Netwar English

affix [infix marking continuous tense.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

affix [inf. of past tense, continuous.]

Example: guid:41f2d650-4ad4-4dbd-8dcb-d4274d04b3ea

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb call [fowl when feeding them.]

Example: guid:7d1bb726-b6a8-4439-90a8-0565e966da97

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verb spin [head.]

Example: guid:d901caeb-d17c-424c-9001-017b54bd8a97

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verb breathless [be.]

Example: guid:344b84d9-d4d1-4cf1-aa27-c43867edc4bd

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verb fever [have.]

Example: guid:c085d02b-cfcc-4095-96aa-ed3cbdadab4a

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affix [negative pref. and suff. meaning "not yet".]

Example: guid:dff7992c-01a9-40cf-b221-b73b6bcfed42

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb unhappy [be, of something that is happening. lit. "not like something".]

Example: guid:785e7c94-c328-4ff0-8306-3f049d93f1fc

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verb ignore [only exists in negative.]

Example: guid:77d2cb28-528b-40c3-b0d8-8a62ea4abe20

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verb know [not, only exists in negative.]

Example: guid:77d2cb28-528b-40c3-b0d8-8a62ea4abe20

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verb straight

Example: nakharan ratuatu

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verb thirsty [be.]

Example: guid:0309918d-c9a6-424c-bc01-583f222734dc

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phrase I go to Ituga, to the principal nakamal.

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phrase I love you so much.

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phrase I would like to eat a banana.

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phrase I like my mom.

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phrase I speak to my kids.

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phrase I was watching you.

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phrase I threw a stone on a dog.

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phrase I am breathless.

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phrase I have bought a yam.

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phrase I have a fever.

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phrase I did not know that he would come.

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phrase I hear a bird.

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phrase I did not drink yet.

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phrase I do not know.

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phrase I am sad that it is raining. [lit. "I do not like that it is raining".]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun chief [of a village. lit. "voice of the tribe". From root {link guid="cfebd9db-cfee-4874-b6df-c96b8378c8ff"}eni{/link}. {link guid="b104673f-3dcc-4387-8b8e-ce7a3327fa5a" type="cf" transkey="cf."}ieramara{/

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phrase An asthmatic person.

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noun sorcerer [specialized in summoning good weather.]

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noun sorcerer [specialized in summoning the rain.]

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common expression noble [men or women.]

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noun nakamal [cleared space, usually under a grown banyan tree, used by men to meet, discuss important affairs and drink kava, to perform all important ceremonies and traditional dances. It is the center of village life.]

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phrase Mother is painting the face of her daughter.

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phrase I have finished drinking my kava.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun thunder

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name spirit [name of one of {link guid="42abe2df-f8b1-4628-87ab-1bd82dadb5aa"}iarames{/link}. Mentioned with {link guid="f1a29dae-e7c4-493b-979f-2b6d6c89aaca"}Kapila{/link} in one legend.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb grow well [only of tubers.]

Example: guid:9ae55e4a-84e0-49b4-a038-ac94de0516dc

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noun stick of stone [term describing clubs made of stone. According to the elders, these were once arms used in tribal wars.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun coconut husk [piece of dry fibrous husk used to clean kava roots. {link guid="d1b47fa0-8d29-49fa-8a91-170a6d7ae551" type="cf" transkey="cf."}napeka{/link}.]

Example: guid:8cf36a41-037c-4015-a6ee-749832b0aae1

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noun arm band [worn on upper arm along with {link guid="554240cd-95e0-4611-8a65-77ee55227b6b"}numa le Nesé{/link} leaves during customary celebrations.]

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proper name constellation [seven main stars of the Orion.]

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phrase Bird is screaming.

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noun dance [belonging to the family of {link guid="e6cc2a1d-0195-42d5-a4dd-c3072d507159"}naléwa{/link}.]

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phrase The child drinks milk of his mother and his belly is well rounded.

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adjective red

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noun cobweb

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noun spider web

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noun game [played during night, when two groups hide food in the forest and then search for each other’s food. Is played at time of planting yams.]

