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aha naa
let’s (later)
bookmarkalaa ange naa
about that
ao de me
noun daytime
bookmarkbaalasi mai (adu)
shine a flashlight toward me (you)
bookmarkbaalau
adjective sticky, greasy
bookmarkbalia
adjective master navigator (having also the ability to forecast the weather)
bookmarkbili
adjective be caught or hung up on something so as unable to fall (as a felled tree)
bookmarkbodu
noun spouse
bookmarkboi a eidu
temporarily abnormal
bookmarkbopobo
adjective deteriorated
bookmarkbualeu
noun ovaries and fallopian tubes
bookmarkdaelodo odi ange
evennumber
bookmarkdalia-mea
noun mollusksp.: mitra mitra
bookmarkdangau-daa-sissisi
noun fishsp.: snapper
bookmarkdaumaha daahili
noun song service (in church)
bookmarkdavaia
noun the largest sort of tuna
bookmarkdeai me ao ai
useless
bookmarkdenga meelaa
those ones over there (plural)
bookmarkdoa
noun giant
bookmarkdoi-avaava
noun the sap of a hardwood sp. which drifts ashore (used for making perfume)
bookmarkdongi
verb a spot (e.g., on the skin); point at; peck at; a method of fishing for flying fish in which torches are extinguished on alternate legs of the canoe track
bookmarkdoo halehale me
risky, unreliable
bookmarkdookalala
adjective stilts,walk on stilts
bookmarkdumuagi
noun top of the head, bare hilltop
bookmarkduunanga
noun that which has been cooked
bookmarkduusaba
noun a type of musical instrument (a stretched palm leaf jiggled while blown against)
bookmarkgaadu
verb give (colloquial)
bookmarkgada-alaala
noun fishsp.: jack (like alaala)
bookmarkgaha biigi
noun a rope for tying pigs
bookmarkgai valaai
adjective take medicine
bookmarkgaleu
adjective a change of wind direction
bookmarkgalo saele
adjective look around (moving one’s body about)
bookmarkgasigasia
verb rubbed against,scratched
bookmarkgeelonga i magaova o luu/denga moounga
noun valley
bookmarkgu gide huu
spoiled (having acquired a bad habit)
bookmarkgulu malali
breadfruit with smooth skin
bookmarkhaa lodo
verb the inner coconut palm frond
bookmarkhaadenga
noun measurement
bookmarkhadu de moana
noun a type of string figure
bookmarkhagaaneane
verb console; excite sexually
bookmarkhagabasa
verb cause someone to speak; convince
bookmarkhagabuulei
verb put a ring on (someone)
bookmarkhagaduu ngavesi
adjective make boxes
bookmarkhagamabu
verb rest, relax, quit (a job)
bookmarkhagamabu iho
adjective rest for a short time
bookmarkhagasogoisi
verb
hagassogalia
verb
hai naa hanu me
something will happen...
bookmarkhaula
verb setfireto (causing large flames); light (a lamp)
bookmarkhologemo
adjective
holoholoi
verb the rope tied to palm fronds in belubelu fishing
bookmarkhonumia
verb filled with
bookmarkhuuhuaa me
noun sorcery (made with chants)
bookmarkivi gaogao
noun rib
bookmarklaaladi
verb to scratch (an itch)
bookmarklabaai
verb the confluence, on the reef, of a big wave and the backwash
bookmarklau tulugi
a tuna of the size next largest to lau de ava
bookmarklau-gadaha
noun plantsp.: bird’s-nestfern(asplenium nidus l.)
bookmarkluu duu de maduu
castes (two) of aboriginal nukuoro society
bookmarkmada baabaa
noun #NAME?
bookmarkmada sua hadu
noun stormbeach (on the seaward reef)
bookmarkmademadea ange
feel sleepy
bookmarkmaido
noun fishsp.
bookmarkmaleasa
noun fishsp. : tang (a kind of igauli)
bookmarkmanavanava gimoo
adjective panting (as when short of breath)
bookmarkmanu de gabadanga
noun
the bird leading a flock (of ngongo) to a school of fish
manu noodagi
noun a plant which has been noodagi
bookmarkmolomolo de biho
round-headed
bookmarkmoosugia ange
somewhat moosugia
bookmarkmuga
verb used (or done, heard, or known) over and over until bored with
bookmarkmuna de henua
noun the nukuoro language
bookmarkmuna o tangada
verb speak of the devil
bookmarkodi ange
even (number); complete (none missing); reach the maximum
bookmarkooi
adjective a sound used in communicating at a distance (= "yes")
bookmarksaba
verb be in a precarious position
bookmarksaelesaele
verb to wander around continually (from past time to the present)
bookmarkseesee haangoda saele
look for girls
bookmarksisi galisi
striped (with thin lines)
bookmarksongagi
noun a bad sort of person
bookmarkssabe
adjective leave,go away
bookmarksugi de ngudu
the corner of the mouth
bookmarktama legalega eidu
pupil of the eye; a cry of a bird or human that sounds like the cry of a baby; the name of a ghost
bookmarktilo buna
noun young coconut tree (bearing no fruit or its first fruit)
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