verbs of carrying

Tue Sep 2 23:05:49 UTC 2014

This is from the Lakalai (a PNG language) dictionary that Andy Pawley and I are currently editing for Ann Chowning. There are two items that seem gender based.

carry (general term)and/or carry in a sling or on the hip, esp. a child   boko, boboko, bokoboko.
carry, esp. on the shoulder bole, bolebole.
carry a child buloko (la-).
carry a person vituga, tuga, tatuga.
carry around one child after another, of an over-burdened grandparent lololo: boko lololo.
carry away vahele.
carry (baby) in a sling talu.
carry back and forth vaibole-baoli.
carry food or other supplies for a trip; carry spares, as spears tamamasi-a.
carry for someone else without being compensated lupu.
carry off, carry away va-goio, vago.
carry on solo.
carry on a tump line (recently introduced practice) kekevo.
carry on the head, of women's loads or men's masks hugu, hugugu, huguhugu.
carry on the shoulders vitilo, tilo.
carry on the wallaby's tail, in Big Wallaby story vahugu.
carry something along vipolo.
carry something vahari.
carry talk vitilo.
carry under the arm or by a rope or handle looped over the shoulder pala-vai, pala-vavai, vai-la (la-).
the carrying bulele (la-).
carrying on the head hulugu (la-).
carrying pad kaitati (la-).
carrying pad for head (women) or shoulder (men) kamitati (la-).

Dr. Wolfgang Sperlich
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From: bender at hawaii.edu
To: Deborah.Hill at canberra.edu.au; an-lang at anu.edu.au
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 06:33:36 -1000
Subject: Re: [An-lang] verbs of carrying

This from the English finder list of the Marshallese On-line Dictionary (http://www.trussel2.com/MOD )

carry  aljek, bōbōk, bōk, leak- carry a child on the hip.  jaja carry a person on one's back.  kuku carry female to or from vessel.  bōkkōrā carry in a basket with long handle slung over shoulder.  aduwado carry in one hand.  arorā, pārājet carry on.  loloorjake carry on shoulders.  inene carry out.  loloorjake, tōprak carry tucked under arm.  abjāje, albakbōk carry with both hands.  pārorā carry, in addition.  uñar carry, of currents.  kinōōr to carry things on hips.  kōjerrā

Byron W. Bender
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Honolulu, HI 96825-1548
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From: Deborah.Hill 
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 1:21 PM
To: an-lang at anu.edu.au 
Subject: [An-lang] verbs of carrying

I’m working on verbs of carrying in Longgu (Oceanic) and I wondered if anyone had any data on ‘carry’ verbs in other Austronesian languages (and especially Western Austronesian languages).

The two things that I’m most interested in are:

1.       Is there a verb for ‘carry on the head’ (and if so, what is it)?
2.       Are there modes of carrying that are (semantically) gender-based?  (i.e. women carry things in one way, men in another).

The verb for ‘carry something on the head’ in Longgu is SUNGI.

Thanks for your help!

Debbie

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