be three each

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what? Questions the identity of things other than time..., position ..., persons and personal names..., quantity..., manner

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evening, be evening, especially the period from late afternoon (about 4:00 p.m.) until darkness; afternoon, be afternoon

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the period soon after dark, early part of the night

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fish taxon, probably Megalops cyprinoides

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board, plank, or other flat, wide piece of wood

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nibble, gnaw

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tree taxon applied to at least two figs: Ficus obliqua and F. prolixa (Moraceae), banyan fig

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nibble, gnaw something, bite small pieces off something

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tooth (of person, animal, etc.); tusk (of pig)

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rubbish, refuse, debris; garb of a widow in mourning, traditionally consisting of old rags, now of black garb, and a cord around the neck

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what is stuck on; adhere, be attached, stick to a surface; be patched, sealed, filled (of a tooth); have something glued on to cover it

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given to sticking, adhering; be patched, sealed with a patch; be sticky, gluey, adhesive, cloggy, e.g. of clay or cloggy soil, too wet and lumpy to dig

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patch something, stick a patch onto something

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umbilical cord; navel; the inside, center, interior of something, either of a solid object or of the space inside a hollow object or a bounded area

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middle, center of a village or town

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something done by magic or supernatural force; a miracle, magic

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climb up or on, mount

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climb, ascend, climb up or on, mount; climb up for something, esp. fruit; have intercourse with (vulgar)

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be wrong, incorrect; make a mistake or error; wrongly, mistakenly, in error; miss a target, go astray; do wrong, transgress; wrongdoing, sin, transgression of moral principle

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generic for urchins with very short spines and brittle shell, black or white in color; found in sandy bottom under seaweeds; eaten

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down, downwards

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nine

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be caught, netted, trapped by something which envelops the victim, as a fish in a net or a person ambushed or surrounded

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the high inland country of a mountainous land, mountain country, the interior

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fish of the snapper family, possibly Lethrinus variegatus or Lethrinella sp.

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fish taxon, includes many (Balistidae) and leatherjacket (Aluteridae) species

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go into seclusion for any ritual purpose; enter an institution for a period, e.g. be admitted to a hospital; (of a spirit, demonic force, mood) get into a person, possess someone

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formative in pronouns; marks first person inclusive of addressee, and occurs only after possessive marker and dual and paucal number-marking prefixes in the possessive pronouns

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a large body of fresh water lying inland, a lake or pond

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fresh, pure (not salty)

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be fresh, pure (as water that is not salty); (of food) tasteless, unsalted, unseasoned

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be poor, deficient, impoverished; lack richness or quality (as someone’s command of a foreign language)

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to point, indicate; explain, show how, demonstrate

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keep pointing, showing, etc.

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any upright piece of timber or rod which supports a weight; post, stud, pole, etc.

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who? whom? (questions the identity of unnamed persons or the names of individual persons or animals)

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in the evening, especially the period from late afternoon until darkness; tonight, this evening

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third

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seventh

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second person singular marker: you, occurring as the head-word or nucleus of a noun phrase which typically is the topic of a clause

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any escape valve for steam or smoke; chimney, funnel of ship

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manner of pouring, way something is poured

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baler, bailer, anything used to bail

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noise, sound; news

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news, report; hearing, sense of hearing; stethoscope, hearing aid

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something for water to flow through: drain, channel, acqueduct, pipe, etc.; ditch or drain made by water flow

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replacement, substitute, successor

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place for descending,; descent path; landing place, place for disembarking

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clothes, dress (general); skirt or sarong, sheet of cloth worn wrapped around the waist of a man, and around the waist and upper body of a woman

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place for putting things

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anything that gives shade or shelter, e.g. a temporary shelter, umbrella

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instrument for making a sound, musical instrument

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war

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emperor fish: Lethrinella miniata

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wood; generic for trees and shrubs, and occasionally low bushy plants; used in certain compounds as a generic for all plants; piece of wood, stick; (vulgar, colloq.) penis; in restricted phrases, be hard, strong, tough; wooden, made of wood

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strong, tough, powerful; firm, rigid, stiff; hard wood

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be hard, firm, rigid; strong, tough, powerful

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(obsolescent) a bird, possibly the Collared Lory, Phygis solitarius, which informants say was present on Waya a generation ago but is no longer there

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kind of land crab

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pillow (formerly made of wood)

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(of animals) to eat, consume food; (of the sea, insects) erode, eat away at something, bore holes; use up someone’s resources, cost someone a lot

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(of land, body) be wasting away, be wasted, eaten away, eroded; keep eating, eat (frequently)

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(of land, body) be wasting away, be wasted, eaten away, eroded; (of skin) be flaky, scaly, as patches of skin in a habitual kava drinker

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disease, possibly a type of ringworm, in which pale spots appear on the skin (attributed by some to bathing in dirty water)

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shrub common in rocky hillside garden areas, with thin oval toothed leaves, and pinkish-green spikes of small flowers: a shrub: Acalypha repandra

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humpback ox (possbly from Tagalog #carabao, water buffalo). Used as beasts of burden in Viti Levu but only once introduced to Waya, without succcess.

