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mahu‘ohu‘o n., early morning, dawn; used with 
ed locative 7. hut‘o. 
mahuro adj., disturbed, muddy (of water); 
da méhuro ana, disturbed it. mda 3. 
mahuru adj., gentle, tractable. 
mai 1. adv., hither, here, this way; the demon- 
strative mi may be added; mdi ana 
walumalau, in the world; mdi i ‘ano, on 
the earth; mdi iz haha, on the earth; mdi 
haha, under the earth; mdi iorohana, on 
the earth; ‘ure ‘oto mdi i ‘aehotalana, 
from the beginning up till now; ‘oko lae 
mai ‘ure itet, where are you from; nou 
‘ure mai 7 ola, I am from such-and-such 
a place; mdi nga hou pua, give me an 
areca nut; hinue mdine, the place here; 
mai tleu, this way; mdi i nume, into the 
house; po‘o mdi, hither, this side; qd‘u 
mai, hither. Mota ma, Polynesian mai. 
midi 2. ebb, low tide. hou met, U. kosi mei, 
it is low tide; mdi rara, dead low water 
at spring tides; méai ana waarowaaro e 
gaa, ebb when the moon rises; mdi ana 
waarowaaro é suu, ebb when the moon 
sets; hdnua ela ni tola kéu ana midi rara, 
the people have gone gathering coral at 
dead low water. Mota meat, Viti mati. 
madi, madimei 3., U., v. tr., to help, to be on the 
side of: used with numerals more than 
ten as an alternative to mana in the sense 
of and, with; awala mdia ‘enita, how 
many overten. cf. M.L., pp. 151-153. 
Used as prep. meaning ‘with’; the pron. 
du, ‘o, a, etc., are suffixed; wala‘a mdia, 
speak with him. 
miila-(ku) gerund.; a mdilaku, my helper. 
miila‘ini U., v. tr., lio mdila‘ini, to approve 
of. 
ma‘i 4. participial ending, oro oromé‘t. 
mag. 
ma‘i 5. suffix to verb used intransitively. 
cf. ma‘ini. 
madimepusu U., n., memepusu S., a tree 
(Ficus sp.) with bunches of flowers on 
the stem as well as on the branches; 
taka mala mdimepusu, to flower like 
this tree. 
ma‘ini verbal suffix, ‘ono ‘onomd‘ini. 
maipo U., v.i., to be dirty, unclean. 
miitale v. i., to be poor, possessing nothing. 
tale 2. ulolada miitale, the cry of the 
poor. 
miitalenga v. n., poverty. 
makahu adj., soft, mealy (of yams when 
cooked). 
makaka adj., broken into pieces, asunder. kaka. 
makaka‘a adj., as makaka. 
makasi v. tr., to break into pieces. 
makeato to overflow; honu makeato, full and 
running over. 
makekesi U., v. tr., to disown, to put aside. 
keke. 
makemaketa (ku) n., wiles, devices. 
makere adj., gapped, with a brokenedge. kere. 
makina‘a U., adj., wet, damp. 
makulu adj., resounding, with a loud noise. 
Maori takuru, thud. 
Mota 
MALAOHU 
mala 1. adv., as, like, according to, as one might 
say, asit might be. mala kire manata‘i 
deue, as they were wont to do; mala ‘oto 
nou ka‘a helesie tke, as though I had 
never done it; mala nga ta‘a, like I don’t 
know what; mala pdine, to give oneself 
airs; mala e ‘u‘ile‘inie nga hoi heu, about 
a stone’s throw; maahu mala i‘ola, to 
fast, lit. to sleep canoe fashion; kira hunu 
poo mala ideni, they kill pigs (presum- 
ably) tomorrow; nga kent mala a kalemu, 
a girl a mate for your son; taka mala 
miadimepusu, to flower like the mdime- 
pusu tree. 
mala 2. U., maala S., granted that, supposing. 
3. to act like, to become like, to speak 
the language of. ha‘amala. ‘omu ke 
mala mwela kiéiu, become like children; 
a porona ko malamala Sa‘a, So-and-so 
speaks the language of Sa‘a.@San 
Cristoval mara, Fagani mwara, Omba 
mwere. 
mala 4. prefix of condition, malakeu. 
mala 2. 
malaahonga S., v.i., to make trial of, to tempt: 
used with poss. 3. cf. mala, ahonga, 
malaohonga. 
malaahonganga v. n., trial, temptation. 
malaahongala-(ku) gerund. 
Mala 5. Florida name for Mwala. 
Malade a village at the northwest end of Port 
Adam, Malaita. 
maladi adj., stale, sour (of yam and taro mash, 
ha‘apo‘e). 
mala halisi U., same as mara hélisi, northeast 
wind. 
malahu-(ku) n., friend, namesake; a malahaku, 
my friend; malahuku, vocative, friend; 
used with ha‘it 7, ro haé‘it malahune, mu 
he‘t malahune, friends. Wango marahu. 
Malaita cf. mara 3. ita may possibly be a con- 
tracted form of Lau bazia, big. 
malaka a wound.* Lau maala, Wango maara. 
malaka‘a adj., wounded. 
malakeke U., adj., unstable. keke. 
malakekesi v. tr., to cause to spill, to 
overturn. 
malalahu‘e S., adj., covetous. 
malamala 1. v. i., to act wantonly, to behave 
badly. 
malamalanga v. n., wantonness, mischief, 
ill. 
malamala‘anga n., 
mala, bad. 
malamala 2. to talk the language of. 
malamalaohe U., light in weight. 
malamalau a pot hole in the ground. 
malamasi v. i., to destroy, used with poss. 3. 
malamala 1. 
malaohu (the ao is a diphthong) v. i., to be 
separated for initiation, of boys who 
live in the taoha on the beach with the 
men preparatory to catching their first 
bonito (séu). tahenimalaohu. cf.tahe. 
ha‘amalaohu v. tr., to initiate, to assist a 
novice in catching his first bonito: the 
man in the front of the canoe hooked 
Mota 
evil, harm. Mota 
mala 3. 
