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wakaiuiaipa (?), ngai ngitamunia wakaiuiaipa puzipu, I was daily with 



you teaching. Mark, xiv. 49. 

 wakasin (?), donga wakasin, a. savage. 

 wakasin = wakaiasin. 

 wakasu, n. oil ; kaigorsar kikirilaig wakasunu pinin, anointed with oil 



many sick persons. Mark, vi. 13. [wakasunu.] 

 wakau (s, m, b), n. a belt, the band of a petticoat ; pi. wakawal. 

 wake (b); n. the hornbill. Cf. worke. 



waki (m), n. a sting ray ; a spear armed with spines from the stingray. 

 wakiantamizo = wakaintamamizo. 



waku (m, s), n. a mat ; gul waku, n. a sail ; duma waku, n. clothing, 

 waku (b), v. to sell. (Perhaps a misprint for sail). 

 walaika (ng), v. to walk, 

 walap, n. a hat ; patralae pui patan walap, plaited thorns (for) a hat. 



Mark, xv. 17. 

 walchi (m), n. the name of a plant, Xerotes Banhsii. 

 waleipa (m), v. to climb, 

 waleipa (?), gi waleipa (m), v. to laugh, 

 walepa. See umuwalepa. 

 walgan (b), n. an adze, 

 wali (m), n. name of a creeping plant, a vine used for making fishing 



lines, hence a fishing line ; a cord, twine (b). 

 waliz, walizo (s), v, to climb, ascend, 

 walkadun (m), n. a wallaby, 

 walmizin, walomizin, v. to call, to proclaim, to cry out. Cf. walo. 



[walmer, walmeamain.] 

 walnga (Mb), n. "rock-fish." 

 walo (b), n. a cry ; a cooey. 



waltidun, v. to cry out {pi.). Mark, xv. 13. ; they cried out. 

 walunga, n. the steering board, " rudder " of a canoe, 

 walupa (s), v. to plant. 



wama (t), wamo, n. honeycomb ; wamau-idi (x), honey (lit. honey- 

 comb's oil). Cf. isau. 

 wamen (s), v. to walk quick. 



wamenudiz (s), koi wamenudiz (s), v. to ebb, of the tide, 

 wamulaigo (b), n. a sister who has children, 

 wanan, v. to put, leave, deposit (s) ; durai wanan, v. to remain ; sibu 



wanan, to pity, [wanemiu.] 

 wanawa (b), n, turtle shell. Cf. warn kara, unawa. 



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