Seimat
Facts
- Language: Seimat
- Alternate names: Ninigo
- Language code: ssg
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Admiralty Islands, Western Admiralty Islands
- Number of speakers: 1000
- Script:
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Introduction
Seimat is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Western Manus Province, Ninigo and Anchorite islands.
The Seimat Verb
Verblist
- ahoah -- to blow
- akekeni -- to hold
- aŋ -- to eat
- asoi -- to sniff, smell
- atalahi -- to bite
- axuti -- to scratch
- eŋ -- to lie down
- ha|naw -- to breathe
- han -- to climb
- hapiki -- to shoot
- hoŋ -- to hear
- hulo -- to swell
- hunui -- to squeeze
- kahui -- to buy
- kakak -- to say
- koti -- to cut, hack
- lui -- to burn
- mal -- to laugh
- mamata -- to fear
- mat -- to die, be dead
- mati -- to sleep
- maw -- to yawn
- moĩhin -- to live, be alive
- mumuna -- to hide
- mutumut -- to vomit
- nahĩ ma -- to come
- nahĩ teletel -- to hunt
- nahĩ -- to walk
- nahĩ -- to work
- naketi -- to chew
- namiloi -- to think
- nunu -- to swim
- ŋoŋ -- to fly
- paxai -- to see
- paxaŋoŋ -- to dream
- puke -- to spit
- putaput -- to fall
- saleki, simi -- to cook
- saŋai -- to split
- sawiti -- to sew
- seini -- to plant
- susui -- to suck
- tahĩwi -- to dig
- taŋ -- to cry
- tapuhĩ -- to stab, pierce
- telei -- to kill
- tioi -- to know, be knowledgeable
- to -- to sit
- toheni -- to turn
- toi -- to throw
- tu -- to stand
- un -- to drink
- wexe -- to count
- xai -- to hit
- xelexele -- to grow
- xioti -- to tie up, fasten
- xuxuina -- to steal