b'That in another country. See alsowithbesa deic Alsofoundasbeya.1.Occursloss of bais-. These three forms are shown inthus in Kilivila dialect employing high e in examplesbelow:Kusailibisa Putithereplace of ai in syn. form baisa 1 .near me.Kusaili bais2.OccursthusinKaileuladialect,inphrPut it over there e.g. by him.Isisu baisIt is there out of sight,besa tuta; however, this dialects commonere.g. in Port Moresby.form is the alternative form beya.3loc Syn.ofbais.Inthissynonymous BAISA 2locprep Functionsasalocative formofbaisthefinalvowelaloneis enunciated,accompaniedbythepointingpreposition mostly with human reference; at, action of head or lips, to indicate sthg nearbyto, towards, with, by him, them etc. A wide whichisbeingtalkedabout.Itisprobablyrange of possibilities which are contextually better to refer to this usage as an exclamationdetermined. Syn deli, katitaikina. Ant wa, o-. asitusuallyoccursinisolationfromother1.baisawithhumanreference.Balilivala lexemes. The same usage is more frequentlyI will be talking with her. baisa minanaAtotu found however in the Syn. of bais referred I stood by the chief.baisa guyauto below.2. baisa with non-human reference. Occurs4 loc Syn. of bais. In this synonymouswhenusedinconjunctionwiththelocative prepositionusualfornon-humanreference, form of bais the final vowel alone is utteredi.e. baisa wa or baisa o-.Ilokaia baisa ola valu with phonetic high tone in reference to sthg,He goes to his village lit. to at his village. with the meaning something we are talkingNote:Theuseofbaisainthesesense2 about which is far away. This syllable mayphrases is optional; they occur without baisa beinisolationwhereitfunctionsasanwith synonymous sense.exclamation. However, it may be used at the3. baisa and verb suffix -ki. A Synonymous endofastatement,as:Ebaisatutaisisuconstructionemployingeitherbaisaorthe And right now it is far away. The same devicelocativeverbsuffix-kimustbenoted.Bala isusedattheterminationofasentencebaisamataunaIwillgotohim.Baloki wherethefinalvowelofthewordismatauna Iwillgotohim.Seealsonotes supplantedbythisform,asin:Ebogwaon -ki. metoyabaisa locativeprepositional leilosregularformleilosiAndtheyhave gone away from here. phrasehuman ref From, away from, out of 7.Indiscoursebaisaisusedinaway,analogous to the English copula verb to be,lit.fromatwherebaisahashuman toequateorcomparetwoitems,ase.g.referenceonly.Cfthephrasemetoyawa Mataunalakaraiwagabaisakaraiwagametoyao-whichhasonlynonhuman bwainalit.That-manhisauthoritythisreference.Ulomwasawaimaimametoya baisa mataunaMy gladness comes from him authoritygoodHisauthorityisgood. Pieigala baisa sulasides in a fight isPs104.14.Thefollowingquoteusesboth Takingforms:Kukolaigumetoyabaisatomitugaga wrong.metoyaompulutaYousavedmefromthe 8. baisa has another linking function seen in some phrases, where it may be glossed aswickedbyyourswordPs17.13.The every or and. This form appears often as alexeme-baisainphrasesorcomplex rhetoricaldevice.Thus:taitalabaisataitalastructuressomeofwhicharelistedbelow phrase one another, everyone,taitala baisahas general not solely human reference. ambaisa qn Lit.question-this.This natana Baisaphrase each man and woman.compoundasksthequestionwhereorThis itstatessomewhereindefinite.Kusaili ibodi taitala baisa natana bitavagi goliis fitting that everyone of us here both menambaisawala Putitdownsomewhere andwomenshoulddo.Syn.phr Taitala anywhere.Ambaisa matauna?natana guditala q.v. Where is he? ambaisa ambaisaphr The phrase is used 9.baisawithtemporalreferencemaybe seen in these phrases:onlyinadeclarativestatementwiththe tuta baisaphr senseofwherever,everywhere.SeeAt this time; at the presentexample:Yena isisakaulasi ambaisa ambaisa time.There were fish swimming everywhere. baisa tutaphrAt this instant; right now.gala ambaisaphr Nowhere. aminabaisaqn 1. Where from? Whence?'