mei
/me
, v.i.come; arrive.
mei
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mei
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mei
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bev.imp.
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blev.s.hypo.
meracont.mei er a
merekung
/merkung
v.i.pred.is about to come or arrive.
mermang
/meremang
v.inch.
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mlei
/mle
v.pastcame; arrived.
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mei
me
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mle
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mle
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mle
mleracont.mlei er a
be kbongexpr.goodbye; I'm leaving.
me e mong
/memong
expr.pass by; go on; "(in a direction) towards me and then keep going (past me)."
nguu el meiexpr.bring.
ta el buil er mla me e mongexpr.one month ago.
Examples:
> I can watch/babysit the child because he behaved well last time.
> Let me study.
> Droteo will definitely come.
> If you don't want it, give it to me and I'll drink it.
> It's two thirty.
Proverbs:
> Like the cockroach of Ngerdobotar, staying on till it became white.
Presumably if a cockroach remains in the darkness for a long time, as one at Ngerdobotar (in Aimeliik) apparently did, it will turn white. Application pertains to a visitor who stays on and on, especially one who is not helpful in the household. Such behavior is not properly human; the person is somehow different, like a white cockroach.
> Like the duck of Ngechur, he became industrious after growing old.
The idiom is applied to a person who has more or less vegetated into maturity and old age and who, already far past his prime, suddenly tries without success to do all the things he might have done when younger. It may be used with reference to an elder who tries to be a dandy.
> 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.
> 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.)
> You grab and then you pick it up.
Like telling a joke, you're still telling it yet you laugh like you just heard it.
More Examples:
> My mother and father love me.
> He was running late this morning and left without his lunch.
> I'm going swimming.
> People associated with magic and voodoo are feared.
> If you had left already (instead of procrastinating or complaining or whatever), you'd already be back by now.

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