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geleiwatl

Pronunciation guide: ge·ley·wa·dêl

Recording by Diane (Listuguj) 🔉
Recording by Eunice (Listuguj) 🔉
Recording by Joe (Listuguj) 🔉

Part of speech: verb animate transitive
Translation: He/she protects him/her

Meanings:

protect
keep watch over
hold in safekeeping

Example of word used in sentence:

Nti geleiwatl nuji'jl
My dog is protective of my grandchild.

Recording by Eunice (Listuguj) 🔉

Alternate forms:

I protect him

(first person singular animate subject, third person singular animate object)

I protect you

(first person singular animate subject, second person singular animate object)

He/she protects me

(third person singular animate subject, first person singular animate object)

Other words from category behaviour

alsumgusit - be obedient / is directed about / obey - 🔉
amjepit - tipsy - 🔉
ejaqjematl - belittle / humiliate / shame - 🔉
ejoqjematl - interrupt (in conversation) - 🔉
elenqwe'set - rush over / scoot over / go toward on foot - 🔉
elist'g - disobey - 🔉
elistuatl - disobey - 🔉
elue'wipnnatl - incites to wickedness / causes to be wicked - 🔉
elue'wit - quick·tempered - 🔉
emego'teget - treat badly / abuse - 🔉
emego'tg - treat badly / abuse - 🔉
emegwatalg - eat disgusting food / eat in a disgusting manner / messy eater - 🔉
emegwe'g - act improperly / act disgustingly - 🔉
emegweiwatl - treat badly / abuse - 🔉
emtesgatalg - fussy eater / eat fussily / finicky eater - 🔉
emtesgit - conceited / arrogant / vain / snobbish - 🔉
emtesgite'lmatl - think superior over / being arrogant toward / place oneself above - 🔉
e'pite'su'qamigsit - act like young (unmarried) woman - 🔉
e'pitewe'sm - womanizer / woman-chaser - 🔉
espe'g - important / high in rank / important / high in rank - 🔉
essu'tmuatl - blame - 🔉
ewnasa'sit - misconduct / misbehave / act foolish - 🔉
ewnasgwatpa'latl - confuse / drive crazy / make dizzy - 🔉
ewnasiet - confused / gone awry / mixed up / topsy turvy - 🔉
ewnasimgnajig - pick up in a disorganized way / pick in a muddled manner / choose in a jumbled way / pick up hurriedly (Nova Scotia) - 🔉
ewnasimgnasit - gather or pick up in a disorganized way / select illogically / choose in a random way / pick up hurriedly (Bear River) - 🔉
ewnasimgngl - pick up in a disorganized way / select illogically / choose in a random way / pick up hurriedly (Nova Scotia) - 🔉
ewsa'latl - threaten / shake / rough up - 🔉
ewsa'toq - pretend to hit / threaten to hit - 🔉
ewsimatl - joke / bluff / kid - 🔉
ewsitutg - show off - 🔉
gaqamu'tm'gewei - patience - 🔉
gaqiga'lsit - maximum effort / puts all of himself/herself in - 🔉
gegnua'teget - inform / do what is proper or correct - 🔉
gegnua'toq - do correctly or properly - 🔉
gegnue'g - respectful / live according to proper upbringing / certain time / special / certain thing - 🔉
gegnu'qamigsit - act accordingly / behave appropriately / behave - 🔉
gegwe'g - is a slowpoke / slow-moving / is a slowpoke / slow-moving - 🔉
gegwe'g - is a slowpoke / slow-moving / is a slowpoke / slow-moving - 🔉
geleiwatl - protect / keep watch over / hold in safekeeping - 🔉
gesaluet - love - 🔉
gesgelmatl - hold dearly / reluctant to part with - 🔉
gesgelt'g - hold dearly / reluctant to part with - 🔉
getanatl - hunt / track / chase / seek / spiteful - 🔉
getanqigalatl - stalk - 🔉
getanteget - hunter / gatherer / spiteful person - 🔉
getanuet - spiteful - 🔉
getgaqamigsit - ill·mannered - 🔉
getge'g - act indecent - 🔉
getgiet - drunk - 🔉
getlamite'lmatl - belives in / trusts in - 🔉
getlams'tg - believe / obey / follow, as in beliving in something - 🔉
getlams'tuatl - believe someone / listen to - 🔉
getuapsit - fend for oneself / help oneself - 🔉
getugtnumqwanet - want an alcoholic drink - 🔉
giaspiet - make habit of - 🔉
gi'gaja'sit - argue - 🔉
gi'gajeiwatl - aggravate / tease / do for spite - 🔉
gi'gajimatl - goad / dare / urge on / taunt / reply sarcastically or meanly / answer back - 🔉
