Sama, Central - bissala

speech; talk; information; word.

Compare: Sanskrit vicara ; Javanese wichara ; Malaysian bichara .

Mingga bey takale ku bissala ili? Ma bissala-na.

Where did I happen to hear that information? From his speech.

Hidjaun konoh ma aku bissala tutu.

Please spell this word for me.

hakah

N-

to speak.

Missala kow dahowh, bohoh aku missala.

You speak first, then I shall speak.

1.

N-, -han

to speak; to talk; to say; to give a verbal greeting.

Iyan bey bissala nu?

What did you say?/ What have you said?

Bang mandusiya mbal ngasip nibowa missala, mbal maruli iyan-iyan bey bissala mattoa-na, on-na "mabiyal".

If a person does not respond to greets brought, doesn't care about whatever his parents have said [to him], the name [of that sort of behavior] is "incorrigible".

hakah, lling, saldik

2.

ta-, -han

to convince; to persuade.

Iyan bey pagbissalahan bi?

Of what did you persuade [him]?

Bissalahan ku pin ya.

I shall be convincing him anyway.

3.

eh, ni-, -han

to be convinced.

Lai ya tabissalahan eh ku.

He happens to be convinced by me.

I was able to convince him./ I suckered him in.

logos

to have a proclivity for talking.

Pamissala ya.

He is fond of talking.

He is a talker.