Category: H

Japan (also Siapan)

• ol Japan Japanese
• Tok Japan Japanese language

flatterer, conman.

grade (in school).

tinea, ringworm

• Grile i mekim skin i skrap.
  Tinea makes one’s skin itch.

grader (machine for levelling roads).

1. grease, fat, ointment

• Pik i gat planti gris.
  The pig is fat.
• no gat gris to be lean
• gris bilong pik lard

2. flattery

• Em i tok gris long bos bilong en.
  He flattered his boss.

3. fertile, fertility

• Graun i gat gris.
  The soil is fertile.

Derived from the German vocabulary ‘Heiden’ which means ‘heathen’.

heathen

• pasin haiden heathenism

a handkerchief.

1. to halve, to divide into halves

• Meri i hapim wok tasol.
  The woman only did half a job.

2. to fill half full

• Man i hapim botol long kerasin.
  The man half filled the bottle with kerosene.
• hapim long tupela hap divide in half

hydro, water power.