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aboabo
adjective become accustomed to
bookmarkadi longo
adjective to tattle
bookmarkaheahe
verb keep returning
bookmarkangiangi
verb blow with increasing force (wind); blow continuously (wind); fan
bookmarkbaa galele
noun fishing lure of pearl shell, used in galele fishing
bookmarkbadii
noun fish sp., scad?
bookmarkdada manu
adjective to snare birds (with a loop on the end of a pole)
bookmarkdae de ua
have a good time
bookmarkdagadagai
adjective tending to dagai
bookmarkdagua-bodo
noun fishsp.: tuna sp.
bookmarkdangau-ngudu-aahua
noun
daula sele nui
noun a rope used to pull a coconut tree in the desired direction when felling it
bookmarkdee galemu
never mind, don’t bother
bookmarkdenaa ai loo
that is it (which has been decided upon)
bookmarkdiimadamadanoa
noun the ninth child of a couple
bookmarkdilo
noun the immature leaf of any plant, except of the coconut; a coconut leaflet midrib after scraping, soaking and drying
bookmarkdohe
noun mollusk sp., bivalve sp.
bookmarkdolo
noun sugarcane
bookmarkdugu de laa
noun lower sail
bookmarkdui moni
noun a fleet of canoes (in line)
bookmarkduu munimuni
adjective hideandseek (a game)
bookmarkgaini
noun any lattice-like arrangement
bookmarkgalo hagalegunga
adjective to look at a member of the opposite sex in a presumptuous way
bookmarkgalubu
noun a type of toy
bookmarkgasigasia
verb rubbed against,scratched
bookmarkgau mai moni
noun foreigners (lit., ’people who came in canoes’)
bookmarkgeelonga i magaova o luu/denga moounga
noun valley
bookmarkgiado taelodo
noun the outrigger booms toward the center of the canoe
bookmarkgieuli
noun lizardsp.
bookmarkgubu dae
noun intestines which appear to havesegmentation
bookmarkgulu maimai
noun a type of prepared food (ripe breadfruit which has been cooked in an umu)
bookmarkhaa llau
number four hundred
bookmarkhaangoda dua agau
noun fishing beyond the reef (on the seaward side of the atoll)
bookmarkhada
hadiugu
verb a unit of linear measure (from the end of an outstretched hand to the bent elbow of the other arm)
bookmarkhagaau
verb to create an ocean current
bookmarkhagabela
verb provide bela for
bookmarkhagaboo
adjective greet; take leave of
bookmarkhagabuulinga dangada
noun tribe
bookmarkhagagainga
verb litter up
bookmarkhagallogo
verb chant (in the old religious ceremony)
bookmarkhagapuuninga
noun a total of
bookmarkhai donu
adjective
do properly by accident; do on purpose
hai mada dabu
an avoidance relationship between kin
bookmarkhale hadu
noun a house of brick or cement construction
bookmarkhano i luu moana
die (a person)
bookmarkhenga
noun the name of a name-group
bookmarkhhoda age
suck in air (esp. when asleep orunconscious)
bookmarkhilohilo ma eidu
a sorcerer able to take human or non-human shapes
bookmarkhonu kadi
adjective filled up completely (with solids); full up (and tightly packed)
bookmarkigauli-sissisi
noun fishsp.: tang
bookmarkiho daahagi
a calm sea condition, in which the horizon disappears [the horizon being normally marked by surf]
bookmarkkalo gee
strabismus (esp. the form in which one eye is turned outward from the nose); cross-eyed
bookmarklau kohu
adjective
growing well (of plants)
lodo basa
adjective talkative
bookmarkmadaangahulu-ma-dahi-malama
time noun november (’eleventh month’)
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madalua maa dahi
number twenty one
bookmarkmagalili mai
flow (of tide)
bookmarkmai i daha
from outside
bookmarkmanamanava
adjective <= manavanava>
bookmarkmilo gee
to turn the opposite way
bookmarkmolimoli i tuu gaha
to express coconut oil out of the residue (oda) from which some oil has already been expressed
bookmarkngudu leia
verb be the object of continual gossip; scorned
bookmarkodi de masavaa
having insufficient time remaining for (something)
bookmarkodi mai (adu, ange)
all (e.g., have come)
bookmarkolaa
a sound expressing surprise or disapproval
bookmarkosi
a seedling; a shoot (of another plant) set aside for planting a seedling
bookmarkpelaini
verb to fry
bookmarksausau
noun fishsp.: lion-fish
bookmarksiilinga a muna
trial or formal inquiry
bookmarksilivaahea
verb wander about with no fixed abode
bookmarksomo boi
grow abnormally (having defects)
bookmarkssongo
stink
bookmarktainadaane
noun brother
bookmarkvasu
timid, shy
bookmarkvvala
a piercingly bright light; the cutting of a fast canoe through the water
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