evening (after about 5:00 p.m.)

descendants

interrogative pronoun, who?, whom?

road, way, path

outrigger of a canoe

be smelly (said of dead animal, etc.)

towards the addressee (directional)

to pass over

rinse off with fresh water

to load cargo on a boat

assembly house

how much?, how many?

to choose

to choose; choice, selection

seven

assemble for discussion; a council, assembly

sea turtle

hawksbill turtle (#koloa = ‘riches, durable goods, as mats or tapa cloth)

banana

descend

descend gently

quadrangular mallet of wood or iron, used for pounding out bark cloth

be finished; transmitted (of information)

to eat (transitive or intransitive)

people, inhabitants

a shrub: Acalypha grandis

wooden headrest with short legs

the whites of the eyes

central part (of a road, an army)

pupil of the eye

rafter in a house

a plant, Asplenium sp.

to, into; toward; mark of the oblique case (introduces object and locative complements)

to, toward, marker of the oblique case (introduces object and locative complements)

appear in the distance; appearance

clothing

stake, post (as for husking coconuts)

beard

louse, lice

infested with lice, lousy

sail; sheet

be passed over

women’s dance performed while sitting

1sg definite possessive adjective: my, mine

to smoke fish

the bottom, area beneath

rinse off with fresh water; give a bath in a basin (of a baby)

sky; mythical residence of persons after their death

housefly

full of flies, swarming with flies

bluebottle (lit. ‘blue fly’)

elephantiasis of the scrotum (lit. ‘fruit scrotum/testicles’)

used to, familiar with

tree; woods; stick

forehead

to fly

five

algae (in general); moss, lichen; edible red seaweed

to pour out

to pour (frequentive)

fathom, distance from tip to tip between outstretched arms

to bend (of a branch, bough)

to hear, be heard (from a distance)

to be noisy

to understand, know

to hear faintly; rumor, hearsay; to inform; to summon

be known, celebrated, famous; to be announced, proclaimed

to feel

to desire, want, wish; prefer; desire sexually; interior, center; enclosure, yard

be ill-natured; jealous

two; second; companion

and; etc. (in counting)

to scar, heal over

mai

Give me the book!

sick

misfortune, bad luck

torch

clear, transparent

cloth girdle used during ceremonies; menstrual cloth

to chew (fruits); mouthful of premasticated food for a mother to give her infant

nourish an infant at the time of weaning

have a good taste (as sweet fruits); be tasteless, insipid (from lack of salt)

thunder, thunderbolt

abdomen, belly

to breathe; to rest; to catch one’s breath

be patient; able to endure; marathon (race)

thin (in thickness)

be empty (as a bottle), be dry (as a river from which the water has evaporated)

be sick; patient, sick person; sickness, illness, disease

to dry up gradually

fermented breadfruit; pit for preparing fermented breadfruit

raw, uncooked (meat or fish); immature, as a young coconut not ready to be used

face (plural); eye; numeral classifier for counting fish; have the appearance of, have an air of; cutting edge, blade; front of something, in front

to understand; be evident, be clear

Pleiades; small, miniscule (of writing, tattooing)

contemplate, view, gaze on; source

wind

horizon

hammerhead shark

beach (‘eye of sand’)

be old (singular); age; an old person (from about 40); king (in cards); ripe, mature; an elder person of importance

parents

cock, rooster

to hide (oneself)

mosquito

coconut tree, Cocos nucifera L.

young coconut with very soft meat

stay, occupy; sit down

a tree: Morinda citrifolia

to speak

mouth, beak, muzzle; orifice, neck (of a bottle)

to be wanting, lacking resources, in a condition of scarcity, famine

board, plank

navel

to close (oven, door)

to dress a wound

to ruin, spoil

be slung over the shoulder

jump over

be at fault, faulty; be excessive; fault, error; in error

March forwards! Advance!

to flower, be in bloom; a flower

Vini australis

get up to leave; change place

be pricked, pierced

sarong, wrap-around garment

dark/sombre Picasso fish: Rhinecanthus rectangulus (Solander)

to burn, scorch

to beat, hit (with a stick); to cut (wood) for construction; to build (with wood)

small field; bordering

to flow (rapidly)

sea; tide

mosquito net

spine, horn, dorsal fin

spine, horn, dorsal fin

taro (generic): Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. antiquorum Schott

bury; be buried

be buried (as a house under a landslide)

to weep; to take a complaint to the chief

to whimper, whine, snivel

first person plural inclusive postposed personal pronoun

excrement

season for harvesting yams

dry season

blast of strong wind

pregnant

a tree: Casuarina equisetifolia L.

to calm down (of the wind)

to meet, gather (as an assembly of people)

punting pole, long pole used to propel a canoe in shallow water

three

book; letter; design; to make a design, write

be courageous

to divide, distribute; a portion

to divide into small parts

deaf

to drip

to drip onto, as a doctor putting drops in the eyes

clothes louse

river eel

roast over a fire (as breadfruit)

kind of land crab

to grow, increase, sprout, spring up; bud; to reveal; more (in counting)

point with the finger (intrans.)

to designate, point at with the finger (trans.)

back; behind; outside

nurse a baby

cargo (as on a boat)

to spit in someone’s face, spit on someone

to spit in someone’s face, spit on

to spit

to spit

to spit

neck