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noun rainbow

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noun lunar eclipse

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proper name god [person from local mythology in charge of animals, plants and gardens. Dwells in {link guid="e903775a-5706-4f9b-a47d-caa48873a807"}Lapnuman{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I have broken my arm.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun turtle [lit. "royal fish", sometimes prepared for {link guid="0cfb1c85-44e1-4fae-b25c-60c97e5bc80b"}ieramin aramara{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase Did you feel the kava effects yesterday at nakamal, or not?

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun ditch [protecting gardens against pigs.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun cloud [dark, before rain.]

Example: guid:fb25ca56-0cf9-47ef-8cf6-d92e92ab985e

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun marriage [customary, a ceremony with exchanging of goods.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb sad [be.]

Example: guid:25885014-513d-4577-af07-3b784ac3baee

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phrase I am really sad because of my wife, who is sick.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase I do not feel anything towards this girl.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun hut [inside of a nakamal.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun winter [more precisely the part of year, when days are short.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun rattle [made of dry fruit of {link guid="72d4cc5e-95c0-416d-8e5b-ab1097b57596"}neparepa{/link} and attached around legs of dancers.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun reed [lit. "hair of the boys". Leaves of reed used to towel the circumcise boys, and eventually suspended on {link guid="04527da8-628f-4b15-adae-5db1b0ce8271"}nases{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun belt of shells [worn by boys on the final ceremony of {link guid="00c808a6-b76b-46d1-9a02-7dba959efc4e"}kaur{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

proper name Pleiades [lit. "young boys of {link guid="e903775a-5706-4f9b-a47d-caa48873a807"}Lapnuman{/link}". Alternative to the name {link guid="05634a06-a77d-4991-b5a2-66e57386b3a9"}Neperawen Lapnuman{/link}.]

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phrase There is no water anymore in the village, people are thirsty.

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noun gravel [of coral.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun sand

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun game [an old game where one tries to find an edible fruit which is the very last one (after the season) or the very first one (before the season) and envelopes it in many different leaves and fastens it with several kinds of vines until the pack is very l

phrase Yams will grow well.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb mix [or mix up.]

Example: guid:982bed8b-e5c2-44d3-8ad3-bda9191f71e3

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb like

Example: guid:640c0ed6-87bb-492d-9cbc-67607b9b139e

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb love [{link guid="d5cc9b95-297c-4eff-cc07-73f6c3700234" type="cf" transkey="cf."}neki- la{/link}.]

Example: guid:b2215967-03c1-41d6-a5a3-74828cca94f9

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb want

Example: guid:46975c3e-21dc-41f5-afab-1f864759235e

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun butterfly

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun butterfly [a shape in {link guid="cb049dae-aa9c-4b1a-b25a-33fb601e9efd"}kemal{/link} game.]

noun sea [close to the reefs.]

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phrase This woman is boiling yams.

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phrase The woman has her menstruation.

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phrase He is calling the hens to feed them.

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phrase He helps me to learn the local language.

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phrase He is taking care of a good education of village kids.

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phrase He is mixing the local language with Bislama.

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adjective gray [probably derived from {link guid="53e80295-2d8a-4c1d-aa2c-7517bafde51b"}nemrau{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

common expression it is not that ... [one of expressions used for forming negative phrases.]

Example: guid:6e8e3cac-72d4-41be-aa53-ae496a4a15f1

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phrase I am not poor. [lit. "It is not that I am poor."]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

interjection tra-la-la [meaningless syllables used in some local songs.]

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phrase I will pluck this little bird and eat it as {guid:2402d923-5f86-4f0e-abfe-36936814c69d}.

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noun dance [kind of customary dance.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

phrase My grandfather is dead.

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phrase My head is spinning.

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phrase You have to love your wife.

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phrase Now I am living in Lowanatom, but before I was living in Lénakel.

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phrase Now I am living in Lowanatom, but before I was living in Lénakel.

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun spirit [family of {link guid="42abe2df-f8b1-4628-87ab-1bd82dadb5aa"}iarames{/link}, dwarves.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun game [sand cake game with coconut shells. As children knock on the shell, the sing {link guid="812434dd-e0ac-42b9-b0cc-c4043e47abcd"}tow tow inio{/link}.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

noun long-tailed triller {Lalage leucopyga}

Speaker: Nöel Yeru