Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 257 



sirsimo (?). Mark, iv. 19. 

 siwagoi = sowagai. [siwagoiu.] 

 sizi = siezi, from there, 

 skiiri = sukori. 

 sobaginga, a. smart, 

 sobaidiz, v. to be slow. 



sobara, n. a dish, charger, Mark, vi. 25, perhaps an introduced mean- 

 ing for sobera. 

 sobera (t, n), a mat made of pandanus leaves used in the initiation 



ceremonies (410). (Cf. tiro of Daudai vocabulary.) 

 sobi = sabi. [sob^'a.] 



soger (t, Mb), n. a mourning dress ; (368) pi. sogerl. 

 soka (m), a-, sick. 



soki, n. a spike made of cassowary bone, a dagger, 

 solsimizi (m, s), v. to wallow, 

 soroi (n), n. entrails, "guts." 



sorsimiz, v. to move (perhaps move about). Cf. solsimizi. 

 sowagai, v. to plant, 

 sowakai, = sowagai. [sowakaiu.] 

 sowaka, 



sowaki = sowagai. 



sowar (m), n. a species of yam. Cf. ketai, 

 sringi (m), n. a cane loop or sling for carrying heads, 

 suagai (b), n. witchcraft. 



sugu (m), n. the cuttle fish ; the octopus (Badtj). Cf. ati. 

 suguba, sugubo (m), n. tobacco ; sugubo wanipa (m, b), v. to smoke in 



Papuan fashion, i.e. drink tobacco ; sugubo marapi (m), n. a 



tobacco pipe (of bamboo). Cf. sukub. 

 suidaninipa (b), v. to crouch, 

 sukori {n.), an arrow with head made of a narrow, split bamboo, used 



for shooting pigs. 

 suka (m), n. tobacco (Jukes), 

 sukub, (n), sukubu (t), sukuba 'b), n. tobacco; sukuba-marap (s), 



n. tobacco pipe ; sukuba supo (b), n. a cigarette. 

 sulan (s), V. to pour, 

 sulan (?), tana akan sxdan mabaegongu, they feared the people. 



Mark, si. 32. 

 sulangi (m), = surlangi ; n. the turtling season (m). 



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