Eay & Haddon— 2%e Languages of Torres Straits — II. 173 



adi (b), n. a story or tale. 



adia (?), Mark, iv. 11, 



adigila (t), adizela (t), n. a wig. 



ado (b), n. a goose. 



adoama (m), n. an uncle; mother's brother. Cf. tati, keuba tati, 



waduam. 

 adudziolai (t), n. a wig. Cf. adigila. 

 adzar (m), a. forbidden as food, 

 ae, exclam. ah ! Mark, xv. 29. 

 aewidan, 



aga, n. an axe ; aga-turik, aga-turi, an iron axe. 

 agaleg (m), n. an eagle, 

 agu (Mb), n. a platform on which the shells of turtle were preserved 



(406). 

 agu (m), n. a cairn of stones ; the back of a turtle. 

 ai, n. food, [aidu, aipa, aingu.] 



aibo (m), aibu, n. the south-east monsoon; name of the dry season. 

 aidai, v. to have, to possess. 

 aidainga, a. having, possessing. 



aideigan = aidainga. Mark, iv. 25 (or ? = not to havej. 

 aidu, n. food. Cf. ai. 

 aidu-poiban, v. to give food, to feed. 

 aie, V. imperat. come ! (from a place near), 

 aic-wel (m), v. imperat. come here ! 



aigar (?), nanu aigar barpudan, all her living. Mark, xii. 44. 

 aigi, suffix to adjectives implying negation, 

 aigiasina (b), ripe, 

 aigina, suffix, none, not; tanamunia aiaigina, they have no food. 



Mark, vi. 36. 

 aiginga, aigingo, a. not having. 



aigi-taean, v. to spend, to finish (?). Mark, v. 26 ; xii. 22. 

 aigi-tonar (s), n. famine time ; winter, 

 aikeka (m), pron. myself, 

 aima (?), ngona butupatan gougan aima, make me clean. Mark, 



i. 40. 

 aimaipi, aimipa, aimeipa, aimoipa, v. to make, to do, to build. 



[aiman.] 

 aimiz, v. to commit adultery. Mark, x. 19 ; to destroy, Mark, iii. 6. 