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be scraped, scratched by a scraper

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be scraped, scratched with a scraper

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to scrape, scratch something

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tree taxon: Syzygium malaccense (Myrtaceae), Malay apple; stout tree common in garden areas, large drooping rounded leaves, red bushy flowers on clusters on branchlets and trunk, fist-sized white to red fruit with crisp insipid flesh; fruit of this tree

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a small striped fish, possibly a rock cod (Serranidae sp.); poisonous, not eaten

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1pl. excl., topic pronoun

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prenominal particle that marks location, direction, source, instrument or cause

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axe or adze; formerly used of stone adzes, now of steel axes or adzes

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war-club

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stone axe or adze; considered valuable goods before the introduction of steel

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look for shellfish by lifting up rocks

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wild, not tame; remain at a distance, keep away

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to know, comprehend, realize, understand; be acquainted with something or someone; what is known

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remain wild, untamed; keep at a distance

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try to identify or work something out, guess at something; what is guessed

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knowledge, intelligence

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make a wrong identification, mistake one thing for another

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(of something which sits on the ground), be turned over; (of a turtle) be turned on its back

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to overturn something

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a reef fish, black with many orange dots, probably Siganus chrysospilos

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a forest tree, apparently not on Waya; timber is used for posts and rafters: Bischofia javanica (Euphorbiaceae)

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village, hamlet, town, city; any nucleated human settlement

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rat, mouse

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crab, small edible hairy grapsid with black carapace and red claws; found in mangrove swamps

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nail (of finger or toe), claw (of dog, cat, fowl, etc.), hoof (of pig, cow, etc.)

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hard-worker; hard-working (lit. ‘strong/powerful nails’)

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Artocarpus altilis (Moraceae), breadfruit; common village tree; fruit of this tree

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small citrus tree taxon; generic, includes two rather different trees, but both with large soft fleshy fruit

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common small shrubby tree of coastal thickets, with large solitary many-seeded fist-like fruit that become soft, yellow, and taste like acidic cheese: Morinda citrifolia (Rubiaceae)

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small shrubby tree of coastal thickets, with large solitary many-seeded fist-like fruit that becomes soft, yellow, and taste like acidic cheese, the Indian mulberry: Morinda citrifolia (Rubiaceae)

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head louse, head lice

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flea (louse of dog)

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steam, give off steam

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be smoked (as fish); be fumigated with chemicals or smoke; be given a steam bath, have a steam bath

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fish taxon: probably Epinephelus hoedti (Serranidae), a rock-cod

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sail of a boat

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go, move along, proceed

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to go, move along, proceed

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to go, keep going; route, method, procedure; conduct, behavior; style, characteristics; contributions to a feast or presentation, what one brings

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go to or over a place

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go to or over a place

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slit-gong, a percussion instrument made by hollowing out a large log leaving a narrow slit; each village has a slit-gong for communal purposes; a signal or pattern beat out on a slit-gong

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sky, atmosphere

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houseflies and other Brachycera flies

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be fly-infested, full of flies

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be known, understood, etc.

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be chewed up, eaten up

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five

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be in a group of five, in fives, as a fivesome, all five together

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be poured, pour

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pour something

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voice, of any living thing

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voices, sounds made by a person or animal

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to speak in a hoarse or gravelly voice, speak in a growl, as someone with impaired voicebox

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formative in several words denoting lightning

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flash of lightning seen in the sky

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lightning

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be under water, submerged (as a reef at high tide); of a container, be filled by dipping under water

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plunge something under water, fill something by dipping it

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bottom, lowest part (e.g. of kava bowl); last in a series; rump (as of a bat); last to finish in a competition

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seaweed which grows on sandy bottom

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shade, shadow; shelter, protection

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indicates movement or orientation towards the speaker or the speaker’s point of reference: this way, hither, here (the movement may be actual or figurative); indicates that a change of state is beginning or is in progress: start to, become, grow, get (into a new state)

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laugh, smile, grin

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be protected or sheltered from the elements; be shaded, in the shade or shadows

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be shady, well-shaded, well sheltered from the elements

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put something in the shade, put something out of the sun

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to chew, masticate (contrasting with #kani, which refers to the consumption of food rather than to the manner of eating it)

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to chew kava; in earlier times the green root was chewed before being brewed and strained

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be able to make things happen, be effective, have creative power; come true, happen, be realized, come about, be effected; power to make things happen, creative power, effectiveness

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be wishful, desire or wish something to happen that one has worked for, predicted, etc.

