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abongi baasi
adjective capsize sideways
bookmarkahe age
start again, reoccur
bookmarkanaa ange maalie
those are exactly right
bookmarkanei ange huu
this
ange laa
the next but one
bookmarkbaabaasi
noun a fishing method (angling with the side of a flying fish as bait)
bookmarkbaagava
noun violent in word or action
bookmarkbanuunu
bapabu
adjective the staccato sound of one hard object being struck against another
bookmarkbaulia
verb figure out, determine
bookmarkbulada
noun banana tree fibers (for making cloth)
bookmarkdaahili daumaha
adjective a church song
bookmarkdaahili hagadaahao
adjective a song which is for amusement only (one which is not ’serious’, i.e., not religious)
bookmarkdaamada age
adjective start again
bookmarkdabui
verb to splash water on something with the hand
bookmarkdai deai
hardly any
bookmarkdalahalu
noun plantsp.: treesp. (allophylustimorensis (dc.) bl.)
bookmarkdama adu hale
noun a child who wanders around to the homesof others
bookmarkdama hodooligi
noun
children of the chief
dangada ngauda
adjective a person who rarely goes fishing, landlubber
bookmarkdau gadea
noun boom lanyard (of a canoe)
bookmarkde hia
which number
bookmarkdenaa ai loo
that is it (which has been decided upon)
bookmarkdilimangali
verb
to catch flying fish
dui manu
noun a line of flying birds
bookmarkduuhua
adjective single, unmarried
bookmarkgaha biigi
noun a rope for tying pigs
bookmarkgalo sugi mada
glimpse
bookmarkgannui koi
noun gannui which has been scraped out of the shell to be eaten
bookmarkgano moana
noun open sea, far away from any land
bookmarkgapese
a method of pole fishing at night (on the seaward reef)
bookmarkgau mai moni
noun foreigners (lit., ’people who came in canoes’)
bookmarkgavage
adjective
give or bring up
gea
noun hawksbillturtle
bookmarkgoli manu
adjective pick flowers
bookmarkhaahadi
verb
haele sala
adjective spoil (children), bringup (children) badly
bookmarkhagaai
adjective be in a serious situation
bookmarkhagabuulunga iho
adjective to hagabuulunga oneself
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hagadau aaloha
adjective love each other (esp. of persons of the opposite sex)
bookmarkhagakona
verb become (or make) much worse
bookmarkhagangadaa
verb come with difficulty; a difficult delivery (of a baby)
bookmarkhagasegesege ange
allow someone to do as he pleases
bookmarkhagavaiduu
verb to act as though one were lazy
bookmarkhagavalu (ina)
verb make a total of eight
bookmarkhai dago
verb ritual observances
bookmarkhainoo
verb
permitted,open to the public,secular
holahola aalanga
adjective calisthenics,exercises
bookmarkhonu de maasina
noun full moon
bookmarkhooia donu huu
at the best possible time or place
bookmarkhuda
noun
hulo gi lunga ma lalo
argue heatedly,fight
bookmarkilaage
adjective free of (sickness, hardship, etc.)
bookmarkilosia
verb wormy or maggoty (of something decayed)
bookmarkitebuubuu
noun insectsp.: grasshopper
bookmarkkau gee
adjective not usedto; hard to
bookmarkliholiho
noun string twirled from coconut fiber, sennit
bookmarkllena
verb stretch; raise one’s eyebrows
bookmarklodo aheahe
adjective unstable temperamentally,inconstant
bookmarklongaa
adjective annoyed by noise
bookmarkloolodo
noun deep holes in the lagoon reef
bookmarkma gi
in order to
bookmarkma tua
besides
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madila diadia
noun bindings wound around a fishing pole to give it extra strength
bookmarkmai
verb arrive
bookmarkmalo diadia
noun mending holes in clothes by runningthreads crisscross across the hole
bookmarkmanava duuia
adjective nervous, apprehensive (suddenly)
bookmarkmanu-mmala
noun plantsp.: glorybower(clerodendrum inerme (l.) gaertn.)
bookmarkmidia
verb dream about
bookmarkmolimoli
verb to take up slack in a line with hitches in order to maintain tension on something being hauled
bookmarkmolo
verb to make a knot of hair
bookmarkmoomodu
adjective
mounuunu
verb easily mounu
bookmarkngadi uaa
adjective assent to insincerely
bookmarkngago
brain; egg
bookmarkngavesi
box, coffin, crate
bookmarkodomalie
adjective delicious (of coconut apples only)
bookmarkohua
verb characterized by having ohu
bookmarkpale age (iho)
steer toward (away from) land
bookmarkpilo bopobo
adjective musty smell
bookmarksae de hadu
make a grater (by punching holes in sheet metal)
bookmarkSeedaa
October
bookmarksii tae
adjective diarrhea which escapes without onerealizing (caused by eating oily fish)
bookmarksisi galisi
verb striped (with thin lines)
bookmarksoe
adjective straight, not crooked; level
bookmarktainaahine o dogu damana
noun paternal aunt
bookmarkvaga
noun sailing vessel, large canoe, ship
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