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tatamu (ir), n. the chin, lower jaw. 



tatari, a. near. 



tatarito, inter, a form of greeting. (Mir. maiem.) 



tataritu (k), v. he comes. 



tato, suffix no, not. Mir. kak. Saibai igi. 



tau, V. to finish ; sign of the past tense. 



tau ima godio (x), v. to swallow. 



tango, a. first. 



tawatawa (?), nai tawatawa (k), ad, here. Cf. noboi rom ; tawatawa 



tuturu (k), n. the world, 

 tea, V. to stand. Mir. akur. 

 teapariato, n. grass. Mir. soge. The Daudai word is apparently a 



compound of tea, ' stand,' pari, ' garden,' ato, ' in.' The proper 



equivalent of soge is suago. In the us. translation appended 



to the Daudai text, teapariato is explained as 'in a barren 



place.' 

 teere (f), n. collective name for arrows. 

 tema, era tema, n. smoke. 



tematema, a. painful, sick, sore ; v. to suiffer pain ; n. disease, 

 temeteme = tematema ; niro temeteme, n. diarrhoea or stomach ache. 

 tepe (m), n. fresh-water bivalves ; mussel, 

 tepere daredare (k), n. a bird, the spurred plover, 

 tepetepe (?), tepetepe terisi awado (k), v. to flog, 

 teraiai (Domori), n. a kind of arrow, 

 tere (k), n. an arrow. Cf. were, teere. 

 tere (k), n. flooring made from the Te palm, 

 tereniri (k), n. a species of Dracaena. 

 terisi (?), tepetepe terisi awado (k), v. to flog, 

 terik, teriko = turiko ; terik-arubi (m), n. a white man ; teriko-gagari 



(m), n. gun. 

 teriko (mb), n. tomahawk. 



tete (k), n. a fish spear ; epeduai v. to spear with the tete. 

 tibi, n. root. 



tidi (k), n. a species of gourd, 

 tigiri, n. the shoulder, shoulder joint; tigiri-kako (m), v. the 



shoulder blade ; tigiii soro (k), n. the shoulder blade, 

 tigiro, n. the brain, 

 time (?). 