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animal, creature, being; normally excludes humans; birds, insects, fish, etc. may be referred to generically as #manumanu, or by #manumanu + modifier indicating defining characteristics of the class

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eye, organ of sight; face, front of head; front, facing side, face of object with both front and back side; head for, go towards a place; be awake, wake up; group, team or company of people; ahead, before, in front; opening, space or interstices in a surface, as doorway, window, the interstices or mesh of a net, the spaces between the fibers and weave of a cloth

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a person who often sees spirits in his dreams (#anitu = ‘spirit, ghost’)

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be afraid, frightened, fearful; fear, fright

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fear something, be afraid or frightened of something

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gateway

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be always afraid, timid, cowardly

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direction of wind; first gusts of wind

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direction of the wind; direction of the compass, i.e. cardinal points

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window

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eye of needle

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a representative, a person or thing representing N, a group or function

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point of a spear

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sacred area of a clan or kin group; people go there in times of misfortune to ask the guardian spirits (ancestors) to help

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mainsail stay or sheet, rope tying free end of mainsail boom to the stern of a boat (acts as a gear controlling direction of boat sailed into wind or wave)

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sun (‘eye of the day’); sunflower

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traditionally, a group of #vanua (tribes) or #avusa (clans) who agree to combine under one chief; a federation of peoples under one rule, a kingdom

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cuttings of yams for planting

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any freshwater source; spring, source of a river, rain clouds; wet ground, ground with natural water source on which taro may be planted; source, origin, start of something, especially if valuable

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fireplace, place where food has been cooked

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the right, right-hand side; right, right hand; be right-handed

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be mature, fully developed; thus 1. (of fruit, tubers, etc.) be ripe, mature, fit for eating or harvesting, 2. (of people, animals, plants) be full grown, grown up, mature, adult, 3. honest, honorable, upright

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the brain; brains as a body part (takes preposed possessive marking, in contrast to brains as food)

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2sg. possessor, your

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end point or tip of a long object

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be cut off, amputated, severed, cut short; end, cease, conclude

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prenominal particle; marks a nominal as 1. common, as opposed to proper or local, and 2. specific, as opposed to generic; a variant ne occurs directly before nominals beginning with the noun-deriving prefix #i-

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particle which connects two common nouns in a genitive construction; the first noun may related to the second noun in one of the following partially distinct senses: 1. purpose, use, function; for, of, 2. belonging to, 3. inherent part or attribute of, 4. originating from, belonging to a place, 5. consequence, result: for, of, as a consequence of, 6. connects a nominalized verb denoting an action or process with a noun which, in an equivalent verbal construction, would be the direct object of the verb

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be baled out, have water baled out

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to bale, keep bailing

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bail something out (object the boat or the water)

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coconut tree and fruit

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keep still, be motionless, stay without moving; keep quiet, be subdued, acquiescent, peaceful

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stay fixed in a place, not move from a place

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stay firmly in place, stick fast, as an anchor which can’t be moved

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be poisonous, toxic; bitter or sour in taste, astringent; pungent, hot in taste; poison, toxic quality; bitterness

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and

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1sg possessive pronoun, directly preposed to head noun, marking part-possession

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(of a pig or dog) growl; make a deep, throaty sound that continues for some seconds

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mouth of an animal; external mouth or lips of a person, fish, etc, beak (of bird or turtle); snout or muzzle of a dog, pig, etc.; entrance or opening to certain objects with cylindrical or long narrow passage behind (bottle, kettle, teapot, river; spout or nozzle of pipe, hose, etc.; spokesman or voice

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be vacant, unoccupied, empty, free (of a place); be free, at liberty, without restrictions (of a person);

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snake (generic)

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forehead

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be heated, warmed; be baked hot, glowing hot (of pots being fired); be smoke, as fish

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the coral tree, Erythrina spp. (Leguminosae); deciduous tree found mostly near coast; twigs and branchlets are prickly, flowers red; the juice of the bark is used to dilute bitter-tasting #wiriwiri bark juice in medicine to treat infection (thrush) of the tongue

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to warm or heat something; what is warmed; wither something, dry something up, as vegetation

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leaf; ; hair of the head; page, leaf of paper

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leaves

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be cooked (of food)

