to come; here

Niggemeyer 1951-52

to come; Come on! Let’s go!

Sahidu 1978

to come

Josselin de Jong 1947

to come

Wijngaarden 1896

hither, toward the speaker

Ekris 1864-65

to come

Onvlee 1984

to come

Jonker 1932

to come

to come

Jonker 1932

to come

Taber 1993

Come on! Let’s go!; hither; to come; then, therefore, thus; origin, originate; from, after (in time)

Verheijen 1967-70

to come; hither

Arndt 1961

to come; hither

Stresemann 1918

to come; Come on! Let’s go!

Verheijen 1977a

to come; to arrive

Jonker 1908

to come

Drabbe 1932a

to come

Meye 1964

to come; prepostion: to, for, here

Morris 1984

but, however

Morris 1984

to come, to come to, to become (in this case it is usually followed by #pi)

Josselin de Jong 1987

to come

Drabbe 1932b

come

Thurston 1987

particle indicating action toward some point of reference, generally the speaker; from

Feinberg 1977

here, hither, this way, said of things and persons coming nearby; come here; give it to me; let me see, show me

Geerts 1970

rain is coming

Geerts 1970

Give me

Fox, C. 1970

hither; nearer

Fox, C. 1970

Where do you come from?

Fox, C. 1970

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

Tryon 1976

to come

Ross n.d. b., Anastasia Vuluku Kaue from Makiri village, courtesy of Hiroko Sato

to come

Blust n.d. (1975)

from, at

Jackson and Marck 1991

Come here!

Lanyon-Orgill 1969

hither, to here, generally used with an imperative; to come

Lanyon-Orgill 1969

a directive particle after verbs, indicating movement towards the speaker

Capell 1968

to come

mai

Give me the book!

Give me! (for distant objects)

Sabatier 1971

from

Sabatier 1971

from here

Sabatier 1971

Come here, come towards me!

Sabatier 1971

Come!

Pukui and Elbert 1971

direction towards the speaker; come, come here; say, give (used without particles); almost, nearly, as though; particle of negative command

Pukui and Elbert 1971

to come

come; motion towards the speaker

Wivell 1981

toward speaker; from (place or time)

Lieber and Dikepa 1974

to come

to come

hither; come

Keesing 1975

call someone by waving the hand; beckon

Keesing 1975

next month

Keesing 1975

to me; hither

here

in my direction

to come

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

to come

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

Come here! (= ‘walk hither’)

to come

Blust n.d. (1975)

to come

Blust n.d. (1975)

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

Blust n.d. (1975)

to come

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

Böhm 1975

to come

Böhm 1975

hither, correlative of #atu; used with verbs, adjectives and local nouns to indicate direction or action towards the speaker; indicating extension of time or space towards the speaker; often to be translated ‘from’

Williams 1971

to come; hither (vs. #wai)

Chowning n.d. b

Come here! (= ‘walk hither’)

Wheeler 1926

hither, this way

Codrington and Palmer 1896

Come here! (= ‘walk hither’)

to come

Lister-Turner and Clark 1930

Come here! (= ‘walk hither’)

Blust 1984

to come

Blust 1984

to come

hither, from a point, at a point away from the speaker; come; up til now, from up til now

Fox, C. 1955

come with, bring

Fox, C. 1955

next month

Fox, C. 1955

directive particle: hither, this way, towards the speaker; to give (towards the speaker only); from

McEwen 1970

toward the speaker; less; nearer

Carroll and Soulik 1973

to come

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

to come

from

Elbert 1972

to come

hither, here; correlative of #atu; used with verbs, adjectives and local nouns to indicate direction or action towards the speaker

Savage 1980

directional particle and verb indicating direction towards the speaker; this way, here; me, us; give me; look here; preposition, from

Elbert 1975

hither, here, this way

Ivens 1929

pre-basic particle, from; post-basic particle which denotes a literal or figurative movement from a position (in space or time) toward the point where the speaker is

Milner 1966

Come here! (= ‘walk hither’)

Blust n.d. (1975b)

to come

to come

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

to come

to come

hither, to here; Come here!; to cease, stop, abate, of rain

to or towards me or us, etc.; also expression of desire, etc.

Churchward 1959

venitive directional; signals direction toward the deictic center; in temporal noun phrases it signals that the period of time is distant from the time of reference

towards the speaker; to pass to the speaker; to come (plural)

to come

Tryon and Hackman 1983

come; this way, here; to me

van den Berg 2008

indicates movement or orientation towards the speaker or the speaker’s point of reference: this way, hither, here (the movement may be actual or figurative); indicates that a change of state is beginning or is in progress: start to, become, grow, get (into a new state)

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

from, at, to than (as in ‘Where did you come from?’)

Sohn and Tawerilmang 1976

to come

Blust n.d. (1975)

Come here! (= ‘you come’)

Blust n.d. (1975)

come

Anceaux 1961

hither, toward the speaker

Maan 1940

to come

toward the speaker

van Hasselt and van Hasselt 1947

come hither

van Hasselt and van Hasselt 1947

come here

Held 1942, Anceaux 1961

hither, toward the speaker

Held 1942, Anceaux 1961

Come!

Bergh 1953

to pretend to come

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

able to come

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

to come

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

from; hither, to here

Muthalib 1977

come

van den Berg 1996

Come on! Let us.

van den Berg 1996

from above

van der Veen 1940

from there

van der Veen 1940

hither, toward the speaker

van der Veen 1940

come here

van der Veen 1940

will come, shall come

Schwarz 1908

come; hither; Come on! (= ‘Let’s go!’)

Anceaux 1987

to come