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tapi (m), n. a part of anything ; a half. Cf . mugu. 



tapimula (Mb) = tapi, sting ray. 



tara, n. the shin. 



tarai, a. quick, suddenly = tari. 



taraitarai (b), n. haste. i 



taran (? to cut), Mark, xiii. 20, noido taupain kai taran, he will cut 

 short. 



taratar (s), tartar (b), v. to boil. 



tarhar narberit (ir), n. the shoulder. Cf. tabai. 



tardan (s), tarodan, v. to cross ; ad. across. Cf. taldan. 



taregi (m), «. slow. 



tareipa (m), v. to touch. 



tarek (m), n. an arrow. Cf . taiak, terig. 



tari (m), ad. quickly, = tarai. 



tarika (m), n, a gun. 



tariza (s), v. to arise ; the word seems really to refer simply to a move- 

 ment of the body ; kadai-tariz, to arise ; kulun-tariz, to kneel 



tarizelam, tarizilamiz. v. to run. 



taro (m), n. the nails of finger or toe ; the claws of a bird. Cf. tal. 



tarodan = tardan. 



taroiginga (?), mabaeg worogi taroiginga, whereon never man sat. 

 Mark, xl. 2. 



tarotaiz, v. to take in, to go in (of plants and seed) ('?). Mark, iv. 8. 



tarotoiaiginga, v. not to take in, not to understand (?) ; tanamun 

 korkak tarotoiaiginga senabi ia, they understood not that 

 saying. Mark, ix. 32. 



tarpeipa (m), v. to sew. 



tartaean, v. to delve. Cf . tarotaiz, tarte, taean. 



tarte (m), n. a hole ; tarte paleipa (m), v. to bore a hole. Cf. terti. 



tarteipa (m), v. to turn over. 



tatagamulinga (b), a. brown. 



tata, tataia, v. to stammer. Cf. tratra. 



tati (m), n. father ; the general term, not vocative ; keuba-tati, n. 

 uncle, [tatipa.] 



tatureipa (m), v. to make (said of men's work). 



tauanga, a. light, easy. Mir. pereper 



taumi(B),w. an ant. 



taupainanga (s), a. short. 



