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adu-balebale-i-dua
noun fishsp.: bonito
bookmarkbalagelage
adjective crippled and unable to walk
bookmarkbasa gelo
speak sagely
bookmarkbee
noun flatus, the sound of flatulence
bookmarkbido gamu
uselessly short
bookmarkbula de ganomada
get mad
bookmarkdaahanga ange
give pleasure to someone by giving himsomething
bookmarkdaakodo
adjective
be in place
dababa
noun fishsp.: shark sp.
bookmarkdabagau
noun a type of floor mat
bookmarkdagua-bodo
noun fishsp.: tuna sp.
bookmarkdahea
adjective
drift
dangage
verb raise one’s head up or back
bookmarkde ahi
noun the fire
bookmarkdee mahana tae
stay for only a short time
bookmarkdelaa ai loo
that was it at last
bookmarkdibononi
noun the youngest child of a couple
bookmarkdohu lodo
adjective full to capacity
bookmarkdotodi
adjective limping (as an action)
bookmarkduu de umada
noun a rainbow appearing in the sky
bookmarkduu modu
adjective vertical cut
bookmarkgaba de aasanga
a side of the watercourses between islets on the atoll
bookmarkgaba-moe
noun fishsp.: cardinalfish
bookmarkgabe
verb gouge out
bookmarkgava-uli
reef heron - grey phase
bookmarkgili maalama
verb light-skinned
bookmarkginigini loola
a game played by children
bookmarkgosigosi
verb to scratch (slightly) repeatedly
bookmarkgubu daahili
noun verse of a song
bookmarkgugu iho
adjective useless (person) in anything involving others (capable only of taking care of oneself)
bookmarkhadu mada
noun eyeball
bookmarkhagaahi
verb provide fire to or for; hungry; eatsomething
bookmarkhagaaigoli
noun a food tree on another’s land
bookmarkhagaava
verb make a channel
bookmarkhagadali
verb accumulate (bring together); gather up; imprisonment (short term)
bookmarkhagaditidi
verb to skip a stone across the water
bookmarkhagadubu o madaligi
noun the name of a certain type of string figure
bookmarkhagagabugabu
verb create a channel through land(by wind or wave action)
bookmarkhagalongo
verb hear, listen
bookmarkhagasemuna
verb make a total of one hundred million
bookmarkhaula ngongo
adjective to roast ngongo (in a fire)
bookmarkhedangisi
verb make a noise by scraping things together, e.g. the grinding sound of jaws
bookmarkhenuu
noun placenta
bookmarkhhuge iho
adjective an opening in the clouds
bookmarkhidi taelodo
adjective the weight (on a balance) used as a standard measurement
bookmarkhilo hagamaadau
verb
to braid sennit with the right hand;
hoea
verb covered with sunburn blisters
bookmarkhongagelegele
iholia
verb useful for climbing down
bookmarkino
adjective bow or nod or genuflect (as a sign of respect)
bookmarklaaningi
noun sleeveless shirt
bookmarkllao
verb gouge out (with the hand only); take out of a hole
bookmarkloange
adjective
go (to the place away from both the speaker and hearer)
luei
verb spit out (esp. food)
bookmarklugulugu
noun fishsp.
bookmarkluu panava
noun scrotum (whole thing)
bookmarkmaamaai
adjective ripening (of breadfruit only)
bookmarkmaamaangalo
verb becoming more and more sweet
bookmarkmadalua maa siva
number twenty nine
bookmarkmadania
noun finger
bookmarkmaduupaa
noun a type of string figure
bookmarkmagau donu i de lodo
want desperately
bookmarkmaimai ange
to have been dulled (from having been struck on a hard object)
bookmarkmaimai de ngudu
adjective sweet-talker
bookmarkmainu
noun bait (on the hook)
bookmarkmalaangahu
noun feast held for a newly launched canoe
bookmarkmangila
noun plantsp. (a type of ngaungau)
bookmarkmanu lele vaaligi
noun small bird
bookmarkmoe dolo
verb to sneak into another’s house at night for the purpose of having sexual relations
bookmarkmomme aadea
noun clearing (e.g., in the woods)
bookmarkmoomoa-uliuli
noun fishsp.: boxfish (dark blue)
bookmarkmuli madangi
verb sailing downwind
bookmarkmuna hai alaa
oh my goodness
bookmarknoodanga
noun bundle, knot; a set of 12 differentfishing lures
bookmarkonodaa
noun mollusksp.: spondylus sp.
bookmarksavasavali
verb always hungry
bookmarksavini gee
run away
bookmarkse galubu
very fast
bookmarkse me be hee
extraordinary or unusual (esp. in size)
bookmarksebu
adjective seen on the surface of the sea from time to time
bookmarksigisigi mai (adu, ange)
say bad things about one to one’s face
bookmarksinga gee
lean away from
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uu duaa nui
broom.
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