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aalo
verb come by paddling
bookmarkaasii
noun drum (native)
bookmarkaligi
adjective priest (of a cult)
bookmarkaloalo
verb to paddle (a canoe)
bookmarkanaa maa
those were about (approximately)
bookmarkanaa muhuu
how about those
bookmarkbadai gee
extremely meddlesome
bookmarkbalavini
adjective clumsy, awkward (e.g., in carriage)
bookmarkbiihingi
verb having flat buttocks, ugly (because not plump)
bookmarkbinga
adjective be named, be called; regarded as
bookmarkbungubungu
adjective
plump
daahinga
noun way of brushing off or sweeping
bookmarkdabanimeeli
adjective payment for medical treatment
bookmarkdagu made
perhaps,maybe
bookmarkdahola
verb fish, hunt (at night)
bookmarkdai deai
hardly any
bookmarkdaladala
verb say again and again
bookmarkdamaa tili
adjective sharpshooter
bookmarkdaogave
noun a type of coconut tree
bookmarkdau gulu
verb breadfruit season
bookmarkdaula duu nui
noun a rope used to lower a bunch of coconuts to the ground
bookmarkde eidu pale
fortunately, luckily
bookmarkdeeai donu
positively no
bookmarkdele de ada
dawn (first light)
bookmarkdiingia
verb to be exposed to the sun’s rays
bookmarkdinana donu
noun natural mother
bookmarkdolodolo o de ava
noun <= luu dolodolo>
bookmarkee laa
so
bookmarkga aha laa
what’s the matter with you
bookmarkgaadinga hai ngadi ubu
coconut with a shell of a size appropriate for use as a cooking vessel
bookmarkgadigadi
verb have itch
bookmarkgai me hagadau doa
eat as though competing against othereaters in a test of manliness(e.g., to eat fish with the scales and all)
bookmarkgalavalava
the grains in the trunk of wood of the coconut tree which are hard, dark, and sharp
bookmarkgavagava
noun weather-hardened black driftwood
bookmarkgelogelo
verb having many depressions (e.g., a corrugated surface)
bookmarkgii talinga
tinnitus
bookmarkgili solasola
verb leathery black skin (of humans)
bookmarkgubo
verb work with concentration in the midstof a group
bookmarkhadu-i-de-ssala
noun
coralsp.: red organ-pipecoral
hagadali
verb accumulate (bring together); gather up; imprisonment (short term)
bookmarkhagahongagainga
verb to make a child urinate
bookmarkhagalongaa
adjective <= hagalongoaa>
bookmarkhagamalo
verb provide clothes for
bookmarkhagaseguli
verb make a total of one hundred thousand
bookmarkhagi
verb pick (fruit) by grabbing and twisting off
bookmarkhai dahi doo
trick someone
bookmarkhai kai
adjective show-off, proud
bookmarkhai me mulegi
to showoff (esp. in front of members of the opposite sex)
bookmarkhainga soe
noun a just law
bookmarkhano gi de maalama
transfiguration of ghosts or spiritsinto human form
bookmarkholoholoi
verb the rope tied to palm fronds in belubelu fishing
bookmarkhonu kadi
adjective filled up completely (with solids); full up (and tightly packed)
bookmarkhuaahai
verb expertise
bookmarkhulu
noun reactive hostility
bookmarkianga
verb the span between the outstretched thumb and the little finger
bookmarklailai
noun fishsp. (= lae)
bookmarklauasaasa
verb skinny
bookmarklausedi
noun
lii
noun birdsp. (seen only over the ocean)
bookmarklodo gapua
noun seaward part of a gapua
bookmarkloulou
verb to repeatedly use a breadfruit picker; pull (a trigger)
bookmarkmada tea gee
white as a sheet (of a person)
bookmarkmalaangahu
noun feast held for a newly launched canoe
bookmarkmalaungudu
noun lip, lips
bookmarkmanu dabeo
verb trees and shrubs which grow as weeds
bookmarkmoaga
noun fishsp.: goatfish
bookmarkmolomolo iho (age)
adjective appear clearly
bookmarkmudumudu-dua-beau
damselfish
bookmarkmulimuli
verb much later; the very end
bookmarkngado
adjective come to the end or limit (of something)
bookmarkngauda
adjective an unenthusiastic fisherman
bookmarkniho hagadolo
noun incisor teeth
bookmarknnadu
verb to receive a shock (as when hit, or by an explosion)
bookmarkolongaa
noun plantsp.: treesp.: a shrubbytree sp. (pipturus argenteus (forst.f.) wedd.)
bookmarkono
noun fishsp.: barracuda
bookmarkpoo ange
touch (someone or something with the hand)
bookmarksaga
adjective glide (in the air); to overhang (of something flat)
bookmarksali ssaavale
adjective salivate
bookmarksasao
adjective escape one after the other
bookmarkseni
sleep
bookmarksissisi
adjective striped (having stripes)
bookmarksoosoa
noun outrigger float lashings (complementaryto the connecting pegs)
bookmarktubuna daane
noun grandfather
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