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abuabulu
adjective easily sinkable
bookmarkadaada age
first light of the moon
bookmarkadaadamai
adjective recall slightly
bookmarkagaaga
noun having lots of roots
bookmarkagoago
noun taro fibers
bookmarkaloalo-mea
adjective becoming red (of fully mature coconut meat)
bookmarkamoamo
verb keep lifting one thing after another
bookmarkamuamu iho
noun drizzle
bookmarkanei nei
these now
bookmarkangaanga
adjective aware, alert
bookmarkaoaonga
noun way of staying up until daybreak
bookmarkbaabaasi
noun a fishing method (angling with the side of a flying fish as bait)
bookmarkbeabeau
verb choppy seas
bookmarkbelabela
verb dirty (like bela)
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bulibuli
verb grab up one thing after another
bookmarkbungubungu
adjective
plump
daangenge
verb meaty (not having much fat)
bookmarkdada gaehala
verb picking even small breadfruit (to avoidhaving to change one’s position, whichwould be necessary in order to pick breadfruit of the proper size)
bookmarkdada saele
adjective always being borrowed
bookmarkdalodalo i de lodo
pray silently
bookmarkdama legalega
noun baby, infant
bookmarkdangada abasasa
adjective european persons (including americans)
bookmarkdao dahuuhuu
noun ridgepole (lower)
bookmarkdaulooloa
adjective long time
bookmarkdaumaha hagadaahao
noun social activities which are held in the church under church auspices
bookmarkdaungaangalu
noun high-watermark
bookmarkdenaa naa ()
that will be it. (will that be it)
bookmarkdengadenga
verb having many denga
bookmarkdige de belubelu
a circuit made by a school of belubelu
bookmarkdogodoganga
noun
plantsp.
donadona
verb covered with dona
bookmarkdoo togonogo
adjective separation of the tip (caudal vertebrae) of the spine
bookmarkduu munimuni
hide and seek (game)
bookmarkgeevee
noun birdsp.: easternwhimbrel(numenius phaeopus)
bookmarkgili malali
adjective
clean
gosigosia
verb scratched (of something solid only)
bookmarkhaadodo
noun the connecting pegs of the outrigger float
bookmarkhagaaduadu dangada
adjective critical of others
bookmarkhagaaduisiisi
verb to treat someone as a first husband or wife
bookmarkhagaaugaunga
noun state of becoming infected
bookmarkhagabasabasalia
verb cause to be convinced
bookmarkhagabudubudu
verb accumulate repeatedly
bookmarkhagadaga ange
increase in
bookmarkhagadangidangi
verb play music; make someone keep crying
bookmarkhagadidi
verb to put a grass skirt on someone else
bookmarkhagagabugabu
verb create a channel through land(by wind or wave action)
bookmarkhagagalugalua
verb cause to have more and more galu
bookmarkhagaganimua
verb to treat as an eldest child
bookmarkhagalulu de madangi
to attract the wind (by making certain noises)
bookmarkhagamalemalemo
verb to swim with one’s nose barely out of the water (as do small children)
bookmarkhagamomo
verb reduce in quantity
bookmarkhagaoda-lolo
noun fishsp. (= large llahi)
bookmarkhai dinana
adjective the relationship between mother (or other female elder) and child (or one treated as a child)
bookmarkhakaau unuunu
verb to cause an infant to feed at the breast
bookmarkhesohesongi
adjective repeatedly hesongi
bookmarkhiehie
noun a type of prepared food (made from breadfruit)
bookmarkhonohono
verb having hono in several places
bookmarkhuaalaangi
noun noon; the whole day; a certain day only
bookmarkhuahuaa me
noun
hungahunga a nui
the flower of the coconut tree
bookmarkhuubuudoi
adjective fat and squat and ugly
bookmarkhuuhuaa me
sorcery (made with chants)
bookmarkitebuubuu
noun insectsp.: grasshopper
bookmarkkaianeane
adjective show-off
bookmarklaalanga
noun the quality of the weave (of mat plaiting)
bookmarklabodo-sisi
noun eelsp.: snakeeel
bookmarklilolilo
adjective in a sheltered place
bookmarklohaloha
verb measure off in fathoms
bookmarklolo hai haahine
noun a lovepotion (applied to the clothes or body)
bookmarklongolongo i adamagi
to pick up information by asking others, who have lied (so that one’s information is false)
bookmarklongolongo iho dalinga
pick up information from others’ conversation
bookmarkluuluu
verb to shake (something) back and forth
bookmarkmaadegadega
noun birdsp.: a young bird (still unable to fly) of any bird sp.
bookmarkmada madangi
adjective able to point (into the wind) well (of a sailing canoe)
bookmarkmadagabubu
adjective dull (of an edge, or point)
bookmarkmagau baubau
die in agony (owing to having led a bad life)
bookmarkmagulugulu
adjective to despair (of attaining success)
bookmarkmassogosogo
verb go or do by oneself; a one-man canoe
bookmarkme abasasa
noun european things (gear, etc.)
bookmarkmmasa bagubagu
adjective hard and curled up owing to dryness
bookmarkmomolia
adjective decrease in quantity
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moomoa-uliuli
noun fishsp.: boxfish (dark blue)
bookmarkmuli lele
the rear tip of the turtle shell
bookmarkngaangauda
verb habitually ngauda
bookmarkngalogulogu
adjective easily ngalogu in many places
bookmarksalasalani
verb becoming salani in one part, butnot yet salani all over
bookmarksao de lahalaha
adjective more wide than long
bookmarksee boiboi saele
stagger about (from a head injury), move as though unconscious
bookmarkseesee haangoda saele
look for girls
bookmarkseisei
noun fishsp.: pipefish
bookmarksii valavala
spray
bookmarksongosongo
genitals (of males or females)
bookmarkuaua
vein, tendon, nerve, plastic filament
bookmarkvaivai daahili
a dirty song
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