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PHILOLOGY. 



Nduvu, a vine with whose bark fish are 



intoxicated. 

 Nei, this. 



Nene -ta, to punish ; to be angry ; vexed. 

 2VZ, a particle which precedes adverbs o 



time. 



Nikua, to-day. 

 Nima, a scoop for baling water; -to, to 



bale. 



Ni mbogimboyi, to-morrow. 

 Ninini, to tremble, tremor. 

 Ninowa, to peep. 

 Nitu, to obtain fire by friction. 

 Niu, cocoa-nut. 

 Niuldla, a whistle. 

 No -<?, to put, or place ; to remain, be 



fixed in a place. 



Noka, to anchor ; nokanoka, an anchor. 

 Noga, to place. 

 Notonato, idle, disobedient. 

 Navo, to skulk about for food. 

 Novo-ni-yava, a footstool. 

 Nu, you or thou (see kemunu). 

 NuikSa (O.), to forget. 

 Nuinui, easy, quiet. 

 Nuku, sand ; gunpowder. 

 Numbu, deep, an abyss. 

 Numanuma, worship. 

 Nunu, to dip, plunge (as the head in water). 

 Nunuma (O.), to think of, think about, 



remember. 



Nuyga, the name of a fish. 

 Nuygalailai, December, nuygalevu, Janu- 



ary. 



ltd, only. 



Ha, a wild duck. 



a, the rigging of a canoe. 

 Sa, entrails. 

 Ifai, indolent. 

 IQalala, durable. 

 IHalayala, capacious, roomy. 

 Haleyale, side of the head. 

 Halu, dumb, dumbness, silence. 



Ttande, papande, to walk about, to stroll. 

 IJancte, uncle. 



Itandina, uncle by mother's side. 

 IVandro, the string of the tongue. 

 d, bitter, bitterness. 



, to look steadily. 

 Itane, aunt ; also, a sister or brother. 

 IVaro, hunger, desire ; -va, to hunger, lust 



for. 



Hasan, a reed, an arrow ; shot. 

 Hasuesw, a whirlwind. 

 IVata, sharp. 

 Hata, a word used in addressing a heathen 



deity. 



Hata, a snake. 

 Hato -vak., to omit the letter k in speaking, 



as in the dialect of Somusomu. 

 Itatu, a thick glazed sort of native cloth. 

 Flatumbiri, bed-curtain. 

 Hamve, work (a Tonga word). 

 Havuyavu, a coward. 

 Heyele, to sing (used of one only). 

 Heleyek, loose (said of the teeth). 

 Itga, provision for a journey or any work. 

 Hgd, hard. 



Hgd, the shell of a shell-fish. 

 ItgaSoya, to make a vigorous effort. 

 Itgai, ygei, lately, just now, then. 

 Hgaka, a crab. 

 Hgakilo, a valley. 

 Itgalala, an empty shell. 

 Hgali, subject ; a tributary state. 

 Hgali-ggali, cotton. 

 Hgaliygalia, dirty. 

 IQgaliso, coal. 

 Hgalo, to swim. 

 Ugami -ta, to hold between the legs ; to 



crush. 



Hgamu, scissors, nippers ; -ta, to cut. 

 Hganimbilo, a shell, nut-shell. 



> boldness, audacity ; bold, brave, 

 victorious. 

 Jlgaygd, thinness. 

 Ugayga -ra, to seek, look for. 

 Ugaygalo, finger ; -ggaygalo ni ava, toe ; 

 Vgapgalo-levu, thumb; ygaygalo-sau 

 little finger. 



