lokah

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Atayal [Term?].

Adjective

lokah

  1. good; strong

Adverb

lokah

  1. intensifier
    lokah benkyo ― study hard

References
  • Umberto Ansaldo, Miriam Meyerhoff (2020 November 29) The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113: “YC consonants, such as /t k s x h/, can appear word- finally as in Atayal (e.g. papak 'eat', lokah 'good')”
  • Peng Qiu (2015) “A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing predicate position in Yilan Creole”, in Master of Arts Thesis
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