BelizeKriol_EngDic_49337_2009

Kriol to EnglishSample Entry in the Kriol-English section of the dictionary:1. Kriol key word4. Kriol example sentence2. part of speech& English translation3. English definitionded v. die. If yu jrink paizn, yu wahn ded. If you drinkpoison, you'll die. See: kik di bokit, peg owt.— n. 1) dead. Mi pa, Gaad res di ded, yoostu seh yu mosaalwayz ga manaz fi di oalda pipl. My father, God rest hissoul, used to say that you must always have good mannerstoward older people. 2) death. Mayri staat tu si sain seh dedmi-di kaal ih grani. Mary started to see signs that death wascalling her grandmother. See: det.— adj. 1) dead. Dehn bileev seh ded pipl noh wahn rayz op5. sense number6. cross-reference1. Key wordEach entry in the dictionary begins with a keyword in bold type.Sub-entry: Sometimes an entry is a phrase rather than a singleword. It will appear as a subentry after the single word root entry, orin some cases, as its own main entry. For example, at the end of theentry for ayz (ear) are the sub-entries put bihain yu ayz and stikbrok eena ih ayz.Homonyms: Occasionally the key word is followed by a smallraised number. This number distinguishes two or more words that arespelled the same but are not related in meaning. Each word will havea separate entry. In the example below, bon 1 meaning ‘to burn’ is acompletely different word than bon 2 meaning ‘bun’.bon 1bon 2v. 1) burn. 2) hurt emotionally.n. bun.2. Part of speechIn this edition, we are using only broad categories of wordclasses, as follows: noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, article, adverb,preposition, conjunction, interjection, onomatopoeia (sound words),numbers, salutation, focus marker, phrase. We have not broken thecategories into their sub-categories, but further explanation of how4