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come 
4. to bring, to fetch. 
you take him he come: to bring here. 
Re 114. 
I think he plenty cross that schooner 
no takee-him come-him friend. 
G 232. 
5. come back: to return. 
he come back because of bad road. 
R 136. 
6. where you come from? Wis. 
7.more better you come out and get 
water. Se 383. 
child he come out: tobe born. V 252 
8. come up: to rise, to be raised. 
sun he come up he go work. W 349, 
L 360. 
land he come up. SG 30. 
9. brother belong tamiok (an axe) he come 
he go: asaw. F roo. 
coming by-n’-by he go on then you 
coming. G 207. 
cook to cook in any manner, to burn. 
all he cook him belong Mangin: all 
Mangin’s property is burned after 
his death. SG go. 
fire he cook’m plenty too much: to 
be ablaze. 
cook him small hot: partly done. 
V 253. 
cooky a cook, any servant. 
copper as aboard ship, the common desig- 
nation of any pot or similar cooking 
utensil of metal. 
copper-maori oven R 90, 168. 
*“This word is as widely spread in the 
South Sea islands as kaikat. Dr. 
Codrington states that it is a com- 
pound of kopa, English copper, and 
maori, a native of New Zealand. 
Hence it is the ‘Maori’s copper,’ 
a term used by traders, whalers, 
etc., to designate the native 
method of cooking.’’ It seems to 
me that it is going a long way to 
connect maort with the Maori 
when so much nearer at hand the 
word is widespread in its proper 
signification of native, indigenous. 
creaked my bone creaked: to be bewitched 
V 252. 
crooked he talk too much crooked: to de- 
ceive. V 253. 
cross this covers every degree of anger and 
its expression. I recall that a 
blunder in navigation which might 
have resulted disastrously induced 
me to admonish a Mwala boy, and 
at the time I flattered myself that 
my choice of expletives was scath- 
ing yet well selected. The only 
comment from the victim of the 
vituperation was: ‘‘My word, me 
fella think you plenty cross along 
me too much.”’ 
cross 
god big fella marster he cross along 
Adam Eve two fella too much. 
L 364. 
me cross long woman me rauss him. 
SG 109. 
he plenty cross that schooner no 
takee him. G 232. 
inside him he cross. V 252. 
cry to make a noise with the voice or with 
a sounding instrument, to wail, to 
sing, to weep; this lack of discrimi- 
nation is characteristic of the lan- 
guages atlarge, e. g. the Polynesian 
tangi which is widely disseminated 
in Melanesia as a loan word (see 
“The Polynesian Wanderings” 
page 412.) 
what name lady he makicry. SG 27. 
big fellow bokkus you fight him he 
cry: piano. 
little fellow bokkus you shove him he 
cry you pull him hecry: accordeon. 
make no morecry: to comfort. R 
144. 
cry like hell. V 254. 
curry color like curry, he bite too. R95. 
cutter any vessel of one fixed mast. G198, 
R 252. 
dark all same dark you can’t see. Se 610. 
day by-n’-by one day. L363. 
daylight small daylight: early morning. 
142. 
small fellow daylight: daybreak. V 
253- 
he look daylight a long time: to lie 
awake. V 252. 
dead what name we go Ambrym, you no 
good, you dead. G 198. 
go dead: to die. 
deck L 359. 
devil ghost, spirit. V 253. 
make him devil: to perform funeral 
ceremonies. V 253. 
devil=devil a death dance. V 253. 
When reprobating the conduct of 
sailors who for their own idle amuse- 
ment crowd the lips of these eager 
savages with uncomprehended in- 
famies of speech, it seems a little 
shabby to inflict upon the unwit- 
ting islander so polemic a charact- 
erization of the impropriety of his 
ancestral beliefs and customs. 
But such an enforced petitio 
principii is by no means restricted 
to the practice of traders and other 
seafaring folk; the missionaries in 
Fiji labored with considerable suc- 
cess to establish for the islanders 
of that archipelago the belief that 
devil was the proper English ren- 
dering of Fijian. 
