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Shabo lexicon
This is a lexicon of the endangered and little-documented Shabo language of Ethiopia, containing the few words that have been collected of it by linguists (currently, it contains those collected by Teferra & Unseth). See Shabo language for a bibliography.
- all: yinkapo, haɓa
- ashes: punk'wa
- bark: ork'an
- belly: jukuma, sukuma
- big: mat
- bird: holut
- bite: p'ida, kaw(ge) (see "tooth", "mouth")
- black: c'inii(ŋ/n)
- blood: yɛrom
- bone: ɛmenan, ɪmaha
- breast: duh
- burn (transitive): gota, goma
- chicken: baako
- claw/nail: ʃeŋgi, cofolkoh
- cold: k'enɗi
- come: amo
- cut: c'ota
- die: k'o
- dog: kaan, kaʔal
- drink: woh (cf. "water")
- dry: sʔoto, ici
- ear: k'iti
- eat: t'a
- egg: tutukan
- eye: se
- fat (noun): sʔilima(m/ŋ), ciime
- feather: c'eka (= "hair"?)
- fire: c'uwa
- fish: c'aŋa
- fly (n.): kayan, zefa
- foot/leg: bicca
- four: aŋan
- girl: koto (= "woman")
- give: hanno
- go: no
- good: ɗanka
- granary: gootare
- grass: c'aamo
- hair: c'eeka
- hand: ifu
- head: k'oyi
- heart: (yi)dundet
- horn: kolbe
- house/hut: doku, aha
- I: tiŋ
- kill: há
- knee: hutu, hotu
- know: ɗɛ
- leaf: c'aam(o) (cf. "grass")
- liver: cukuma
- long: ɗama
- louse: nɛnna
- lung: ʃambo
- man: upa
- many: habba
- meat: hà (cf. "kill")
- milk (human): il
- moon: kasupu, kaʃip (cf. "sun"), goom(u)
- mouth: kaw(ʃɛ)
- name: iŋkaye
- neck: nimma, dɛppu, ʃonna(se)
- one: iiŋki
- other: maʔam, yuu, upa (= "person")
- rat: kilta
- red: c'aara
- river: wo (cf. "water")
- road/path: homa, koma
- root: tiltil
- say: sum, kimmo
- see: yinno/yesi
- seed: walkun
- sit (down): mo(opa), manka
- skin (human): akuʃ
- sleep: haɓa(fa), tolʔam
- small: hɛdeb(u) (cf. "thin")
- smoke: tooru, ciimbi
- snake: paar
- spear: ɓake
- spear handle: gɛre
- stand (up): hitta, ponkaɓala
- star: marion
- stone: manna
- sun: oha, kaiʃet (cf. "moon")
- swim: liyet
- tail: ʃooʃa, ʃundum
- that: ŋa
- thin: hɛdɛbu (cf. "small")
- this: ŋaŋam, ney
- thou: kuku
- three: jiita
- tongue: handa
- tooth: k'aw (see also "bite, mouth")
- tree: k'onna
- two: babu
- want: inɗeet
- warm/hot: ʃub
- water: wo
- we: yiŋ
- wet: k'inna
- what?: naambi
- white: ɗada
- who?: kukne, naafe, neʔebe
- woman: umɓa, koto (= "girl")
- work: apuur
- you (pl.): ʃubək
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