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be bent, bowed, have a stoop or bend; bow to someone, go past in a stooping posture; be respectful (in words or action)

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(idiom) be respectful to one’s face but disrespectful behind one’s back (lit. ‘show respect like a mullet’)

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bend something; what is bent

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be heard, perceived with the ears; be understood; (of news, rumors, etc.) be heard abroad, i.e. reported, talked about; (of a person) be known, famous, have a reputation; (of an engine, machine, etc.) resound, be audible, make a noise, work

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hear something, hear the sound of something

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listen, hear; sound, make a sound

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pay attention to something, listen attentively to something

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ignore or shun advice, take no heed of what one is told

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to sprout, germinate, shoot up, appear (as teeth, new leaves, shoots); sucker, new shoot growing from the root of a plant

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spear, harpoon. Spears, used in fishing and warfare, were formerly made from hardwood poles, reeds or bamboo. Fishing spears were pointed with tood, fishbone or ray stings.

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companion, partner, one of a pair, counterpart, opposite number

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nettle tree: Dendrocnide Harveyi (uncommon tree of mesic mid-altitude forest)

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to flow

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to flow down, fall like a waterfall; waterfall

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blossom, flower; have many flowers, come into bloom

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rope (called a stay or sheet) which holds the lower side or corner of a sail to the deck of a boat; in the case of the mainsail, it is attached to the boom; in the case of the spinnaker, it is attached to the corner closest to the mast; it acts as a gear controlling the direction of boat sailed into wind or wave

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be day, daylight in contrast to #boŋi ‘night’; be fine, sunny, bathed in light or sunshine

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hiss, make a hissing sound (as a kettle); signal with a hissing sound in order to attract someone’s attention

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ribs of a boat; smaller transverse beams of a house, joining the top plates

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be dyed black or brown (using traditional dyes made from black mud or leaves); black or brown dye

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dye something, stain something black or brown; weave a mat with dyed strips

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be replaced, succeeded, substituted; act of replacing, succeeding

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descend, go down; disembark, land, go ashore from a boat

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be stabbed, pierced by a sharp instrument held in the hand

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bone

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bony, thin

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to dress, put on clothing

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dung, feces, excrement, shit; unusable parts of shellfish; waste material, useless substance on a surface, scum

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(of solid object) be cut by chopping or slashing; chopped, hacked, axed, adzed, slashed; be carved, shaped by cutting; be built, made (of boat, keel)

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prefix that derives a stative verb marking an action or process that comes about accidentally or spontaneously, without a wilful agent

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hold or carry a burden in the extended arms, esp. resting on both palms extended horizontally in front, as a tray (it is polite to hold a gift in this manner when presenting it)

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be forbidden, prohibited by strong communal sanction, e.g. of traditional custom, modern law; (of a place or thing) be prohibited from use; prohibition, restriction; holiness, sacredness

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coast, seashore, sea, from the perspective of the land; be salty in taste; saltiness, salty taste

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be salty to the taste; have salt added, be salted; be a bit salty

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snare or trap to catch land animals, land crabs, crayfish, etc.

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to trap or snare something; what is caught

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the back or rear side of something; later, afterwards

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generic for various kinds of fungi, e.g. mushrooms, bracket fungi

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spilt

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person, human being

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light scudding clouds

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brown growth, probably algae, appearing on surfaces of ponds or lakes in very dry weather (lit. ‘shit of the sun’)

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to cry, wail, weep (usually refers to audible weeping but may refer to silent flow of tears); of birds and some animals, make the sound, call or cry characteristic of a species

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cry for something, ask for help in something, plead or cry for assistance; lament something, bewail something

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cry and cry, keep crying, cry a lot

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to make or set a trap or snare

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cut, chop, carve, build something; what is cut, etc.

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(of a young child) be precocious in speech, advanced for his or her years

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be located, situated, positioned, placed, put; be in, at or on a place

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to put or place something, lay something down, deposit something

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cross-cousin: specifically, a person of either sex who is the child of one’s father’s classificatory sister or one’s mother’s classificatory brother (address and referenc term)

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brush lightly, sweep something; peel something

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gastropod shellfish taxon; Pacific (or Triton’s) trumpet, Charonia tritonis, used as a horn; the shell of these animals

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throw a reed or dart horizontally controlled by the end of the forefinger, with the aim of making the dart skip up when it hits the ground

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bivalve shellfish taxon: generic for true oysters (Ostreidae)

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look down, lower the eyes

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look down at something

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look down, lower the eyes

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butterfly fish, Chaetodontidae

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have water in it, not be dry (of a container, creek, etc.)

