me a, conj.and.
macont.me a
makcont.me ak
makicont.me aki
meconj.and.
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me
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mengcont.me ng
Examples:
> My mother and I are going to Koror.
> If only I had some money, then I'd be able to go to America.
> The soldiers took rifles and shot the women and children all at once.
> The people called the priests and the magicians.
> Easy stirring the soup so that we do not have to reheat it again.
Proverbs:
> Like Ngiramesemong, rehashing what has been finished.
Pertains to a person who repeatedly reminds another of past favors or continually recalls the mistakes of others. (My sources no longer recalled the episode or story from which this idiom derives.)
> Without looking afield, it was cut down behind the house.
From the folk tale concerning Mesubed Dingal, the inventor of the Palauan kite (see also No. 73). After his wife had been kidnapped, he constructed a kite using feathers from all the birds of Palau and he needed also wood from an Edebsungel tree to fashion the body of the bird-kite. After looking all over Palau and being on the point of giving up, he found the tree he needed behind his own house. The saying may be applied to anyone who does things the hard way, or who goes far afield to find something which is close at hand.
> He's like the sea urchins between Ngiwal and Melekeok, on the ocean floor with its cover.
The sea urchin can be seen lying quietly on the lagoon floor, occasionally with a leaf like a hat covering its head. Applied to a man who acquires a wife or great wealth without working for it.
> If it is my lunch it can be divided, if it is yours then it cannot
Two men habitually trapped fish in the same region of the lagoon. One would occasionally ask the other to join him at lunch, the other would always refuse. One day the man who refused arrived with no lunch. When the usual invitation was extended the man refused, saying that, anyway, he had no lunch. The invitation was insistently pressed until the reluctant one gave in. As they split the taro between them the one who shared made the above statement. The idiom is a mild rebuke of a retentive person
> Like the man of Kayangel, who procured his gifts from Keso
The saying refers to a man from the atoll of Kayangel, some twenty miles north of the main islands of Palau, who, on his way south to visit friends, stopped at an intermediate reef, Kesol, to fish for a present for his host. Refers to a person who, en route to a visit, tries to borrow a present from another guest; any person who suddenly wants to borrow money.
More Examples:
> Stop picking on your sores that's why they don't get healed!
> I have to go or I'll be late.
> Why are you making fist, wanna get smacked?
> The crocodile and I had a snatching match for the crab in the channel.
> I fried some fish and chicken for dinner tonight.
omeng, v.t.put hand over (mouth; nose; etc.); put (mouth; face) against; put (mouth) on opening of bottle; stop up (bottle).
a
a
mla
a
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mengii
/mengir
v.pf.3s
milengiiv.pf.3s.past
mengv.pf.3p.inan.
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milengv.pf.3p.inan.past
bengoelv.a.s.is to be covered with hand; is to be stopped up.
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bleng
/blengoel
v.r.s.covered with hand; stopped up.
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Examples:
> It's as if I live somewhere so far away that I don't know what's going on.
> The attorneys will attempt at a settlement to avoid trial.
> He's bought his car so he's bicycle is now left unused.
> Be careful so you do not break the cup.
> He's so busy playing around that his responsibilities are neglected.
Proverbs:
> Destroying his money.
Marriage within the clan, generally considered incestuous, limits the value of the food-money exchange, since the materials simply change hands within the same clan group. A man so married is criticized as having destroyed his source of wealth.
> With persistence the village of Ngersuul was maintained
When the men's clubs of Koror could not proceed as far as Melekeiok, a major village to the north that stood in political balance with Koror, the clubs would often stop over at Ngersuul and sack the small village. Yet the people of Ngersuul, over and over defeated, clung to their village and persisted through history. (Sometimes the village of Angaur is used, with a similar meaning, in place of Ngersuul.) The saying may be applied to the harried individual who is about to give up a task because of repeated failure.
More Examples:
> I like this child because he's/she's very polite.
> I fell on the stone path and cracked my head.
> The wind got so strong that it broke down the chicken house / cage.
> Why are Ngerkumer's eyes blinking so much?

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