engaenga various, diverse

Part of Speech adjective
Phonetic Form eŋaeŋa
Lovono Equivalent nengenenge
Morphology Redup. enga ‘sort’
    • various, diverse
    • Lexical Function Gloss different
      Syntactic Restriction plural N
      (Part of) Synonym (for)
      • Example 630:
        Noma li-lanasu idi ne ngatene engaenga: ebele nga namolo iaidi, viabasa idi, kula none aidi, viñe buioe aidi.
        In the olden days, killing someone could be done using a variety of objects, such as their clothes, their hair, the food they left, the nut they chewed…
      • Example 742:
        Li-teli avtebe, li-vo udo, uña ngatene engaenga.
        They planted taros, bananas, various things.

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  • See also:
    • engaiote different / strange, surprising
    • abia many, a lot of; numerous / all, every