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come to rest, be at rest; (of a boat) run aground, strike bottom in shallow water; (of a whale or dolphin) be stranded, beached

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(of any solid object) come to rest, be at rest; (of a boat) run aground, strike bottom in shallow water; (of e.g. a whale or dolphin) be stranded, beached; (of an animal) be tame, used to being with people; (of a person) be someone who can relied on when needed

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east wind; easterly

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be three, three

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group of threes, in threes, as a threesome, all three

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make a mark on a surface; mark, draw, etch.

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be full of water, wet, soaked

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sugarcane

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bone

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have cramp (as in leg muscle)

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the most common kind of land crab, probably Cardisoma carnifex and C. rotundum (Portunidae); almost completely land-dwelling and generally found close to the beach

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club (generic, including all types of club)

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to pound, knock, punch, hammer

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to hang, dangle while holding onto a support with one’s arms; be postponed, left til later

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hang onto something by the arms; be dependent someone, lean heavily on someone

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earwax, cerumen

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fish (#ika) taxon; eels (Anguilliformes), esp. freshwater eels (Muraena spp.)

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to poison fish, go fish-poisoning

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be arranged, organized, set out, set in order, sorted out

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vine (#wā) taxon: generic: includes species of Derris (Leguminoseae), scrambling or climbing plants with pinnate leaves, which are crushed and used to poison reef fish

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be arranged, organized, set out, set in order, sorted out

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poison something with Derris juice

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keep arranging things

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loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta; has large head; meat is highly regarded.

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wave; tide; high tide; to flow, come in (of the tide); wash over or cover something (of waves)

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waves

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eyebrow

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go in the early evening

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go in the early evening; have an evening meal

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have boards on, be boarded or planked

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cause something to stick, seal something up

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cause something to go wrong, lead someone astray, put someone off (target, concentration); disagree with someone

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to say ‘Ā maca’ (Ah! Empty!) and clap as a mark of respect after a person has drained his cup of kava

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nine times

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wash oneself in fresh water after being in the sea

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to dress, put on clothing; wear or have clothes

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have a sail, with sails

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five times

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pour something (contents) out; empty something (a container); try to pour or empty something

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take shelter, seek shade or protection

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be fearsome, frightening, terrifying; be dreadful, terribly bad, wicked; be dangerous; be formidable, powerful, commanding respect

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let something mature or ripen; to mature something; what matures

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have a mouth, beak, snout, spout, etc.

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be respectful, show reverence or respect; be bent, stooping, with a stoop or bow

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listen; obey, take heed of what one is told

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to cause tears, be the cause of sorrow

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pretend to cry, put on a crying act

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be brought ashore or beached

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be three times, thrice

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do an experiment or test

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have big waves washing to it, be covered with big waves

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how many times? how often?

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try to pick up or gather something

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have lice, be infested with lice, be lousy

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be at war, fight a war

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make war on something, fight against something

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sticks fastening the outrigger (#cama) to the booms which connect it to the hull of a canoe

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tree taxon, probably Heliconis sp.; tall banana-like herb

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to defecate in or on something

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a vine: Merremia peltata

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a tree: Pongamia pinnata

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be ready to spawn, have roe; fish eggs, roe

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be every third one

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how many?, how much?; be a small number or amount: a few, a bit

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flesh, meat; muscles; be meaty, full of substance

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bush, forest, woods

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know each other, be acquainted

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of something on the surface, especially foodstuff, be picked up, gathered, collected; pick up things; what is picked up

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keep gathering, etc.

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a fish taxon, probably Carangoides

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game of throwing reed darts; to play this game

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place with many oysters, an oyster colony

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(be) seven; (in card games) a seven

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in sevens, all seven together

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be run aground by force; be wrecked in this way

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slap or smack something with the open hand or hands together

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be damaged, etc.

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a small pandanus tree planted for its leaves, which are used for making fine mats, baskets and fans: Pandanus tectoriu sp; possibly also applied to cultivars of P. dubius or P. whitmeeanus

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(of, e.g. a preacher or team coach) to give a speech of advice, instruction or encouragement

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coconut; at least eleven named varieties of fruit

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plantain, Musa cultivar (Musaceae), bananas whose fruits are edible only when cooked; used by some as generic term for bananas

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drag the anchor, drift after breaking away from moorings

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refloat a boat that has sunk; pull up a net

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sea cucumber: Holothuria sp.

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move position or turn over while lying down (as a baby)

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be hidden, concealed; to hide, hide oneself; secret, something concealed

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a particular coconut palm

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to appear, come into view; to show up, arrive

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navel

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be jealous, envious

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fresh water (contrast #wai taci)

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sea, a body of sea-water; salt water

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