Shabo lexicon

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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