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ahe
verb return, go back
bookmarkanei ai
these (here) only
bookmarkao de me
noun daytime
bookmarkbe aha naa huu
whatever; if ever
bookmarkbogi
verb to plant taro slips
bookmarkbuni ange lodo
paralyzed by fear; acute anxiety attack
bookmarkdaalonga
noun a wound on the body
bookmarkdaava
verb brackish (water); taste strange (of liquid)
bookmarkdagaa
verb a leader (for a fishline, made of olonga)
bookmarkdagalonga
noun path, route
bookmarkdagodo daudahi
adjective having the same characteristics, be alike
bookmarkdangada dau duadae
a sucker (a person who is easily fooled)
bookmarkdau age
to beach (a canoe) on land; reach land
bookmarkdavaia
noun the largest sort of tuna
bookmarkde ahiahi danua
good evening
bookmarkdeai ange
no more, no other
bookmarkdee galo
perhaps
bookmarkdegidegi
verb to jerk repeatedly; bawlout (speakharshly to)
bookmarkdingale
noun secretion of the genetalia (male or female); the milky sap on some pandanus plugs
bookmarkdogodogoisi
adjective becoming fewer and fewer
bookmarkdolo
noun the name of a name-group
bookmarkdoo de hatuli
the’falling of thunder’
dugu gee
put aside, setaside; treat (a person) differently from others
bookmarkdunu madamada
verb rare (not cooked thoroughly)
bookmarkduuduu lagi
a diving plaform made from a tree stuck in a coral head
bookmarkgaanunu
noun breast
bookmarkgaba aasanga
noun the sides of the watercourses between islets on the atoll
bookmarkgabaea
to hang oneself
bookmarkgai ga aha
too bad
bookmarkgalele
verb a method of fishing (casting with a pole)for tuna)
bookmarkgammenge-gabe-de-liidogi
noun mollusksp.: murexshell
bookmarkgasi
noun mollusksp.: asaphis dichotoma
bookmarkgave ala
verb a method of plaiting mats
bookmarkgiado manu
noun the smaller outrigger booms at the ends of the canoe
bookmarkgili langi
verb a type of cloud (not associated with rain)
bookmarkgoloa labagau
noun carpenter’s tools
bookmarkgoo
noun tarospade
bookmarkgoosuu
noun fishsp.: jack
bookmarkguanga
noun a type of basket
bookmarkhaahaango
verb wakeup (someone) insistently
bookmarkhagaaneane
verb console; excite sexually
bookmarkhagaaonga
noun way of staying up until daybreak
bookmarkhagaava
verb make a channel
bookmarkhagabau
verb measure, calculate,estimate
bookmarkhagabuulei
verb put a ring on (someone)
bookmarkhagadahi
verb a counting system for days, based on the lunar phases
bookmarkhagadamana
verb treat someone as a father or other senior male relative
bookmarkhagadubu o manu
noun the name of a certain type of string figure
bookmarkhagamaasei ange
make smaller (away from one)
bookmarkhagamade
verb do as hard or fast as possible
bookmarkhagapasa
verb cause several people to speak; mediate an argument so that the disputants will speak to each other
bookmarkhanga-mea
noun
hano gi bouli gee
to transfigure oneself
bookmarkhhola
verb hola at one time
bookmarkinai
noun a type of mat
bookmarkio
noun a quarter of the body of a tuna when it is cut lengthwise
bookmarkkaba
adjective do prematurely
bookmarkkano maalama
noun a phosphorescent flash in the water
bookmarklaohie
noun drought
bookmarklele mouli
adjective
surprised
lele tuli
childbirth
bookmarkliiliagi daudahi
be of the same status
bookmarkllagu
verb claw
bookmarklomolomosi
verb repeatedly or frequently loomosi
bookmarkluu au
pronoun your (singular; for dual, alienable noun)
bookmarkmaatogo
verb discourage someone (verbally)
bookmarkmaavae
adjective separated (two things),divorced
bookmarkmadannia madua
noun thumb
bookmarkmagano
adjective overripe (of pandanus only)
bookmarkmagi dabeo
verb menstruation
bookmarkmalo gulu
noun
barkcloth
mangeo
verb a large sore (on the body); a blemish (on the skin)
bookmarkmanomano
numeral thousands and thousands
bookmarkmassagaila
verb incompletely cooked
bookmarkmatili
adjective come up quickly (like fast-sproutingplants or a quickly erupting skin disease)
bookmarkmudumudu-dua-beau
noun fishsp.: damselfish
bookmarkngadi laangi
noun a day other than sunday; a day on whichnothing is accomplished
bookmarknugu
noun land,islet
bookmarkoohia
verb (for a canoe) to be able to navigate on the reef (i.e., the tide not being so low that it is too shallow)
bookmarksenga
adjective crazy; dumb, foolish, ignorant; senseless, drunk
bookmarksolovaani
thin and straight (of a person); having flat buttocks (considered ugly)
bookmarkubu loada
a coconut shell used for expectoration
bookmarkului
turn inside out
bookmarkvakaa
be in trouble, in danger, or in a precarious situation
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