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Ruvu speakers used two words to describe such fields, * - lale and * - sokola.
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Note that as in * - lale, Ruvu languages add * - i locative, which is why Kagulu converts * - sala to * - sale. back
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Note 131: CS 455 and 456; Proto-Ruvu * - lale derives from * - laala by addition of * - i, a locative suffix: * - laala + * - i * - laale, then * - lale by regular Ruvu loss of vowel length; e.g.,
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He glanced up at the tell-lale wind-dane in the deck beams above.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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Botanists will be fascinated by the presence here of the extremely rare Fritillaria imperialis (ters lale) and by the more common varieties of flower that flourish in the unique micro-climate of the Cilo-Sat Mountains
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Taere are good accom - modations for the company who refort to the baths j and the poorer inhabitants are fupported by tlie lale. of jietrifaftlons, ciylbls, &c.
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Coll., on the list of freemen at Plymouth as Vll. 24S-S49, 301-304; Cushraan lale as March 7, 1036-7.
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Blcffed are the poor in fpirit, tliofe» wliufe louis are empty as the veflels of the defo - lale widuw, in the days of Ellfha: when the heavenly Prophet Ihall vifit them, the dreams of his fulnefs fliall certainly flow according to the degree of their emptineis.
Posthumous Pieces of the Late Rev. John William de la Flechere 1791
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Thefe works have been Icmg carried on, and much fait is made at them, both for land-lale and expcata - lion.
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Without meaning, however, to depreciate the Adventurer, I muft obferve, that as the value of the Rambler came, in the progrefs of time, to be better known, it grew upon the publick eflimation, and that its lale has far exceeded that of any other periodical papers fince the reign of Queen Anne.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... 1791
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