Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

to laugh

small bird with shiny black plumage: drongo

year

sharp (of point or blade)

smack against

split, divide, break off

natural spring, fresh water spring

thud

smoke

to meet, come together

sugarcane: Saccharum officinarum

beat, pound, hit

quick, swift

pierce, penetrate

gecko, house lizard

choke, strangle

seize, grasp

kind of very slender bamboo

constriction around neck

choke, gag

crack, split, fissure

beat, pound

sink, submerge

soak, steep in water

curve

uncultivated land

grass, herbs; medicine

immerse, submerge

thorn

seize in the mouth or beak

stench

crack, split, break; sound of cracking, splitting, breaking

dull sound

a belch

part, separate, divide

shrill, of the voice

dive, immerse

insert, pierce, penetrate

twitter, call out ( bird)

chirp, peep

hook on, catch with hook

spoon, ladle, dipper

sound of tapping or flicking (of finger, small implement, etc.) against something

sound used to shoo away domestic animals

gecko, house lizard

to tap, strike lightly on a hard surface

return, go back

catch with the hands

to shine, of heavenly bodies

what is stolen, stolen goods; was stolen (past tense of direct passive)

was made into rope; what was made into rope

smoke

small intestine

sew

shelter

gape, open the mouth

catch one's breath

food particles caught between the teeth

curve

roast

fish sp.

to squirt, of liquids; diarrhoea

spatio- deixis and spatio- temporal reference: that; there, then

take with the fingers

plant sprout

hit something against something else

knock or bump the head

skewer

huddle, bow the head

insert

set alight, apply fire to

deaf

to wrap

defecate

to tie with rope, fasten with rope

to weep, cry, mourn

to sweep

to defecate

to sew

Formosan black bear

pulverize; crumble

clothes louse; body louse

tap or flick (finger, small implement, etc.) against something

to sprout, to grow

knock or bump the head

to roast (intr.)

to string beads, etc.

make a booming sound

gasp, pant

cover with a hollow container; shelter over a grave

close, cover

roast food over a fire

to roast

sip, suck

narrow

condylous bone; bone of fauna exclusive of fish

spotted, speckled

scratch a line

mark, line, dash

string together, as beads