Nafe (Kwamera)

v 1. walk, move, be in motion, go, come; 2. combined with the interrogative prefix -ɨf-, implies how, in what manner; 3. with interrogatie prefix and transitive postclitic, implies where

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adj. cooked, done, ready to be eaten, ripe (can be used in the imperative, for example speaking to food, "be ready!"

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v wear a hat, cover (something)

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v soar, circle (as a bird)

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v pray, communicate with the supernatural

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v err, fail, to make a mistake, do incorrectly

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v paint (especially one’s face during ceremonial events)

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v. eat food after drinking kava

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v. unwrap (as a tuber pudding), open (as an earth oven)

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v var. of -fwini

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v/a 1. glad, happy; 2. hug, hold (onto a person)

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v intr call fowls, cluck

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v hold to, hang on, grasp, hook, put one’s arms around

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v var. of -agihi

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v speak, talk, debate

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v shake, blow about (as the wind)

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v 1. rub, rub off, scrub, clean by scrubbing, wash; 2. rub against

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v 1. lean against; 2. believe in, depend on

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v rub one’s backside against, wipe one’s ass

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v 1. point; 2. teach, instruct

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v. bite, chew

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adj. prickly (as sugarcane or fig leaves)

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v light, illuminate, shine (as the sun), glitter

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v light up

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v. hold (food) in a leaf (as do circumcised boys while in seclusion), shield so as not to pollute

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v intr swear, use bad language

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v. sweep, clear away garden debris

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v wash (clothing, dishes, etc.)

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v intr 1. run, proceed, go off, fly (as a flag), swim, flow (as water); 2. have diarrhoea

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v carry piggyback

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v/a be daylight, dawning

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crow (as a rooster), cluck (as a hen)

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v gossip, tell on, betray, tell tales behind one’s back, inform about

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v 1. play with, make faces at, coo at (a child); 2. welcome, greet; 3. ask something of, beg something from

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v 1. must, have to, be obligated to, ought; 2. ask, request; 3. insist on, continue (in doing), demand, do anyway, proceed against advice, strive, try hard

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v scrape out, spoon out

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v crawl, walk carefully (as on a narrow path or cliff edge)

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v push down, poke down

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v touch, nudge, rub, scratch, brush against

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v 1. weigh, scale, measure, measure out; 2. hook down (as a coconut with a bamboo pole)

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v forbid, put a stop to

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v intr hoot, screech, call (as a bat), creak

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v 1. slide on, slip, strip off (as leaves); clean (as kava with coconut fibre), clear away debris, clear one’s throat; 3. sober up (from alcohol or kava) by clearing one’s throat with food or water; 4. massage

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v 1. curve, twist, make crooked, stretch, fold (as banana leaves for a hat), fold back on; 2. divert, influence, cause someone or thing to act correctly or wrongly, discipline, drive or lead astray, drive before one (as a cow), chase

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v 1. steal; 2. copy, take (a photograph), record (with a tape recorder)

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v 1. come from, start at (as a place); 2. in interrogative constructions: which, where

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v curse

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v 1. precede, go first, go before (particularly when walking); 2. do something first

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v dir come from (especially by walking)

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v start, be surprised by something

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v complement, praise

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v 1. sit, sit down; 2. be at, exist at

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v 1. follow, come behind; 2. do something afterwards

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v 1. strike, hit (especially with a stone or rifle), have an effect on something; 2. tie together, bring together

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v intr yawn

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v give birth to, bear (a child)

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v. cut bush for a garden, scratch (one’s head)

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v. twine (by rolling on one’s leg), file, rub out, hone

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v. make twine (by rolling on one’s leg or on one’s thigh)

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v hang onto, perch (as a bat), hang up (as a kerosene lantern)

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adj. be spoiled, rotten, stink (as food)

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v. wear an ornament of leaves inserted into carved or woven armlets

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v intr look upwards, face upwards (as a playing card)

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v sit on, sit astride (as on a horse)

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v call, call out to, invite

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v var. of -akwai(akwai)

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v mount, reach the summit of a hill, come out on top, be on top

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v intr 1. explode, blow up, erupt (as a volcano); 2. become angry, furious

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v gum (as one’s food)

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adj. ripe (as fruit), well cooked

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v snack on, eat (coconut wrapped in fig leaves, for example)

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v 1. feed (as a child or animal); fill (as a hole)

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v suck on, savor (as candy), keep in one’s mouth

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v pet, rub (as a dog), tickle

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v wring, wring out (as kava from a strainer), squeeze by hand

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v 1. crumble, break into pieces; divide, rip in half (as bread, biscuit)

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v hold on to, grasp, keep, retain, hoard (guests, goods, an idea)

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v intr stay behind, remain, lie down

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v/a immobile, confined to a mat or bed

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v intr suckle, nurse

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v 1. flatter, praise; 2. talk duplicitously, act hypocritically, change one’s side in a dispute

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beautiful, good

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v intr be sick

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adj. uncooked, raw, fertile (as land)

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v intr dead

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v fight with a club, wield a club

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v. intransitive garden, work in a garden

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v deflect an object (as a football), cast off, shake off one’s body, abandon one’s supporters (as a leader)

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v intr urinate

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v intr strive, do with effort

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v work, produce, enlarge or improve (as one’s resources)

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v drip, leak

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v shoot (a gun) together; throw (rock or stick) simultaneously

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green

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v life up, stand up (from a prone position), arise, life something which is on the ground

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v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

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v sneeze

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v/a 1. equal, the same, similar; 2. enough, sufficient, acceptable, fitting; 3. desirous of, needful of

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v/a 1. drown, sink; 2. deep, under water

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v intr 1. go, walk, be in motion; 2. be unmarried; 3. shine (as the sun)

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