Old Bari vocab

Vivian

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.)