lehu, lahu 1 (continued). 
demonstrative ni may be added; lehuna 
qa‘ike, not that; mwai lehu raro, open 
plains, glades. Florida levu, portion, 
side. 
lehu 2. swu lehu, a kind of arrow. 
lei, leilei S., v. tr., to judge. 
leinge v. n., judgment. 
leila-(ku) gerund. 
lekoleko v. i., to hang down, to trail on the 
ground. 
leko‘i U., to bark (of a dog). 
leku cf. laku. 
lele v. i., to squint; maana e lele, he squints. 
leledi cf. ledi. 
lelenga-(na) clear, Jurrermceed (of speech or 
hearing); ka‘a rongo lelengani, not to 
hear plainly; ‘unu lelengana, to speak 
clearly. 
lelengana U., drowsy; 
aroused from sleep. 
Lenga a village on the west coast of Ulawa, 
i Lenga. 
leleu v. tr., to carry off, to abduct. 
lemi cf. limi. 
lengi, langi (ku) top, above, on; with locative 7. 
la 6. lengine hd‘u, on the top of the 
rock; tlengi, heaven, sky; ilengiku, above 
me; po‘oilengi, U., south; gdé‘z lengi, 
east or south. 
lengu cf. lingu. 
leo a tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus, Pariti tiliaceum) 
with yellow flowers, the bast is used as 
cord; whi leoleo, a variety of yam. 
lete 1. v. i., to be firm in opinion or in state- 
ment; ‘unu lete, to affirm; ne‘tsae lete, 
to be set in intention. 
letehi tr., to affirm. 
letehila-(na, ni) gerund. 
lete 2. v. i., to be scared, wild, to scent danger. 
ha‘alete. 
letehi tr., to punish, to castigate. ha‘aleteht. 
le‘u S. 1. place. 2. thing. 3. piece, part. 
4. with i sape, ‘oto may be added: le‘u 
t sapeku ‘oto, my duty; le‘u noko lae ana, 
le‘u noko lae hunie, whither I go;°le‘u 
nou saaie nou saaie, what I know I 
know; le‘une nou daa ‘oto, I did that 
already; eve ni le‘u honu, to boast; hele 
hu‘isie nga le‘u, to err in anything; mu 
le‘u e mwadau, places easy to traverse; 
le‘une e na‘onga ‘oto, the place is quite 
abandoned; po‘o ni le‘u, partly; nga 
po‘o ni le‘u, a piece; le‘u talaku, my 
place; mu le‘u talahuliana, his wonted 
to‘o lelengana, not 
place. U., laihu, Florida levu. 
leu hé‘ileu, to snatch, to be violent. leleu. 
leuni cf. launi. 
le‘uqala S., a deserted place. gala. i‘o ni 
le‘ugqala, to be deserted, alone. 
li 1. genitive particle, a variant of mz used in 
certain compounds. hd‘ulihane, Qd‘uli- 
mwaa, maalimwalo, ‘dili‘apaa, koukou- 
li‘ae. Epiri, Alite Malaita, li. 
li 2. verbal suffix, lae laeli. 
lidu, lilidu v. i., to crawl, to get along on all 
fours. 
51 LILIKI 
li‘e 1. n., ginger, given to women in ordeals 
(‘at ha‘angdu keni). Florida ria. 
li‘e 2. v. i., to change shape, to throw back, of 
trees, é. g., oranges. Viti lia, to trans- 
form. 
li‘e 3. ha‘ali‘e, to cook, to get a meal ready. 
li‘eli‘a‘a adj., indistinctly, confusedly. li‘e 2. 
ngara li‘eli‘a‘a, to give out an uncertain 
note. 
lihu, lihulihu v. i., to travel along the coast in 
a canoe, to go by sea as opposed to liu 
1 henue, go by land. 
lihunge v. n., a going by sea. 
lihue‘ini tr., to convey a person in a canoe. 
Florida lilihi. 
lihue‘ini v. tr., to borrow or lend possessions. 
lii 1. v. tr., to make gaso, threading the money 
(wili haa), and making the ornaments; 
to lace. 
li‘i 2. v. i., to be out of joint (of limbs). 
els‘. 
li‘ite‘i partic., twisted (of ankle). 
li‘fisi beyond. Jlikisi. lae li‘isi, to go beyond, 
to exceed, to outstrip; talo lili*isi, at 
irregular intervals. 
li‘ite- cf. likite-. beyond, on the far side of; 
po‘o wau li‘itemu,on the other side of thee. 
liki, liliki, likiliki 1. v. i., to leap, pola likiliki. 
2. to be nervous; saeku e liki, I was 
nervous. 
liki 3. riki U., iki hune, to pull up the mooring- 
stakes of a canoe, to get up the anchor 
(late use). 
liki 4. a tree, rosewood, the branches live when 
planted, the trunk has buttress flanges 
(kokopa). 
likisi v. tr., to go beyond, to cross, to outdo, 
to transgress; Jikisi to‘t, a mouse. 
Florida lilinggi, to border on, to pass 
‘aeku 
by; Nguna lingiraki, to leave, to 
abandon. 
likimaa-(na) adv., certainly, undoubtedly. 
likimaana ‘oto; lisimaana, U. 
likitaa glandular swelling in the armpit and 
groin; to have such swellings. 
likite-(ku) beyond, on the far side of; po‘o hao 
likitemu, on the other side of thee. 
lili 1. v. i., to change, to move about. ha‘alili. 
lili ‘epule, to be changed into blood; lilt 
keli, to encircle; lili gana, to jibe a sail, 
to tack (of a canoe); hau lilt gana, the 
boom of a sail. 
lili 2 (ku) back teeth. 
lili 3. liliheu, lilikeli. 
lili‘a‘a adj., racked with rheumatic pains. 
lili‘e rheumatic pains. lili. 
lilie‘i v. i., to cast for garfish (mwanole) with 
a rod and line, using spider web (lawa) 
as bait, the teeth of the fish becoming 
fast in the web; hau ni lilie‘t, a rock 
from which men cast for garfish. 
liliheu stone walls of taoha or of toohi. 
liliheu, to collect stones for a wall. 
lilikeli v. tr., to encircle; adv., encircling. kdlt, 
liliki a mousetrap made of a hollow bamboo 
and a noose hung in front of it, a spring 
trap. liki 1. 
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