Old Bari vocab
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Individual 008 (1:30pm Tuesday)
I'll be filling blanks for body part plurals and getting more body parts, like those below:
- heads
- mouths
- noses
- tongues
- bloods?
- lip
- lips
- jaw
- jaws
- neck
- necks
- chest
- chests
- belly
- bellies
- hip
- hips
- thigh
- thighs
- knee
- knees
- elbow
- elbows
- eyebrow
- eyebrows
- eyelash
- eyelashes
- eyelid
- eyelids
- nostril
- nostrils
- armpit
- armpits
- back
- backs
- buttock
- buttocks
Jevon
Individual 007
I'm planning on just going back and filling in missing plurals until I get a sense of a pattern for singular/plural alternations. New (lexemes) are at the top.
- Man
- Men
- Cat
- Cats
- Village
- Villages
- Tribe/Nationality
- Tribes/Nationalities
- Girls
- Women (married)
- Women (unmarried)
- People
- Mothers
- Fathers
- Brothers
- Sisters
- Rivers
- Streams
- Riverbanks
- (Big) rocks
- Branches
- Sticks
- Roads
- Places
- Finger/Toe
- Arms
- Legs
Matt
Group 001 (Th. Sept. 13)
In the group elicitation for Seereer I intend to do:
- Hello
- Thank You
- numbers 1 - 10
- person/human
- man (adult)
- woman (adult)
- boy
- girl
- Proper nouns, as time permits (consultant's name, autodemonym, name of language, name of hometown, etc.)
Kelsey
- water
- swamp/wetland
- rapids/falls
- air
- sky
- day
- night
- fire
- smoke
- ash(es)
- salt
- soup/stew
- meat
- bread
- egg
- milk
- antelope
- goat
- crocodile
- hippopotamus
- elephant
- insect/bug
- mosquito
- knife
- roof
- door
- wall
- white
- black
- red
Melanie
- hot
- cold
- wet
- dry
- old
- new
- fast
- slow
- near
- far
- happy
- funny
- sad
- soft
- hard
- light/bright
- dark
- nice
- kind
- mean
- smart
- stupid
- high
- low
- tasty/delicious
- spicy
- sweet
- savory
Kayla
Words for elicitation tomorrow, September 13, 2012 on Seerreer --Kayla 03:53, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- water, drinking water
- river
- spring, stream
- ocean
- lake
- rain
- soup
- grease, oil
- dirt
- sand
- riverbank
- shore
- beach
- ground
- mud
--Kayla 18:11, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
All of these words are up for grabs now.--Kayla 03:53, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
NOUNS
- seed(s)
- thorn(s)
- field(s)
- house(s)
- fence(s)
- boat(s)
- bridge(s)
- car(s)
- bike(s)
- village(s)
- school(s)
- shirt(s)
- shoe(s)
- hat(s)
- pant(s)
- sock(s)
- skirt(s)
- bag(s)
- belt(s)
- earring(s)
- necklace(s)
ADJECTIVES
- good
- bad
- short (being)
- tall (being)
- skinny
- fat
- old
- young
- pretty
- ugly
- clean
- dirty
Oana
For GE on Tuesday 9/04
- child, children
- person, people
- god, gods
- bride
- groom
- animal, animals
- pig, pigs
- fox, foxes
- insect, insects
- worm, worms
- tail, tails
- fur
- claw, claws
- feather, feathers
- food
- drink, beverage
- milk
- egg, eggs
- fruit, fruit (pl)
- leaf, leaves
- root, roots
For IE on Tuesday 9/04
At 2:30-3:30 pm.
- Verb paradigms for past tense: go, walk, run (if time allows, mostly to get the verb stem and some morphology and the pronouns)
Kayla has the following list, which we may get through as well:
- ant, ants
- beetle, beetles
- louse, lice
- grasshopper, grasshoppers
- fly, flies
- butterfly, butterflies
- bee, bees
- snake, snakes
- mouse, mice
- lizard, lizards
- elephant, elephants
- gazelle, gazelles
- flower, flowers
- seed, seeds
- thorn, thorns
- pitch, tree juice, gum
- firewood
- eyelash
- eyebrow
- nostril
- nose
- throat
- knee
- elbow
- cheek
- forehead
- wrist
- navel
Nico
Individual Elicitation 9/5/2012
- world
- sunrise
- sunset
- morning
- afternoon
- night
- week, weeks
- month, months
- year, years
- rain
- (rain)storm
- lightning
- thunder
- sky
- full moon
- book, books
- horse, horses (male and female)
- donkey, donkeys (male/female)
- monkey, monkeys (male/female)
- wolf, wolves
- bird, birds
Erin
GE 8/28
- one
- two
- three
- four
- five
- six
- seven
- eight
- nine
- ten
- unmarried woman
- small boy
- small girl
- wife, married woman
- child
for IE 9/5
- questions I had from various GEs:
- can you say /na/ by itself?
- can you say /aser/ or /jaser/ or /ŋaser/ by itself?
- can you say /tȋ/ by itself?
- can you say /lustanti/ or /lusan/ by itself?
- new lexical items:
- grease (ie, cooking fat)
- plain, flat area of land
- mountain
- hill
- jungle
- forest
- desert
- valley
- country (ie, a nation)
- stinky
- rotten
- unripe (as in fruit)
- over-ripe (if different from rotten)
- maggot
- round (shape)
- dream (n)
- rope
- healer, doctor (are there different words for traditional vs. modern healers?)
- priest (guessing this will be borrowed- is there a non-borrowed word?)
- monsoon/rainy season (what are the seasons, and what are they like? what are their names?)
Peter
- Carburetor
- Polar bear
- Elf
- Wheaties (etc.)