Ray & Haudon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 313 



egediuti (p), v. to stir up. Cf. agadioti. 



egethia (k), v. to put the burning tobacco into the mouth to blow 



smoke into the waduru. 

 eka (k), 11. lime ; white paint ; eka iriso, v. to eat lime, 

 eke (k), a. little, 

 ekeburi (k), a. little, young ; n. a remnant ; ekebure obo, n. shallow 



water, 

 ekeburiekeburi, a. very little, 

 emaaiiopu (k), n. stone axe, 

 emadi, v. to buy. 



emado (m), n. the leg ; emadu-kako (m), n. the tibia, 

 emapura (k), n. son-in-law. 



emaserue (k), lightning. (? lightening in MacGrregor's list.) 

 emera, v. to leave, put aside, 

 emeragidiro, v. to think. Cf. meragidiro. 

 emerewis, v. to scorch, 

 emereuti, v. to lighten, to light up. 

 emeriai, v. to send ; to give up ; leave m. 

 emeriuidiro, v. to lighten, light up. 

 emetiodoi, v. to speak, to pour out words, to command. (Mir. mer. 



tigri.) 

 emeuti, v. to make straight, to adjust, judge, 

 emherai, v. to stop any one from fighting. Mir. daismuda. Saib. 



guduadan. 

 emiserai, v. to comfort, console, 

 emoa (m), n. a stone hatchet, 

 emoaiopu (f), n. the stone of the old stone axe, now placed round 



graves, " but it is not now known what they were used for in 



the long ago." (pi. 198, 2.) Cf. emoa, iopu, emaiiopu. 

 emoputi, v. to count. Cf. oputi. 

 emososiriti (e), v. to tie a man by the hands, 

 enadi (e), v. to shake hands, 

 eneauri (x), v. to see. Cf. idamari. 

 eneene (x), n. a small brown ant. 

 epate (m), n. the outer ear. (Mir. laip.) Cf. sepate. 

 epe (m), v. a fern. 



epeduai (x), v. to throw, to throw the tete, Cf. berseai, isiro. 

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