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ahee oo dagodo

how are you

baasi madau

adjective right side, right-handed

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noun book

boo gi me

acquisitive (and acting on acquisitive impulses)

boo mai ange laa

the second night following

boolleiee

adjective a type of sound, made to frighten someone

dabuvae

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noun toes

dagilagolago

adjective many for each

dahi-malali

time noun the first number of a counting game played to determine who is "it"

dahido vae

noun the back of the thigh

dahidonga

noun grandfather

daina haahine

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noun sisters

damana

noun father, uncle, senior male relative, male elder, person in a fatherly relationship

damana mai i daha

stepfather

dangadangalebu

verb becoming rougher (of seas)

dangau-laha

noun fishsp.: snapper

daogili

noun

dau honu

noun the season during which tides are highest

de aha

which is it

deai ange

no more, no other

dee beaha

all rightit’s nothing

dii de laa

the shining of the sun

dogoisi mai

adjective decreasing (in number)

dolo

adjective creep (a very slow movement over the ground)

dugidugi tugi lau

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noun tool used to soften the pandanus leaf

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duu baeao

noun piece of coconut husk

duu o de hine

noun anything sticky which pulls apart like jelly, as certain kinds of sea cucumbers etc.

duu-uli

noun seacucumber sp.

duulua

noun jack (fish sp); large alaala

gaadu

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noun dog

gada-alaala

noun fishsp.: jack (like alaala)

gadunga

fire-plow

gagu

well-mannered

gai me

adjective eat food

ganimua

noun the eldest child of a couple

gapua

verb large fissures or depressions in the reef (incomplete channels)

gauanga

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noun thigh

gelegele

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adjective dirty

gilaadeu

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pronoun they (plural)

giligili

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noun stone

gini hua o hegau

to receive the rewards of work well done (or punishment for evil deeds)

gogono

adjective moan

goloa hebagi

noun arms (tools of war)

gudu de biho

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noun head louse

haaide

verb measure (exactly)

haame / huame

noun coconut, green

hagaaduadu iho

self-criticism

hagaalahenua

verb provide land for

hagaditidi

verb to skip a stone across the water

hagamadamada ngaadahi

verb share equally among

hagatanu iho

verb take a nap

hagatevelia

verb cause to bristle

hai hegau

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verb do work

hai me dua nnui

do violently

hai sogosogo

verb masturbate

hale maadenga

noun mortuary house

hausanga

noun a wrapping (of string) around the join of a pole

heloongoi

adjective fit together with (match) each other; have an understanding with one another (e.g., as do lovers); understand one another

hiisoa

noun plantsp.: cassythavine(cassytha filiformis l.)

hine huuhua

noun pregnant woman

holi

adjective shape of,form of

huudanga

noun way of singing

ina-gi-hale

noun a row of thatch

kaa

noun mangrovecrab

kangi de hagasaele

a quick-witted person (who realizes his goals fast)

kii

adjective win,overcome

lahhie

noun firewood

laohie de me

good weather (dry)

lau

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noun softened pandanus leaf

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libo

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adjective, verb drunk, get drunk (sg.)

lillili

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adjective easily angered, short tempered

lodo lagolago

adjective indecisive,undecided

loeaa

a type of game

loolodo

noun deep holes in the lagoon reef

ma tua

besides

maanessala

adjective to mistake something (or someone) forsomething (or someone) else

mada gapua

noun lagoonward part of a gapua

mada hoodanga

noun a depression on the windward reef

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right (direction)

mala

bald

manu-ligi

verb lice (immature); louse (immature)

maunusi

adjective pulled out,removed (by pulling out)

me mmilo

noun current (in the sea)

mmano

noun thousands

modomodo mada gii

the stage of development of the coconutbetween modomodo and gaadinga gaha de a

mogobuna

noun grandchild,descendant of

mouli age

regain consciousness, rise from thedead

mulegi

show off (in front of members of the opposite sex)

ngadi basa

adjective small talk; idle conversation

ngu te

nnoo

adjective covetous,envious

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noun eye of the taro corm

odi sango

adjective completely cleaned up or finished; all gone; each and every oneall gone

pilo

adjective stink

pono

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verb close

siva llau

number nine hundred

ssuilebelebe

completely wet all over

tagi

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noun chief

taina daane madua

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noun elder brother

vai huaamee

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noun coconut water from a young green coconut