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lengen
/lɔŋɔn/
v_rt.
“pause_in_rain”
 
1.
v.
for the rain (eglengen, miglengel/inlengel, lengel, actor & theme, eg><ø-) to pause for a few minutes
Eglengen e ka uran.
The rain is pausing.
Eng. raining, stop for a few minutes; stop raining for a few minutes; raining, pause
OCM: Ethnometeorology (821)
DDP: Rain (1.1.3.3)
Online dict status: -
Usage level: R
 
v.
for someone (egpalengen, migpalengen/impalengen, palengen, agent, eg><ø-pA-) to wait for the rain to pause before doing something (egpalengenen, impalengenen/migpalengenen/pigpalengenen, patient, egpA><en-)
Eng. pause, wait for rain to; rain, wait for it to pause; wait for rain to pause; wait for pause in rain
Online dict status: -
Usage level: M
 
2.
n.
(Malengen, mA1-) the name of a creek
Eng. creek
Online dict status: -
Usage level: R
 
3.
adj.
(malengen-lengen, mA1-rdpRT-) slow in decision making but really good (of a person)
Eng. careful in decision-making; decision-making, careful in; considered in decision-making; not hasty in decision-making; slow at decision-making; good at decision-making
Online dict status: -
Usage level: R

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Last updated: 29/Jul/2014