Samala Vocabulary Illustrated — 7 — States and Conditions

These Samala words are all verbs, even though in English we think of them as adjectives. In Samala they act just like the action words that we're used to thinking of as verbs in English.
The pairs of words separated by a red slash ( )indicate opposites such as "to be sweet" and "to be sour."

to be dark, black 		to be white to be red to be green to be gray
oyin owow tasn aqulapan epu
to be sharp to be dirty, grimy to be dead, die to be broken  to be broken to be sticky
cc nuyi aqan kot piliy
to be sweet
 to be sour to be straight to be crooked

to be crooked
mowon iton   lukumel woyo
to be good to be bad   to be heavy to be light (in weight)
o axmk   xulxul kawakawak
to be well, healthy to be sick, ill   to be young, new to be old
umaw yuxpan   ikmin equn
to be full (from eating)   to be strong to be weak, feeble
aqt mxxn   ukal wakay
to be hot (said of weather) to be cold (said of weather)   to be wet to be dry
iaw   axcacax   o aqawan
to be hold (said of things) to be cold (said of things)   to be or feel hot (said of people) to be or feel cold (said of people)
yc   oxtokow   yulkla   toxom

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