Category: L

1. food, meat

• givim kaikai long to feed
• Gutpela kaikai i stap long ples.
  There is good food in the village.
• Man i go long maket bilong baim kaikai.
  A man is going to the market to buy food.
• kaikai bihain, switkaikai dessert
• kaikai long belo, kaikai long apinun dinner
• karim kaikai to bear fruit
• man bilong kaikai a bis eater
• taim bilong kaikai mealtime
• haus kaikai mess, dining room
• switpela kaikai dessert

2. to eat, to chew, to feed on

• gutpela long kaikai edible
• kaikai nabaut (eat about) to nibble here and there
• kaikai olsem rat gnaw
• kaikai samting nogut (eat something no good) to eat something harmful
• Mi kaikai pinis.
  I have eaten.
• Ol Hailans manmeri i laik kaikai buai.
  Highlands people like to chew betelnut.
• Ol pik i laik kaikai kaukau.
  Pigs like to eat kaukau.
• save kaikai man cannibal
• tambuim kaikai to fast

3. kaikai maus to kiss

4. kaikai lek oh damn!

See also: Traditional Foods and Cooking in Papua New Guinea

1. to bite something, to eat

• Pukpuk i kaikaim man.
  The crocodile ate the man.

2. to destroy

• Paia i kaikaim haus.
  Fire destroyed the house.

3. corrode

• Solwara i save kaikaim ain.
  Salt water corrodes iron.

a seagull.

to jump over something

• kalapim banis (gallop fence) to jump over the fence
• kalapim lo (gallop law) to break the law
• kalapim tambu to break a taboo

1. cargo, supplies, luggage

• Balus i bringim kago.
  The cargo came by plane.

2. cargo cult

• kago bilong ol tumbuna gifts from the ancestors

See also: Vailala Movement

a walking stick, cane stick, rattan (also rotang)

• Lapun yusim kanda olsem stik bilong wokabaut.
  The old person is using a walking stick to get around.

cabbage.

See also: Cabbage in Papua New Guinea

1. to jump, to spring, to leap, to climb into

• Em i kalap long sip.
  He jumped onto a ship.
• Kalap i go antap long diwai.
  Climb up into the tree.
• kalap kalap olsem bal to bounce
• kalap nogut to be momentarily frightened
• Ol pasindia i laik kalap long bas.
  The passengers wanted to jump into the bus.

2. to spread, to increase

• Sik i kalap hariap.
  The disease is spreading.

3. to have sexual intercourse

4. kalap kalap to dance

car (also kar)

• draivim ka to drive a car
• ka i krungutim em to run over with a car
• planim ka to get a car stuck
• Ka bilong Popin i bagarap.
  Popin’s car has broken down.

1. an exclamation

• Kalapa, no gat mani.
  Sorry, I have no money.

2. to mourn or sympathise with

• Meri i kalapa wantaim man bilong em.
  The woman mourned with her husband.