Abbreviations
| 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. |
| adj. | adjective |
| adv. | adverb |
| class. | botanical or zoological classification |
| conj. | conjunction |
| idéoph. | ideophone |
| interj. | interjection |
| n. | noun |
| nég. | negation, negative |
| num. | numeral |
| num.card. | cardinal numeral |
| num.ord. | ordinal numberal |
| part. | particle |
| part. interr. | interrogatif particle |
| pl. | plural |
| postp. | postposition |
| prép. | preposition |
| pron. | pronoun |
| pron.emph. | emphatic pronoun |
| pron.emph.loc. | emphatic locative pronoun |
| pron.emph.pers. | emphatic personal pronoun |
| pron.pers. | personal pronoun |
| pron.rel. et dém. | relative and demonstrative pronoun |
| pron.rel. et dém.loc. | relative and demonstrative locative pronoun |
| sg. | singular |
| sp. | species |
| v. | verb |
| v.descr. | descriptive verb |
| v.h.p. | irregular verb |
| v.stat. | stative verb |
| var. | variant |
