a suffix added to certain finite verb forms to indicate that the third person plural is the undergoer of an action

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take hold of, grab, seize, grasp, clutch, take

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take hold of, grab, seize, grasp, clutch, take

Mager 1952

to take hold of, grab, seize, grasp, clutch, take

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suffix added to some finite verb stems to indicate that the undergoer of the action is the first person plural inclusive

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have sexual intercourse (also used in respect to animals)

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interjection indicating wonder, astonishment, etc.

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several species of the strangler fig (Ficus). They are considered to be the abode of #tibud spirits ( = spirits of the dead)

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suffix added to substantives to form qualifiers, and sometimes to verbs to form nouns or qualifiers

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name of a #tibud (ancestral) spirit... Some say that Anut lived in the Laden region, others say Anut lived far away and did not concern himself about man; God, the creator of heaven and earth; the gods and idols of the non-Christian

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projecting part of the #bidal (Platform), opposite the #sam (outrigger float)

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the projecting part of the platform of a canoe opposite the outrigger float

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heart (as will), the center of one's being; loyalty; surface, plane, area, breast, compound, floor

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yes, certainly

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white marine fish about 22 inches long

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mouth; beak, snout, muzzle

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outrigger boom

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fence

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word; speech, talk, sermon, address; language, dialect

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kind of coral, limestone

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a fish about two feet long, red color

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canine tooth of a dog

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wings of birds

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incantation, spell, magic, charm

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a tree: Erythrina variegata. It grows quickly and gives much shade, sheds its leaves and during that time has bright red flowers

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a tree: Erythrina variegata

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have a bowel movement, defecate

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a shrub like the croton with dark green aromatic leaves -- used in witchcraft

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looped, wound about, convoluted, coiled

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huge, gigantic, great, large, immense, powerful; honorable, expert, wise; the great one, 'big shot', expert

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a part, share, piece, a fraction, portion, division, paragraph, stanza, section, fragment, moiety

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at the end of night, tomorrow

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pig, hog, swine, pork

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a fish about 10 inches long, brownish body with red stripes

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tree with white sap; the fruit is eaten by cassowaries and pigs

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cover (with dirt, paint, oil), spread (pain on boards, bread with butter, etc.), smear (object, character), besmear, paint, daub, anoint, hide the original surface of something

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to chase (as pigs into nets set up; a group spreads out and makes a lot of noise to chase the pigs into the nets); to drive (pigs, cattle, etc.), round up, press in from all sides, besiege, mob, harass, harry, badger

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dip something into a fluid; immerse, plunge in (and out)

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small elevation or swelling under the skin due to an insect's bite

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knot on the stem of a tree, or a knot tied in a cord; knob; tumor, hemorrhoids

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knotty, gnarled, knotted

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a white shelled mollusk (Ovula ovum) used as an ornament, a medium of exchange, and in divination

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bluish-grey marine fish about five inches long

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turn back or into something else; change, transform; turn (over, back, round)

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general name for pigeons, doves

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a round coral growth

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a spatula, made of bone or wood, used to transport lime into the mouth when chewing betel nut

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forehead

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cork, stopper made out of leaves rolled together

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to guide, lead, conduct, show the way

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lie, rest, sleep

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ceiling, the covering of a room; sometimes only part of the room has a ceiling, and this serves as a platform

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to bear fruit (abundantly, continuously, as a coconut tree)

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leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea

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betel, a climbing species of pepper (Piper betle); the leaves, fruit and roots are used in chewing betel nut. The green leaves are also rubbed and mixed with lime to heal wounds; to bloom and bear fruit, to fruit

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blowing, storming, roaring, blustering, tempestuous (as wind)

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banana (thirty four varieties distinguished by name)

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a wood borer, beetle, worm; the refuse (dust) of the wood borer

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origin, beginning; derivation, source; foundation, base; originator, creator, author, composer; home; kind, species, sort; reason, meaning, cause; fact

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strike, beat, pound, thrash, knock, bash, bat, whack, whip; slay, slaughter, kill, murder; happen, befall; (cause to) spread far and wide; extinguish (as a torch); exert oneself; become tired, weary

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to open, uncover, lay (throw) open, turn (the leaves in a book)

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a suffix added to certain substantives to indicate that the first person singular is the possessor

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3sg. and pl.

