Tuesday, May 29, 2012

HINENGGEN I MAN ÅMKO'

canstockphoto.com

Mungnga ma baba i payo gi halom guma'.

Don't open an umbrella inside the house.


Or else something bad will happen...

...someone gets sick, dies...

Chamorro word for superstition

CHAT HINENGGE

Hinengge comes from hongge, "to believe."

Chat is a prefix meaning "done badly, imperfect, defective."

Chat hinengge = defective, improper, wrong belief

No comments:

Post a Comment