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aboabongi
adjective easily capsizable
bookmarkaloalo-uli
adjective becoming dark (of fully mature coconut meat)
bookmarkanga baabaa
noun mollusk sp., spider conch
bookmarkbala langi
noun rain
bookmarkbeabeau
verb choppy seas
bookmarkbeibei
adjective more-or-less alike
bookmarkboo hagalele mouli
a night on which the making of noise is permitted (i.e., on certain holidays)
bookmarkbulabula
adjective testicles; look here and there; to have a lot of spots; twinkling (of many stars or phosphorescent insects, etc.)
bookmarkbungubungu
adjective
plump
dada mamu
adjective an impatient fisherman
bookmarkdangadangalebu
verb becoming rougher (of seas)
bookmarkdau looloa
adjective to tie at the end of a long tether
bookmarkdaumaha hagadaahao
noun social activities which are held in the church under church auspices
bookmarkdee lahilahia
big (and therefore good),strong,tremendous
bookmarkdegidegi
adjective ticklish
bookmarkdua hagalalo
noun fishingline of a size appropriate for the hagalalo method of fishing
bookmarkdua lele
noun to throw one’s back out of joint
bookmarkduliduli
verb hurting of one’s ears from high-pitched noises
bookmarkdungudungua
verb repeatedly smell (something)
bookmarkdunu madamada
verb rare (not cooked thoroughly)
bookmarkduu lellele
noun apodous sea cucumber
bookmarkduuduu lagi
noun a diving platform (made from a tree stuck in a coral head)
bookmarkgadigadi
verb have itch
bookmarkgai samusamu
verb eat left-overs (that most people wouldthrow out)
bookmarkgalababa
noun a type of prepared food (made from breadfruit skin)
bookmarkgalabe-duiduia
noun seacucumber sp.
bookmarkgalevaleva
noun birdsp.
bookmarkgalogalo
adjective look around (with one’s eyes only)
bookmarkgeugeu
verb shake one’s head back and forth;
bookmarkgidigidi
verb short
bookmarkgili solasola
verb leathery black skin (of humans)
bookmarkgogo dua
adjective bent backwards
bookmarkgugu iho
adjective useless (person) in anything involving others (capable only of taking care of oneself)
bookmarkhagaaduadu
verb say bad things about people
bookmarkhagaaduadu dangada
verb critical of others
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hagaedeede
verb balance precariously
bookmarkhagahongagainga
verb to make a child urinate
bookmarkhagamalamalama
verb shine
bookmarkhagamogomogo
verb cause to be muscular
bookmarkhagamulimuli
verb "this is the end" (of a chant)
bookmarkhai de hilihili
verb hold an election
bookmarkhakaau unuunu
verb to cause an infant to feed at the breast
bookmarkhakaligali
verb grooved
bookmarkhakaunuunu
verb to nurse (an infant at the breast)
bookmarkhanohano dua
adjective suffer a setback; almost fall; gorge oneself; stagger backwards (e.g., under load)
bookmarkhihi mata
noun eyelash
bookmarkhohhoo
adjective a sound made when surprised
bookmarkholehole
verb scrape off (with an object or one’s finger), to scale (fish)
bookmarkhoohoo
adjective repeatedly hoo, as when tryingto scare something
bookmarkilaila
verb having more than one ila
bookmarklaalaanui
adjective becoming big
bookmarklaalanga
noun the quality of the weave (of mat plaiting)
bookmarklangolango
inclined to throw one’s legs over those sleeping nearby (when sleeping)
bookmarklaulau hoe
noun the blade of the canoe paddle
bookmarklele age
regain consciousness; epilepsy; surfacing (of flying fish)
bookmarkleuleu
adjective becoming leu (ripe)
bookmarklodo aheahe
adjective unstable temperamentally,inconstant
bookmarklongolongo iho dalinga
pick up information from others’ conversation
bookmarklongolongo iho dalinga
pick up information from others’conversation
bookmarkmadahuuhua
verb pimple
bookmarkmademadea
verb identify tentatively; to think that one recognizes but not be sure
bookmarkmagakaga
adjective firmly attached
bookmarkmagulugulu
adjective to despair (of attaining success)
bookmarkmalibilibia
adjective sharp (esp something which causes sharp pain like a whip)
bookmarkmangunngungu
adjective the sound of something being chewed
bookmarkmassanganga
adjective apart, widely spaced
bookmarkmassogosogo
verb go or do by oneself; a one-man canoe
bookmarkme-e-ligi
noun taro corm (small)
bookmarkmenemene
noun male genital organ
bookmarkmmasa bagubagu
adjective hard and curled up owing to dryness
bookmarkmoigaga
noun fibers of the coconut husk
bookmarkmolimoli
verb to take up slack in a line with hitches in order to maintain tension on something being hauled
bookmarkmomo loo huu
just a very little
bookmarkmoni galele
noun a canoe rigged for galele fishing
bookmarkmoomoa
noun the shoot from a germinating coconut
bookmarkmoomoa-ganoanga
boxfish (yellow)
bookmarkmosongenge
a name children tease each other with
bookmarkmouli-o-nono
noun <= malianoono>
bookmarkmugamuga
verb
the muscle of a bivalve; the first stage of development of the coconut, before daahaa; to crackle when chewed
namanama
noun fishsp. (like ngaa, but longer and thinner)
bookmarknebunebua
verb be nebunebu
bookmarkouou
adjective Yes! Yes!
bookmarksagisagili
verb to say dirty words to someone
bookmarksasaanimadava
noun fishsp.: shark sp.
bookmarkseesee haangoda saele
look for girls
bookmarkseseu
verb
push (now and into the future)
sigisigi mai (adu, ange)
say bad things about one to one’s face
bookmarksiiviivii
verb a way of singing a child to sleep
bookmarksisi
mollusk, sp. Neritidae
bookmarkssali dodo
verb bleed
bookmarktangada maagaga
industrious person
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