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