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Wauja
Pronunciation
Verb
elelepei
- (intransitive) he/she/it cries, weeps, sobs, sheds tears, wails, whimpers (in sorrow, fright, pain, or distress)
Iyene painyakuwi. Yamukunaun elelepei. Aminya yelele, aminya yelele omawiu yamukunaun ipitsi.- entered house. The children were crying. "Don't cry, don't cry," she said to the children.
- Tinejunaun elelepei nuutsa.
- Women wail at my approach (women reject me).
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Aminya pasato. Elele minya ouneke.- Don't let see . will cry to it.
- (transitive) he/she/it laments, bewails, mourns (passionately expresses grief or sorrow)
- Elelewi paitsupalu ipitsi.
- She lamented her daughter.
Antonyms
Derived terms
- onelelen (“his/her/its sound of crying, sobbing”)
See also
References
- "Iyene painyakuwi" uttered by Itsautaku, shaman and elder, recounting traditional Wauja tale, "The Man who Drowned in Honey". Recorded in Piyulaga village in the presence of his adult daughter, adolescent son, and others, December 1989, transcript p. 32.
- "Elelewi paitsupalu" uttered by Itsautaku, ibid., transcript p. 17.
- Other examples from E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.