ngaraak saala

I. N

1. animal,bird red macaw

Composicion:

expression

Morfemas
ngaraak	saala
macaw	red

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ngaraak tuk aing katuruk

I. N

1. plant macaw tail flower

Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:

Ngaraak tuk aing katuruk nguu tuksu yaapuni. saala, ikaa suskiiba.
the macaw tail flower grows around the house. It is red and the leaves are longish.

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ngaraak tuk ariis

I. N

1. animal,bird no name; macaw with a short tail

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ngaraik

I. ADV

1. space there

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ngarang

I. Wh

1. space where

2. space somewhere

Notas:

Gramatical:
Mostly used with pospositions 'ki' (in) and 'su' (on). Can be reduced to 'ngar'.

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ngarang ki

I. Wh

2. space where

Notas:

Gramatical:
Mostly used in interrogative sentences, but also in locative subordinated clauses. It encodes the locative and the ablative, rarely the allative. See also 'ngarang su'.

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ngarang ki taakaing

No hay definicion(es)

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ngarang ki taaki

I. ADV

1. space anywhere

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ngarang su

I. Wh

1. space where

Composicion:

expression

Morfemas
ngarang	su
where	on

Notas:

Gramatical:
Mostly used in interrogative sentences, but also in locative subordinated clauses. It encodes the allative. See also 'ngarang ki'.

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ngarbing

I. N

1. animal,food,mammal tapir

Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:

Ngarbing tiiski aakitka bii, iniitniit ikwaakari.
Only when the mountain cow is small it has stripes.
La danta tiene rayas, solo cuando es pequeño.

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Etnográfica:
An important animal in the Adam cycle.
It has a very tough hide. They hunt it for meat, sometimes torching it in the night during dry weather, but not everybody likes to eat it because it is a very dark meat. Used to use the hide to make things with because it is tough (like ropes, sacks, shoes, belts...).
El danto es un animal importante en el Ciclo de Adam. Tiene un cuero fuerte. Lo cazan por su carne, algunas veces salen a buscarlo con antorchas durante el verano, pero no a todos les gusta comerlo porque la carne es oscura. Se utiliza el cuero para hacer cuerdas, bolsos, zapatos, fajas.

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ngarbing aing kiskis

I. N

1. artef.,cooking,dom.,plant,tree palm, unidentified

Notas:

Etnográfica:
This is a stouter variety of the kiskis tree, the trunk of which is used to make tongs for holding food such as fish, meat or bananas while roasting or serving, or to pick up "pieces of fire," etc. The thinner tree (kiskis) is preferred for making the tongs.

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Ngarbing Sikwiik

I. PN

1. toponomy,water Danto Creek

Composicion:

expression

Morfemas
ngarbing	sikwiik
tapir	creek

Notas:

Etnográfica:
A crrek up Punta Gorda river.

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ngariik

I. N

1. plant mountain cow cane

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ngariirik

I. N

1. animal,bird motmot

Notas:

Etnográfica:
Pretty river bird, not hunted. The turquoise-browed motmot is the national bird of Nicaragua.

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ngarik

I. N

1. plant small lungko

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ngarikngarikba

I. ADJ

1. color smooth

2. color silky

3. color shiny

Notas:

Gramatical:
See also 'ngarngarikis' or 'ngarngarikisang' with the same meaning. It is probably the same root than 'ngarngaring' (green/blue).

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ngaring

I. V

1. break hit

2. beat

3. wop

4. flap

5. flog

Notas:

Gramatical:
Transitive. The corresponding intransitive verb is 'alngaring'. Either one of the two vowels can be elided so we get as variants 'ngring' and 'ngarng'.

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ngarkal

I. V

1. nat. blaze

2. nat. be_lightening

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ngarkalima

I. PART

1. blazing

Composicion:

derivation

Morfemas
ngarkal	ima
blaze	participle

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ngarkul

No hay definicion(es)

Notas:

Gramatical:
Variant of 'ngarkal' (to blaze) when suffixed with past tense '-u'

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ngarng

No hay definicion(es)

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ngarngarikis

I. ADJ

1. percep. smooth

2. percep. silky

3. percep. shiny

Notas:

Gramatical:
See also 'ngarikngarikba' with the same meaning. It is probably the same root than 'ngarngaring' (green/blue).

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ngarngarikisang

No hay definicion(es)

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ngarngaring

I. ADJ

1. color green

2. color blue

Notas:

Gramatical:
Reduplication.
Usually not used alone but with derivational suffixes such as '-ba/-ma' (neutral suffix to make adjectives) or '-is/-isang/-isba' (sort of). See also 'ngarngarikis' and 'ngarikngarikba' (smooth, silky, shiny) with probably the same root.

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ngarngaringba

I. ADJ

1. color green

Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:

Uriaup supkaaba yuup tiiskiba barka supka. Taimka pwatpa arii yuniuungi. Yuuk ngarngaringba.
the lime seed is small but sour. Sometimes I make fresco with it. Its skin is green.

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2. color blue

Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:

Nuunik kaas ngarngaringba.
The sky is blue.

Notas:

Gramatical:
Reduplication common to some color names. Has a frequent variant 'ngarngaringma' where the final suffix '-ba' is nasalised in contact with the velar nasal 'ng'. Has also a rare variant 'ngringringma'.