I.
N
1. food,plant tomato
Composicion:
expression
Morfemas |
katuup |
saala |
fruit |
red |
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
Ramas do not eat tomatoes. Probably a neologism.
1. standing up
Composicion:
derivation
Morfemas |
kauk |
ima |
stand |
participle |
I.
N
1. animal,health,insect people lice ,
[ESP] Piojo Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
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Kauling aing kuung sukwaakitka, taimka angka yalamskwi. Yupsi mliikaba spaayaka yalamskwi, barka ning taim suaataiki kuung aing yupsi, angka supaayai.
People lice when we get it sometimes it can't go away. When we buy sweet grease then it goes away, but now it is too expensive, the grease for lice, we can't buy it.
Cuando la gente tiene piojos a veces no se los puede quitar. Cuando tenemos con que compramos grasa dulce (vaselina?), pero ahora es muy cara, no la podemos comprar.
Composicion:
expression
Morfemas |
kauling |
aing |
kuung |
person |
of |
lice |
I.
N
1. human people who sell
Composicion:
expression
Morfemas |
kauling |
alpaaya |
uing |
dut |
person |
buy |
HAB |
PL |
Notas:
- Gramatical:
Plural marker (-dut) clitic of whole noun phrase and as nominalization with verb in habitual aspect (-uing).
I.
N
1. human thieves
Composicion:
expression
Morfemas |
kauling |
alsu |
uing |
dut |
people |
steal |
HAB |
PL |
I.
V
1. human,locution call Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
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Sumu kaulingdut 'Wahai' nsut yaa kauni.
"We call the Sumu people ""Wahai""."
2. animal,locution cry out
3. animal,locution holler
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
In the sense (holler, cry out), 'kaun' is used for the sound that any animal makes (bird, fish, tiger...).
I.
N
1. house,plant congkiva
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
In Spanish, bejuco de hombre. Whit stronger than 'wari whit' (bejuco de mujer). Good to tie things like stick wall.
1. measuring tough
II.
N
1. health hard boil
Notas:
- Gramatical:
Reduplication.
Has a variant 'kaungkaungma' resulting from nasalisation of the final derivational suffix '-ba' after nasal velar 'ng'.
I.
N
1. house,plant bamboo
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
Some people use it to make house walls.
I.
N
1. animal,frog toad (Kr)
Notas:
- Léxica:
A frog or a toad? (Though in Kriol they're all "toad," and unknown if Rama always distinguish between bumpy vs. smooth skin for classifying them.
I.
N
1. food,plant guava Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
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Kawas pwatpa u plungkiingima, swiin u nikwsi.
The guava cooked with sugar, we eat it with bread.
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Kawas nuknuknga tuktinka yalptangka nsut aapluki kuskama. Kawas saala saala yiruk su pwatpa.
When the guava is ripe, when it drops, we pick it up to eat it. The red guava is sweeter.
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
They usually eat them when they are green because if they wait for them to be ripe they won't be there!
The leaves can be used medicinally. - Gramatical:
Borrowing from English (guava).
1. land,toponomy Guava Tree place
Composicion:
expression
Morfemas |
kawas |
kat |
guava |
tree |
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
Place in Corn River, near the waterfall.
1. space in
Notas:
- Gramatical:
Gets reduced to '-i' as postposition of velar final words, as in 'uung+ki' giving 'uung-i' (in the pot).
I.
N
1. plant type of flower
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
It is a tall lilly-like fresh waterside flower, with single white petal and a rod like stamen. - Gramatical:
Reduplication, but can also be 'kiangka'.
I.
N
1. artef.,dom. cover Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
-
Nalmliki naing kiiba ki.
I wrap myself in my cover.
2. artef.,dom. sheet
Ejemplo de Frase-Phrase example:
-
Kiiba ngaang su aakring.
Spread the sheet over the bed!
I.
N
1. animal,reptile a type of lizard
Notas:
- Léxica:
Same as 'suleeru' lizard.
1. measuring,mov straight
1. body not curly
2. plant not curved
5. measuring well done
6. frank
7. fair play
Notas:
- Etnográfica:
Has more or less the same polysemy as English 'straight'.
In the concrete sphere it can qualify objects that are not curved, not bent, not crooked, not curly. It can also qualify a movement.
In the abstract sphere it can qualify an activity as being well done or a state of mind such as 'fair-play' or 'frank talking'. - Gramatical:
Has a reduced variant 'kiibi' that exists also for all the compounds of 'kiibing'. See 'kitkiibing' (middle), 'kiibingma' (straight), 'aakiibingma' (crooked) and reduplication 'kiibing kiibing' (very straight).
1. measuring straight
Composicion:
derivation
Morfemas |
kiibing |
ba |
straight |
ADJ |
Notas:
- Gramatical:
The derivational suffix '-ba' can be nasalized into '-ma' because of the preceeding nasal 'ng'.
1. very straight
Composicion:
expression
Morfemas |
kiibing |
kiibing |
straight |
straight |
Notas:
- Gramatical:
Reduplication for intensity.