gi'gassit - tease - 🔉
gi'gassuinu - teaser / jokester - 🔉
gime'g - secretive - 🔉
gimiet - sneak around - 🔉
giwaje'g - listless / dull - 🔉
glusgapewit - fib / tell lies / tell tall tales - 🔉
gmutnes - thief - 🔉
goqqaja'teget - do the right thing / do correctly - 🔉
gtigiewinuj - drunkard - 🔉
gtigiewuti - drunkenness - 🔉
igeggwet - fall sick / in heat (said of dog) / lose mind suddenly - 🔉
istue'g - different / not normal / strange / different / strange - 🔉
istuigit - crooked / uneven / different / dishonest - 🔉
jageju'patl - clean out (by eating) / mooch excessively (expression) - 🔉
jaqale'g - quick / fast / fast / quick - 🔉
jaqale'g - quick / fast / fast / quick - 🔉
jawa'tat - chew tobacco / use snuff - 🔉
lgowaqana'latl - bother / trouble - 🔉
lgowaqana'toq - bother / trouble - 🔉
lugowaqana'teget - bothersome / nuisance - 🔉
lugowaqanit - bothersome / troublesome - 🔉
majiaqa'latl - scold - 🔉
maligmatl - mock / tease - 🔉
malja't - stagger slowly - 🔉
massaqa'sit - takes advantage of the situation - 🔉
massaqte'get - instigate / make/cause disruption - 🔉
me'ga'sit - overact / make a big fuss / over react - 🔉
mega'sualatl - make a big fuss over - 🔉
me'ga'teget - overdo / do more than expected / show off - 🔉
me'ge'g - snobbish / stuck up / haughty / inconsiderate - 🔉
me'go'pj - snob / snobbish person / vain person / stuck up person - 🔉
melg'pugua'sit - stands hard or strong / take a stand / unrelenting / insist - 🔉
menaqajewa'latl - do carefully and correctly - 🔉
menaqajewa'toq - do carefully and correctly - 🔉
menata't - cowardly / weak / weak willed - 🔉
metuite'tg - apprehensive / dread / anxious about - 🔉
metu'qamigsit - hard to get along with / have bad disposition - 🔉
mi'gmuessue'get - possessed by mi'gmuessu - 🔉
migultiat - experience (by male) pregnancy symptoms of partner / become irritated (as first child) when mother carries her second child / sympathy pains (by male) - 🔉
mila'teget - mischievous / practical joker - 🔉
miligsnqwat - hard to please / fussy - 🔉
milsuteget - gives multipital instructions / undecided - 🔉
mi'walatl - thankful for / grateful - 🔉
mi'watg - thankful for / grateful - 🔉
mntuit - devilish - 🔉
mtugunoqtnugwet - behave a certain way when a storm is approaching - 🔉
mui'newqamigsit - temperament of a bear - 🔉
munsaiwatl - persuade / persistent persuasion / coax - 🔉
munsapit - look persistently - 🔉
munsa't - persistent - 🔉
munsigsma'latl - pushes persistently - 🔉
munsigsma'toq - pushes persistently - 🔉
munsigsmeget - persistent in shoving / persistent in pushing - 🔉
munsisapa'latl - persevere to pull through / persevere to save - 🔉
munsisapa'toq - persevere to save / persevere to pull through - 🔉
munso'tg - persistent in doing - 🔉
musguaje'g - frustrated / upset - 🔉
musgwatamit - lick - 🔉
musgwatg - lick - 🔉
nalagit - energetic / swift / eager - 🔉
naqana'mat - drink alcoholic beverage - 🔉
naqatgelsit - self-conscious / shy - 🔉
naqsio'pla'toq - quickly do wrong - 🔉
naqsitetapua'toq - quickly do right / quickly do correctly - 🔉
nata'tawet - know how to beg - 🔉
natawinsgu'mat - know how to answer back - 🔉
nepaqt'g - stingy - 🔉
nepe'g - sensitive / temperamental / touchy / easily offended / easily agitated - 🔉
netage'g - bashful / shy - 🔉
netago'qona'latl - shame - 🔉
ne'tapit - critical / faultfinding / nosey - 🔉
ne'tata'sit - wise / quick thinker - 🔉
ne'tma'sit - make center of attention - 🔉
newtinqana'mat - drink alone (usually alcoholic beverage) - 🔉
newtugo'pj - loner - 🔉
ni'laje'g - friendly / outgoing - 🔉
ntaqo'qon - shame / disgrace - 🔉
nujimila'teget - prankster / joker / jester / joker / prankster / jester - 🔉
nutqwe'g - immature / undeveloped / minor - 🔉
o'plagnutmajig - have disagreement / have misunderstanding - 🔉
o'pla'teget - do wrong / do incorrectly - 🔉
o'pla'toq - do wrong / do incorrectly - 🔉
pa'qamajeiwatl - snooping / meddlesome to him/her / examine / inspect / investigate / study - 🔉
