| ngelekek | n.poss.1s | |
| ngelekem | n.poss.2s | |
| ngelekel | n.poss.3s | his/her its child or baby; relatively small size or quantity of.
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| ngelekam | n.poss.1pe | |
| ngeleked | n.poss.1pi | |
| ngelekiu | n.poss.2p | |
| ngelekir | n.poss.3p | |
| klengalek | n. | childhood.
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| ngalekdiul | n. | fatherless child.
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| ngalekebai | n. | child born of woman serving as community house concubine. |
| ngalekukeruu | n. | siblings who don't get along with each other.
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| ngelekedbudel | n. | neglected child. |
| ngelekei | n. | child (term of address to one's child). |
| rengelekei | n. | term of address by parent to children. |
| rungalek | n. | term of address by parent to child.
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| ngalek el redil | expr. | daughter. |
| ngalek el sechal | expr. | son. |
| ngalek er ngak | expr. | my sweetheart. |
| ngelekel a diil | expr. | snack, light meal. |
| ngelekel a ngelekel | expr. | grandchild. |
| ngelekel a ureor | expr. | small or insignificant task. |
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Examples: |
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> Your child is still sleeping. |
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> This baby bird is so pitiful that I'm tying its foot to the top of the starfruit tree. |
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> Toki is weaning her child (from the breast). |
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> Her child is trained not to interrupt people. |
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> The blackbird has begun to grow/get feathers. |
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Proverbs: |
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> He ate his child. Reference is made again to a form of food-money cycle. When a man marries, his wife's younger brothers and sisters are "children" (ngelekel: his child). The husband and wife strive to engage them in from this particular food-money cycle: Father to daughter (wife's younger sister) -food Daughter to father-money Father to son (wife's younger brother)money Son to father-food and service. The saying may be applied to a man who marries or has sexual relations with his wife's sister, thus interrupting or jeopardizing this food-money cycle. With less strength, the sanction is applied to a man marrying any member of his wife's immediate clan (kebliil). |
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> Really a child of the back. A child (sometimes an adult) that behaves well whether its parents are present or not; a child that is good when one's back is turned. |
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> Are you the son of Redechor is that why you're standing around so much? |
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More Examples: |
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> My kid had the honor to speak on behalf of his class on their graduation. |
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> My son went to work and has not come home yet. |
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> I need to buy my son's supplies for school. |
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> I saw a duckling at the river. |
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> All the kids belonged to the village. Everyone cared about each other. |
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