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mengai

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ring-tailed unicorn fish.

mengai

a

ta

er

a

bedengel

a

ngikel

Examples:

mla

mengai

chesimer.

> The door opened.

aike

beluu

mla

mengai.

> the nations that have been conquered.

mla

mengai

chesmerel

Toki.

> Toki is now free to roam around./Toki's on the loose.

mla

tmuk

kloklel

kleblilliu

aike

beluu

dirk

medechel

aike

beluu

mla

mengai.

> I have assigned as the possession of your tribes the land of the nations that are still left, as well as of all the nations that I have already conquered.

Ngii

siseball

mle

ngii

mengai

chesmerel.

> The gate opened for them by itself.

melai

, v.t.

bring; take; get; receive; obtain; take (amount of time); lay claim to; take away; remove.

melai

a

ngmai;

nguu;

ngeiul.

nguu

v.pf.3s

nguu

a

melai

er

ngii;

ngiul.

ngiluu

v.pf.3s.past

ngoikid

v.pf.1pi

ngoititerir
/ngoiteterir

v.pf.3p.human

ngoiteterir

a

melai

er

tir;

mla

ngoiteterir

el

merael.

ngmai

v.pf.3p.inan.

ngmai

a

melai;

mla

ngmai

a

babier;

nguu

a

udoud,

ngeiul.

ngilai

v.pf.3p.inan.past

ngilititerir

v.pf.3p.human.past

kangingai

v.recip.redup.

bring or take (things) together.

kangingai

a

kakerous

el

melai;

kengai,

didu

el

melai

a

ududir,

nguu,

ngeul

a

ududel.

kengai

v.recip.

kengai

a

kangingai;

di

du

el

melai,

nguu;

ngmai,

te

kengai

a

kelir

er

a

tebel.

mengai

v.erg.

get brought/taken; lose baby; have miscarriage.

mengai

a

nguu;

nglai;

ngmai

a

kles;

kles

a

mla

mengai

el

mo

er

a

bai.

mengingai

v.erg.redup.

easy to take or take away or remove.

mngai

v.imp.

Go get some (things).

ngei

v.imp.

here it is; take it.

ngei

a

msang;

oldars

a

ngerang;

msang,

ngei

tia

udoud

me

mnguu.

ngiuul
/ngeiul
/ngeuul

v.a.s.

is to be brought/taken/received.

ngiuul

a

kirel

el

mengai;

nguu,

ngmai,

udoud

a

ngiuul

er

a

bank.

nglai
/ngliuul

v.r.s.

brought; taken; received; obtained.

nglai

a

mla

mengai;

nglai

a

chutem;

mla

nguu;

ngmai;

ngeul.

ngliuul

a

nglai;

mla

mengai;

kengei

er

a

usbechel

a

chutem

a

ngliuul.

ngoiong

v.inch.

is beginning to get or receive (multiple objects).

ngoiong

a

ko

el

mla

ngmai.

ngourang
/ngoura

v.inch.

is beginning to get or receive (a single object).

melai er a rengul

expr.

persuade.

See also:

MELARENG

NGAIBEBUDEL

NGIUL

OLAI

OMELAI

Examples:

Ngii

siseball

mle

ngii

mengai

chesmerel.

> The gate opened for them by itself.

mla

ngmai

klubelek

kau.

> I've learned my lesson from you./I've profited from your experience.

sebechem

ngmai

betotem

sel

tmolch?

> Can you pick up something from the bottom of that deep water/ocean?

Kukumai

ngiluu

kall

delal.

> Kukumai brought the food to her mother.

mla

mengai

chesimer.

> The door opened.

Proverbs:

ngmai

llechul

rael.

> He gets his law from the streets.

Rael has the general meaning "way," applicable both to method and to a street. The implication is that if a child will not learn from his parents, he will learn the hard way from experience. It may be used in the positive sense of someone who is quick to learn from experience.

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