Ray & H ADDON — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 245 



pakado, n. a bird's nest, a cage (b). Cf. pad, fad. 



pakai (t), n. the name given to the tail of a mask from Nagir. 



pakazal (?), koi kutal toitu pogai pakazal ngalkan, for a pretence make 



long prayers. Mark, xii. 40. 

 pakolgal (?), kedazingu kai mura kikiri laig nubepa pakolgal iman, 



nnbepa garotaean, insomuch that they pressed upon him for to 



touch him as many as had plagues. Mark, iii. 10, 

 pakomari (n), n. a wig. Cf. adizela, adiidziolai. 

 pala, pron. they two. 

 palado (?), ia palado, n. the lungs, 

 palae, pron. they two, both. 



palagis (b), n. the east, i.e. the rising (of the sun). Cf. palagiz. 

 palagiz, palgizo, v. to rise, spring up, fly ; goiga palgizo, n. sunrise ; 



urui palgizo, ?^. bird ; kadro palagiz, v. to fly down on. 

 palaguso, n. an oven, hence a cooking pot or saucepan, 

 palaipa, v. to split, to divide, to open, to pluck (corn), Mark, x. 51 ; 



to open (the eyes or ears), dano-palaipa, kaura paleman ; 



kerkato-palan, v. to torment. Mark, v. 7. [palan, paleman, 



palamoin.] 

 palaipa (s), a. sick. 



palaman (m, s), pron. of them two, theirs, 

 palamiz (?), guda-palamiz, v. to overflow, 

 palamulngu, pron. from them two. 

 palamulpa, pron. to or for them two. 

 palamun, pron. of them two, theirs. 

 palan (?), kuko -palan, to save. Mark, viii. 35. 

 pale (m), pron. they two. 

 palealnga, a. dry. 



paleipa (m), v. to crush, to pound with stones, 

 palelapudi (s), a. dry. 

 paleman, dual of palaipa, to open, 

 palenipa (m), pron. for themselves (dual), 

 palepa {?), ngada-paiepa, v. to boast, to be proud, 

 palgan (? from palagiz), iadu-palgan, v. to tell, relate, declare, 

 palgapalan (s), v. to smash, 

 palge (m), ad. completely, into pieces, 

 palgin (s), V. to fly, to spring up, = palagiz. 

 palgino (b), v. to flog. 



