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ada

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noun picture; movie

adamai gauligi

verb remember childhood experiences

adu henua

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noun group of islands

adu laa

after tomorrow, the one after the next one

alahage

adjective wake up (from sleep)

baalanga tea

noun stainless steel

baalasi de ada

to take a picture

bodu o taane

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noun wife

buliaamo

adjective sad

daa gee taahili

sing off-key

daa hagasaalei

verb make a striped design in tatooing

daalanga

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noun story (non-fiction)

daalo

verb stab,skewer

daanunga

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noun grave

dae de lodo

be satisfied completely

dagasisi

verb scoop out by inserting a knife between the meat and the shell (e.g., in cutting copra)

dagu age

say out loud

dangi daudau

adjective cry uncontrollably (for a long time)

dao o de nui

(topmost) roof support poles, wall plates(from the size of which one can estimate the maturity of those below)

daohi

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verb hold

daohi i tua

learn by heart

dau age de inai

be in the lee of the atoll while fishing (i.e., in a place protected from the wind)

dau namu

noun mosquitonet

daudahi

adjective only,alone (just one)

dee masae de leo

lose one’s voice (from straining one’s vocal cords)

dibononi

noun the youngest child of a couple

diimolalaaidu

noun the tenth child of a couple

dili dagidahi age

release one at a time or intermittently or sporadically

dingale

noun secretion of the genitalia (male or female); the milky sap on some pandanus plugs

doonga a lima

one’s own tools, or tools with which one is familiar

duugau

noun legs at the base of a canoe mast

duumono

noun a type of prepared food (made from taro)

edeemaua

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impossible

gaadinga hagaangiangi

copra dried in the wind (not in the sun or in an oven)

galo

noun fishsp.: goatfish (= small vede)

gaogao

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hip

gasigi

noun plantsp.: hemp-leavedvitexshrub(vitex negundo var. bicolor (willd.) lam.)

gaveaa

verb taken;

gelgele dea

sand

giado taelodo

noun the outrigger booms toward the center of the canoe

gide eidu ina

to see a vision, hallucinate

googoo

noun birdsp.: japanesesnipe (capella hardwickii)

hagabasabasalia

verb cause to be convinced

hagabuu ange

blame (someone), incriminate (someone)

hagadaalea

verb ; tiresome

hagadagodo

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to draft (a carving)

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hagailangi-bangi

noun a type of prepared food (bangi soaked in coconut milk)

hagallongo

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verb hear, listen

hagamaumau

verb study, attempt to memorize

hagammene dua

verb go backwards (esp. a canoe)

hagamou

verb include in a mou

hagaodea

verb the time at which it is midday

hagasingano

verb cause to bear singano

hai huuhuaa me

sorcery

hanu me

secret friend of the opposite sex

haonga i ode

noun urethra

henua gelegele

atoll.

hhali lo te laagau

a depression in a log (an abnormal growth)

hungahunga-a-nui

the flower of the coconut tree

kii ange

increase

labodo-daubulebule

noun eelsp.

leuleu

adjective becoming leu

libi

verb do rapidly (esp. a repeated action done energetically)

lodo llidi

adjective a dandy (always wanting to llidi)

lodo mmahi

adjective persistent,patient,persevering

luduludu

verb trembling

luu omaadeu

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pronoun our (plural, exclusive; for dual, inalienable noun)

luu omaau

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pronoun our (dual, exclusive; for dual, inalienable noun)

maamasa

adjective

maava age

belch

mada tea gee

white as a sheet (of a person)

madagabubu

adjective dull (of an edge, or point)

maga de gau dogi

masturbate (of males only)

magi haahine

adjective menstruation

mahana age

heartburn <>

mahola

adjective to have been hola; plentiful (of food)

maimai ange

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

malu

verb shade (under trees); lee (of wind)

malu gohu

adjective becoming darker (as when the sky becomes overcast)

masa boo

adjective mornings following nights during which the tide has gone out (which are good for looking for fish trapped on the reef)

moana magalili

noun a cold underwater current

molimoli

verb to take up slack in a line with hitches in order to maintain tension on something being hauled

moolau

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verb hurry

mosongenge

a name children tease each other with

mua mai (adu, ange)

adjective next to me (you, him)

nnamu

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verb smell

nnoa

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verb tie

oo tanga

adjective too big (clothes), spacious

saidule

verb wrapped up or covered up completely

savali

verb hungry

seni gi de ao

sleep late (into daytime)

siilinga a muna

trial or formal inquiry

sili

adjective drawing to an end

tangada aduhale

the sort of person who feels at home everywhere and is continually visiting (considered uncouth)

tangada sisi

secretary

tiimaa

noun ship

tino

noun piece; share

ubu

noun cup

ubu

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noun hard brown coconut shell

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ubu loada

a coconut shell used for expectoration