Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 205 



kai-ari (b), n. a flood (lit. great rain). 



kaiaru (b), n, a crayfish, = kaier. 



kaiba, 



kai-biribiri, 



kaibo, ad. now, soon; to-day (b). 



kaibrodo-gomola (t), a. white. 



kaibu (m), ad. now, immediately, = kaibo. 



kaied, n. a grandmother. 



kaier, n. the crayfish ; spiny lobster, Cf . kaiaru. 



kaig (s), n. a post, 



kaigas (nb), n. a kind of shark, perhaps Rhina. 



kaigasa (m) = koigorsar, a great many. 



kaigerkitalgaka (i), a warrior, Cf. kerketegerkai. 



kaigob (Mg), n. an arrow. 



kai-gorsar = koigorsar. 



kai guba (b), n. a gale (lit. big wind). 



kai gui (?), kaigui malu, n. the sea. Mark, ix. 42. 



kai-gursaro = koigorsar. 



kaigutal piti (b), n. a snout (lit. very long nose). 



kaii (t), n. a mat made from the leaf of the Pandanus and 

 imported from Mowatta. 



kai-ib (s), to-day, = kaibu, kaibo. 



kai-ipiki, n. an old woman. 



kaikai, n. a feather ; (m) a quill. 



kai-kosano, 



kai-maitalnga (b), a. corpulent (lit. possessing a big body). 



kai mapunga, a. heavy. 



kaimi (n), n. a brother-in-law. 



kaimi, n. a mate, a companion, a follower ; pi. kaimil ; nongo kaimil, 

 they that had been with him. [kaimia.] 



kain, kaine, a. new ; kain ipi, bride ; mabaeg kain ipi gasaman, bride- 

 groom. 



kainga (?) Mark, iv. 6. 



kaingulpa (?), burumal koi umen nanitan, diabo a padria, kaingulpa 

 malupa, the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea. 

 Mark, v. 13. 



kainidung (m), n. the new moon. 



kaining (ii), a. new, little used. 



