aika
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, pro.these objects/animals near speaker and near listener.
aikalcont.aika el
aika el hongexpr.these books.
Examples:
> I'm doing these things for you (pl.) benefit.
> There's gotten to be too much food for us.
> I am going to read you a list of statements and you tell if you agree, disagree, neutral or don't know.
> I'm very irritated by these mosquitos.
> These are credits from where?
Proverbs:
> This liver is shark.
A blind man lived with his wife and son at Ngetmel (in Ngerechelong, northern Palau). Since he was blind, his wife and son would often fool him. For one thing, she would leave him in charge of their prize piece of money, indicating its hiding place, when she left for work in the gardens. But before she left she would hide it in another place. One day when he was alone, his brother came to visit and to help around the house. The blind man asked him to gather some wood for a fire so he could warm himself. The brother did so and left. While the man warmed himself, he found, to his surprise, that he could see a little. The following day, with his improved sight, he found out about the money deception and located the real hiding place of the money. Once more his brother visited, and the blind man asked what wood he had used in the fire. The wood was driftwood and he had his brother build another fire. Again his sight improved and he was so pleased that he invited his brother to stay and help himself to some ray-fish liver. The brother looked at the liver and told the man that it was not ray-fish but shark liver. With this the man realized that he had really been deceived, for shark's liver is hardly considered worth eating. Hurt and angered, he told his brother to find the piece of money, pointing out its actual location, and gave it to his brother, saying his wife and son deserved nothing. When the wife came home she at once looked for the money. Unable to find it, she asked her supposedly blind husband about it and, of course, he insisted that she would find it in the place she had pointed out to him, since he had not touched it. Finally she gave up the search and exclaimed: "It simply isn't here." To this he replied: "This liver is shark." The saying may be used when one has discovered another's deception or when a person faces a very frustrating or defeating situation.
More Examples:
> Why are Ngerkumer's eyes blinking so much?
> My plants are from the tree from my neighbor that I transplanted myself.
> People who wrote these books didn't have enough experience or teachings so there are some mistakes.
> Ulang is being slandered (by people walking around) because of her bad behavior.
> These boxes are taking up so much space.
chad, n.liver.
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chedengaln.poss.3schedengal a chad; chedengal a babii, chedengal a rrull.
Aika chedengal (a matukeoll)!interj.
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chedengaolv.s.have a large liver.
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chedengaolv.s.sick with jaundice.
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Examples:
> The Benjaminites had already killed the thirty Israelites.
> The majority of those who are teachers at that school are Americans.
> She's an amazing cook that she doesn't even need anyone to try the food she makes.
> Quit pity crying (about someone) or you'll kill that person. (There is a superstition that pity crying about someone can result in their death).
> Where's John from?
Proverbs:
> One for whom the door of words was not closed.
When the secrets of a clan or a profession were being taught by an expert, the house was completely closed and instruction took place in strict, whispered secrecy. the idiom may be applied to a person who, while having the proper status to be knowledgeable, has never learned in closed session; an important but uninformed person. Conversely, an expert or knowledgeable clan his torian is one who "has had the door closed" (mleng a simer).
> Like the man of Ngerechemai, who lost his turtle and lost his canoe.
Relates to a fisherman who jumped from his canoe to catch a turtle only to find that his canoe had drifted beyond recovery. Applies to any situation where a person fails at a task, or, aptly, to a situation where a man, through his own foolishness, loses both his wife and his mistress.
> A person whose breechcloth is loose.
A poorly organized man, naive, openminded, generous, but not manly.
> Like a person somewhere taking a bath, but I'm cold.
Applies to any embarrassing act, such as boasting or gossiping, on the part of a friend.
> Put out your arm and a man's hand will reach back
The proper spirit of cooperation and mutual aid
More Examples:
> The job of a cook is to make the food.
> Teach your child to respect themselves so that they can respect others.
> Where are you from?
> What are you like?
> My American friend is learning Palauan.

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