Gedaged
Facts
- Language: Gedaged
- Alternate names: Bel, Graged, Mitebog, Ragetta, Rio, Sek, Siar, Siar-Ragetta, Szeak-Bagili, Tiara
- Language code: gdd
- Language family: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic linkage, North New Guinea linkage, Ngero-Vitiaz linkage, Vitiaz linkage, Bel-Roinji-Nenaya, Bel, Western Bel
- Number of speakers: 6950
- Script:
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Introduction
Gedaged is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Madang Province; Sek, Yabob, Karkar, and Bagabag islands, Astrolabe bay, Madang coastal villages area.
The Gedaged Verb
Verblist
- [su]fun|í, tezepasí -- to kill
- [y]aní -- to eat
- [y]en -- to lie down
- bal, du -- to fall
- bas -- to live, be alive
- belái, sae, tizái -- to stab, pierce
- bezaní -- to hunt
- bol, pai -- to say
- bozozoaní -- to turn
- bule, pipí -- to squeeze
- butuní -- to hold
- di -- to laugh
- didí -- to swell
- doz -- to sleep
- dusá -- to climb
- falé, tezepalé -- to split
- fazé, fu, pu, wi -- to blow
- fué -- to open, uncover
- fúfu, zez, zut -- to fear
- funí, tebalí -- to hit
- funí, tití, tut|é -- to pound, beat
- guguzí, lutí, pilití, talé, tiziŋiní, tuzu -- to cut, hack
- kánkan -- to think
- kekaz|é -- to scratch
- kukúm, meyaním mumún -- to hide
- la, toz -- to walk
- log -- to swim
- loŋ -- to hear
- loŋ -- to know, be knowledgeable
- lu -- to vomit
- mam, ziŋiní -- to chew
- mat -- to die, be dead
- matál -- to sit
- memazí, nani, tun|i -- to burn
- milí -- to drink
- musí -- to suck
- nai, nani -- to cook
- nasí -- to see
- pae -- to plant
- palú, yau -- to flow
- pan|é -- to shoot
- pau, puzí, sasé -- to tie up, fasten
- pilianí -- to choose
- poalí -- to buy
- saze -- to dig
- so -- to come
- sutí -- to count
- ta, tiŋia -- to cry
- tiúz -- to stand
- tub -- to grow
- uz, yaeŋ -- to breathe
- uzát -- to work
- wae, zikí -- to sew
- yasú, yusuní -- to spit
- yaz|é, zutí -- to bite
- zou -- to fly