MWANE 
mwane 4 (continued). 
‘o opaopaa Li‘oa mwaani‘emi, take not 
the Spirit from us. 
mwanemwane 1. male (of trees), not producing 
fruit; dango mwanemwane, a staminate 
tree. 2. (ku) n., testicles. 
Mwanipue a village at Sa‘a, site of the present 
mission school. 
mwanole garfish, caught by trolling from a 
rock or by means of a line at the tail of 
a kite (sa‘o ni ‘aholo) flown from a canoe, 
the bait is spiderweb (Jawa) or a piece 
of tow. lilie‘i, to cast for garfish; hike, 
ten garfish. Fagani mwarore. 
mwanganga U., a few. mwamwanga, S. 
mwanganga ni ile, a few persons. 
mwaohe adj., pliable. 
mwaolaola adj., shaky, rickety, not firm. 
mwaolaolanga n., sedition. 
mwaopu n., egg; hoi mwaopu ni kue, the egg 
of a fowl. 
mwaora to run (of vines). 
mwaoroha‘i partic., bent, 
San Cristoval mwaoro. 
Mwarada a village on the west coast of Ulawa; 
Waingile, a rocky promontory there. 
mwaramwara (na) n., a stalk, a twig. 
mwarau adj., thin. 
mware‘a U. 1. adj., in good health; sapeku e 
qa‘t mware‘a, I am not feeling well. 
2. lively, animated (of speech); mwaz 
kent e‘ast gale wala‘awala‘a mware‘a, 
what drawling women. 
mwarete U., hou mwaretei gé‘u, skull. 
mwéari to be ailing, noko mweri. ha‘amwari. 
mwari taha, U., to recover from wounds. 
mwiarita‘a U., a wounded person. Wango 
mari, a wound. 
mwarite coir, fiber of coconut; mwaritei niu, 
sennit; mwaritei haa, a strand of shell 
money. 
mwarohi U., adj., easy, possible; ‘ura mwarohi, 
to be possible. 
mwisi, mwd‘imwesi S., mwdsimwdasi U., to 
laugh; mwdst mwaani, to laugh at a 
person. 
mwdasinge v. n.. laughter. 
mwisie‘ini to laugh at, to laugh to scorn. 
ha‘amwiasie‘ini. 
mwasuhurete U., a chink, a crack. mwa 1. 
suhu. 
mwau S., n., a boy, lad, nga mwau; kele mwau 
ineu, my little boy; mwawne, vocative, 
boy. 
mwaumwe S., to be naked. 
mwdumweule adj., foolish. 
mwa‘uu adj., disorderly; sae mwa‘uu, mutiny, 
rebellion. 
mwei S., mwai U., used with tata‘ala or ta‘a in 
commiseration, of males, as kei is of 
women; mwei ta‘a alaha, dear lord (of 
persons in authority). 
mwela n., child, nga mwela, mu mwela; ta‘ata‘a 
mwela moute‘t, an only child; mwela ni 
mwe't, a bought child; mwela ni nume, 
a son of the house; haéu ni mwela awara, 
day after full moon; kele mwela, little 
bowed, stooping. 
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mwela (continued). 
_child; nga mwela e lodo, a child is con- 
ceived. ‘omu ke mala mwela kéu, become 
as children; e méuri ana mwela, to be 
delivered of a child; tangoni mwela, all 
the children. 
mwemwela plural. Motu mero, memero. 
mweta foliage plant (Coleus sp.). 
mwidimwidi S., mudimudi U., to drip. 
mwine to be thin (of liquids). 
mwirimwiri skirts, fringes. 
mwisi (ku) U., musi S., finger-nail, toe-nail. 
Savo karakara bisi, Mota pisut, fingers; 
Nifilole bist nime. 
mwomwona to be rich, fat (of viands). 
momona. 
Mwouta a village on the east coast of Ulawa; 
its landing-place is Su‘u i Die‘i. 
Samoa 
N 
In certain words there is a change of m to 1; 
Sa‘a dinume middle, Ulawa daluma. cf. also 
nt and li genitives. M.L., p. 212. 
na 1. copulative, and; with wri thus, xa uri I 
mean, that is, used in explanations. 
na taa, U., but. 
U., pers. pron., used with the verbal 
particles ‘a, ‘anai. mna‘a lae ‘oto, I am 
going; na‘a nai lae, I shall go; nge na‘asit 
taurt, then said I. 
na 3. used in numeration, mu poo na, mu menu 
na, pigs, birds. e hane niu na, he 
climbed for coconuts and —; e hali pua 
na, he broke off areca nutsand—. Used 
in phrases: ha‘ike na, oh no; su‘uri na, 
not so; ko urine ta‘ane na, even suppos- 
ing it were so. 
na 4. verbal suffix; ara arand, qao qaond, hi‘u 
hi‘une, lo‘u lo‘une. 
demonstrative suffix, follows noun and 
adverb, that, there, these, those; may 
be joined to preceding word; mwaend, 
you fellow; a porond, the person; urine, 
urinena, thus; ile‘une, there, that place; 
muini liuta‘ana a mwane ‘ie e qao‘si ne, 
more than those which this man has 
done; ana e tahanie maamu ne, in that 
he opened your eyes; nge ke ‘ue ka‘u ne, 
how then will it be. At times equiva- 
lent to the and that. me‘i oland, the 
thing; hanue mdine, this land; talat 
heune, row of teeth. Malay ne. 
ni 6. pron., sing. 3 suffixed to noun, equivalent 
of genitive. mime, hand; nimanéd, his 
hand; z reune wai, by the side of the 
water; he‘une salo, stars of heaven; 
dangoné mwakana, trees of the field; 
hirune ‘ahe, troublesome waves. Mela- 
nesia na passim, Malay nga, Malagasy 
ny. 
na 7.noun ending, used with nouns which 
express relationship; ro ha‘i malahune, 
ro hé‘i nikana, mu he‘t maamana. Maori 
na (taina), Niué na (hoana), Viti na 
(tamana). 
na 8. stem of ndkue, nana, etc., with a general 
na 2. 
nd 5. 
