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aboabo

adjective become accustomed to

adi longo

adjective to tattle

aheahe

verb keep returning

ahinga

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noun armpit

angiangi

verb blow with increasing force (wind); blow continuously (wind); fan

baa galele

noun fishing lure of pearl shell, used in galele fishing

badii

noun fish sp., scad?

beea

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noun bear

bodu ode hine

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noun husband

bosu

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adjective full (after eating)

daamada

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verb begin

dada manu

adjective to snare birds (with a loop on the end of a pole)

dae de ua

have a good time

dagadagai

adjective tending to dagai

dagua-bodo

noun fishsp.: tuna sp.

daguina

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verb say (a word)

dangau-ngudu-aahua

noun

danu

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verb bury

daula sele nui

noun a rope used to pull a coconut tree in the desired direction when felling it

dee galemu

never mind, don’t bother

denaa ai loo

that is it (which has been decided upon)

diimadamadanoa

noun the ninth child of a couple

dilo

noun the immature leaf of any plant, except of the coconut; a coconut leaflet midrib after scraping, soaking and drying

dinae

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noun stomach

dohe

noun mollusk sp., bivalve sp.

dolo

noun sugarcane

dugu de laa

noun lower sail

dui moni

noun a fleet of canoes (in line)

duu

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verb stand

duu munimuni

adjective hideandseek (a game)

gaini

noun any lattice-like arrangement

galo hagalegunga

adjective to look at a member of the opposite sex in a presumptuous way

galubu

noun a type of toy

gasigasia

verb rubbed against,scratched

gau mai moni

noun foreigners (lit., ’people who came in canoes’)

geelonga i magaova o luu/denga moounga

noun valley

giado taelodo

noun the outrigger booms toward the center of the canoe

gidaadeu

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pronoun we (plural, inclusive)

gieuli

noun lizardsp.

gubu dae

noun intestines which appear to havesegmentation

gulu maimai

noun a type of prepared food (ripe breadfruit which has been cooked in an umu)

haa llau

number four hundred

haangoda dua agau

noun fishing beyond the reef (on the seaward side of the atoll)

hada

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noun an elevated platform (e.g. for placing Samouli deity, or for sitting, sleeping, etc.)

hadiugu

verb a unit of linear measure (from the end of an outstretched hand to the bent elbow of the other arm)

haga mahana

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verb heat

hagaau

verb to create an ocean current

hagabela

verb provide bela for

hagaboo

adjective greet; take leave of

hagabuulinga dangada

noun tribe

hagagainga

verb litter up

hagallogo

verb chant (in the old religious ceremony)

hagapuuninga

noun a total of

hai donu

adjective do properly by accident; do on purpose

hai mada dabu

an avoidance relationship between kin

hale hadu

noun a house of brick or cement construction

hanga

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noun coconut husker

hano i luu moana

die (a person)

henga

noun the name of a name-group

hhoda age

suck in air (esp. when asleep orunconscious)

hilohilo ma eidu

a sorcerer able to take human or non-human shapes

honu

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noun turtle

honu kadi

adjective filled up completely (with solids); full up (and tightly packed)

hoou

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adjective new

huaa gulu

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noun breadfruit

igauli-sissisi

noun fishsp.: tang

iho daahagi

a calm sea condition, in which the horizon disappears [the horizon being normally marked by surf]

kadi

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verb bite

kalo gee

strabismus (esp. the form in which one eye is turned outward from the nose); cross-eyed

laanningi

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noun sleeveless shirt

lau kohu

adjective growing well (of plants)

lodo basa

adjective talkative

madaangahulu-ma-dahi-malama

time noun november (’eleventh month’)

madaduai

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noun tool used to grate coconuts

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madalua maa dahi

number twenty one

magalili mai

flow (of tide)

mai i daha

from outside

manamanava

adjective <= manavanava>

milo gee

to turn the opposite way

molimoli i tuu gaha

to express coconut oil out of the residue (oda) from which some oil has already been expressed

ngudu leia

verb be the object of continual gossip; scorned

odi de masavaa

having insufficient time remaining for (something)

odi mai (adu, ange)

all (e.g., have come)

olaa

a sound expressing surprise or disapproval

osi

a seedling; a shoot (of another plant) set aside for planting a seedling

pelaini

verb to fry

saele

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verb to wander aimlessly, to walk around

sausau

noun fishsp.: lion-fish

selu

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verb comb

siilinga a muna

trial or formal inquiry

silivaahea

verb wander about with no fixed abode

somo boi

grow abnormally (having defects)

ssongo

stink

tainadaane

noun brother

tamaahine

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noun girl

tamana odogu bodu

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noun father-in-law

tua

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back

Unu

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the name of a star; the name of a folk tale character

vasu

timid, shy

vvala

a piercingly bright light; the cutting of a fast canoe through the water