Appendix:Mandaic Swadesh list

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This is a Swadesh list of words in Mandaic, compared with definitions in English.

Introduction

For further information, including the full final version of the list, read the Wikipedia article: Swadesh list.

American linguist Morris Swadesh believed that languages changed at measurable rates and that these could be determined even for languages without written precursors. Using vocabulary lists, he sought to understand not only change over time but also the relationships of extant languages. To be able to compare languages from different cultures, he based his lists on meanings he presumed would be available in as many cultures as possible. He then used the fraction of agreeing cognates between any two related languages to compute their divergence time by some (still debated) algorithms. Starting in 1950 with 165 meanings, his list grew to 215 in 1952, which was so expansive that many languages lacked native vocabulary for some terms. Subsequently, it was reduced to 207, and reduced much further to 100 meanings in 1955. A reformulated list was published posthumously in 1971.

List

No. English Neo-Mandaic
Mandɔyí
1 I ana
2 you (singular) at
3 he, she, it hui
4 we ani
5 you (plural) atan
6 they huni
7 this auha
8 that aku
9 here hna
10 there akak
11 who man
12 what mia
13 where alia
14 when hamdu
15 how kmu
16 not lu
17 all gaš
18 many ginza
19 some parz
20 few parzi
21 other hurina
22 one ahda
23 two trin
24 three klata
25 four arbu
26 five hamša
27 big rabu
28 long arik
29 wide patia
30 thick smika
31 heavy kadira
32 small hanin
33 short gṭan
34 narrow zalil
35 thin hapip
36 woman ata (ainša)
37 man (adult male) gabra
38 man (human being) barnaša
39 child gihal
40 wife ata
41 husband bla
42 mother ama
43 father baua
44 animal uahši
45 fish panida
46 bird supra
47 dog kalba
48 louse qmulta
49 snake hauia
50 worm tla
51 tree drakt / šagra
52 forest
53 stick gasna
54 fruit miua
55 seed bazra
56 leaf pr
57 root gazra
58 bark (of a tree) mašk šagra
59 flower gal / gul
60 grass hašiš
61 rope mašua
62 skin maška
63 meat basra
64 blood dma / zama
65 bone garma
66 fat (noun) šamna
67 egg baia
68 horn qarn
69 tail dama
70 feather gapu / gapa
71 hair manza
72 head riša
73 ear adna / ana
74 eye aina
75 nose nhira
76 mouth pama
77 tooth šana
78 tongue (organ) lšan
79 fingernail
80 foot kraia
81 leg kraia / lagra
82 knee burka
83 hand aida
84 wing gapa
85 belly karṣa
86 guts karsa
87 neck paqata
88 back butar
89 breast
90 heart libu
91 liver kabda
92 to drink št
93 to eat akal
94 to bite nakti
95 to suck šat
96 to spit araq
97 to vomit gha
98 to blow rahu ata
99 to breathe
100 to laugh ghak
101 to see hzi
102 to hear ṣat
103 to know bašqir
104 to think pakr auad
105 to smell arah
106 to fear dhalta
107 to sleep gni
108 to live hian hauin
109 to die mt
110 to kill gṭal
111 to fight šr
112 to hunt ṣaid
113 to hit mhi
114 to cut pṣqi
115 to split palga
116 to stab mhi
117 to scratch huk
118 to dig hpr
119 to swim šnu
120 to fly ahr azgu
121 to walk duti
122 to come gni
123 to lie (as in a bed) ihm
124 to sit bgaṣ
125 to stand hadar
126 to turn (intransitive) npal
127 to fall phar
128 to give ahau
129 to hold lkuṭ
130 to squeeze asra
131 to rub parki
132 to wash hauar
133 to wipe
134 to pull tli
135 to push hul aud
136 to throw ṭuhi
137 to tie uaiaq
138 to sew huṭ
139 to count mni
140 to say amar
141 to sing zmr
142 to play ṭalal
143 to float šanu
144 to flow npaq
145 to freeze gmad
146 to swell smar
147 sun šamaš
148 moon sara
149 star kakua
150 water mia / mina
151 rain maṭra
152 river nahra
153 lake iama
154 sea iama
155 salt mahla
156 stone glal
157 sand hala
158 dust gbar
159 earth dašta
160 cloud aiua
161 fog
162 sky arqiha
163 wind rahua
164 snow talg nihat
165 ice talga
166 smoke gatra
167 fire nura
168 ash tauša / ṭauša
169 to burn qla
170 road ahra
171 mountain ṭur
172 red ṣmaqa
173 green iaraqa
174 yellow sapra
175 white hbara
176 black akumu
177 night lilia
178 day iuma
179 year šta
180 warm hamim
181 cold msi
182 full mli
183 new hata
184 old hatiqa
185 good ṣanii / ṣanua
186 bad bṭala
187 rotten sari
188 dirty ṭaušana
189 straight raṣ
190 round gird
191 sharp (as a knife) tiz
192 dull (as a knife)
193 smooth nrm
194 wet msamar
195 dry ibuša
196 correct durust
197 near nazdik
198 far baiid
199 right iamin
200 left asmala
201 at qar
202 in gu
203 with ark
204 and u
205 if agr
206 because ka
207 name ašma

References

  • Häberl, Charles (2009) The Neo-Mandaic Dialect of Khorramshahr‎, Otto Harrassowitz, →DOI
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