Netwar English

affix [infix marking continuous tense.]

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verb afraid [be, in transitive form followed by suff. {link guid="b8dc9455-92be-427a-9d28-351948899901"}-in{/link}.]

Example: guid:0a06ee51-00b0-489a-bf4c-b93cb6df3565

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verb tutor

Example: guid:f8943fc4-70c4-4149-a0ef-aecf59ddecfc

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verb burn [of food made directly in fire.]

Example: guid:fd343149-0e7d-4acc-a0d7-387a1e9f02c2

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verb burnt [of food prepared in a saucepan.]

Example: guid:38995e94-17f0-4b38-8dc0-a3295fbb4051

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verb run away

Example: guid:0087340d-5ccc-4412-8001-45a7bdd90cca

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verb pluck [deplume.]

Example: guid:fb340106-7684-4f08-ccce-360e6718a016

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phrase Beware of the kava!

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verb live [somewhere, only with infix {link guid="41f2d650-4ad4-4dbd-8dcb-d4274d04b300"}-am-{/link}.]

Example: guid:a40caca9-250c-4bfd-84cb-a67823621111

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verb bald [be.]

Example: guid:8372abc9-ea46-4555-ba30-86e4af972fb2

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verb closed

Example: guid:a225a9f0-d71a-4bef-a37b-613cd301fd9d

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verb live [be alive.]

Example: guid:b5ff5895-e5e0-4176-873a-a581d7e4da60

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verb shoot [a bow, a rifle etc.]

Example: guid:878ad681-a585-473a-8f02-246b7927a478

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verb break [something.]

Example: guid:b527f758-cb2d-4788-8d21-7019b1d2d9db

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verb plant [seeds or little plants.]

Example: guid:96b57369-a583-47cf-a92c-c5633987ef60

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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 divide [things or people.]

Example: guid:082e3a7b-ba31-4f71-9aac-c14a17200e4f

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verb straight

Example: nakharan ratuatu

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verb flower [of any tree except banana tree. {link guid="b30ec8c1-8fa6-4376-9295-5f83dccc9dd0" type="cf" transkey="cf."}iuk{/link}.]

Example: guid:b3cac9c1-0aa0-4376-9295-5f83dccc9dd0

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verb

Example: guid:0087340d-5ccc-4412-8cb7-45a7bdd90cca

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adjective holy

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verb sing

Example: guid:fb2eb8e3-d5e5-4a4f-89c7-b2ff9267d4c2

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noun north

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phrase Turn those bananas that are in the fire.

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verb hard [task, work.]

Example: wok riakes

noun circumcision [special manner of circumcision reserved to boys from village chief families. Consists in cutting only the upper part of foreskin.]

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phrase I am afraid of dogs.

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phrase I try to light the fire on.

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phrase I have broken my bow.

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phrase I am planting a live fence.

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noun gecko [species with green back. Appears in the legend of shark ({link guid="d55f1c48-4e1b-4f22-9b6f-1453814936a6"}kaliawen{/link}), in which it chases the shark from the jungle to the sea and hence it has gained its name.]

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noun Pacific imperial pigeon {Ducula pacifica}

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adverb here

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pronoun they [two.]

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adverb outside

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phrase I have already gotten water.

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adverb far away [but possibly still in sight. {link guid="ded4af42-b2b6-47d6-a2b9-aa1b71cb2fe4" type="cf" transkey="cf."}epen{/link}.]

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verb flower [only about bananas. {link guid="0c784d6e-495c-42fa-82a7-e4577c193366" type="cf" transkey="cf."}augen{/link}.]

Example: guid:b30ec8c1-0aa0-4376-9295-5f83dccc9dd0

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pronoun we [all, without you.]

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phrase The house is closed.

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pronoun you [two.]

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proper name spirit [name of one of {link guid="42abe2df-f8b1-4628-87ab-1bd82dadb5aa"}iarames{/link}. Mentioned with {link guid="7164eb40-4888-4c6e-bd79-3117fc9eb7bd"}Kamiraurau{/link} in one legend.]

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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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noun circumcision [term for circumcision and, figuratively, for the entire time from the circumcision itself to the {link guid="5ecad1bb-367a-4730-9777-9035bf830480"}kamir iataw kaur{/link} ceremony.]

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noun burying of foreskin [a tradition of burying the foreskin of a circumcised boy at the evening of the {link guid="7f477d79-8d31-4538-bf94-b81ab7c6ee97"}nases{/link} celebration. A young coconut tree is planted on the same place to make the boy gro

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

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proper name god [supreme god dwelling on mount Tukosmera.]

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phrase The pig is very ill, but still alive.

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numeral 4

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numeral one [meaning "anyone", when pointing to things.]

Example: guid:3c54de69-e541-407e-9996-42aef82ec0cc

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proper name nakamal [major nakamal in Lénakel.]

