Sie
Facts
- Language: Sie
- Alternate names: Eromanga, Erramanga, Erromanga, Sye
- Language code: erg
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southern Melanesian, Southern Vanuatu, Erromanga
- Number of speakers: 1900
- Script:
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Introduction
Sie is a language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Southern Vanuatu, Erromanga island.
Dialects
Potnariven, Sie (Sorung), Yoku (Enyau).
The Sie Verb
Verblist
- alam -- to swell
- alei -- to lie down
- aleipo -- to sleep
- amon -- to hide
- amwap -- to yawn
- aŋkmi -- to suck
- aŋri -- to cry
- avan -- to walk
- avsi -- to squeeze
- ehpi -- to count
- eiti, elki -- to tie up, fasten
- elcavi -- to hold
- elehi -- to hunt
- elilwo, elwo -- to vomit
- elintvi -- to bite
- emai -- to chew
- emevyac -- to dream
- emtitoŋi -- to fear
- eni -- to eat
- esomsac -- to breathe
- etai -- to cut, hack
- etehep -- to sit
- etni -- to cook
- etpu -- to grow
- etri -- to sew
- etur -- to stand
- etvani -- to spit
- etvi -- to shoot
- mah -- to die, be dead
- naryovoyu -- to blow
- ocep -- to fly
- ochi -- to see
- ocli -- to dig
- ocu -- to say
- okili -- to know, be knowledgeable
- omol -- to fall
- omonki -- to drink
- omproc, omprokŋi -- to steal
- ompurac -- to work
- omurep -- to live, be alive
- orari -- to flow
- oravran -- to open, uncover
- orei -- to scratch
- orŋi -- to hear
- oruc -- to swim
- ovlaŋkau -- to turn
- owi -- to plant
- satri -- to stab, pierce
- semsi -- to choose
- soki -- to climb
- sumsum -- to sniff, smell
- tai -- to hit
- taloŋi -- to kill
- talsi -- to pound, beat
- taru -- to think
- tauri -- to throw
- tavloŋi -- to split
- tovni -- to burn
- tovop -- to laugh
- vasi -- to buy
- velam, velom -- to come