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aahee naa

then what (distant future)

aasasi

adjective flee (of a small school of fish)

abo sala

adjective mean (by nature), unkind

alaa naa

those only

alohi

noun anything forming a semi-circle

angaanga

noun body

balagia a de gaga

noun fish sp., parrot fish

banganga

noun fish sp.: wrasse

basa dau donu

speak moderately

basalia

verb seep (of water)

beagi

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noun bag

boo gi de gai

continually wanting to eat

boo manu

adjective to weed (a garden)

daane ssili dala

special one,important one

dagua-bodo

noun fishsp.: tuna sp.

dahadaha

verb an embankment around a taro plot

dee masae de leo

lose one’s voice (from straining one’s vocal cords)

diba

noun portion, share (of something); part (of something); fraction (in arithmetic)

dibo

noun infant

dinihu

verb industrious, hardworking

doa

noun giant

dogi hoda

noun a heavy adze, used for hollowing out logs and the like

dohu lodo

adjective full to capacity

dungu iho

adjective smell oneself

duu saba

unstable, poorly balanced

duuduu manu

a diving plaform made from a tree stuck in a coral head

gaagaa

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noun baby

gaba de ahiahi

noun early evening,late in the afternoon

gadigadi

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noun itch

gadinibidi

a type of fishook made from pearl shell

gaha dea

adjective having almost ripe coconuts (whose husk fibers are white)

gai hagalulu

adjective habituated to taking bait (fish); feed on bait

gana

bad person

ganae

mullet

geesaa

noun mollusksp.: fimbria soverbii

giigii

noun fishsp.: squirrelfish (= small malaugulu

giligili

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noun stone

haanau ssene

adjective yield interest

hagadabena ina

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verb separated, be

hagadabu

verb restrict

hagagubenga

verb to teach someone to use a gubenga

hagahula

the sac in a fish which emerges from its mouth when it is brought up from a great depth

hagailonga

verb sign,mark,signal,omen

hagamagua

verb to cause someone to steal

hagassui, hang gainga, hagamamane

urinate (piss)

hagatau

verb arrange (in order), a program; name one after another; refuse to do one’s part because of someone else’s actions

hale lau

noun thatch-roofed house (of pandanus leafthatch)

hao

verb drill through,burrow

helelei

adjective fly at the same time

holau

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noun canoe house

hongagelegele

honu baabaa

adjective fill to the brim

huaahenua

community

hue

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huna me

a habitual thief

iga-loa

noun fishsp. (a small flying fish)

igohi

verb firetongs

ilo

noun worm

kini

verb pick at one time,pinch at one time

kona iho

adjective be too much for one

kosi

noun mollusksp.: cardium sp.

laagau

wood, stick (of wood)

lodo baubau

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adjective angry

lolo

oil

lolo hai haahine

a love potion (applied to the clothes or body)

loselose-uli

noun fishsp.: trumpetfish

lugulugu

noun fishsp.

madolidoli

verb of unusual age or size

magalili

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verb, adjective feel cold, shivering (from cold); flow (of tide)

magaugau

adjective easily faint or lose consciousness;mortality-prone (e.g., of a family)

mahamaha

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adjective beautiful

mahuge, huge

open

maleva

adjective present1 (not absent)

manavanava

adjective breathing

manu-solo-maanu

jellyfish-like animal in the shape of a flower that burrows into the sand when touched

me hakadanga

noun joke, jest; trick (a practical joke)

moni kalo

noun a canoe with rounded sides (designed to ride easily in rough seas)

moounga

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noun mountain

mounu

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verb (intransitive) break; be dismantled

naa huu

when,if

namu

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noun mosquito

nege

verb move (something) a little way over

ngadi dangada

noun an ordinary person, commoner; a person of slight social value

ngaobo

verb easily bent out of shape

niho ngalo

noun molarteeth, wisdomteeth

nnamu

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verb smell

noho lalo

adjective overloaded (almost to the point of sinking)

nui

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noun coconut tree

olonoa

sea cucumber

salasalahagi

verb repeatedly salahagi

saniba

noun fishsp.: silversides

saunoa

intensifier very

sengaa

numeral tens of millions

sii tae

adjective diarrhea which escapes without onerealizing (caused by eating oily fish)

silivaahea

wander about with no fixed abode

sobaga

noun fishsp.: tang

taina aahine

noun sister

taina gauligi ahine

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noun younger sister

teungaalodo

noun middle (of something round); center

umada

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noun rainbow