ngalek
, n.child; baby; anyone younger than speaker; sweetheart; fiance(e); pinkie; small finger.
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ngelekekn.poss.1s
ngelekemn.poss.2s
ngelekeln.poss.3shis/her its child or baby; relatively small size or quantity of.
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ngelekirn.poss.3p
klengalekn.childhood.
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ngalekdiuln.fatherless child.
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ngalekebain.child born of woman serving as community house concubine.
ngalekukeruun.siblings who don't get along with each other.
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ngelekedbudeln.neglected child.
ngelekein.child (term of address to one's child).
rengelekein.term of address by parent to children.
rungalekn.term of address by parent to child.
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ngalek el redilexpr.daughter.
ngalek el sechalexpr.son.
ngalek er ngakexpr.my sweetheart.
ngelekel a diilexpr.snack, light meal.
ngelekel a ngelekelexpr.grandchild.
ngelekel a ureorexpr.small or insignificant task.
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Examples:
> You have the right to discipline my child.
> He is looking his daughter and is very sad.
> I stopped my child from smoking cigarettes.
> My child ran away by himself.
> Droteo's child is named after me.
Proverbs:
> 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).
> 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.
> Are you the son of Redechor
is that why you're standing around so much?
More Examples:
> Aha, see? I told you not to do that, Son.
> Teach your child to respect themselves so that they can respect others.
> My baby is teething and drooling so much that my shirt is now wet from the drool.
> Her father picked his daughter onto his shoulder as her foot was hurting and they walked home.
> If you were my kid, I would have whooped you already!

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