Appendix:Megleno-Romanian Swadesh list

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This is a Swadesh list of words in Megleno-Romanian, compared with definitions in English.

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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

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No. English Megleno-Romanian
vlășească
1 I i̯o
2 you (singular) tu
3 he, she, it i̯el
4 we noi
5 you (plural) voi
6 they i̯eľ
7 this tsist
8 that tsel
9 here u̯a
10 there colo, ạncǫ
11 who cola, ạncolo
12 what tse, tsi
13 where i̯undi
14 when cǫn
15 how cum
16 not nu
17 all tot
18 many muľts
19 some niști
20 few uneac
21 other altu
22 one un
23 two doi
24 three trei
25 four patru
26 five tsints
27 big mari
28 long lung
29 wide larg
30 thick gros
31 heavy greu
32 small mic, minut
33 short
34 narrow strimt
35 thin subtzǫri
36 woman muľari
37 man (adult male) bărbat, mascur
38 man (human being) u̯om
39 child cupilaș, fitšor
40 wife niveastă
41 husband bărbat
42 mother mamă
43 father tată
44 animal
45 fish peaști
46 bird
47 dog cǫini
48 louse piducľu
49 snake şarpi
50 worm ghermi, varmi
51 tree arbur, pom
52 forest păduri
53 stick virdzeau̯ă
54 fruit plod
55 seed siminţă
56 leaf frunză
57 root corin
58 bark (of a tree)
59 flower floari
60 grass i̯arbă
61 rope funi, fortumă
62 skin coajă
63 meat carni
64 blood sǫnzi
65 bone u̯os
66 fat (noun) grăsimi
67 egg u̯ou
68 horn corn
69 tail coadă
70 feather peană
71 hair per
72 head cap
73 ear ureacľă
74 eye u̯ocľu
75 nose nas
76 mouth gură
77 tooth dinti, măseau̯ă
78 tongue (organ) limbă
79 fingernail ungľă
80 foot pitšor
81 leg pitšor
82 knee zinucľu
83 hand mǫnă
84 wing i̯aripă, aripă
85 belly buric, foali
86 guts matsi
87 neck gușă
88 back gorb
89 breast chi̯ept
90 heart ińamă
91 liver drob
92 to drink beai, bęu
93 to eat mănǫnc
94 to bite
95 to suck sug
96 to spit scup
97 to vomit vom
98 to blow suflu
99 to breathe
100 to laugh rǫd
101 to see ved
102 to hear ud
103 to know știu
104 to think misles
105 to smell miruses
106 to fear mi ạnfric
107 to sleep dorm
108 to live trăies, ghii̯es
109 to die mor
110 to kill nec, vatăm
111 to fight mi bat, mi buros
112 to hunt luves
113 to hit ugudes
114 to cut taľ
115 to split dispic
116 to stab pung
117 to scratch zgair, scarpin
118 to dig sap
119 to swim plivăies
120 to fly părăies
121 to walk amnu
122 to come vin
123 to lie (as in a bed) mi culc, stau̯ culcat
124 to sit șǫd
125 to stand stau
126 to turn (intransitive) mi ạnvărtes
127 to fall cad
128 to give dau
129 to hold tsǫn
130 to squeeze string
131 to rub frec
132 to wash spel
133 to wipe șterg
134 to pull trag, trăgăies
135 to push
136 to throw runc
137 to tie leg
138 to sew cos
139 to count numir
140 to say spun, zic
141 to sing cǫnt
142 to play (mi) joc
143 to float plivăies
144 to flow cur
145 to freeze ạngľets
146 to swell mi anflu
147 sun soari
148 moon lună
149 star steau̯ă
150 water apu
151 rain ploaiă
152 river vali
153 lake lac
154 sea mari
155 salt sari
156 stone rǫpă
157 sand pisoc
158 dust prau
159 earth pimint
160 cloud nor
161 fog
162 sky tser
163 wind vint
164 snow neau̯ă
165 ice gľets
166 smoke fum
167 fire foc
168 ash tșănușă
169 to burn ardu
170 road cåle
171 mountain munti
172 red roș
173 green veardi
174 yellow galbin
175 white alb, beal
176 black negru
177 night noapti
178 day zuu̯ă
179 year an
180 warm cald
181 cold ratsi, frig
182 full ạmplin
183 new nou
184 old vecľu
185 good bun
186 bad rǫu
187 rotten putrid
188 dirty murdar
189 straight
190 round gurguľat
191 sharp (as a knife) tăľătos
192 dull (as a knife)
193 smooth
194 wet vlajnic
195 dry uscat
196 correct
197 near prochiat, proapi
198 far diparti
199 right dirept, dreapta
200 left stǫng, leava
201 at la,
202 in ăn
203 with cu
204 and și
205 if acu
206 because , pri tse, dintru că
207 name numi
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