Meskangela: Difference between revisions

| ''*lëŋa'' || ''lëŋa'' || ''eŋa'' || ''łuŋa'' || ''băŋa'' || ''*lu'' || ''pēli'' || ''lu''

| ''*Cuk'' || ''khuk'' || ''khuk'' || ''lëruk'' || ''luk'' || ''*anöm'' || ''enem'' || ''anom''

| ''*sëni(s)'' || ''sënis'' || ''stris'' || ''hëni'' || ''enit'' || ''*peˀtu'' || ''pētu'' || ''petho''

| ''*nisCuk'' || ''nikhuk'' || ''niskuk'' || ''nirhuk'' || ''niluk'' || – || ''nileu'' || ''phesî''

| ''*mëkul'' || ''mëkul'' || ''mëkul'' || ''mëkū'' || ''mukog'' || ''*hul(i~u)'' || ''huli'' || ''mokō''

| ''*rëgya'' || ''rëgai'' || ''rëge'' || ''rëja'' || ''răsē'' || – || ''pēhuli'' || ''cāwia anom''

Ilain word for “eight” (as well as Western Ilai ''nileu'' “twelve” and Eastern Ilai ''mokō'' “twenty”) are obvious borrowings from Southern Meskangela. The word ''*li'' “four” may also be an old borrowing, although Eastern Ilai ''lalí~rarí'' can be derived from “two pairs” (''ra'' “pair” is likely present in *ára “two”). Other words, such as “one” and “ten” show possible cognation, and Eastern Ilai ''lu'' “five” being similar to first element in ''lë-ŋa'' “five”, though the evidence is inconclusive. The similarities might have arisen from borrowing into Ilain from Meskangela (or vice versa) during prehistoric times.