Showing posts with label adverbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adverbs. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2007

nui : no

The Tarijan word for no is nui.

In other languages:
nui means "club, truncheon" in Estonian; means "injured" in French; means "big" in Hawaiian; means "big, important, large, many" in Maori; means "us" in Sicilian.

International locations:
Nui is a district in the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu and a small city in the Chechenskaya Respublika region of the Russian Federation. Nui is the first part of the name of a number of cities in Vietnam. Easter Island is also called Rapa Nui.

Friday, September 14, 2007

yes

dii : yes

The Tarijan word for yes is dii.

In other languages:
dii means "all day" in Dawida (a language of Kenya); means "you" in Saami (a language of Lapland); means "this" in Sinkyone (a California Athabascan language).

International locations:
Dii is a place in Liberia.