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meu?eunokot 'to sell fish from place to place' (from
eunokot 'fish')
63. Hana lon-meu?eunokot le, hana le geulitan-angen.
NEG 1-sell-flsh anymore NEG anymore bicycle
' I do not sell fish anymore, I do not have a
bicycle anymore.'
1). meu- means 'to work as' in verbs formed from words
for certain trades.
meuutoh 'to work as a carpenter or house builder'
(from utoh 'carpenter, house builder')
meudukon 'to work as a healer' (from djikjjfl 'healer')
meukuli 'to work as a labor' (from kuli 'labor').
64. 'Oh lheueh nyoe lon-piyoh lon-meukuli.
When finish this 1-stop 1-work-a-labor
'After this I will stop working as a labor.'
m). meu- means 'to play in or with, to get soaked with'
in verbs formed from words for certain mass nouns (such as
mud, ground dirt, water, rain, etc.) with which or in which
children usually like to play, and often make themselves
dirty or get soaked with it.
neuabee 'to play on the ground or in ground dirt'
(from abee 'dirt, ash')
meuleuhoo 'to play with mud, to be covered with mud'
(from leuhop 'mud')