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/kùt cál/ ‘index finger’
/kùt ziék/ ‘hand writing’
/kùt lái/ ‘middle finger’
/kùt rí/ ‘wrist’
/kùt rù/ ‘bone of hand’, ‘fingers’
/kè/ ‘leg’
/kè pàr/ ‘toe’
/kè kk/ ‘shoes’
/kè tín/  ‘nail of finger of foot’
/kè ùm/ ‘heel’
/kè mìt/ ‘ankle’
/kè rài/ ‘calf of a leg’
/thí/ ‘tree’
/thí pùi/ ‘teaplant’
/thí zà:r/ ‘big branches of a tree’
/thí kàu/ ‘branch of a tree’
/thí kù:/ ‘trunk of a tree’
/thí hnà/ ‘leaves of a tree’
/thí h:/ ‘bark of a tree’
/thí lè:r/ ‘to of a tree’
/thí rèm/ ‘box made of wood’
/mìt/ ‘eye’
/mìt thlí/ ‘water from eyes (- tears)’
/mìt mú/ ‘eye-bal (lit. eye seed)’
/mìt naúlé:/ ‘pupil of an eye’
/mìt vún/  ‘lids of an eye’
/ná:/ ‘ear’
/ná: ínbùo/ ‘ear’s ache’
/ná: tíl/ ‘ear lobe’
/é:k/ ‘excreta’
/b: é:k/ ‘cow-dung’
/mìhríe:m é:k/ ‘stool’
/màzù é:k/ ‘rat’s excreta’
/sà:kr è:k/ ‘horse’s cxcreta’
/vetè é:k/ ‘birds excreta’
/é:k ìn/ ‘latrine’
/é:k dù:r/ ‘dung soil’
/túi/ ‘water’
/zó túi/ ‘mountain’s stream’
/hríek/ ‘oil’
/aíthí hríek/ ‘ginger oil’
/ánàm hríek/ ‘mustard oil’
/sì-hríek/ ‘til oil’
/nàríel hrìek/ ‘coconut oil’
/bàdám hrìek/ ‘groundnut oil’
/théi/ ‘fruit’
/théi mù/ ‘stone of a fruit’
/théi h:/ ‘peel of a fruit’
/théi tùi/ ‘juice of a fruit’
/á/ ‘fish’
/à túi/ ‘roe of fish’
/à hrà/ ‘herring’, mahseer’
/à rù/ ‘bone of a fish’
/à hlìp/ ‘scale of a fish’
/b:/ ‘cow’
/b: nénè/ ‘cow’s milk’
/b: sá/ ‘cow’s meat’, ‘beef’
/b: vún/ ‘cow’s skin’
/méi/ ‘fire’
/méi khù/  ‘smoke of fire’
/méi ck/ ‘flame of fire’
   
   
3.6.3
Head Noun + Attributive Noun Compound
In the sec. 3.2.4 it has seen that adjectives follow the nouns they qualify. This being the general pattern, it is quite obvious that nouns that function as attributive will also follow the head nouns. Given below a set of paradigm where the head nouns precede the attributive nouns to form compounds.

 

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