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This is a Swadesh list of words in Kabyle English .
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.
№ English Kabyleedit (207) 1 I (1sg )nekk 2 you (2sg )kečč kemm 3 he , she , it (3sg )netta 4 we (1pl )nekni nekkenti 5 you (2pl )kunwi kunnemti 6 they (3pl )nutni nutenti 7 this a ta 8 that wihin tihin 9 here d 10 there n 11 who anwa 12 what acu 13 where anda 14 when melmi 15 how amek 16 not ur...ara 17 all aku 18 many aṭas 19 some kra 20 few drus cwiya 21 other niḍen 22 one yiwen 23 two sin 24 three kraḍ 25 four kuẓ 26 five semmus 27 big ameqqran 28 long aɣezfan 29 wide wessiɛ abaraw 30 thick azuran 31 heavy ẓẓay 32 small ameẓjan amecṭuḥ 33 short wezzil 34 narrow uħṛis 35 thin rqiq 36 woman tameṭṭut 37 man (adult male)argaz 38 man (human being)amdan 39 child agrud 40 wife tameṭṭut 41 husband argaz 42 mother yemma 43 father baba 44 animal aɣersiw aywal 45 fish aslem 46 bird afrux 47 dog aqjun 48 louse tilkit 49 snake azrem 50 worm tawekka 51 tree ttejra useklu 52 forest teẓgi 53 stick aɛekkaz 54 fruit yigumma lfakya 55 seed amud 56 leaf ifer 57 root aẓaṛ 58 bark (of a tree)iclem 59 flower ajeǧǧig 60 grass tuga 61 rope amrar 62 skin aɣlim 63 meat aksum 64 blood idammen 65 bone iɣas 66 fat (noun)eddhin 67 egg tamellalt 68 horn iccew 69 tail aẓeɛkuk 70 feather incew 71 hair anẓad 72 head aqeṛṛu 73 ear ameẓẓuɣ 74 eye tiṭ allen 75 nose anzaren 76 mouth imi 77 tooth uɣel tuɣmest 78 tongue (organ)iles 79 fingernail accar 80 foot aḍaṛ 81 leg aḍaṛ 82 knee aɣecrir 83 hand afus 84 wing afriw 85 belly aɛəbbuḍ 86 guts ijeɣdan 87 neck amgeṛḍ 88 back uɛrur 89 breast idmaren 90 heart ul 91 liver tasa 92 to drink sew 93 to eat ečč 94 to bite ɣeẓẓ 95 to suck tetteḍ 96 to spit susef 97 to vomit err 98 to blow adu 99 to breathe neffes 100 to laugh yeṣṣ 101 to see ẓer 102 to hear sel 103 to know issin 104 to think xemmem 105 to smell sfeħ 106 to fear ɣedd 107 to sleep ṭṭes 108 to live zdeɣ 109 to die emmet 110 to kill enɣ 111 to fight mecč 112 to hunt ṣeyyeḍ 113 to hit weṭ 114 to cut gzem 115 to split beḍḍ 116 to stab iweṭ 117 to scratch xebbec 118 to dig ɣez 119 to swim ɛum 120 to fly afeɣ 121 to walk eddu 122 to come as 123 to lie (as in a bed) ɣen 124 to sit qqim 125 to stand bedd 126 to turn (intransitive) zzi 127 to fall ɣli 128 to give efk 129 to hold ṭṭef 130 to squeeze zmeɣ 131 to rub ħekk 132 to wash ssired 133 to wipe sfed 134 to pull jebbed 135 to push demmer 136 to throw reɣ 137 to tie qqen 138 to sew xaḍ 139 to count ħseb 140 to say ini 141 to sing cenn 142 to play urar 143 to float tfel 144 to flow eɣder 145 to freeze sseɣres 146 to swell ceff 147 sun iṭij 148 moon aggur 149 star itri 150 water aman 151 rain aɣeffur 152 river asif 153 lake ugelmim 154 sea ilel 155 salt lmelħ 156 stone aẓru 157 sand ijdi 158 dust aɣɣebaṛ 159 earth axal 160 cloud asiɣna 161 fog aɣu 162 sky igenni 163 wind aḍu 164 snow adfel 165 ice aɣris 166 smoke abbu 167 fire timess 168 ash iɣed 169 to burn ṛeɣ 170 road abrid 171 mountain adrar 172 red azeggaɣ 173 green azeɣzaw 174 yellow awṛaɣ 175 white amellal 176 black aberkan 177 night iḍ 178 day ass 179 year aseggas 180 warm azɣal 181 cold asemmiḍ 182 full ačaṛan 183 new amaynu 184 old adim aqbuṛ 185 good yelha 186 bad yir 187 rotten yerka 188 dirty yumas 189 straight srid 190 round imdewweṛ 191 sharp (as a knife)yemsed mliħ 192 dull (as a knife)yeħfa 193 smooth alewwaɣ 194 wet yibzeɣ 195 dry akiwan 196 correct iseħħa yelha 197 near sdas 198 far bɛid 199 right uyeffus 200 left uzelmaḍ 201 at ɣef d 202 in deg 203 with akked 204 and d 205 if ma 206 because acku 207 name isem
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