Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 329 



mautu (m), n. a house. Cf. moto. 



me (?). 



megamo (k), n. family. 



megedubu (k), n. an edible snake, venomous and much dreaded. 



megemege (k), n. a variety of yam. 



mekalgamalung (m), n. a white man. 



menahe, ad. secretly. 



meragidiro, v. to think. Cf. emeragidiro. 



mere, meri, n. a child, boy, son ; sobo mere (m), n. boy or son. Mir. 



omasker, werem. 

 merigodoi (?). 



miari (m), n. the upper part of a water-spout, 

 mibomibo (e), a. difficult, heavy, weighty. 

 midiri (k), n. the name of a shrub ; midiri sirigo, n. fibre from 



midiri. 

 midobo, ad. the same, according to (Mir. abkoreb). 

 mimiamo (f), n. image shown at initiation, same as Uvio. 

 mina, ad. again, also, 

 miniminiai (m), n. a small rattan cane, 

 minoko (k), n. a variety of yam. 

 miradu, n. brother. Mir, keimer. Saib. kutaig. 

 miriuao, n. fruit, 

 miro (k), n. peace. 



miruu (m), n. a sweet potato (D'Albertis) ; a yam (Beardmore). 

 miti (e), n. root. 



mitidiro (p), v. to hear. Cf. erauidiro. 

 mo, pron. I. 



mo (m), a. good ; mo buere, n. good girl, 

 mobere, n. digging stick and used for fighting by women (pi. 



202, 5). 

 mobini (k), n. a species of Draccena. 

 moboa (?). 



mobuo (k), n. a dove, 

 moburo (k), n. rain, 

 modobe, v. to complete, fulfil, 

 modoboima (k), a. ten, apparently a hybrid from Daudai, r. modobe, 



and the Motu ima, hand, " completed hand." 

 mogido, pron. to me. 



Z A 2 



