Indian Antiquary Vol 36

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 263

AUGUST, 1907.] RECORD OF THE LANGUAGES OF SAVAGES.
abundant abuse (to)
ache (to)
acid
adze [chisel] ant [small black) apron (women's)
armlet [fibre]
arrow (iron) [reed]
arrow (wood)
arrow (fish)
arrow (pig) arrow-shaft
ashes
awake (to) bag (of netting) bale out (to)
bamboo
banana
bark
barb (arrow) basket
beard
beat (to) beetle [dung]
belt (round) belt (broad, flat) binder
bite (to) black
blood
blow (to) [out fire]
boil (to)
bone
bone (human)
bow
break (to)
breast
breathe (to)
broom
bucket (wood) bucket (bamboo) butterfly
call (to)
cane
I. Portman's Vocabulary.. Bonig's variants in square brackets.
cane-necklace
gene önu-kweba-be öni-dang-wale-be (? bones a.) a-ñòii
dòii [dan]
chantibo-de [yan°] ga-kwinyoga-le
iibi-kwe
batoi [bato]
teta-le
tome
taköi
takete-le
tongku-te [tong"] löga-be
kumumwi, tanga-le
gaiye-bike-be &-da-le [o-da-le]
yell-le
gangwi
tome
tô-le [to-le] ön-ga-bo-de
[ön-Jyökwo-be [yökwo®]
todanchu [ran) m-are-kwa-ge (my b.) m-ino-kwe (my b.) tu-kwe
ön-i-baga-be [ditto]
be
ga-che-nge [che-nge] a-kwöbö-be [ta-kuwö°] tamboi-(be)
ichin-da-nge
ön-i-da-nge a-ai [a-e]
gi-kwa-be [gi-kwa"] ga-ka-ge [gage] kwaiö-be
da-ge
ukwi [aku] kubuda-nge bebe-le [ditto] ön-gyö-be, ön-ai-waba-be tati [ditto]
canoe
cast away (to) cheek
chin
clam
clap (to)
clay (white [yellow] for smearing [the body])
cloud
cocoanut
cold (to fee) come (to)
copulate (to) cough
crab [large edible] creek
cyrena-shell (scraper) dance
dead (to be) deaf
dish (wooden)
drink (to) dugong
ear
earth
eat (to)
ebb tide embrace
eye fall (to) fastening (a) feather
fern (sp.) fever (to have) fight (to)
finger
fire
fish
fist
flip (to) flood tide
fly (a)
i-deda-le
da-nge [die] yöbbise-be gig-boi (your o.) ibi-da-nge taga-le
ako-bana-bekwe-be
we [öā]
baije
da-ge (? wood, tree) öngi-te-be
inai-öba-be, önu-kwange
me [ön-aiya"]
gö-tôlô-be udu-ge [ditto] kagala [kaga]
kuai
totu-le
ön-ola-ge
bechame-me
ik-aibene
da-nge-, (wood)
töba-nge
injo-be
twowe
ik-kwa-ge
tutano
ön-i-lokwale-be
ga-de
ku-ge
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da-i-jaboi [ditto] i-teka-be [gi-]
gwi-kwe
go-de
tomojai, lakakai ungi-te-be
ön-ukwe-be
ome
tuke [ditto] cho-ge [chan"] o-beke [ön-°] ön-i-tôtôge-be kobakwe-le
ngonoi [ngöno]
st This reads like a corruption of the Indian and Barman dd, a universal instrument used as a knife, aze, adse, sword, &c., as the result of recent intercourse with strangers.