weep for the dead

to cry for someone or something

to weep continuously or incessantly

cry continually, weep a lot

agile, quick, swift, energetic

loosen, untie

stem of a plant, stalk

overlap, overlapping part

fall face downward

to fold over, double

catch, as by covering

seize, catch

adhere, stick to

addition, annex to a building

to parry, turn an attack or accusation aside

clanging sound; to clang, as in beating metals

to beat metals

to swim

go away from

sardine, anchovy

mulberry tree and fruit: Morus formosensis (Hotta)

to bury; to plant

earth, soil, land; down; westward

clay, sticky earth

dusty, full of dust or dirt

anthill, termite mound (lit, ‘growing earth’)

lose interest in doing something (?)

guard, sentinel; to stand guard

fill with water

index finger

step, leap