MALAOHU 
malaohu (continued). 
the fish and the boy sitting behind 
him grasped the rod as the man swung 
the fish into the canoe. M.A., p. 233. 
San Cristoval maraohu. 
malaohonga U., v.i., to make tria! of, to tempt. 
malaahonga. 
malaohonganga v. n., triai, temptation. 
malaohongala-(ku) gerund. 
Ma.apa an island in Marau Sound, Guadal- 
canar; the hades of the Solomon Islands. 
M.A., p. 260. 
malapau‘a‘a U., adj., strong: papau, paula‘a. 
malau 1. an island; malau mou, an islet. 
Malau 2. a bay west of Cape Zélée, Malaita. 
3. Port Adam. 4. ‘Olu Malau, Three 
Sisters Islets, south of Ulawa, called 
also Malau ni I‘e, the home of the 
ghosts and uninhabited; the names of 
the three islets are, West Sister Ali‘ite, 
Middle Sister Malau Lalo, East Sister 
Malau Peine; on the side of Ali‘ite 
facing Ulawa is the rock called Hau ni 
Keni, the women’s rock, where the 
female ghosts emerge from the sea as 
they cross on their last journey. M.A., p. 
257; maraaui Malau, the southeast wind. 
malau 5. the fangs of dogs. 
malelede adj., brokenin pieces. Jlede. 
maleledi v. tr., to rail at, to rebuke. ledi 1. 
maleledit oraha‘a mwaanie ngaini, to 
rebuke a man for sin; ere maleledi, to 
rail at; sae maleledi, rage. 
maleledinge v. n., abuse. 
malengolengo adj., reclining, falling to one 
side, not upright. 
malegelege U., weak. 
maleqeleqenga v. n., weakness. 
maleu U., uhi maleu, a month, April. 
mali U., to be roasted; a Poro Wakio Mali, a 
legendary person. 
mali‘a adj., cooked, roasted. 
neo, malia, red. 
mali‘e S., lo‘a mali‘e, a month, April. 
malikiliki U., adj., leaping; ‘ura malikiliki, to 
leap. 
mialimeli adj., sweet. Niué lango meli, bee; 
humelie, sweet; Borneo manis. 
malingi, mamalingiadj.,spilt. Jlingi. v.tr.,to 
overbalance, to lean; honu malingt, full 
to the brim. 
malingisi tr., to cause to spill. 
malisi (ku) to be fitting, becoming; e malisiku, 
it becomes me; nou ka‘a malisi ‘unue, 
I am not worthy to tell it. 
malo 1. black beads or bugles, sections of a 
creeper, used with haa and huresoso in 
the making of ‘uri mwado, etc.: dark 
glass beads introduced in trade are also 
called malo; malo huri, beads cut off in 
sections; malo ute, beads rubbed down 
to size. 
malo 2. asthma, to suffer from asthma; ‘lele 
malo, to gasp for breath. 
malopi adj., with jagged edges. 
malo‘u adj., bent, crooked. lo‘u. Su‘u Malo‘u, 
a bay on Big Malaita opposite Aio, a 
bay at the north end of San Cristoval. 
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milu, malumdlu, mamalu 1. v. i., to shade, to 
» oxershadow. ha‘amdlu. e mdlu haahe, 
it is in shadow; sdéulehi melumelu, dusk. 
milute (ku) shade. i Melutei Rara, under 
the shade of the corai tree, a village on 
Ugi; « melutana, under the rule of, used 
of the overshadowing power of chiefs. 
malu (ku) 2.n., 7 melune, under the rule of, seen 
in proper names ‘ou‘ou i Melune. 
maluha U., v. n., shade, used with poss. 3. 
Mota malu, Maori maru. 
malumu adj., soft, gentle; lae mélumu, go 
quietly; sae mdlumunge, v. n., long- 
suffering. Mota malumlum, Viti 
malumu. 
mama‘a vocative, father; a mama‘a, of a par- 
ticular person; a mama‘a e ‘unue, father 
said so. 2. used as an affectionate 
address by the father to the male child. 
cf. Polynesian tamaiti (little father). 
ma‘amana, n., vo haé‘t ma‘amana, ro 
ma‘amana, U., vocative, father and son. 
madali. 
ma‘ema‘eha mamadali, S., fever. 
mamadu adj., gentle, harmless. madu. 
mamae adj., fine, well ground; one mamae, fine 
sand; sae mamae, meek. Wango 
mamae, soft. 
mamaeko‘a adj., gingerly, gently, subdued, 
meek. maemaeko‘a. 
mamaela‘a adj., weak, prone to sickness. 
mamaela‘anga v. n., sickness. 
mamahu‘e n., a tree, used for house posts. 
mama ‘ila‘a adj., despisingly, used with poss. 3. 
la‘a 3. ere mama‘ila‘a, to speak de- 
spisingly of. 
mama‘ingi U., v. i., to despise, to reject; to 
attack, to be fierce (of a dog or a pig), 
used with poss. 3; mama'‘ingi ‘asi, to 
reject. 
mama‘ingi‘a U., adj., disparagingly. 
mama ‘ingi‘ala-(ku) gerund. 
mama ‘iraa v. i., to work at, to labor earnestly 
over. 
mamakare v. i., a children’s game of hide and 
seek with an object held in the hands. 
mamakine adj., abashed, ashamed, with poss. 3. 
ha‘amamakine. dau mamakine ada, put 
them to shame. 
mamakinanga n., ere mamakinanga, to 
reproach. Gilbert Islands makina, to 
fear. 
mamakola v. i., to reject, to handle shamefully, 
to be fierce, savage (of dogs and pigs), 
used with poss. 3. 
mamakolasi tr. 
mamala n., wild taro. 
Mamala Wii n., the Milky Way. 
mamalidu‘a U., adj., quiet, peaceable, doing 
no harm. 
mamalo, mamamalo v.i.,torest. ha‘amamalo. 
mamalonga v. n., rest, a resting-place. 
mamaloha v. n., a resting-place. Wango 
mamaro, Bugotu mamatho. 
mamalute-(ku) v. n., shade, shadow, veranda. 
+ mamaluiana nume, on the veranda. 
malu. 