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exclamation: whew! ugh!

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he hit us

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look at, behold, discern, perceive; sight, view

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interior, midst, inside, core, inlet, pith; the seat of thought, will and emotions; heart, mind, self, soul, contents of memory

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kind of screw pine (pandanus); has aerial roots, and its leaves are used to make rain capes

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smile, grin (draw the lips away from the teeth)

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ZH (m.s.)

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BW (w.s.), HZ

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an adze; the stone was bound in a #foŋ (two pieces of wood hollowed out on the inside to take a stone axe) so it could be turned as desired

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kind of lory with red wings and green body: Lorius ruber

Mager 1952

break the earth with a stick, delve, dig up

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head (neck) rest (support); pillow

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move something to and fro in the mouth; move the lips when chewing; nibble around a kernel held in the mouth; gnaw at somethting

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a song, hymn

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to think, consider, reflect, muse, cogitate, deliberate, speculate, meditate, imagine, ponder

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the various species of the genus Canarium; also the mature seed, which is edible

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the sound made by a ripe coconut (timber) when it is snapped with the finger

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a raft; several logs thrown over a ditch or stream

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the tobacco plant; a leaf of tobacco, a cigar

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lime made from coral, oyster shells, etc., and used in chewing betel nuts

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a crab

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butterfly

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movement in coitus

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movement in coitus

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to hitch and hitch, said of a man (or woman) who fornicates

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to hitch and hitch, said of a man (or woman) who fornicates

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a slit gong; the beat or rhythm of a song

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narrow; strait; restricted, constricted

Mager 1952

rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, gossip, suppositions

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a bird; it cries a good deal, esp. in the morning

Mager 1952

pinch off (with the fingernails), pluck (cloth, wool, lint) into shreds, squeeze or compress between any two hard bodies

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to go (away, about on foot, a horse, bicycle, vehicle, boat, etc.); to walk, depart, march (get, pack, move, start) off, take leave, get underway, set out; to continue, keep on (with any kind of action), to keep up or maintain any course or series of actions; to carry on

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grey marine fish about three feet long

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beach, shore, strand, coast

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whitish-grey marine fish about five feet long

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the high seas, an open, unenclosed portion of the sea

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round and round; rolling; wandering

Mager 1952

madness, insanity, running amuck

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tooth, saw tooth, the serrated margin of a leaf; tooth of a cog-wheel; prong (of a fork, spear, broken branch); the two points on the end of a housepost

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endure, continue a long time; exist for a long period; protract; abide; last

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a pit, hole, grave, mine

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the dirty, loamy water that flows off after a rain; all water that remains in puddles pools afer a rain

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to know, to have knowledge of, to be acquainted with, be aware of, be sensible of, to hear, learn, learn by heart, be able, be careful of, to make possible, to perceive, comprehend, understand, apprehend, be cognizant of, to fathom, make out, discern; have a premonition, to notice, feel, sense, observe, be conscious of

Mager 1952

the forelegs of kangaroos and wallabies

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a slip, a sloping ramp or pier, dock; the pieces of wood put on the beach over which the canoe slips when pulled up

Mager 1952

the pieces of wood put on the beach over whhich the canoe slips when pulled up

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conjunction: and, also, too, as well as, likewise, moreover

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a tree, it bark is used to make G-strings and blankets; loincloth made from the bark of #mal

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white core of the fruit of the breadfruit

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a reciprocal classificatory kinship term; male speaking: father’s brother, mother’s sister’s husband, father’s mother’s brother’s or sister’s son, father’s father’s brother’s or sister’s son; father; son; female speaking: father and his brothers; son; mother’s sister’s husband; father’s father’s brother’s or sister’s son; mother’s mother’s brother’s or sister’s son; an honorary title for older persons, those in a higher position, as teachers, missinaries, God

