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Butan (G.), root; butan-te-iii (K.), lower 

 part of the trunk of a tree, stump. 



Butabut (G.), cough. (See bokabok.) 



Bfttara (G.), black. 



*Butu, dagger, a small weapon armed with 

 shark's teeth. 



Buwu, throat. Buwum, thy throat. 



D 



[The letter d is of comparatively rare 

 occurrence, and seems, in all cases, to be a 

 softened sound of the T.] 



Dara, to look. (See tara.) 



De (G.), child. (See atai.) 



Dekaku, to cry out. (See kdkd.) 



Detdv, be quick. 



Dibug, wash. Ko tian dibugia ? have 

 you washed it? 



Diduaro, liberal, generous. 



Didiri, diridiri, cross, irritable. (See tiri- 

 tiri.) 



Di-Mdkin, a native of Makin (G.) 



Dimdim, to drop, as rain. 



Dina, to bite. Dinaia, bite it. (See kadi- 

 nadina.) 



Dindin, to roast. 



Dinimdk, to be in the act of roasting. 



Diriy, to beat, to strike ; to contend with, 

 oppose. Antai diriyir, don't beat us. 

 Ko diriy atai in tera ? Why did you 

 beat the children ? E diriyir antir, 

 our god is against us. (See tiri.) 



Djiranak (G.), to beat. (See tiri.) 



Djak-bain (G.), crippled. (Qu. tidk bai, 

 no legs ?) 



Dokov, truly, surely. Dokov e ko bdbak 

 in ant, truly thou art great among 

 spirits. 



Dua (K.), sacred, tabu. (Qu. the Polyne- 

 sian atua ?) 



E 



[By both the interpreters, the long e was 

 frequently substituted for the diphthong ai, 

 and the short e for a.] 



E, a letter frequently introduced by the 

 interpreters between the words of a 

 sentence. In some cases it may be 

 an article : in others, it is probably a 

 corrupt pronunciation of the last letter 

 of a word, as ietaf 'e te ap, for, 

 ietata or ietatu te ap, high in the land. 



E, fire. (See ai.) 



E, this ; here. (See ai.) 



Ea, where? Ko nako mat ea, whence 

 comest thou ? (See ia.) 



Ebiyoyo, a bad smell ; fetid. 



Edai, child. (See atai.) 



Edin-ro or edjin-ro, anchor. (Qu. atin-ro, 

 stone of quietness ?) 



Eduai, not yet. (See idttai.) 



Egegi, blind. Egegi matau, I am blind. 



Egi-mata (G.), cross-eyed. 



Egi-memau (G.), coward. 



Ekimoteta, short, low. Ka-ekimoteta, to 

 shorten. 



Endy (G.), to send for. 



Ent, spirit. (See dnti.) 



Eyan (G.) this morning. 



Era or Ira (or, with suffixes, era.ua, era- 

 man, erdboy, erabat, &c.), how many. 

 Era tuitui ko naoria, how many stars 

 do you see ? Erdbat am bat., or erdua 

 batam, how many are your houses? 

 Eraman aman, how many months ? 

 Erabor/a te boy, eraboya te -gain, how 

 many days, how many nights ? (See 

 llawa.) 



Era (G.), why, what for. Era tag ungoe, 

 why do you cry ? (See kuera.) 



Eran, thus, this way; the same; about, 

 concerning. Kuera ko aki karoia 

 eran, why don't you do it thus ? Ko 

 tetai eran te buok, do you know about 

 war ? (see tl te (ran). 



Erardn, leaky, dropping water. 

 Erero [iriro], black ; dark. E bot-erero 

 (?), a black person. Erero tuyituy, 

 very dark. 

 Erigi, side. E marak erigu, my side is 



painful. 

 Erigin, by the side of, near. Tia tekatek 



