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niaiginga, a. not sitting. 



niain = niai. 



niano = niai. Mark, vi. 39. 



nida (?), noi kaikuoimo nida idin senabi durai kikiri, he began to lay 



bis bands upon a few sick folk. Mark, vi. 5. 

 nidai, (?) root of nidaipa. 

 nidaiginga, v. not to do. 

 nidaipa (s), v. to do. 

 nidaizinga, n. things done, 

 nidapa, v. to touch, 

 nide, 



nidemin, v. to touch, 

 nidiz, nidizi, nidizo (s), v. to do, to make, act ; done ; n. mode 



(Macfarlane). 

 nido, 



nigita = ngita. 

 niki, n. a fern, 

 niki (?) ; koi tamo lako niki adan, shoots out great branches. 



Mark, iv. 32. 

 nikiagul (Mb), n. a marine insect {Halolates). 

 ningaibia (? = ngibia), ningaibia gnulai ga (b), v, to translate, 

 nipa (m), suffix, for. 

 nisalnga, a. having leaves, 

 nis, niso (b, m), n. a. leaf, 

 nis-thung (m), a. leaf like, green, 

 nitamau (?), noi iaiitumiz mura mabaegal apa nitamau, he commanded 



the people to sit down on the ground. Mark, viii, 6. 

 nitun, nituno, v. to put out, push out ; kaba nituno v. to row. Cf. 



geto-nitun. 

 iiizo (?), a misprint for nidizo. Mark, v. 38. 

 no, suffix to nouns, 

 nobaba (s), n. skin. 



nogaipa, v. to look. Cf. nagiz. [ndgain.] 

 noi, n. a light framework erected over the fire on which to dry and 



smoke fish (311). 

 noi, pron. he. 

 noi, noia, (s), n. tongue, 

 noidail, noidail, a. beloved. 