Mager 1952

to chew, to crunch, to masticate (especially betel nuts, but also food)

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shame; embarrassment, confoundedness, abashment

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tame, docile (mostly in reference to animals), peaceful, obedient, trained

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taro, Colocasia esculenta

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sea, ocean, sea water, saltwater; salt

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die, expire, pass away, yield up the ghost, perish, stop (motor), go out (fire); long, yearn, crave, hanker, desire, love, like, pine, pant for, languish for, care, want, die (for), lust after

Mager 1952

to roast, cauterize, toast, bake, parch, sear, burn, incinerate, set fire to, ignite, light (e.g. a cigar)

Mager 1952

marine fish about a foot long, front part yellowish brown, shading off to yellowish toward the rear

Mager 1952

turn back, return, come (go) back, come again, turn around, return home, revert, relapse, recoil, react

Mager 1952

behind, in the rear; back part

Mager 1952

the rear, the back part, posterior, stern, after-part, the reverse, hind quarters, the outside (if one is inside a house, etc.)

Mager 1952

3sg. possessor

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a skirt of fibers of #mataen palm, etc., petticoat; the #nai for small girls is only a narrow apron in front; older girls before marriage wear a #nai with the back part narrower than the front; after marriage a #nai with the back part wider is worn

Mager 1952

cooking, boiling

Mager 1952

dew, moisture (on grass, etc.)

Mager 1952

to eat; used when speaking to small children

Mager 1952

to taste; to eat (used when speaking to small children)

Mager 1952

face, countenance, visage, feature, appearance, aspect; front, forepart, first line; the outside of something, exterior

Mager 1952

a tree, Illipe family, Sapotaceae; two kinds of these trees have edible fruit and large leaves; a third kind has small leaves and inedible fruit (used for building up the sides of a canoe)

Mager 1952

the sole of his foot

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the palm of his hand

Mager 1952

swing, oscillate, shake, rock

Mager 1952

coconut tree and fruit

Mager 1952

remove all the coconuts (this is done to all the coconut palms of a dead person when the time of mourning is at an end)

Mager 1952

1sg.: I, me

Mager 1952

to grunt (pig), rumble, grumble (man)

Mager 1952

to grunt (pig), rumble, grumble (man)

Mager 1952

stutter; catch one's breath (when crying)

Mager 1952

to grumble (in discontent)

Mager 1952

interjection used to call a person's attention to something

Mager 1952

the pandanus tree

Mager 1952

woman; wife; female (also said of plants like papaya, etc.)

Mager 1952

potsherd, used to render fat and to cook oil; frying pan, shallow roaster

Mager 1952

give (him); hand over, bestow, grant, confer, impart, accord, yield

Mager 1952

village, settlement, hamlet, town, place, city

Mager 1952

snap! noise made when snapping a dry coconut with one's finger

Mager 1952

kind of tree; wooden pegs made from the wood of a #patot tree. They are used to fasten the #aiad (outrigger booms) to the sam (outrigger float) of a canoe

Mager 1952

stingray

Mager 1952

handle (of a broom, hammer, but not of cups, etc.)

Mager 1952

to squeeze (out), express; crush, pinch, strangle

Mager 1952

pass gases from the bowels

Mager 1952

snap a finger against something (marbles, coconut, etc.); let go with a jerk; flip, flick, to whip (lash); to tap

Mager 1952

hunger, famine

Mager 1952

to weave (mats, sails, etc.), to braid, to knot (the strands of grass skirts, but usually #abi is used)

Mager 1952

blowing, spitting out by blowing; flaring up (fire)

Mager 1952

bobbing, swaying, teetering, moving up and down (as a long pole carried on the shoulder)

Mager 1952

the outrigger float on a canoe, consisting of a shaped log; keel on boat; float on a seaplane

Mager 1952

crotch, groin; bifurcation, fork; acute angle formed by the upper and lower eyelid; the female or male genitals

