| 释义 |
Lifu, n. and a.|ˈliːfuː|
[The name of the largest of the Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific.]
(Designating, of, or pertaining to) a Melanesian language spoken on Lifu Island.
1852A. Cheyne Descr. Islands W. Pacific Ocean 179 (heading) Vocabulary of the Lifu language. 1855V. Lush Jrnl. 27 July (1971) 161 This little child, Lizzie, talks a little Nengone—a little Maori—a little Lifu—and a little English, and so is called the Polyglot Baby. 1858J. C. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. viii. 346, I am..printing..translations in Nengonè, Bauro, and Lifu. 1917Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. XLVII. 271 The first Lifu primer had a lesson: ‘Don't go out during public worship to..pick out and eat fleas’. 1952Word VIII. 252 Every word in Lifu is stressed on the first syllable. 1971A. G. Haudricourt in T. A. Sebeok Current Trends in Linguistics VIII. 380 In 1967 Tryon treated the syntax of Lifu in his thesis. |