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abasasa huu

European in manner or appearance

agaaga

noun having lots of roots

aliali

noun the barely formed gelatinous layer inside the immature coconut

amuamu iho

noun drizzle

angaanga mada nia

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fingernail

angaange magau

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noun dead body

balabalavini

adjective clumsy by nature; awkward by nature

banibani

banibani

noun sea cucumber

buaalali

verb flood tide

buni ange gi de gelegele

to have been dead for a long time

daadaanga

noun appearance of

dada mamu

adjective an impatient fisherman

dada saiolo

adjective to hoist a sail

dali hagavagavaga

verb <= hagavagavaga>

dalinga bobo

noun having a runny ear (with pus)

dangau-sissisi

noun

dee adagaigaina

a great many; serious

dee haihai donu

that’s for sure

deehee

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dunu madamada

verb rare (not cooked thoroughly)

duu hagasabasaba

adjective to stand in a place from which one is liable to fall

duuduu lagi

a diving plaform made from a tree stuck in a coral head

gabigabia

verb repeatedly grubbing

gada-alaala

noun fishsp.: jack (like alaala)

gai holoholo

verb eat fast

gaigai a usu

flatus

gavagava

noun weather-hardened black driftwood

gelegele uli

verb black soil

gili solasola

verb leathery black skin (of humans)

goobai dada

noun umbrella

guba-baabaa

noun fishsp.: cardinalfish

haahaangodalia

verb a place which has been fished in over and over

hadahada

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hagaaduadu dangada

verb critical of others

hagaaduisiisi

verb to treat someone as a first husband or wife

hagaagoago

verb cause taro to be fibrous (e.g., by theplanting method employed)

hagadangadanga

verb loosen

hagadangidangi

verb play music; make someone keep crying

hagalulu de madangi

to attract the wind (by making certain noises)

hagamaamaaiongi

adjective continually hagamaaiongi

hagasaosaohiaanga

noun

hagavagavaga

verb punishment of a person by confinement (without food or drink) until his death

hagavaivai

verb cause to become watery, or less viscous

hai dinana

adjective the relationship between mother (or other female elder) and child (or one treated as a child)

hakaaununu

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verb breastfeed

hala langa goobai

noun a form for plaiting hats

halehale gaiaa

adjective cloying insincere humility

hihi mata

noun eyelash

hohhoo

adjective a sound made when surprised

ihoiholia

verb useful for climbing down repeatedly

itebuubuu

noun insectsp.: grasshopper

laba ngaugau

noun a stalk of the elephant-ear plant (ngaungau)

lagalaga

verb to put down one foot after the other (as in walking or marching in place)

lagolagoaa

verb destroy or abuse property (for no goodreason); vandalism

laubalabala

adjective slack (of rope); soft (of skin or paper); pliable (of hair); flexible

lausese

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noun pants

leuleu

adjective becoming leu (ripe)

lodo aheahe

adjective unstable temperamentally,inconstant

lodo baba

noun calmness,tranquility,freedom fromworries

lodo lagolago

indecisive, undecided

lohaloha

verb measure off in fathoms

luu adaadeu

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pronoun our (plural, inclusive; for dual, alienable noun)

maamaalo

adjective becoming more and more maalo

mada loolodo

verb a depression in the reef (wherewater accumulates)

madamada

half-cooked

madamada a me

noun a miscellaneous assortment

malali

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adjective smooth

malangilangi

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adjective happy

manaunaua

verb crazy,insane

manu lele vaaligi

noun small bird

manu-lalo-de-gelegele

noun mantisshrimp

masolesole

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adjective abraded in several places cf. masole

moana magalili

a cold underwater current

modimodi

adjective walk stealthily in a crouch

moni deledele

noun sailing canoe

moomoa-ganoango

noun fishsp.: boxfish (yellow)

moumou

verb wasteful,waste (something)

mounuunu

adjective easily mounu

mugamuga

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noun first stage of a green coconut; youngest coconut; type of huaamee

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musumusu laa lalo

whisper softly

ngaangailu

noun hair (on the head)

ngaungau

noun plantsp.: elephantear (alocasia)

noomeemea

a wave of sufficient force to wash over normally dry land; tidal wave

pula-laalaa

noun fishsp.: shark sp.

saelesaele

verb to wander around continually (from past time to the present)

sali dodo

adjective bleed

samumu

adjective the noise of an explosion or collision<= same meaning as salulu>

sao de looloa

rectangular (not square),oval

sassano

adjective becoming ssano

sausau

lion-fish

seesee haangoda saele

look for girls

sege gee

slip or slide away from

sese

verb walk

sinaina

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verb having white hair

solasola

not homogenous or smooth (as lumpy dough, or the grated surface of taro)

soosobo

adjective get up , jump up

tinana odogu dinana

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noun maternal grandmother

uaua nnui

noun larger blood vessels

vaaligiligi

adjective small (for a vast plural noun; used with dengaa)

vaivai

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adjective watery, bad - (when followed by another word)