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Avut, 1. [a 4.] take up, move, vut; avut raka, take up and transplant.

Avut, 2. [avu 2.] 1. tr. cause to move, attract, as by a charm; o sor me avutia, the sor has attracted him; a man has made a charm by rubbing sor, the crowd influenced by the charm are attracted to the feast. 2. the people thus attracted, we avut, go all together.

Avut, 3. when three men are at a drum the middle one is said to avut, the two outer to pala; qatavuvut, the drumstick.

Awa, ex, in lamentation, sad surprise.

Awatega, adj. clean.

Awisiga, [a 4.] budding into leaf, wisiu; to come into leaf.

Awo, 1. cry of pain or grief; thence 2. v. to cry out in pain or grief.

awon, to exclaim loudly at.

awosag, to cry with pain.

awoawo, to shout.

Awo, 2. to entice, as an eel from its hole with a bait, or a sick man out of his house with promise of something nice.

Awon, 1. [awo 1.] as above.

Awon, 2. to steam over the fire and straighten, as a reed.

Awosa, [a 4.] to cleanse, beating with the hand, wosa, as a dirty mat in salt-water, or beating out dry dirt.

 

E.

E, 1. exclamation, of surprise, denial, disapproval, calling a person's attention; many compounds:—

ea! of fear, deprecation.

ei! of refusal.

eke! of surprise.

eo! of disapproval.

eqa! eqe! eqei! of astonishment.

e! si—, doubt, disavowing; don't know!

e we! surprise.

e wun! of doubtful assent, wun.

E, 2. expletive added to ti; mantagai ti e, yet a little.

Eleele, adj. high, lofty.

Epa, (k) constr. epe. 1. mat, piece of matting, epapepepe, mat in which infants are carried, pepe.

2. sail of matting, o epa me van mun gavine gae, woven by women; o mereata ti susur, sewn by men, mun o gavaru; mun o qatia o qasai apena, with a tree-fern needle.

Ere, a kind of pandanus; the leaves, no-ere, used for the ridge thatching of houses.

Es, esu, live, life; be in health; esu kel, recover health.

esuva, life, living, saving, safety.

esuvag, live with, by.

Ete, to turn up the face, for ate; soeteete.

 

G.

This letter represents a guttural trill, never the hard g. In V. it is commonly replaced by w, and at the end of a word is sounded as i.

G, tr. suffix to v.

Ga, 1. poss. n. (k) of close relation, generally of food; gak o qatia, arrow to shoot me with; nagak namatama, an expression of endearment; as gak taema, of admiration. Fl. ga; Fij. ke; D.Y. Marsh. a; N.G. Aroma, ga; Kerep. a.