languages (Mairasi, Mer, Semimi) with cognate matches, from Peckham (1991a,b), quoted in Foley (2018): {| |+ Mairasi family basic vocabulary ! gloss !! Mairasi !! Mer !! Semimi |- | ‘bird’ || sai || sai || sai |- | ‘blood’ || isere || isere || monad |- | ‘bone’ || natura || singgu || natura |- | ‘breast’ || jogu || jogu || jogu |- | ‘ear’ || navir anda || nevira || ot navira |- | ‘eat’ || neneman || namba || neneme |- | ‘egg’ || eːte || ede || anggu ete |- | ‘eye’ || nambutu || nembiatu || ombiatu |- | ‘fire’ || ivore || ivoro || iforo |- | ‘give’ || tomnaijan || nombonaiyomo || tomonai |- | ‘ground’ || wasasai || wasase || makoro |- | ‘hair’ || nasuru || nasuru || nasuru |- | ‘hear’ || ivjeme || iveme || iveme |- | ‘I’ || ʔomo || omo || omo |- | ‘leg’ || naʔor || nakora || okor anda |- | ‘louse’ || ʔumai || kumai || kumai |- | ‘man’ || tatʔovo || neum tato || tatokovo |- | ‘moon’ || unsir || anggane || anggane |- | ‘name’ || nggwata || wata || newata |- | ‘one’ || tanggau || nawaze || tanakau |- | ‘path, road’ || ʔae || kae || kai |- | ‘see’ || natom || daviomo || nondome |- | ‘stone’ || javutu || wavo || javutu |- | ‘sun’ || tende || ungguru || tende |- | ‘tongue’ || nasavia || nesavi || osavi |- | ‘tooth’ || narasi || nerasi || orasi |- | ‘tree’ || ʔiu || u || ʔu |- | ‘two’ || amoi || amoi || amoi |- | ‘water’ || fata || kai || fate |- | ‘we’ || eːme || edumaga || ʔeme |- | ‘woman’ || evei || waini || efei |- | ‘you (sg)’ || ʔeme || kene || keme |} Usher's protoforms of the 20 most-stable items in the Swadesh list include the following. {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Proto-Mairasi !! gloss |- | *kumai || louse |- | *amoi || two |- | *ɸat[e] || water |- | *-ɸiɾa || ear |- | ? || die |- | *o-mo|| I |- | ? || liver |- | *-mbiatu || eye |- | *-ɸaka || hand/arm |- | *iɸi- || hear |- | ? || tree |-