K-T

k—

kabang • noun
: mouth

kajun • verb
: said

kalap verb
: can

kediok • adjective
: in a small amount

kilatganit • noun
: lightning

kimuk, kekimuk • noun
: female, girl, woman

koro • pronoun
: why

kudut • noun
: a plate

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l

lamatai • noun
: a ghost
derived from; see also jelama, matai

lanut • noun
: a snake

lawa
 • adjective
: beautiful, pretty

lingu • noun
: a soul

longon • noun
: a hand or to describe from the tips of the fingers to the arm

lu • pronoun
: there

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m

makak • adjective
: afraid, scared

manau • verb
: go, walk on foot

manju, nanju • verb
: shower, showered

matai • verb, adjective
: die, dead
past tense: natai

mato • noun
: eye

matoadau, mato adau noun
: the sun

mianai • noun
: male, boy, man

modop • verb
: sleep

moncoi  adjective
: good, great, better

mugus • verb
: to go to town or a city from a village

mulik, nulik • verb
: go home, went home

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n

naie • adjective
: finished, completed

nakot • verb
: goes up, climbs up

natai verb
: died
present: matai

ndawu • verb
: goes down, climbs down

ngaie verb
: to finish, to complete

ngelokok • adjective, verb
: eerie, to scare

njob
: no

nobo • noun
: rice

nobok • verb
: stab

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o

omos • noun
: sweat


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p

pongo • adjective
: done

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q

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r

raat • adjective
: bad

rabas • noun
: face

ra'sam • noun
: the rain

roso • verb, adjective
: feel, a feeling

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s

sada1 • adjective
: a state of being conscious or consciousness, awake

sada2 • noun
: fish

sanduk • noun
: a spoon

selalom • noun
: inside

semadui • verb
: swim, swimming

semolok • verb
: to go somewhere countryside, to go back into the village

serayo, srayo • noun
: village

serebau • noun
: outside

simbul • verb
: run

sino • adverb
: there, or somewhere that is not here
see also lu

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t

tadu • adjective
: an adjective to describe the rain has let up, for example

tata • noun
: appearance, especially the face

tenaie • noun
: stomach

tetuo • noun
: an elder or an elderly person

tio • adverb
: here

tumbung • noun
: buttocks
Matoadau 2013,
by Lydiane & Lucinda A.