hesitation word: umm, uh

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plural noun marker

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firewood

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mind, attitude; deceptiveness, chicanery

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chin, jaw

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kind of glutinous rice

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pestle, especially rice pestle

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father (archaic); a rank in the village hierarchy related to #adat

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2sg. genitive for alienable possession, your

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gills

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rafter

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origin; as long as; however, whereas

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the time and ritual of the Muslim prayer about 4 P.M.

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drought

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dog

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spleen

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slave (archaic)

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something sent; shipment

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fire

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ember

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fragments of live embers which scatter upward when the embers are blown on

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faggots of wood with burnt or burning ends

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duck

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ordinary behavior, usual custom; sense of being accustomed to something; usually

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engage in legal disputes

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kind of cloth, felt

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animal; common term of abuse

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violin

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can; poison,

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stupidity

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deceive, make a fool of

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proper behavior

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jail

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flower, especially decorative flowers of European origin; spot, dot, esp. in fish nomenclature

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bird

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pomegranate: Punica granatum

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scissors; the forking timbers that support a peaked roof; to cut with scissors

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summit, top

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gleeful leaps, joyful commotion; cloth used for lifting hot pans

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pig; a term of abuse

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bow and arrow; slingshot, speargun

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arrow, dart

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quiver

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charcoal; ember

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shoulder

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west, west wind, west monsoon

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gold, gold ornament

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wake up

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awaken someone

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sharpen by continuously rubbing one side of the blade on a whetstone

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trunk, stick, piece of timber; body; beam; numerical connector for long, stick-like objects

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large shore tree yielding an orangish wood suitable for boat building

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kind of chisel; to chisel wood

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smell

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very fishy smell

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delicious oily smell of roasting fish, especially with juices dripping on the embers

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It stinks!

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kind of very tall pandanus with large inedible fruits

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the interior of the mouth; animal's mouth; call out to someone, call after

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pull out (hair, nails, etc.)

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tie, tie up, fetter

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price

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expensive; the price of something

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to split bamboo or the exterior sago petioles from the interior pith

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chop down; strike downward with a weapon

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millet (Panicum spp.)

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kick (with a jerk of one's knee); jerk something upward

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get up, wake up

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cut wood (for kindling)

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mouth; orifice; lip

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to adze wood, to hew and shape wood; an adze

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giant taro: Alocasia macrorrhiza

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seeds for planting

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to peel (with the hands, e.g. bananas); rip open durian carpels to extract the fruit segments; to open (draperies, etc.) slightly, to part (curtains, etc.)

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lift something held close to the body; undertake a joint expense; hold an infant in one's lap

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jump up from a seated position (as in an emergency)

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raise one's eyes; to glance; jump up and gesticulate in glee

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to swell; be pregnant; fruit; protrusions; numeral connector for small objects (as cigarettes); areca nut

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salt water crocodile: Crocodilus porosus L.

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fruit; numeral connector for small objects

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curving, four-cornered fish trap of plaited bamboo

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be full of wood mites (as planks)

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very fine-meshed fish trap

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shrimp trap made of a single piece of bamboo, slatted and tapering on both ends, used in streams

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small bits of rotten wood

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large-meshed fish trap

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plaited cone-shaped entrance on either end of the fish trap; fish trap characterized by such an entrance

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food remnants, grease on plate

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a bump; to bulge (something hidden in clothes, something deep inside); become swollen

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moon, month

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bright moon

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spew out saliva mixed with chewed areca on some diseased body part (a medical treatment for all kinds of external and internal disorders, esp. those caused by unfriendly spirits, e.g. headache)

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end (as of village, veranda)

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body hair, feather, fur; insect setae

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kind of black, spiked sea urchin (Echinodea)

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the ridgepole that rests on the roof ridge cover

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kill; extinguish (fire or lamp); block out (another player or token) from a game

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shoot an arrow or a speargun; fire rubber bands

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grass, leaves; fallen leaves, rubbish (on the ground)

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wart

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group, clump, gang, flock, etc.

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kind of seaside tree: Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz.

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extract, pry up; dig up objects implanted in the earth (e.g. half-buried stones); force open, as a jammed door (with some tool)

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land mass, island

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kind of fish: longtom: Tylosurus macleayanus Ogilby

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mother, mother’s sister

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coconut shell ladle

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exclamation uttered upon failure to catch, hit, hook (etc.) something

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flesh

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we (plural incl.), emphatic pronoun

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kind of fish, including tripletail Maori wrasse (Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepede), and violet-lined Maori wrasse (Diagrammus Lacepede)

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fish

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school of fish

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to keep standing, to stand around

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to stir

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sound of two slaps (or more)

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roasted shrimp

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sound of a rap on a plate or a seashell

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to stand; to be erect, to rise upward

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to collapse in an epileptic fit; to shudder (of animals)

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city; Ambon City

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1sg genitive pronoun for alienable possession

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1sg genitive pronoun for inalienable possession

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stalk of bananas

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landward side, landward direction

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blood; to bleed

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road, path

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a fly, Diptera

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interior; one’s emotions

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bailing well (in a boat)

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vomitus

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become mossy (stagnant water, rocks, etc.)

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sky

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scrotum

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testicle (lit. ‘scrotum stone’)

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king, village chief

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the ancient ruler of Asilulu before the descent to the coast, and the spirit which guards over the site of the old village

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leaf; shutter, page; numerical connector for sheets of paper, etc.

