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aamua
adjective high-ranking
bookmarkalaa muna
word <= dalaa muna>
bookmarkau madua
verb a type of ocean current far from land in which drifting objects collect
bookmarkaugau
verb pus
bookmarkaugaua
verb infected
bookmarkbaagava
noun violent in word or action
bookmarkbongaa hala
noun any long and hollow object (e.g., a pipe or a hose)
bookmarkbugaliaa
dababa
noun fishsp.: shark sp.
bookmarkdagidogoisi
adjective very few for each one
bookmarkdama-a-de-galabe
noun fishsp.: goby , sleeper
bookmarkdangada abasasa
adjective european persons (including americans)
bookmarkdau age
to beach (a canoe) on land; reach land
bookmarkdaula
verb rope (heavy); anchored (of ship)
bookmarkde gau duuli sou
gilbertese people
bookmarkdee beaha
all rightit’s nothing
bookmarkdee haaoa i de gai
gluttonous
bookmarkdiha
verb move something by using a lever (esp. a pole) on a fulcrum; contradict
bookmarkdinana mai i daha
stepmother
bookmarkdugi gee
chase away (in a certain direction)
bookmarkduumono
noun a type of prepared food (made from taro)
bookmarkgaadinga gaha paa
noun a coconut with an unusually small-sized kernel
bookmarkgage saali
verb to climb a breadfruit tree using saali
bookmarkgaimalie
adjective goodat food preparation (not wasteful)
bookmarkgalasi
gauea
noun birdsp.: white-rumpedswift1 (apus pacificus) (the native term applies possibly to several spp.)
bookmarkgelegele gumi hue
fine-grained sand
bookmarkgina
noun fishsp.: rainbowrunner
bookmarkgoinga o tai
noun high-watermark
bookmarkgolee bugaliaa
gulu koi
noun a type of prepared food (breadfruit which has been cooked over hot coals with the skin on)
bookmarkhaaele sala
verb spoil (children), bring up (children) badly
bookmarkhada
shelf, platform, raft, floor (of planks); car: a clam nursery, men’s house
bookmarkhagaadaada
verb getting to be near daybreak
bookmarkhagaagoago
verb lesson, make learn, cause to teach
bookmarkhagaava ange
lean on someone for support
bookmarkhagabuni de henua
to call an all-island meeting
bookmarkhagabunia
verb closeup, bringtogether
bookmarkhagaditidi de hadu
to skip a stone across the water
bookmarkhagalligi
verb make very small
bookmarkhagallongo de lau nui
to obtain oracular information bylistening to the sounds made by coconut leaves
bookmarkhai me madua
act grown up
bookmarkhale baabaa
noun frame house
bookmarkhano laa
previous
bookmarkhaoli
verb cover up
bookmarkhhogi
adjective a sharp sound, like the report of a rifle
bookmarkhholu
verb bend
bookmarkhua o tangada
outcome (of individual effort)
bookmarkhuahuaa me
noun
hugadoo
unclassified all (of things)
bookmarki ono daha
at his place, with him
bookmarkilaage
adjective free of (sickness, hardship)
bookmarkinau
verb to look for coconut crabs at night
bookmarkkena
adjective pale; whitish-yellow
bookmarkkivi
adjective thin (bony)
bookmarklaangaa
verb to plait completely
bookmarklabodo-sisi
noun eelsp.: snakeeel
bookmarklaulau dao gai
noun a wrapping (like a basket) for food cooked in the earth oven
bookmarklaulau gai
a canoe used to transport food to a feast
bookmarkleengia
verb jump on; be flown into
bookmarklima llau
five hundred
bookmarklongolongo iho dalinga
pick up information from others’ conversation
bookmarkluuluu haha
gargle, wash one’s mouth out
bookmarkmaanga dalogo
noun a handful of dalogo
bookmarkmada saosao
adjective sharp-pointed
bookmarkmadaangahulu-ma-lua-malama
time noun december (’twelfth month’)
bookmarkmadangi
noun air
bookmarkmadangi danuaa
noun fresh air
bookmarkmage
magi eaea
adjective
an eruption in a child’s mouth, said to result from improper feeding
mahagi
adjective (fruit) picked off (or caused to fall by wind)
bookmarkmanu-gaba-aasanga
noun plantsp.: beachnaupakashrub(scaevola taccada (gaertn.) roxb.)
bookmarkmanu-mangamanga
starfish
bookmarkngaa
noun fishsp.
bookmarkngadi basa
small talk; idle conversation
bookmarkpaa de hoa
happy (lit., ’to slap one’s sides’)
bookmarkpaa ono maahana
receive one’s punishment, suffer
bookmarksaidule
verb wrapped up or covered up completely
bookmarkse gainga
adjective abundant
bookmarksebu
adj seen on the surface of the sea from time to time
bookmarkseni tao
adjective sleep soundly
bookmarkseseu
verb
push (now and into the future)
siga
verb
to make a fire with a fire plow; to make a net with a net needle spool
siilinga a muna
noun trial or formal inquiry
bookmarktainaahine o dogu dinana
noun maternal aunt
bookmarktainadaane madua
noun elder brother
bookmarkua dea
white-throated frigate bird
bookmarkuhi
to replace a ridge pole cover of a thatch house; to cover the sides of a house with plaited green coconut leaves as protection against ghosts
bookmarkvalea
moldy; to have been in place for a long time
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