desomel, n.outrigger; woman of the house.
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ongaidesomeln.vine with leaves in shape of the canoe's outrigger.
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beches el desomelexpr.newly married woman; bride.
Examples:
> A woman supports a man./A woman is a man's mainstay.
Proverbs:
> A new outrigger.
A newly married woman, a bride.
> The woman is the outrigger for the male.
An unmarried man has no outrigger; taking a wife is a stabilizing process for a man in the sense that the outrigger stabilizes the canoe. One source, a Palauan woman, has suggested the meaning that a man is as capable as the woman who backs him up.

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