Some of these mnemonics are pretty lame and may make it harder than easier to remember the word. Sorry.
| ala | not/nothing | “nothing a la carte for me!” |
| ale, ali | everything | “Allah is everything!” |
| anpa | below | “The floor is *un*der my dog’s *pa*w” |
| ante | different | “The ant, eh, lives differently in Canada” |
| awen | wait | “*Ah when* will the pizza get here? I don’t want to *wait*” |
| anu | or | “Do you *a-new* *or* old?” |
| ike | bad | “Not okay, it’s ike!” |
| yaki | dirty | “What a dirty yak(i)” |
| jan | person | “My friend Jan is a person” |
| jo | have | “Yo! What’d you got?” |
| kama | get | “*Karma* is what you *get* in the next life” |
| kin | also | “Uncle bob is *also kin*” (watch out for the pronunciation here,pronounced as keen!) |
| taso | only, but | “that’s all” |
| tawa | to, move, give | “towards” |
| lape | sleep | “My cat likes to *sleep* in my *lap-eh*” |
| lete | cold | “It is cold when it is late-eh in the year” |
| lili | small | “The *lilly* is a *small* pad” |
| moli | Die, dead, kill | You will die if you im*mol*ate yourself. |
| nasa | crazy, drunk, weird | NASA sees some wierd stuff, when they are drunk up in space. |
| oko | eye | “The oculist can see the future.” |
| poki | box | “Put the stuff-i in the box-i” |
| tomo | room, building | “The tomb-o had one room-o” |
| walo | white | “That wall-o is white-o” |
| weka | gone | “I’ll be *gone* when you *wake-uh*” |
| wile | want | “Does the king *will* it so?” |