A VOCABULARY OF
P E L E-W. E N G L I S H.
Munga - - To eat.
Melitn - - - - To drink.
Meetbinggifs - To be fatisfied with_eating.
\Tbonior acocook - > Breakfaft.
Weetacallell acoyofs - Dinner«,'?;
Como/oy - - - - Supper. ,
Miffeeowe To cook, to drels victuals.
Moringough - — - To broil victuals. ‘
Meeake - A fweetmeat made of almonds and
moloflesT
Sopojfup - - - - A fweetmeat made of a fmall root
like a turnip.
Kalpatt - - - - ■ A fweet pudding made of boiledyams
and molofles.
Woolell - - , - - A fweetmeat made of fcraped cpcoa-
nuts and molofles.
Matbingaa - - - Mouldy.
Mokoot - - - - Rotten.
Riamall - - The wild bread-fruit.
Kutbidl - - - - The Jamboo apple..
Otbougb - - - - Beads. |
Clootie - - - - To cough.
Ognofs - - - - To fneeze.
Suampepak - To be pleafed, or glad.
Gurragur-
T H E P E L E W L A N G U A G E .
P E L E W. E N G L I S H.
Gurragur - - To laugh.
"Malill - - To play,;-to toy.
Puckqfdogeb - - - To deceive, to fpeak or a<£t in joke,
.. or; doubtfully.
Cdotbung - Wife, or cunning—as Cootbung arra-
> eat, a wife.man.
Tbingaringer ■ - ‘ - Foolilh, or .a fool—as Tbingaringer,
artbeil, a foolilh woman.
- t -- - To be angry;
Merengell - To be in pain.
Wmangle.| - To cry.
Adapat - - - - To lay down to fleep, i.e . to go to
reft.;
Parr - - - - A mat to fleep on.
Moopat ' - - - To lleep. .
Peekeeifs - - - - To awake from fleep.
Moraile h - - To walk.
■ Arramooroot - - To run, or make hafte.
Mooboo - - r - To; fall down.
Cockamevo ;■ j - To take care, i. e. not to flip or fall in
walking.
Bomtbocar - - To arife from where you are fitting,
to move out of th at place.
Aniuno - ' . - Come in, i. '<?. come into a houfe, (an
invitation or requeft.)
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