adj | Adjective |
adv | Adverb |
AM | Associative Marker (noun class agreement) |
attr | Attributive |
C | Consonant |
conj | Conjunction |
cl | Class |
dem | Demonstrative |
dm | Developmental Marker |
det. | Determiner |
Dial.var. | Dialect Variant |
e.g. | For example |
Fr.var. | Free variant |
H | High tone |
HL | High-low tone |
HM | High-mid tone |
ideo | Ideophone |
impf | Imperfective |
incl. | Inclusive |
inter | Interrogative |
iv | Initial vowel |
k.o. | Kind of |
L | Low tone |
lit. | Literally |
M | Mid tone |
ML | Mid-low tone |
n | Noun |
N | Homorganic nasal |
neg. | Negative Word |
NP | Noun phrase |
num | Numeral |
perf | Perfective |
pfx. | N-Prefix |
pl. | Plural |
poss | Possessive |
PR | Proto-ring |
PP | Prepositional phrase |
prep | Preposition |
pro | Pronoun |
quant | Quantifier |
quest | Question marker |
ref | Referential |
rel | Relative clause |
qw. | Question Word |
s.b. | Somebody |
sg | Singular |
s.o. | Someone |
s.t. | Sometimes |
sp. | Species |
syn | Synonym |
tam | Tense/Aspect Marker |
ths. | Things |
toa. | Term of Address |
V | Vowel |
v | Verb |
vi | Verb intransitive |
vt | Verb transitive |
1 | Prefix for class 1 |
2 | Prefix for class 2, etc. |