Category: H

German

• long Jemantaim in the days of German rule before World War

See also: German New Guinea (1884-1914)

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.

side road, track leading off a main road or track

• liklik hanrot small sidetrack

peninsula.

1. a half, a piece, a part, a remainder

• hap tok i tok part of this message is
• Em i hap stori na hap singsing tu.
  It is half a tale and half a song.
• givim hap long to share something
• Mi nupela long Mosbi na mi no save gut long dispela hap.
  I’m new to Port Moresby and I don’t know this area.
• hap i stap yet remainder
• hap san yet still daylight
• Hap su bilong yu we?
  Where is your other shoe?

2. side, direction, here

• long hap i go on the opposite side

3. place

• Mi no gat arapela hap bai mi go stap.
  I have no other place to go.

1. to be hungry

• Mi hangre.
  I am hungry.

2. hunger, famine

• Hangre bai kilim yu.
  You will feel very hungry.
• taim bilong hanger famine