minyulitai

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) absolutely untrue, nothing but a lie, an untruth
 * Paintyawi ojopai. Payuwatuapai ipitsi. Minyuli! Minyulitai! Aitsa yajo itsapai!
 * [Mother speaking to her adolescent daughter:] You probably had sex with him. [It's obvious that] you're crazy about him.
 * [Daughter:] That's a lie! Just a lie! It's not like that at all!
 * 1) ruse, deception, stratagem, pretense, trickery, bluff, treachery
 * Minyulitai tumapai. Emetsuatai kehoto.
 * It was just deception that they built it [they weren't really just building a village]. They were stealing the land.
 * [Wauja elder recounting how a neighboring community tried to encroach on Wauja land.]
 * [Itsautaku:] Yamukunaun aya autukene mapa. Atukutapai yamukunauntope. Iya tukene mapa. Hoona, ayiu! Pa, yamukunaun iya itsenu wi. Tika tika tika ... minyulitai! [Mukura:] Amamitsatai? [Itsautaku:] Ehen, amamitsatai. Minyulitai. Amamitsapai. Maka onuko. Maka akiyuntuapa. Tika tika tik ... itsenu yamukunaun. Yamukunaun, aitsa uutapai. Aitsa uutapai okaintsityu han.
 * [Itsautaku, elder, telling traditional story:] "Children, let's collect [wild] honey!" [She] invited all the children [of the village to come along]. [They] were going to collect honey. "All right, let's go!" [they said]. Well, all the children went with [the woman and her husband]. [The patter of their running feet was heard on the path:] tika tika tika. But [the seemingly light-hearted outing] was just a ploy! [It was just part of the plan.] [Itsautaku's daughter, Mukura, interjects:] [So she] was simply tricking [her husband]? [Itsautaku resumes:] Yes, [she] was just tricking [him]. [It] was just a lie. [She] was deceiving [him]. So that [she] could kill [him]. So that [she] could get [her] revenge. Tika tika tika [went the patter of the children's feet]. [The] children who had accompanied [them]. [The] children did not know. [They] did not know what [the woman] was planning.
 * 1) pretense, formality, dissemblance, dissimulation, evasion oblique, indirect, or formally modest manner of speaking
 * "Nana autehene aitsu han, auleinyeintsakula waitsa," umapai... Putakanaku ipitsi umapai... Punubapai fazenda, kata ahapwonatain fazenda, aitsa inyaun wakapai onain, ipitsi umapai. Aitsaha -- minyulitai, putakanaku. Ipitsi umapai. Amaunaun hata ogatakoja.
 * [Acknowledging ceremonial guests from another village, a Wauja chief formally orates:] "These ones indeed have come searching for us, [here in] our abandoned fallow manioc gardens." [The chief] is referring to the village. See, a summer manioc garden is just a little [encampment], there's nobody living there, that's what he's saying. But no, it's not true, [the village to which his guests have come is actually a] large village [and not a humble encampment]. He's just saying that. It's merely a chief's way of speaking [with formal modesty].
 * "Nana tua autehene aitsu han, tya," umawi, paisejo ipitsi. "Hain, tya. Aitsa kala natu ya, tya." …Aitsa nikiyejepei ipitsi umapai. Minyulitai. Ogatakoja hata.
 * "These ones indeed have come searching for us," [the chief] said to his younger brother [formally announcing ceremonial guests from another village]. "Ah. Certainly not me," [said the younger chief]. He was saying he was unworthy, unskilled at oratory. But it was not true. It was just a manner of speaking.

Verb

 * 1)  he/she/it only or habitually lies
 * 2)  he/she/it errs, misspeaks, is mistaken
 * Mepiauwan itsupalu sekunya. Ehn! Niminyulitai. Pauwan hatiu. Opawa aitsa neke kakawakawiu.
 * She had two daughters in those days. Ah! I misspoke. She had only one. The other wasn't born yet.
 * Nupoponapai. Niminyulitai nanatapai.
 * I am making mistakes. I am messing up as I write.
 * I am making mistakes. I am messing up as I write.