pa'qamajo'tg - snooping / meddlesome to it / examine / inspect / investigate / study - 🔉
pegatnmat - neat / clean and tidy - 🔉
pegittemit - cry long while - 🔉
penoqwite'lmatl - look down on / snub / discriminate against - 🔉
pepsitelget - disrespectful / rude - 🔉
pepsite'lmatl - disrespect / rude / discourteous - 🔉
pe'sgiget - fire / shoot - 🔉
petqwasit - deny - 🔉
piltua's'g - turn out differently / turn out unexpectedly - 🔉
piltua'sit - turn out differently / turn out unexpectedly - 🔉
pilu'assit - foolish / silly - 🔉
pisoqqoweiegsit - greedy - 🔉
poqtatpematl - begin to nag / begin to scold - 🔉
punajeiwatl - stop doing / let someone be - 🔉
punajo'tg - stop doing / leave alone - 🔉
pusgilugwet - usually works - 🔉
qwa'niej - phoney person - 🔉
sangewite'lmatl - trust - 🔉
sangewite'tg - trust - 🔉
saputaqatg - last or stay through / endure - 🔉
sesgwe'g - lively / smart / active / hard worker / ambitious - 🔉
sespa'sit - restless / fidgety / squirm - 🔉
sespeiwatl - molest / bother with hands - 🔉
sespo'teget - molest / unfaithful in marriage / unfaithful with a married person / cheat (in love) / act the playboy/girl / cheater(in love) / playboy/girl - 🔉
sespo'teget - molest / unfaithful in marriage / unfaithful with a married person / cheat (in love) / act the playboy/girl / cheater(in love) / playboy/girl - 🔉
sespo'teget - molest / unfaithful in marriage / unfaithful with a married person / cheat (in love) / act the playboy/girl / cheater(in love) / playboy/girl - 🔉
siwa'latl - tiresome / frustrate / tired of - 🔉
siwa'teget - tiresome / boring / pest - 🔉
siwe'g - lonesome - 🔉
tagala'latl - anger / irritate / annoy - 🔉
taqale'g - grouchy - 🔉
tegtesgewet - kick / complain / object - 🔉
tegtesgewet - kick / complain / object - 🔉
tela'lsit - at fault (to self) / cause own misfortune - 🔉
tela'sit - behave or act in such manner - 🔉
tele'g - be in such a way / be that way / pregnant - 🔉
teleiwatl - treat so / treat as such - 🔉
telisqatuatl - obey - 🔉
telqamigsit - act thus / act in such manner - 🔉
tetapua'teget - do what is right / do right way - 🔉
tetapua'toq - do right way / do correctly - 🔉
tetapuigsua'toq - take right or proper way - 🔉
tetapu'qamigsit - act accordingly / behave properly - 🔉
tetujintage'g - so bashful / so shy - 🔉
unjaqajewa'teget - take it easy - 🔉
wantaqe'g - calm disposition / quiet - 🔉
wantaqpit - sits quietly / sit calmly - 🔉
wapnapit - stay up all night / see break of dawn - 🔉
wapnintoq - sing until dawn - 🔉
wapntesing - dance until dawn - 🔉
wejamoqsualatl - embrace / hug and squeeze - 🔉
wejo'tg - attempt / try out / try / test - 🔉
wela'latl - to please / do well by - 🔉
wela'lin - thank you / I do well by you - 🔉
wela'luet - charitable / pleases - 🔉
weleiwatl - take good care of - 🔉
welgwija'latl - uplift spirit / put in good·humor / make more confident - 🔉
welgwijimatl - put in good humor / encouraging - 🔉
welgwijing - in good·humor / good·spirits - 🔉
weligsua'toq - take well / accept - 🔉
weligwetutg - pleasant expression / wear smile - 🔉
weljaqajewa'teget - take it easy - 🔉
weljepit - tipsy / feel good (from drinking) - 🔉
welm'toq - kind·hearted - 🔉
welo'tg - take good care of - 🔉
welqamigsit - good·natured / have good disposition or character - 🔉
wesgewinoqsit - joyful / jolly - 🔉
wespaiwatl - disturb while asleep - 🔉
wetapulatl - scold / punish - 🔉
wetmguet - in the way - 🔉
wetmo'teget - bothersome / prankster / busybody / prankster / botherer - 🔉
wetqolatl - forbid - 🔉
wetqolsit - abstain - 🔉
wigpet - like to drink (alcoholic beverages) - 🔉
wi'gue'g - strange / weird / unkind / mean - 🔉
wigumat - heavy smoker - 🔉
wininuit - have mean disposition / grouchy - 🔉
winnmat - keeps a dirty place / unkempt / messy / sloppy - 🔉
winqamigsit - have bad character - 🔉
winsit - act bad or improperly - 🔉
wisguet - jealous / envious - 🔉
wisqilue'wit - quick·tempered - 🔉