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far, distant

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seaward

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kind of large clam which can be domesticated, esp. Tridacna gigas (#lawa = shellfish, mollusk, snail)

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spider

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spiderweb (lit. ‘spider feces’)

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fathom

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cave

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post, pillar

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the northernmost house post (which is considered sacred)

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five

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to bail water

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fingers

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scoop for bailing

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calm

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to wall up, to fence in, as in enclosing a garden

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kind of traditional dance (with scarves)

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two

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to vomit

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both

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sea-cow (Dugong dugong Muller)

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bone; thorn, fish bones; sew by hand, string together

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backbone

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house, building

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the corner of the house

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an extended family, all of whom bear a single family name, passed on patrilineally; a clan comprising a single family in this sense, and usually one or two smaller families which are historically dependent on that clan

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moss

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to gather (as people at a meeting); to gather together (fruit, stones, etc.) into a pile, cluster

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ribs, rib-cage; kind of fastening which fixes the gunnels to the dugout base of an outrigger sailboat

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(fossilized in e.g. #mataɁu)

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dry

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kind of tree the bark of which was formerly used to make loincloths

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man, male; husband

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flat, level (as land)

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to chew on (as guava leaves to relieve a sore throat)

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greasy and delicious

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thin (of cloth or hair)

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chicken (Gallus spp.); bird (with qualifying term)

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to float (in the current), as a bottle; to drift

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flock of chickens

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phalanger, including Phalanger orientalis orientalis Pallas

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dead; die; lose consciousness; end in a receptacle without markers in the #joŋka game (game language)

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eye; origin, source; numerical connector (for roads, currencies, etc.)

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the two lines which connect the uppermost par of the sail

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clan, sub-clan, extended family (#luma = ‘house’)

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entrance, portal, doorway

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door

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to fear, be afraid

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very old, of huge trees, animals, etc.; too old, of tubers and fruits allowed to ripen too long; past one’s prime, of spinsters and old bachelors

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kind of lime

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oily and delicious; to exude delicious oils (as a broiling fish)

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2sg. genitive pronoun for alienable possession, your

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2sg. genitive pronoun for inalienable possession, your

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3sg. (human and non-human) genitive pronoun for inalienable possession

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3sg. (human and non-human) genitive pronoun for alienable possession

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a particle indicating finality (#weu na ‘I’ll be going then’)

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name

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to swim and dive around in fairly shallow water

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to swim for some time

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breath (archaic, in fixed phrases)

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the Indian mulberry: Morinda citrifolia L.

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kind of small tree, the roots of which yield soda

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3sg. human genitive pronoun for inalienable possession

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echo

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echo

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coconut, Cocos nucifera

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suck (Stresemann 1927:63)

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to suck

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fish scale; sea turtle shell

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deliver the final blows, administer a coup-de-grace; finish off

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distant; far (from each other)

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to be at the peak (of the tide)

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plate, crockery

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to twist

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cigarette ashes

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one

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to ride (as in a boat)

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to climb (as a coconut palm), to rise (as the moon)

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error; be wrong

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unclear (of vision)

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branch

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to lean one’s folded arm on something

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something

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hoe-like tool used for scraping sago

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to chop sago pith away from the trunk with a hoe-like tool

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a natural barrier just below the sea surface, especially of coral reefs

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outrigger

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to press down in order to fill up completely (as in pressing down the contents of a basket so it will be full)

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elbow; corner

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a ray of light

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nine

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animal traps; stakes at the base of garden fence posts

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breast

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to stab; to perforate

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nipple, teat (breast stone)

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mothers milk (breast water)

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breadfruit (Artocarpus sp.)

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not, esp. in fast speech or as an emphatic sentence-final particle

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conch shell (Strombus spp.); conch shell trumpet

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feces, excreta, filth

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sound of knock on door or tap on head

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a measurement of volume

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to cut down (as a banana plant); to scrape, to rasp

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to place, to put

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several fish, including diagonal-banded toado, also called black-lined pufferfish (Arothron aerostaticus Jenyns), Myers’ porcupine fish (Dicotylichthys myersi Ogilby), and three-bar porcupine fish (D. punctulatus Kaup)

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to gaze in amazement; to stare for a long time

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to cry

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to wail and keen (on the death of a loved one)

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sound of metallic crash or gunshot

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father (archaic)

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coconut rasp

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to descend in large numbers or repeatedly

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something roasted or burned

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sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum

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three

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to cut something which is not very thick until it is severed (as in beheading an enemy)

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cape, promontory

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belly; pregnant

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oyster

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east wind, east monsoon season

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to flow a little (as blood); to drip (as tears)

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to beat a drum in order to signal a meeting

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eldest, among one’s parents’ siblings

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kind of vine, Derris elliptica Benth., the root of which is used as a medicine and fish poison

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to go down, to get off (as from a bus); to move from a respected place to an ordinary place; to go ashore

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bedtime (about 10:00 PM)

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to bring downward, to cause to descend

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slumber

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slumber

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to burn; to roast or bake; to shoot

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sound of a gun

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pot

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clay cooking pot

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wok, esp. of brass

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sago palm midribs or petiole, esp. when dried

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a round weighted fish net which is cast on the water’s surface

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female genitals (in general); vulva; a common term of abuse

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water, sap, liquid; river (esp. in place names)

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root

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rope, cord, string; intestines; vines and creeping plants in general

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younger sibling of the same sex

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eight

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species (of mangos only)

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mangrove tree

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to file

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kind of abrasive leaf used for sanding

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clump of grass

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gall

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sea turtle: Chelonia sp.

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