BEACH-LA-MAR VOCABULARY. 
a he keep a bee there. G 243. 
all a Malekula man he say. G 207. 
about only in walk about, run about. 
adrift freely used in the sailor sense of to 
be unfastened. 
make adrift to untie, to loosen, to open. 
make’m door adrift: open. 
make’m peasoup adrift: open the tin 
of meat. 
ago long time ago. W 290. 
alive look alive: hurry up, make haste. 
all all functions as the sign of the plural 
(more numerous than the dual or 
trinal). 
I. preceding nouns and pronouns in our 
singular form. 
all he talk: they say. SG 121. 
all he cook him belong Mangin. 
99. 
all man: everybody. V 253. 
allman feelno good. V 252. 
all man he growlfor you. V 252. 
all a Malekula man he say. G 207. 
all the boy want to kill me. W 373. 
2. with nouns in our plural form. 
spirit belong all white men no good. 
P 266. 
bymbye all men laugh along that boy. 
Se 567. 
all adverbially used. 
suppose this fellow man he sabe he 
die all finish. SG 25. 
he kaikai all finish. S 304. 
he make’m one big fennis all around 
garden. L 364. 
he all bone. V 254. 
all see all right, all same, all time. 
alligator crocodile. R 105. 
This is not essentially jargon, the 
islanders could not make the 
blunder; it finds its base in the 
common failure in English to dis- 
tinguish the two lizards. The 
‘allegory on the banks of the Nile’”’ 
is a glass-house stone thrown reck- 
lessly at a good woman who but 
followed the error of those who 
should have known better than to 
dub Crocodilus niloticus an alli- 
gator, 
along 
I. possessive sign, more commonly belong. 
bone along me; heart along him; eye 
along him. V 254. 
me savvee talk along white man. 
L 362. 
rope along bush: liana. R 97. 
along 
2. objective sign. 
gammon along him. L 361, 363. 
kaikai along me. L 361, 362. 
what name you sing out along me? 
L 362. 
fight alonga him. W 290. 
3. at, objective. 
god he no savvee look along us two 
fella all’m time. L 363. 
bymbye all men laugh along that boy. 
Se 567. 
he cross along Adam Eve. 
4. sign of the indirect object, to. 
he give’m this fella Eve along Adam. 
L 363. 
363. 
make’m trouble along boy. L 363. 
5. sign of an ethical dative. 
you two fella finish along me alto- 
gether. L 364. 
6. locative; in, at, on, into. 
he stop along his island. W 349. 
stop along Vila. W 144. 
he find him along reef. Se 173. 
he put’m this fella Adam along garden. 
L 363. 
kaikai meat along butcher. R 108. 
stop all time along Mabuiag. V 252. 
so Adam Eve two fella stop along 
garden. L 363. 
close up altogether along this fella 
garden belong you two fella. 
L 363. (Observe the verb value: 
close up almost, altogether every- 
thing, along that is in.) 
talk along boy along Queensland. 
363: 
they go hide along scrub. L 363. 
he put’m one fella marster belong god 
along fennis. L 364. 
7. locative; aboard of. 
he come along Ceara. W 349. 
plenty boy along ship. W 386. 
8. along. 
go look’m eye belong you along deck. 
L 359. 
g. because of. 
me fright along god. L 363. 
10. for, duration of time. 
you been take me along three year. 
W 373- 
11. for, for the purpose of. 
spear good along fight. Se 560. 
you fellow strong along fight. Se 
560. 
12. out of. 
he make’m one fella mary along bone. 
L 363. 
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