关键词:
Phonemes
Vowels
Canoes
Words
Dialects
Consonants
Creation myths
Lowlands
摘要:
In the Sentani area these names occur only in the myths as names of ancestral groups.2 In the Asmat area they are not restricted to the myths.
[...]both in the Sentani and in the Asmat language these names often end in -ew, for instance:
4 7 2 C. L. VOORHOEVE Protoforms have been marked by an asterisk. 1. again S bendm A wunam 2. arm, hand S ma A man 3. stone axe S he A si, Sp hi, Ka tuka-ti Kamoro tuka- corresponds to Sentani duka 'stone' 4. back of body S mokodu A mak, Sp meke mokodu may have been bimorphemic: moko-du, the last constituent presumably corresponding to Telefol (MO) dmn) in daat}-duut) 'back of body' 5. bite S akd- A -ak-6. branch S akaw A akaw 'frond, pandan leaf'7. canoe S ifa, Sw ipa, D apar 'small canoe for men' A apa-ci 'small canoe for men' Asmat ci 'canoe' may perhaps correspond to Sentani kaji 'big canoe for women and children' 8. child S fa; ki 'infant' A pe, Ka pae; A tiw 'boy'9. corpse S ambu-, ambo- (ambu-lo 'dead man', ambomije 'dead woman') A semu10. day, light S ja A jo 11. descend S duwg- 'sink, fall'; md-dwws 'descend from the house' A -nuw- 'descend (from the house) to the canoe' 12. eat S an(d)- A -an-, -no-; Sp na-, Ka ne-13. face S bg A mi 14. fat, grease S ju A joj15. firewood S jd, jo- (jokonim 'smoke') A jow- (jowse 'fireplace': jow + se 'mud'; joivmic 'ashes') MS:
Telefol ma 'shoulder blade' (kun 'bone') (be) moka-(purumuc) -moc-, Sp mate-, Ka mal kendimkanimdhkoatakam 'speech', Ad arakam, atokom dow3-, d&Wd--tew-, -tow kamd--kam- 'split off; kamo 'split up' mu hakamisak, Sp mihake, Ka muta dhaasbdndminipiddha, Tm eti, D itinisis, Ad sisi, Sp hi, Ka titi danten 0 OS kele 'space under something' cenes 'below, under*jo A jo 'river, village'; Ka jo 'river, world' Sentani jo may also have had the meaning 'river', as may appear from Sentani jo kiki 'the narrow strip of water between the village, which stands over the water, and the shore' (see No. 21 above).
[...]in order to arrive at a tentative picture of the proto-sound sys