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garo-weidanioin, v. to assemble, gather together ; to approach. 



garu (m), n. the sugar cane, = geru. 



garmdamaino (b), n. a load. 



garur (m), n. a small wasp. 



gasa (m), = gorsar. 



gasameipa, v. to catch with the hands, to press, seize, squeeze ; (b), to 



hunt (kangaroo), [gasamizo, gasaman, gasamoiginga]. 

 gasamoiginga, pi. v. not to take, 

 gat (Mb), n. a coral reef, 

 gata (m), n. shallow water. See gat, gato. 

 gatapogai (b), v. to dig ground for a garden, 

 gato, V. to ebb. See gata. 

 gauada (m), n. a salt water swamp, 

 gaugu, n. medicine. 

 gaur, gauro (?), ngita mulpa gaur irun, more shall be given to you. 



Mark, iv. 24 ; nabi kawa ina ngaeapa gauro irun senabi iragud, 



this people honoureth me with lips. Mark, vii. 5. 

 gawai (Mb), name of a plant; "rope along bush," chewed in the 



initiation ceremonies (398). 

 gawata (b), n. a lagoon (see gauada). 

 gedo = geto. 



gegeda (s), n. faintness ; a. faint, 

 gegeto-pugan (?), Augada gegeto pugan, the blasphemy. Mark, 



xiv. 64. 

 ger, n. a water snake, 

 geriga (m), n. sun, = goiga. 

 gerka, n. the gall bladder (of a turtle). 



geru, n. the sugar-cane ; g'ru tha mitale (m), sweet tasted. Cf . garu. 

 gerukizi (t), n. a man, male, = garakazi. 

 get, geto, n. the arm or hand ; pi. getal ; gerukisi get (t), n. a man's 



arm. [getau, getan, getangu, getia.] 

 geta-digamo (b), n. the right side, = geto dogam. 

 getal (ii), n. fingers. 

 getaU (m), n. a large crab, = gitalai. 



getauza (Mb), n. rayed discs held in the hand whilst dancing. Cf . kababa. 

 get-idiz, V. to read. 



get-matamizo, v. to strike the hands together, to clap, 

 geto, get, 11. the hand, fore-arm, (m) a finger. 



