Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 255 



sari (m), n. tlie netting of a canoe. 



sarima (ir), n. the float of an outrigger ; sarim' pati (m), n. the pegs 



of the sarima, Cf. saima. 

 saroka ( ?), noi wara sardka iobuia uzar, as he passed by. Mark, ii. 



14. 

 sarupa (m), a. drowned, 

 sasanmepa, v. to decorate, 

 sasiman (s), v. to rinse, to squeeze, 

 sau, n. a rafter, a house post (b). 

 sazi (b), n. a creeper used to poison fish, 

 saziwaur, n. a year, 

 seadadaget (Moa), n. the ring finger (probably siau-dada-get, outside 



the middle finger), 

 seautari, v. to stop, 

 sebalbi, pron. these two. 

 sei, ad. there = siei. 

 seiwadadaig (b), next, 

 sek (m), n. a hole (Jukes), 

 sena, a. and jpron. that ; ad. there, 

 senabi, a. and pron. that ; senabi durai, pi. those ; senabi is often used 



as eqiUTalent to the Lifu ngdne, in the. 

 senao, pron. that = sena. 

 senaoki, conj. therefore, 

 senau, demons, a. the, the same. 

 senebi, senobi, = senabi. Mark, iii. 8. 

 sepal, pron. both, they two. Cf . palae. 

 sepalbi, pron. those two. 



serasera (s), ct. a white sea or shore bird; serasera birgesera (415). 

 sesere (Mb), n. the name of a legendary hero who was changed into- 



a bird (L. 23), probably same as serasera. 

 sesitaman, sestaman (s), v. to show, guide, [sesitomaelai.] 

 seta, pron. those. 



setaura (s), n. cross. From Greek crraupos. 

 setabi, pron. those. 



shi (m), n. a strip of the yellow epidermis of an orchid, 

 si (m), n. the forehead. Cf. paru- 

 sia (m), n. the toes, ; kaba-sia, the great toe. 

 siaizi, conj. because. 



