3rd person sg. object pronoun, suffixed to verb

passive formative, suffixed to verbs

take, catch, get

to bite a thing or animal; by extension, to catch a pig, of a dog or a man hunting with dogs

when? (in the past)

yesterday

to eat, to chew

to eat, to chew

1dl. excl. subject and object pronoun

1pl. excl. subject and object pronoun

2dl. subject and object pronoun

2pl. subject and object pronoun

to sniff, smell (something)

up

suspend from a pole, hang between posts (as a pig)

a tree: Intsia bijuga. Its wood is used to make slit-gongs

pestle or stone used for pounding almonds

a fish

small, little, narrow, young, insignificant

divide food for a feast; collect and bundle up food

neck

shorten

short

rub on

drive pig into net

swollen, protruding

roll across the ground; teeter; roll back and forth; turn over and over; push or roll something too heavy to carry

to roll across the ground; roll back and forth

turn something away from another person, turn something aside

turn something towards someone or something else

to sound a slitgong, especially to beat it loudly and call out at the same time

I, me

butterfly

turtle

child; child of Ego’s sibling

square, fine-mesh net for catching small fish

a fish

the making of fire with the fire-plow; a fire-plow

kind of fish

hot taro

parent-in-law (woman speaking); daughter-in-law

parent-in-law (woman speaking); daughter-in-law

members of my sib

a malevolent spirit which causes twisted limbs

a constellation: the Pleiades

a constellation: the Pleiades

when? (in the future)

to crawl

go up, ascend

go seaward

shadow; reflection; photograph; occasionally spirit of a human being

sun; day; goodday!

liver or solar plexus (seat of emotion); internal organs in general; sometimes spleen

sneeze

egg

exclamation of excitement

to see

mend a net

carry on the head

cook on the hearth by covering food with heated stones

copulate with

prefix to numbers in counting

interrogative used at the end of phrase or sentence to indicate question similar to French "N'est-ce pas?"

mild affirmative indicating that one has understood something just said

thwarts of a canoe

the inside, the interior; interior of the body, interpreted as the seat of emotions

exclamation: well, all right

name, identity

scrape, grate (as coconut); to scrape wood smooth

almond which is yellow on the end

BW (w.s.), ZH (m.s.), WB, HZ

green, ultramarine, turquoise

tornado, waterspout

come to an end; finished

to scratch

to spit a spray into the air

article prefixed to the majority of nouns

vine used for cordage

rafter of a house

cut-up portions of feast food

pig

areca palm and nut: Areca catechu; heart; gall bladder

knot in a tree

plate-shaped coral

lime spatula

plant used for wrapping of coiled basket: Lygodium circinnatum

every day

liver

he is angry ( = 'his liver is burning')

(lit. 'his liver is burning') he is angry

he is startled ( = 'his liver leaps')

lungs

lime for chewing with areca nut, made from clam shell

a thorny rattan, Calamus sp.

hearth; "earth oven" in which only hot stones, without earth, are employed

rain; rain clouds

general term for small plants and leaves; trash

penis

yam

fish (generic)

his head hair; plumage of a bird

tinea, ringworm; fish scales

mussel or clam; mussel shell used as knife

large bamboo, imported from the Tolai area

hourglass drum

finger; toe; leg of crab; twig or small branch

outer husk of coconut

skin (a piece rather than the whole); bark; peel; cloth (introduced)

to hold over a fire, to wilt

sky

cultivated ginger (Zingiber sp.); by extension, a warrior

fresh water; stream; river; coconut shell water jug

coconut tree, Cocos nucifera

night; after dark; day, as a time unit

large red ant

a fathom

one fathom

family house, domicile (as opposed to men’s house)

houses (collectively), village

moss, including Psilotum nudum and Microsorium spp.

bird (general term); insect, butterfly (rare)

ant; insect

a hole; a channel, passage; a doorway or door; kind, variety

its eye; the top of it, especially if a cap or something similar; its point; a time for it, its date

sun (‘eye of the day’)

shelf above fireplace (‘eye of fire’)

‘the door of the men’s house’: circular bottom of frame for #ebiribiri mask

doorway of the house

the point of a hook (‘eye of fishhook’)

taro (general term; Colocasia esculenta)

the fat of an animal

mud, swamp

mud, swamp

scrotum; elephantiasis of the scrotum; cluster of nuts

a tree: Barringtonia asiatica

a large tree with milky sap: Alstonia sp.

