dui, n.title (for village chief or family head).
dui
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er
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kuk
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oba
diakn.poss.1s
diamn.poss.2s
dialn.poss.3s
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dui
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dimamn.poss.1pe
diadn.poss.1pi
dimiun.poss.2p
dirirn.poss.3p
meluchel er a duiexpr.hold title.
Examples:
> The religion of these people is worthless.
> He's young and unexperienced (lit. his buttocks are covered with sores) and doesn't know anything.
> Droteo is so so advanced in math that his friends can't catch up with him.
> I don't need it./I couldn't care less.
> If you don't like it, then don't tell me to do it.
Proverbs:
> 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.
> You think only of Present, not of Future.
Chelechang (Present) and Chrechar (Future) were brothers. Present was the favorite of his mother. These are the words of Future reprimanding his mother. The idiom is used of those who inadequately plan for the future.
> An ukall tree won't become a titimel tree.
i.e., a child will resemble its father; human nature will not change. The ukall, a lumber tree, resembles the titimel, a fruit bearing tree, at least to the extent that both are trees and become quite large. Both have assets but are quite different. The idiom is applied in the sense that a child resembles its father and will become what its father was. It may also be used to mean "human nature can't be changed."
> You're like a floating log without a resting place.
You have no fixed abode.
> 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.
More Examples:
> Can you be quiet for a sec so that I can talk or not?
> Why don't we go take a swim at the dock?
> Its not bad if we go our separate ways.
> You all take turns bailing the boat so that it will be finished quickly.
> You're like the jellyfish that do not have a destination.

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