siʼ

Belait

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siʔ/

Noun

siʼ

1. water
2. river

Further reading

• Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam (1996), page 15: Examples in modern-day Belait are seow "sugarcane", siʼ "water," and sok "head hair".
• ABVD, citing Peter Mastin (siʔ)
• Robert Blust, Low Vowel Fronting in Northern Sarawak, Oceanic Linguistics 39:2 (2000), page 314
• Robert Blust, The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited, Oceanic Linguistics 45:2 (2006)

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Chol

Noun

siʼ

1. wood

References

• Lauren Clemens and Jessica Coon, Prosodic constituency of verb-initial clauses in Ch’ol (2016), p. 2