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phrase The night is bright and there is a lot of stars.

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verb accident [have an.]

Example: guid:807ab4c6-9f74-4b9f-8a12-67cab9afab17

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phrase Give me a piece of coconut husk to clean the kava.

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proper name nakamal [an important nakamal near Ipai.]

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adverb always

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affix ["the place, where ...", locative often found in names of villages, e.g. Lowkweria - "the place of eagles", Lownapektuan - "the place of the white banyan", etc.]

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particle [sign of locative or dative.]

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verb ready [be.]

Example: guid:884c70fc-3909-4be0-b1f4-566755d252c9

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verb

Example: guid:f5409e41-22ac-4248-abc7-b9b700b2c8ad

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common expression break the branches of kava and shed blood [expression describing customary way of performing sacrifices in nakamal.]

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noun dance [belonging to the family of {link guid="e6cc2a1d-0195-42d5-a4dd-c3072d507159"}naléwa{/link}. Danced only during the celebration of {link guid="b76150a5-6702-451b-bdde-6628d0a72eca"}kamaru nuw{/link}. At the end of the dance, the

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phrase You lie!

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phrase A goat pulling a horse. [expression applying to a person, who is hiding his real intention (a big thing, the "horse") behind an innocent excuse (a small thing, the "goat").]

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noun coconut husk [piece of dry fibrous husk used for general cleaning other than kava roots. {link guid="1bfe11d7-8bd2-4f22-b3d0-d7ad3055327c" type="cf" transkey="cf."}kasesen{/link}.]

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common expression [expression used in a not very common and probably not indigenous style of counting in local language.]

Example: karéna nar reka ma kiu, kywer nar reka ma kywer

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noun dance [kind of important dance performed during the celebration of {link guid="44390adb-772b-4a8d-a5b7-33d8e3420506"}nekowiar{/link}. The fourth in the order of dances, danced during the sunrise.]

Speaker: Nöel Yeru

verb happy [be.]

Example: guid:d5cc9b95-297c-4eff-b307-73f6c3700554

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verb think, that

Example: guid:893d8831-2268-405d-9aec-fe42cade75c4

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noun dance [kind of important dance performed during the celebration of {link guid="44390adb-772b-4a8d-a5b7-33d8e3420506"}nekowiar{/link}. The seventh and the last in the order of dances, danced early in the afternoon. Follows the ceremonial killing

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phrase Taro is better than yam.

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noun

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noun moment [of an event.]

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phrase It is time to dig out yams.

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

noun church [building.]

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noun custom [important ceremony consisting in offering a large number of yams and pigs. After some time the beneficiary does a {link guid="33f1c330-5217-46df-bfe6-0e6fd0523f85"}niél{/link} of the same size for the donor. An important custom fostering

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noun fruit of {guid:11e64226-b57d-41f7-a412-a2dcb0672ba5} [a shape in {link guid="cb049dae-aa9c-4b1a-b25a-33fb601e9efd"}kemal{/link} game.]

proper name spirit [name of one of {link guid="42abe2df-f8b1-4628-87ab-1bd82dadb5aa"}iarames{/link}, dwelling in an {link guid="6d27764b-05c4-4ff1-9be8-656894d59b00"}ikawsim{/link} close to the village of Lowtaliko.]

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

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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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noun community [of a village or a region of the island]

verb dance

Example: guid:8a65c572-7272-4918-9b0a-4a590e2e7e3b

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verb like

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

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noun volunteer [white foreigner, humanitarian worker of organizations such as Peace Corps.]

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phrase He laughs at me.

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noun shaving [small ceremony with kava offering and {link guid="17954013-b9ee-4e00-82f5-b2d9b2d36257"}temahwa{/link} at the moment of first shaving of a boy. From this moment he can take a wife.]

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common expression how are you doing

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common expression what’s up

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phrase He has already eaten.

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phrase He is ready to do something.

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proper name spirit [name of one of {link guid="42abe2df-f8b1-4628-87ab-1bd82dadb5aa"}iarames{/link} with long ears. Mentioned in one legend and in the game {link guid="9868b19b-bcf2-454a-b62d-15ff78113f9c"}pikokai{/link}.]

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affix [pref. of future tense.]

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pronoun [possessive pronoun.]

Example: tahak nima

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noun garden of yams [mound of earth made when planting long species of yams.]

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proper name mountain [the highest peak of Tanna, sacred place and dwelling place of god {link guid="0ee42ccf-d0f6-48ab-bea9-4f330dc791e0"}Kalpapen{/link}.]

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adverb

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phrase Yesterday, that buddy got badly drunk. [lit. "he was so drunk that he had lost his nambas". An anachronism used sometimes today to make jokes of others.]

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noun work

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