particle placed between a preposition and a personal pronoun or a proper name, but not before a common noun

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to learn

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belly inside

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outrigger

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saliva, spit, spittle

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saliva, spit, spittle

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daytime (as opposed to night), day (as in day of the week)

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fire

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path, road

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liver

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plant sp.: Wedelia biflora, Adenostema lavenia

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bonito

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indicates action directed away from the speaker or point of reference

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spirit being

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type of small fish that comes into the shallow reef water in large schools. Ranges in size from about one to one and a half pounds

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ocean current

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by whom?

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how many tens of fish?

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that, there

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how many is it?

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how many people?

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with whom?

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here, in this place

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yes

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wooden hammer or mallet for pounding bark cloth or pandanus leaf

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to drink

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a tree: Inocarpus fagiferus

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to descend; downwards

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mole (on a person's skin)

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bone (in certain constructions and words)

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to eat; generic name for food crops

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eat shit! (curse)

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to flap wings

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preposition: to, toward

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to whom?

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thwart or outrigger boom of canoe

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shiny

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skin, outer covering

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small bird which comes only during monsoon season

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pronoun: who?

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to embrace

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how many was it?

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head louse

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ant (generic)

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the light part of the day; daylight; light, bright; intelligent

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thick

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particle indicating action toward some point of reference, generally the speaker; from

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from whom?

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sling (for hurling stones)

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men’s loin garment, made from a strip of bark-cloth

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to prepare food to be fed, usually to an infant, by chewing; may also be used as a generic term for chewing, but the usual word in that case would be #kamu

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heavy

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power; almighty

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short of breath

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thin

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open area in which traditional religious rites were held, or for “dart” matches, which are still held at the present time

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protected; dry (as the inside of a well-constructed house when it is raining); shady; protector

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shady; dry (as a result of being protected from the rain)

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raw; green

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raw

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eye (including the immediate surrounding area); face (has this meaning when used in plural); front end of an object

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to be afraid, frightened; fear

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wind; old name for Anuta

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new shoot springing from old banana plant (‘eye of banana’)

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a line of men in battle formation

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tatooing chisel

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die

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husband; important, major, primary; adult, mature; ripe

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live, be alive; life, soul

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urine; to urinate

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to suck

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hard candy or other object to be sucked

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with whom?

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fat, grease; greasy

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back; the rear portion of something; behind; a village just to the west (i.e. "behind") Mua

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mosquito

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five

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right hand

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tooth, teeth

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coconut tree and fruit

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young coconut

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a tree, of which there are two subvarieties; #te nonu kuru (with larger fruit), and# te nonu vao

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to dwell; to sit; to be alive

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parents

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news

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breakers, surf (rarely: wave)

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to chew

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mouth; cutting edge (of knife, scissors, axe, adze, etc.) or the striking edge of a club or point of a spear

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to curse someone or shout in anger

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a hum or soft groan; to utter such a sound

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to go, to come

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transverse beams supporting roof of house

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transverse beams supporting roof of house

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beach; beach sand

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beach; beach sand

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six

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famine

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provisions for a voyage

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sago palm

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finish

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four

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right side

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causative prefix (#mate ‘die’ : #paka-mate ‘commit suicide’, #taŋi ‘to cry, to moan’ : #paka-taŋi ‘to blow a conch shell or other type of whistle, horn, etc.’)

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to teach

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any implement which discharges projectiles

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wash the hands

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carry a person -- generally a small child -- on one's back, piggyback fashion

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board, plank; any hard flat surface, as the top of a plank, a flat rock

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firewood

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woman; female

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small red reef fish

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storage shelf inside a house

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rock, stone

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heart

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rubbish

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sticky sap, as that of the breadfruit; glue

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sticky

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near

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navel, umbilical cord

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seven

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general assembly of the island; generic for any council of a political nature; to meet in political council

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sea turtle

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to swallow

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seventy

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protuberance; erection of penis

