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ng
: engunda
‘to trample into shreds’
lj
: gala
‘a fatal accident’
ls
: halsu
‘want of fortitude and patience in adversity’
ds
: hodso
‘to cause to glide down suddenly’
nt
: kanta
‘a patched (cloth)’
rm
: marmar
‘scorpion’
dt
: padta
‘sound of falling mud’
lk
: palkud
‘a hard and swollen type in a muscle’
mb
: rambaa
‘green gram’
m
: romļol
‘a straight spine’
nk
: enka
‘like that’
gl
: ca? lom
‘tail’
bp
: rabpa
‘to break a bone suddenly’
cr
: pacri
‘afar’
kt
: pokta
‘strong’
pt
: opta
‘to fight together’
c
: aca
‘late sowing’
g
: ago
‘flood of dirty water’
k
: kakom
‘a crab’
mp
: campia
‘a kili (clan)’
nc
: cancai
‘a rectangular basket’
mc
: damcu?
‘galloping of horse'
dk
: dodkoloper
'the habit of nervous fear'
c
: icua
‘king crow’
sk
: eskar
‘slone’
rc
: gurci
‘to throw a top’
dc
: hodcol
‘tapering, pointed'
ld
: huldub
‘luxuriant appearance of a plant'
tk
: itkid
‘the art of rubbing’
dg
: padga
‘able, skilful’
d
: pada
‘to snap a rope suddenly’
br
: robrod
‘to make the joints of one’s waist crack by twisting the body’
n
: rene-pene
‘a quiet scolding without shouting’
rn
: sarna
‘a sacred grove’
gs
: ka?som
‘cotton’
gc
: pa?cur
‘a wale’
p
: lupi
‘sticky juice of tree’
tr
: bitrid
bitrid ‘idea to do something’
pr
: epraN
‘to fight together’
lc
: pelca?
‘yaws’
kr
: kokro
‘hollow’
pl
: dipla
‘a particluar time or moment’
s
: heso
‘a lier’
g
: suga
‘beautiful’

Among the sevenytwo incidences of consonant clusters, there are fourteen which have unvoiced stops as the first element. Since such stops are of complex nature with vocalic release, they are to be classified separately, and are five in number:

k
- kr, 
k,
kt,
kl.
t
- tk,
tr.
- k,
l.
c
- cr,
cd.
p
- pr,
p·,
pl,
pt.

For the other fiftyeight clusters, the following constitute the first element (which are ten in number) :

n
- nj,
nd,
nc,
n·,
nt,
n,
ng,
nk.
-
k, 
g
, s,
c.
l
- lp,
lj,
ls,
ld,
lk,
lc.
d
- dl,
dr,
dk,
dc,
dg,
dt,
d.
b
- br,
bp.
m -
md,
mg,
mk,
mp,
m,
mb,
mj,
mc,
mt,
m·.
r
- rj.
rp,
rs,
rt,
rk,
rl,
rg,
r,
rc,
rm,
rn,
rd.

 

 

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