Drehu
Facts
- Language: Drehu
- Alternate names: Dehu, De’u, Lifou, Lifu, Qene Drehu
- Language code: dhv
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Southern Melanesian, New Caledonian, Loyalty Islands
- Number of speakers: 13000
- Script:
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Introduction
Drehu is a language of New Caledonia. It is spoken in Loyalty Islands, Lifou and Tiga.
Dialects
Minimal dialect difference between the 3 districts of Wetr, Gaica and Mu.
The Drehu Verb
Verblist
- aehnatro
- aj
- ate
- goëen
- ij
- kei
- puj
- sesë
- tran
- traqa
- xe
- xen
- aehnatro -- to walk
- aj -- to swim
- aŋaŋan, weketh -- to split
- ate, waŋatemekuñin -- to know, be knowledgeable
- atra, huce, muñamuña -- to chew
- atron -- to cook
- cai, can -- to sew
- cil -- to stand
- cipa -- to grow
- cipa -- to swell
- deŋ -- to hear
- deuth, manith -- to burn
- e numeran -- to count
- elë -- to climb
- ënön, xom apaten -- to steal
- fuluth, guman -- to suck
- geth, hej, tratra -- to bite
- göleti -- to hold
- hape, qaja, ulatin -- to say
- hloth, kuiën, tij -- to throw
- hnahna, siej, uf -- to blow
- hñijuën -- to spit
- hoae, thotesi -- to yawn
- huliwan -- to work
- humuth, jahwa -- to kill
- hutra -- to squeeze
- iën -- to choose
- ij -- to drink
- itön -- to buy
- kei, malaxan -- to fall
- kuj, sin -- to dig
- kuqan -- to shoot
- köjë -- to hunt
- lapa -- to sit
- mano -- to breathe
- mec[in] -- to die, be dead
- mekun -- to think
- meköl -- to sleep
- nanatin, nuan -- to vomit
- neni -- to flow
- oth, wejecan -- to tie up, fasten
- popoth, satimon, tha -- to hit
- puj -- to dream
- pulitötëtin, xou[ën] -- to fear
- punepunën -- to sniff, smell
- qenehñima, saxaja -- to laugh
- sesë, wehñitrë -- to fly
- sha -- to cut, hack
- shath, thethë -- to open, uncover
- sheitrë, teij -- to cry
- sheweŋönie -- to live, be alive
- thagöligölin -- to pound, beat
- thin, us -- to stab, pierce
- thuŋ -- to hide
- tran -- to plant
- traqa -- to come
- xei -- to turn
- xen -- to eat
- xoxo -- to scratch
- öhn, goeën, waŋ -- to see