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alahenua
noun plot of (bush) land, acreage
bookmarkbadii
noun fish sp., scad?
bookmarkbalu gauanga
adjective trembling of legs
bookmarkbasaa
verb be talked into
bookmarkbebea
verb be very nervous, be very anxious
bookmarkbuadalia
verb cast with a sling
bookmarkdaa hatau
verb beat unmercifully
bookmarkdababa-gabugabu-tai
noun fishsp.: lizardfish
bookmarkdabui
verb to splash water on something with the hand
bookmarkdadango
verb repeatedly fall upon
bookmarkdahido mada
noun inner corner of the eye
bookmarkdahu
verb start a fire (or an engine); build a fire
bookmarkdalaehala
verb pricked
bookmarkdangada gai dangada
cannibal
bookmarkdeainga
noun nothingness
bookmarkdebeaha
okay; so-so
bookmarkdenaa ai loo
that is it (which has been decided upon)
bookmarkdiilevalevanoa
noun the fifth child of a couple
bookmarkdilia ange
give fish to
bookmarkdolo
adjective creep (a very slow movement over the ground)
bookmarkdugu dagidahi
verb place (or leave off) one at a time
bookmarkduha
verb divide among, division (in arithmetic)
bookmarkduu-mmea
sea cucumber species
bookmarke muni
verb hidden, be
bookmarkgada gimoo
adjective smile (esp. for no good reason or whenembarrassed)
bookmarkgadagada-a-vaga
noun a very small tuna
bookmarkgahaalava
adjective orange-colored (like a certain variety of coconut)
bookmarkgalo saele
adjective look around (moving one’s body about)
bookmarkgasi
noun mollusksp.: asaphis dichotoma
bookmarkgau henua gee
foreigners (lit., ’people from other lands’)
bookmarkgau looloa gaadinga
noun a bunch of fully mature coconuts
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gelogelo
verb having many depressions (e.g., a corrugated surface)
bookmarkgeu gee
to jerk one’s head away from something
bookmarkgiba
verb swelling of the testicles
bookmarkgieuli
noun lizardsp.
bookmarkhagabuni
verb gather together (people); have sexualrelations
bookmarkhagadau aaloha
adjective love each other (esp. of persons of the opposite sex)
bookmarkhagadige de madaangudu
a prolonged conversation (on subjects of little importance)
bookmarkhagalima (ina)
verb make a total of five
bookmarkhagaoanga gi lunga
good wages; a good price
bookmarkhagaseguli
verb make a total of one hundred thousand
bookmarkhai duu
verb to carry a baby about
bookmarkhaiva dee agona
sexual activity,
hakino gee
filthy,disgusting
bookmarkhale hadu
noun a house of brick or cement construction
bookmarkhanange
adjective go to
bookmarkheehee
adjective cry out
bookmarkhonoa
verb patched
bookmarkhudaa moni
noun a fleet of canoes
bookmarkkumi
verb to squeeze by grabbing
bookmarklabu ssenga
adjective to run into trouble (owing to one’s misdeeds)
bookmarklapede
verb stumble and fall
bookmarklimasisi
noun pinky finger
bookmarkllahi
noun fishsp. (= small hagaudalolo)
bookmarklodo malangilangi
adjective happy
bookmarklongolongo iho dalinga
pick up information from others’conversation
bookmarkma gi
in order to
bookmarkmaava age
belch
bookmarkmada luu mada
noun in the presence of someone
bookmarkmadaanga hulu maa lima
number fifteen
bookmarkmadalua maa dolu
number twenty three
bookmarkmagau i de hiigai
ravenous
bookmarkmamu-honga-dai
noun fishsp.: anchovy , silversides (small)
bookmarkmanu hao vai
noun a bottle (of glass)
bookmarkmasausaua
verb be masausau
bookmarkmodomodo mada gii
the stage of development of the coconutbetween modomodo and gaadinga gaha de a
bookmarkmonilele
noun airplane
bookmarkmoso
noun black bird species (eats fruit)
bookmarkngii
verb a high-pitched sound
bookmarkngudu gaiaa
verb charlatan
bookmarknoho senga (adu)
adjective be ignorant (of what is happening)
bookmarknuinui
noun a special kind of driftwood (resembling aha-bagua), the core of which is used for the hoop of the flying fish net
bookmarkoa
gunwales (at the top of the canoe)
bookmarkoda
eat something raw
bookmarkoda
grated coconut meat after the oil has been expressed
bookmarkolo
an area in which sand has accumulated; beach; sand spit
bookmarkoo
number zero
bookmarksaulaba
noun parent-in-law, child-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law
bookmarksigi manu
adjective to transplant a plant
bookmarksisi galisi
striped (with thin lines)
bookmarksomo haahine
adjective a fleshy (non-muscular) man
bookmarkteungaalodo
noun middle (of something round); center
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