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top surface of something

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coral stone abrader

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top surface of something

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ceiling, roof (lit.: top of house)

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type of white coral which is used for finishing woodwork

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wash an object other than oneself

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pull something up from the ground; stretch something like a piece of rubber

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for a spark to ignite upon rubbing a stick on a wood platform or fire plow

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type of fish

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turn something around

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to turn something around

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turn something over

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coconut husk and fiber

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fibrous material including body hair (not head hair, which is #te rau uru), animal fur, bird feathers

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(lit. 'washing the dirt') name of the Anuta circumcision rite

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bird feather

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wash one's self

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wash your hands

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pull in a length of line such as fishing line or anchor line

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banana (generic term)

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kind of tree: Barringtonia asiatica

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for crops to be planted close together

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conch shell (blown to signify the start of church); shell trumpet

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sail

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tree, plant, wood, stick, club, plank, timber, log

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tree, plant, wood, stick, club, plank, timber, log

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forehead

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to step over something

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to step over something

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to walk taking large brisk steps; to walk quickly

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to walk taking large brisk steps; to walk quickly

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northwest; wind coming from northwest; season during which winds from this direction predominate (i.e. monsoon season)

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fly (insect)

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testicle

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a kind of skin fungus marked by severe itching, and very difficult to cure

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roast something on a spit over an open fire (only birds are prepared this way on Anuta)

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down (direction); below (place); west

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leaf; frond; head hair; sheet of paper

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earlobe

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to travel quickly – to run; to fly; a ship or canoe racing over the water is also said to #rere

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nit (egg of head louse)

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small

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seaweed; algae growing on the reef

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moss (lit. ‘inland algae’)

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long (in time)

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long (in either time or distance)

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to hear

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to hear about

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two

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to vomit; to be seasick

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hole

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hawk; owl

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to strike, to hit; an implement used for striking (i.e. a club); to chop down; to cut; to build (as in cutting out the shape/building a canoe)

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entrails; excrement

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intestines (lit. ‘crooked feces’)

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water covering the reef

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"sibling" of the same sex, "sibling-in-law" of opposite sex

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mosquito net

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possessive pronoun, first person singular (my), with singular object

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to bury

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man, person; male

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to cry, to moan

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spear

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to cut the stomach of a fish in order to remove the gut; to circumcise

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ocean current

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to drift

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barb (of a spear, fishhook, etc.)

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barb (of a spear, fishhook, etc.)

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sennit cord used for lashing canoes

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taro, Colocasia esculenta

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first person plural inclusive personal and possessive pronoun; we, us; our, ours

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year

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a string figure

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the flat surface of canoe paddle blade

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a type of dart made from a reed shaft about four feet long, and tipped with a heavy hardwood head; a type of contest in which men compete to see how far they can throw their tika darts before they come to rest

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to squat

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to defecate

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toilet

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to rain lightly, drizzle

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body

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to look

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a kind of very small shellfish

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ironwood tree

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a boulder in the sea which is submerged at least part of the time

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a boulder in the sea which is submerged at least part of the time

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to set, of the sun

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right, correct; true, truthful

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three

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blood; red

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back (anatomical part); rear portion of something; outside; away

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wait; old, ancient

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to point with one’s finger

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to strike by extending one’s arm, as in boxing or karate (as opposed to slapping or hitting by bringing the arm down, which is #ta); to puncture or drive an object through something; to hammer, strike, or beat something, as in mashing tubers to make a pudding; club

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roast something over an open fire; roasted

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land crab

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to grow

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a spirit which was never a human being

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grandparent/ancestor

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to pound something, as in the preparation of bark cloth or pandanus leaf for making mats

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deaf

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neck

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thin line or cord

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turtle shell

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pull out

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yam (generic)

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penis

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head

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supplies or cargo lying in the hold of a boat or canoe

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breast; nipple

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divide a group of objects into subsets

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heavens, sky

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water container

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root

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coconut shell water bottle

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grass

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eight

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