Mager 1952

long tom: Strongylura incisa

Mager 1952

grasshopper, locust

Mager 1952

draw up the lips, as when smiling, draw the lips away from the teeth (in grinning, smiling)

Mager 1952

draw up the lips, as when smiling, draw the lips away from the teeth (in grinning, smiling)

Mager 1952

draw up the lips, as when smiling, draw the lips away from the teeth (in grinning, smiling)

Mager 1952

to pull up (off), peel off, husk, take off (one’s clothes), draw up the lips as when smiling

Mager 1952

stick insect, Phasmatidae

Mager 1952

become mixed or compounded

Mager 1952

postposition of direction: toward, to

Mager 1952

mollusks that cling to the belly of ships and boats (Mytilidae, Balanidae, Teredo)

Mager 1952

to pare, peel (cut off thin slices)

Mager 1952

a wooden bowl; plate

Mager 1952

to look (upwards)

Mager 1952

younger sibling of the same sex; placenta

Mager 1952

to bend (straight or round)

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to bend (straight or round), as in bending a tortoise shell into a circle

Mager 1952

father, FB, son, MZH (w.s.); FB, MZH (m.s.); lord, master, guardian; owner, composer, originator, inventor

Mager 1952

soil, ground; land; garden, field; earth; world

Mager 1952

a netbag used by women; chorion, membrane enveloping the fetus of mammals; afterbirth; the uterus

Mager 1952

put into a netbag

Mager 1952

a white marine fish about 30 inches long, like a mackerel

Mager 1952

kind of mollusk, triton

Mager 1952

to hew down a tree, cut into (down, off), fell a tree

Mager 1952

ladder (a pole used as a ladder), stairs, step (anything that may serve as a step); a small tree standing near a large one used as a ladder; a bridge; wharf; companionway, stile, gangway, catwalk, drawbridge

Mager 1952

ancestor, grandparent, grandchild

Mager 1952

night, darkness, gloom, obscurity

Mager 1952

wind, breeze

Mager 1952

superlative degree; maximum, extreme

Mager 1952

mother and father; parents

Mager 1952

to pound, knock, stamp, thrust against; nail down, beat, thump, hammer, pummel

Mager 1952

a bivalve marine mollusk like a #som (#som = teredo, etc., mollusks that cling to the belly of ships and boats)

Mager 1952

still, calm, quiet; contented, at peace, serene, at rest, quiescent, motionless

Mager 1952

a stick, pole, cane, staff, switch; brace

Mager 1952

three

Mager 1952

mangrove tree: Rhizophora mucronata

Mager 1952

to eat fast, not stopping to masticate the food properly

Mager 1952

spurting, squirting (as blood)

Mager 1952

a tree (Leguminosae) the stem of which is used to make canoes

Mager 1952

cause to burn, light (a fire so it burns well), set fire

Mager 1952

a fish, about 15 inches long

Mager 1952

a tan fish about 15” long

Mager 1952

verbal prefix indicating that the actor is 2sg.

Mager 1952

interjection: see! behold! aha!

Mager 1952

any kind of weed

Mager 1952

name of the sound made when afflicted with asthma or whooping cough

Mager 1952

white marine fish about eight inches long

Mager 1952

garden, field, plantation, cultivated land

Mager 1952

penis; handle; point

Mager 1952

to follow, pursue; come after, succeed; go to the rear

Mager 1952

octopus

Mager 1952

white fish about three feet long

Mager 1952

give (away), dispense, distribute, bestow, deal out, apportion

Mager 1952

large canoe that goes out on the high seas, has one or two masts and a large platform; ship, boat

Mager 1952

right hand, right side, dextral

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right hand, right side, dextral

Mager 1952

vine, liana

Mager 1952

fire, conflagration, combustion, ignition

Mager 1952

to fear, be afraid, be scared, be frightened; despair, be terror-stricken, panic-stricken, be anxious

Mager 1952

a large tidal wave

Mager 1952