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adu-balebale-i-dua

noun fishsp.: bonito

angaange magau

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noun dead body

balagelage

adjective crippled and unable to walk

basa gelo

speak sagely

bee

noun flatus, the sound of flatulence

bido gamu

uselessly short

bula de ganomada

get mad

daahanga ange

give pleasure to someone by giving himsomething

daakodo

adjective be in place ; liedown

dababa

noun fishsp.: shark sp.

dabagau

noun a type of floor mat

dada

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verb pull

dagua-bodo

noun fishsp.: tuna sp.

dahea

adjective drift

daholaa

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verb fish, hunt (at night)

dangage

verb raise one’s head up or back

dau soa

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boyfriend, girlfriend, unmarried couple

de ahi

noun the fire

dee mahana tae

stay for only a short time

dee nei

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noun this

degide

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adjective blind

delaa ai loo

that was it at last

dibononi

noun the youngest child of a couple

dohu lodo

adjective full to capacity

dotodi

adjective limping (as an action)

duu de umada

noun a rainbow appearing in the sky

duu modu

adjective vertical cut

eiidu

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noun ghost

eu

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noun shoulder

gaba de aasanga

a side of the watercourses between islets on the atoll

gaba-moe

noun fishsp.: cardinalfish

gabe

verb gouge out

gai ina

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verb eat this

gava-uli

reef heron - grey phase

gili maalama

verb light-skinned

ginigini loola

a game played by children

gosigosi

verb to scratch (slightly) repeatedly

gubu daahili

noun verse of a song

gugu iho

adjective useless (person) in anything involving others (capable only of taking care of oneself)

gumigumi huluhulu

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noun beard (lit. hair on the chin)

hadu mada

noun eyeball

hagaahi

verb provide fire to or for; hungry; eatsomething

hagaaigoli

noun a food tree on another’s land

hagaava

verb make a channel

hagadali

verb accumulate (bring together); gather up; imprisonment (short term)

hagaditidi

verb to skip a stone across the water

hagadubu o madaligi

noun the name of a certain type of string figure

hagagabugabu

verb create a channel through land(by wind or wave action)

hagalongo

verb hear, listen

hagasemuna

verb make a total of one hundred million

hale

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noun house, houses

hau biho

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noun crown

haula ngongo

adjective to roast ngongo (in a fire)

hedangisi

verb make a noise by scraping things together, e.g. the grinding sound of jaws

henuu

noun placenta

hhuge iho

adjective an opening in the clouds

hidi taelodo

adjective the weight (on a balance) used as a standard measurement

hidu llau

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number seven hundred

hilo hagamaadau

verb to braid sennit with the right hand;

hoea

verb covered with sunburn blisters

hongagelegele

iholia

verb useful for climbing down

ino

adjective bow or nod or genuflect (as a sign of respect)

laaningi

noun sleeveless shirt

llao

verb gouge out (with the hand only); take out of a hole

loange

adjective go (to the place away from both the speaker and hearer)

luei

verb spit out (esp. food)

lugulugu

noun fishsp.

luu panava

noun scrotum (whole thing)

maamaai

adjective ripening (of breadfruit only)

maamaangalo

verb becoming more and more sweet

madala

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verb be unfastened; be untied; bloomed

madalua

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number twenty

madalua maa siva

number twenty nine

madania

noun finger

maduupaa

noun a type of string figure

magau donu i de lodo

want desperately

maimai ange

to have been dulled (from having been struck on a hard object)

maimai de ngudu

adjective sweet-talker

mainu

noun bait (on the hook)

malaangahu

noun feast held for a newly launched canoe

mangila

noun plantsp. (a type of ngaungau)

manu lele vaaligi

noun small bird

moe dolo

verb to sneak into another’s house at night for the purpose of having sexual relations

momme aadea

noun clearing (e.g., in the woods)

moomoa-uliuli

noun fishsp.: boxfish (dark blue)

muli madangi

verb sailing downwind

muna hai alaa

oh my goodness

noodanga

noun bundle, knot; a set of 12 differentfishing lures

onodaa

noun mollusksp.: spondylus sp.

savasavali

verb always hungry

savini gee

run away

se galubu

very fast

se me be hee

extraordinary or unusual (esp. in size)

sebu

adjective seen on the surface of the sea from time to time

sigisigi mai (adu, ange)

say bad things about one to one’s face

singa gee

lean away from

taumee

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noun bud of the coconut palm

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tinana odogu bodu

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noun mother-in-law

uu duaa nui

broom.