| diadiak | v.s.redup. | |
dikeang
/di kea
/di keang
/dikea | v.s.inch. | no longer; no more; not... after all.
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| dimlak | v.s.past | were not; did not exist; was/were non-existent.
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| ng diak | mod. | no. |
| ngdiak | cont. | ng diak |
| diak a rengul | expr. | inconsiderate; impolite. |
| mo diak | expr. | run out; stop; disappear; become non-existent. |
Examples: |
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> This village of ours is not like the city of Koror. |
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> And there was a poor man who lived in that village whose heart was so light that it was his ability to make the town survive, but there wasn't anyone who thought about him. |
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> You don't want to go to the movies, and you don't even want to go to the restaurant, so what do you really want to do? |
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> There wasn't any food. |
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> Don't go fishing because you'll get sicker (than you are now). |
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Proverbs: |
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> You're like a floating log without a resting place. You have no fixed abode. |
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> Like lightning, a big, unnecessary noise. Lightning rarely strikes in such a way as to cause serious damage in Palau. May be applied to any unnecessary fuss or oratory at a meeting. |
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> 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. |
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> 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 |
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> Water is without cost. Palauans bathe frequently; many will not miss a daily bath if at all possible. Bathing places are usually widened areas, natural or artificial (some elaborately paved with stone) in fresh-water streams. The phrase simply reminds another, probably a reluctant child, that he should bathe. |
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More Examples: |
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> It won't rain. It's just cloudy today. |
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> Our leaders just don't have any compassion. |
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> No, he or she doesn't have a stomachache. |
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> Control yourself, it isn't war! |
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