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==List==
==List==
{{Swadesh list 207 plain
{{Swadesh list 207 plain
|language=[[Trigedasleng]]
|language=[[Trigedasleng language|Trigedasleng]]
|wrd001=[[ai]], [[a]]
|wrd001=[[ai]], [[a]]
|wrd002=[[yu]]
|wrd002=[[yu]]
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|wrd006=[[emo]], [[du]]
|wrd006=[[emo]], [[du]]
|wrd007=[[disha]], [[dison]]
|wrd007=[[disha]], [[dison]]
|wrd008=[[dei]] (... [[de]]), [[daun]]([[daunde|de]])
|wrd008=[[dei]] (...[[-de]]), [[daun]]([[daunde|de]])
|wrd009=[[hir]]
|wrd009=[[hir]]
|wrd010=[[der]], [[ouder]]
|wrd010=[[der]], [[ouder]]

Latest revision as of 05:15, 20 October 2024

This is a Swadesh list of words in Trigedasleng, compared with definitions in English.

Presentation

For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list.

American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without written precursors. Using vocabulary lists, he sought to understand not only change over time but also the relationships of extant languages. To be able to compare languages from different cultures, he based his lists on meanings he presumed would be available in as many cultures as possible. He then used the fraction of agreeing cognates between any two related languages to compute their divergence time by some (still debated) algorithms. Starting in 1950 with 165 meanings, his list grew to 215 in 1952, which was so expansive that many languages lacked native vocabulary for some terms. Subsequently, it was reduced to 207, and reduced much further to 100 meanings in 1955. A reformulated list was published posthumously in 1971.

List

No. English Trigedasleng
1 I ai, a
2 you (singular) yu
3 he, she, it em, du
4 we oso, osir
5 you (plural) yo
6 they emo, du
7 this disha, dison
8 that dei (...-de), daun(de)
9 here hir
10 there der, ouder
11 who chon
12 what chit
13 where weron
14 when taim
15 how ha
16 not nou
17 all ogeda
18 many tona
19 some bida, kaina
20 few skes
21 other noda, moun
22 one won
23 two tu
24 three thri
25 four fou
26 five fai
27 big biga
28 long
29 wide vas
30 thick
31 heavy
32 small strik
33 short
34 narrow
35 thin
36 woman plan
37 man (adult male) hef
38 man (human being) raunon
39 child goufa, yongon
40 wife houmon
41 husband houmon
42 mother nomon
43 father nontu
44 animal bis
45 fish swima
46 bird sora
47 dog fecha
48 louse
49 snake hisa
50 worm mokskwoma
51 tree tri
52 forest trigeda
53 stick
54 fruit
55 seed
56 leaf leda
57 root
58 bark (of a tree)
59 flower bluma
60 grass
61 rope tayon
62 skin leda
63 meat steiks
64 blood jus
65 bone klaka
66 fat (noun)
67 egg
68 horn tromon
69 tail
70 feather
71 hair breiz
72 head melon
73 ear siva
74 eye blinka
75 nose snifa
76 mouth spika, gapa
77 tooth chopa
78 tongue (organ) teisa
79 fingernail
80 foot fut
81 leg bena
82 knee nila
83 hand meika
84 wing
85 belly graula
86 guts
87 neck
88 back bakon
89 breast
90 heart tombom
91 liver
92 to drink drein daun
93 to eat choj op
94 to bite
95 to suck
96 to spit
97 to vomit
98 to blow
99 to breathe
100 to laugh
101 to see sin in
102 to hear sen in
103 to know get in, mema in
104 to think fig op
105 to smell sen in
106 to fear fir in
107 to sleep rid op
108 to live kik raun
109 to die wan op
110 to kill frag op
111 to fight gon daun
112 to hunt
113 to hit
114 to cut kot op
115 to split vos op
116 to stab
117 to scratch
118 to dig
119 to swim
120 to fly wing au
121 to walk strech au
122 to come kom op
123 to lie (as in a bed) fou daun
124 to sit sin daun
125 to stand gyon op
126 to turn (intransitive) twis op
127 to fall slip daun
128 to give ron op, huk op
129 to hold
130 to squeeze
131 to rub
132 to wash
133 to wipe
134 to pull pul op
135 to push push of
136 to throw
137 to tie
138 to sew
139 to count
140 to say mema in, tel op
141 to sing sing au
142 to play fong raun
143 to float flou daun
144 to flow flou daun
145 to freeze
146 to swell swol op
147 sun deimeika
148 moon natshana
149 star skaifaya
150 water woda
151 rain rein
152 river klinrona
153 lake poda
154 sea lanik
155 salt fleiva
156 stone bouda
157 sand san
158 dust pauda
159 earth graun
160 cloud
161 fog
162 sky skai
163 wind
164 snow
165 ice az
166 smoke
167 fire faya
168 ash folau
169 to burn fleim au
170 road trei
171 mountain maun
172 red bliden, rouz
173 green nulif
174 yellow sankola, sponjbob
175 white bounkola
176 black blaken
177 night sheidgeda
178 day sintaim
179 year yiron
180 warm bonen
181 cold frizen
182 full
183 new brana
184 old kriken
185 good os
186 bad foto
187 rotten
188 dirty
189 straight
190 round
191 sharp (as a knife)
192 dull (as a knife)
193 smooth
194 wet
195 dry
196 correct radon
197 near raun, nibo
198 far lowe
199 right rasad
200 left lesad
201 at raun, gon
202 in ona
203 with ogeda kom
204 and en
205 if taim
206 because kos
207 name tagon

See also


Swadesh lists
Individual languages
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