Appendix:Somali Swadesh list

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This is a Swadesh list of words in Somali, 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 Somali
Af-Soomaali
1 I aniga
2 you (singular) adiga
3 he, she, it asaga
4 we anaga
5 you (plural) idinka
6 they ayaga
7 this -kan
8 that -kaas
9 here inta
10 there xaggaas
11 who yaa
kee
12 what maxaa
13 where xaggee
14 when markee
15 how see
16 not ma-
17 all dan
18 many badan
19 some xoogaa
20 few wax yer
21 other kale
22 one kow
hal
23 two labo
24 three saddex
25 four afar
26 five shan
27 big weyn
28 long dheer
29 wide balaar
30 thick qardan
jinaad
qanweyn
31 heavy culeys
32 small yar
33 short gaaban
34 narrow ciriiri
35 thin caato
36 woman naag
37 man (adult male) nin
38 man (human being) beni adam
39 child cunug
40 wife xaas
41 husband say
42 mother hooyo
43 father aabo
aabe
44 animal xoolo
45 fish malay
46 bird shimbir
47 dog ay
48 louse cinjir
49 snake mas
50 worm dirxi
dhase
51 tree geed
52 forest duur
53 stick ul
54 fruit miro
furuut
55 seed miro
56 leaf caleen
57 root sal
xidid
58 bark (of a tree) qolfo
59 flower ubax
60 grass caws
61 rope xarig
62 skin jir
63 meat hilib
64 blood diig
65 bone laf
66 fat (noun) baruur
67 egg ukun
68 horn gees
69 tail seyn
70 feather baal
71 hair timo
72 head madax
73 ear deg
74 eye il
75 nose san
76 mouth af
77 tooth ilig
78 tongue (organ) carab
79 fingernail ciddi
80 foot cag
81 leg lug
82 knee jilib
83 hand gacan
84 wing baal
85 belly calool
86 guts xalus
87 neck duun
luqun
88 back dhabar
89 breast laab
xabad
gardaad
90 heart wadne
galb
91 liver beer
92 to drink cab
93 to eat cun
94 to bite qaniin
95 to suck nuug
96 to spit tuf
97 to vomit matag
98 to blow afuuf
99 to breathe neefsan
100 to laugh qosol
101 to see arkid
102 to hear maqlid
103 to know ogaan
104 to think fakarid
filid
malayn
105 to smell urin
106 to fear baqid or baqdin
107 to sleep hurdo
seexo
108 to live noolaan
109 to die dhiman
amuud
110 to kill dilid
111 to fight dagaal
112 to hunt ugaarid
gabraarid
tagagsid
yahanid
113 to hit ku dufan
114 to cut jarid
115 to split qaybin
116 to stab toogan
dooxin
117 to scratch xagid
xogid
118 to dig qodid
119 to swim dabaalan
120 to fly duulid
121 to walk socod
122 to come imaan
123 to lie (as in a bed) jiifsan
124 to sit fariisan
125 to stand taagnaanid
126 to turn (intransitive) leexan
127 to fall dhacid
128 to give siin
129 to hold hay
130 to squeeze buquujin
131 to rub marin
132 to wash dhiqid
133 to wipe tirtirid
134 to pull jiidid
135 to push riixid
136 to throw tuuris
137 to tie xirid
138 to sew tolid
139 to count tirin
140 to say sheegid
dhahid
141 to sing heesid
142 to play ciyaarid
143 to float sabbeyn
heehaabin
jeegayn
144 to flow soocan
bulbulin
dareer
145 to freeze dhaxamoodid
146 to swell barar
147 sun qorrax
cadceed
libdho
148 moon dayax
149 star xiddig
150 water biyo
151 rain roob
152 river webi
153 lake haro
154 sea bad
155 salt cusbo
156 stone dhagax
157 sand ciid
carro
camuud
158 dust dhas
bus
biti
awaare
159 earth carro
arlo
160 cloud daruur
cadhar
161 fog caad
ceeryaan
162 sky cir
samo
163 wind dabayl
164 snow baraf
165 ice baraf
166 smoke qiiq
qaac
167 fire dab
168 ash danbas
169 to burn gubid
170 road jid
waddo
marin
171 mountain buur
172 red gaduud
casaan
173 green cagaar
174 yellow huruud
jaale
175 white cadaan
176 black madow
177 night habeen
178 day maalin
179 year sanad
180 warm dugsan
diiran
181 cold qabow
182 full buux
183 new cusayb
184 old duug
185 good fiican
186 bad xun
187 rotten balal
hallowsan
qaashay
188 dirty wasakh
189 straight toos
190 round gooban
wareegsan
191 sharp (as a knife) afaysan
192 dull (as a knife) kirkiran
193 smooth malaas
194 wet qoyan
195 dry qalalan
196 correct sax
dhabaqan
habban
>habboon
197 near dhow
198 far fog
199 right midig
200 left bidix
201 at
202 in dhex
203 with la
204 and iyo
205 if hadii
206 because li anna (example or for instance somali means tusaale)
207 name magac

See also

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Swadesh lists
Individual languages
Language families, family branches, and geographic groupings
Constructed languages
Reconstructed proto-languages
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