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aada
adjective easily startled, skittish, wild (of animals)
bookmarkaamia
verb sufficient for the purpose or need
bookmarkaasasi
adjective flee (of a small school of fish)
bookmarkageli
verb pick head lice
bookmarkaloage
anaa huu
those only are the ones
bookmarkbadabaataianga
noun
bono aasanga
adjective a method of fishing (by blocking the channel at high tide)
bookmarkbunibuni
adjective be more-or-less together
bookmarkdada saiolo
adjective to hoist a sail
bookmarkdala-hagalulu-madangi
noun birdsp.: tern (a vagrant sp., rarely seen)
bookmarkdala-loa
noun fishsp.: squirrelfish
bookmarkdangadangalebu
verb becoming rougher (of seas)
bookmarkdau bodu
adjective married man or woman
bookmarkdauaadea
verb clear (with nothing in the way); unobstructed; cleared (of obstructions)
bookmarkdaudai
adjective skillful fisherman
bookmarkdee anga
forgetful, absent-minded
bookmarkdinihu
verb industrious, hardworking
bookmarkdohi dilo
verb to strip dilo (to make plaited hats, etc.)
bookmarkdoo sala
adjective accidentally
bookmarkdoo tahulinga
adjective bad-mannered
bookmarkdotodo
verb bloody (of a person)
bookmarke hanohano
have diarrhea
bookmarke lodo goe
watchout
bookmarkea
adjective to surface (while swimming); to be on the surface of the water; stop swimming
bookmarkgadagada-a-vaga
noun a very small tuna
bookmarkgahuduna
noun ridgepole cover
bookmarkgalua
verb having viscous sputum
bookmarkgamua
verb covered with gamu
bookmarkgeu de madangi
a change of wind direction
bookmarkgiado taelodo
noun the outrigger booms toward the center of the canoe
bookmarkgidee (laa) goe
see what i mean
bookmarkgii talinga
adjective tinnitus
bookmarkgili malali
adjective
clean
haahaangodalia
verb a place which has been fished in over and over
bookmarkhagaanu
verb cause to dance or sway
bookmarkhagaao
verb cause to be sufficient
bookmarkhagabalabala
verb make loose; make soft; be a defeatist
bookmarkhagahala
a sleeping mat
bookmarkhagaholau
verb banish from the island (in a canoe with no paddle or food)
bookmarkhagaholi
verb begin to form (something)
bookmarkhagalodolodo
verb hope for (want)
bookmarkhagamabu
verb rest, relax, quit (a job)
bookmarkhagame ange laa
a little later
bookmarkhagammidi
verb suction of a sea current, undertow
bookmarkhagasii lolo
noun wheel
bookmarkhagassahu
verb to try one’s best to do something bad or harmful
bookmarkhagasula tangada
adjective successfully promote the candidacy ofsomeone (or elect or appoint him) to acoveted position
bookmarkhakii gee
<= kii gee>
bookmarkhale haahine
noun a house of prostitution
bookmarkhegide mada
adjective early morning, before daybreak (when one can just barely recognize a person)
bookmarkhenuu
verb a method of plaiting
bookmarkhhoda
adjective gasp for breath (once)
bookmarki ono daha
at his place, with him
bookmarkiga
noun fish (archaic, except in compounds)
bookmarklaulau hai daonga
noun
a type of basket
lebidi
noun birdsp.: whitetern
bookmarklua llau
number two hundred
bookmarkluu panava
noun scrotum (whole thing)
bookmarkmaamaanadu
verb keep thinking about
bookmarkmada-galadi
noun fishsp.: jack
bookmarkmadaviiga
verb the needle-like spines on daudu fish
bookmarkmagi haahine
menstruation
bookmarkmalau
adjective free from (esp. hardship or illnessafter having had it)
bookmarkmalo haahine
noun dress
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masimasi
noun dolphin
bookmarkme bouli
noun the deepest part of the lagoon
bookmarkmee
noun thing
bookmarkngaangauda
verb habitually ngauda
bookmarkngavesi haangoda
noun fishing tacklebox
bookmarkngu te
noganoga
verb a method of plaiting mats
bookmarknui hoohoa
noun
a coconut tree trunk incised with steps
odi/b
adjective gone, finished, usedup
bookmarkoo tanga
adjective too big (clothes), spacious
bookmarkpaa de hoa
happy (lit., ’to slap one’s sides’)
bookmarkpo
verb touch
bookmarksaali
noun a type of rope (used for climbing breadfruit trees)
bookmarksabalabala
adjective always agreeing with
bookmarksae de hadu
make a grater (by punching holes in sheet metal)
bookmarksaniba
silversides
bookmarkse hono
fit well or properly
bookmarkseaamonga
noun a unit of (twenty) coconuts for makinghuaahuu
bookmarksigi de hagahala
a technique of finishing a mat edge
bookmarksuuduuduu
defecate (children’s language)
bookmarktainadaane madua
noun elder brother
bookmarktangada mange
now you’ve done it!
bookmarktua
outside
bookmarkului
turn inside out
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