milk

breast

coconut beetle (makes a whirring noise); a toy noisemaker

wart (lit. ‘feces of the sea’?)

small edible fungus

feces; leftover trash

my belly, stomach (of human being); occasionally, my emotions, desires

middle, center

female of the species (animal)

a tree, Parinarium corymbosum

mirror, glass; spectacles

sugarcane (generic; Saccharum sp.)

bone

ear-wax

knee joint, knee

flea, house louse, bedbug

a sling

a vine (Cassytha filiformis)

toward the sea

breadfruit, Artocarpus incisa; by extension the soursop, Anona muricata

louse

leg, foot

the men

a plant: Vitex cofassus

corpse

food given as payment to visiting singers and dancers

sawfish

a reed: Phragmites spp.

knife

famine

a variety of pandanus

canoe paddle

trunk or base of a tree; stem of a leaf; base of a pearl shell; first part of a story; the reason; because of; origin, story of one’s ancestry

fishnet or seine; base of fish trap

kind of fish trap

see, look at

five

tooth

a tree (Gmelia sp.) used for canoes

to fly

to fly

two

cuttlefish

(fossilized in e.g. #matau ‘afraid’)

to wait (standing)

be out, of the tide; low tide; dry season

be in good health; come to life; to live, survive (of a sickly baby or the victim of an attack)

to me; hither

to be withering or drying up, of leaves, fruit, copra (when completely dry = #pakuku)

dancing ground; garden cleared but not planted

submerged rock or coral reef

to chew betel

to boil away or dry up, of water

dammed up, of water; finished, of water in the hollow of a tree; dry, of water; very low tide

to be awake; to be looking at

a yam: Dioscorea alata

cooked, ripe

cooked, done

to look, to look at; to appear; to turn face or eyes toward; sharp

close, of net mesh (‘small holes’)

afraid

out, of a fire

full-grown

and

sweet

of you, 2sg. possessor, your

locative marker (in expressions such as #o-ata 'up, on top of', #o-hulu 'in the men's house', #o-luma 'in the family house', #o-mai 'here, hither, toward me', and #o-muli 'to the left as one faces inland')

above

here

down

fold up; fold under, as a leaf apron when sitting down

to break wind

to wait (sitting)

grandparent/grandchild (reciprocal term of address)

bladder

pumice

how many?, how much?

hundred

one hundred

to flow

group of ten

ten

flower; blossom; (tobacco seeds)

to cut, of hair; to shred leaves for

shellfish

to descend, go down

in my direction

push up the stone of the #la-humu〈earth oven〉 with a stick

to push up the stones of #la-humu (earth oven) with a stick

to nurse, of a baby

to peel taro

prefix marking action that takes place of its own accord (#gole ‘to pluck leaves’ : #ta-gole ‘to fall off, of a tree branch’)

to wait for (only in compounds)

tali muga

down; westward

to put in; to plant; to put down on the ground, as a bundle carried on the head

to put in, to plant

father, FB

to look up(ward)

to set a snare

man, person (used only in connection with sib and village affiliation and in expressions showing relations between two or more persons; in both cases it is in apposition to a pronoun, usually expresssed)

how many men?

three

to try out

to wade

to burn (of a burn); be burned

to point to; to point out, indicate

to heat stones for cooking

to tap, as with a tattooing needle; to strike with the finger; to bump, of heads

to cut, as with a knife, cut off

to mourn

to cut, as wood or a leaf, from a tree; remove all the limbs from a tree

apply paint, feathers, or other surface adornment to the head or body

to apply paint, feathers, etc. to the head or body

to cut, as wood or a leaf, from a tree; remove all the limbs from a tree

a vine: Ipomoea sp.

food given as payment to visiting singers and dancers

fan palm: Licuala sp.

to constrict, as a python; be mixed up or twisted, of a child's speech; twist, wind up, wind around; too much, a great deal

a hollow-stemmed reed: Phragmites spp.

hungry

seven

to work sago, squeeze the water out

full

engage in a canoe race

to paddle

to fish with a net

to seed; bear fruit

rinse; baptize

to rinse, to baptize (?)

Crinum sp.

wasp and wasp-like insects