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oku 5. the end-walls of the house; oku i maa, 
wall in front; oku i puri, wall behind; 
héulioku, end purlins of the house. 
oku 6. swollen stomach. 
ola n., thing; the noun ending may be added; 
with the personal article a ola, the person 
So-and-so, such a one; ro ola, man and 
wife, and as vocative, you two married 
folk; in phrase ko ola, if it be so. a ola ko 
mae, So-and-so is sick; a ola ko mae ‘oto, 
So-and-so is dead; a kele ola, young So- 
and-so; komuna a ola, So-and-so’s fam- 
ily; kent ana a ola, such-and-such a 
woman; kira a ola, whom do you mean; 
saai ola, to know things, to be wise; ola a 
Elija e na‘o ‘oto mdi, how that verily 
Elijah came before; kele me‘i ola, a little 
thing; e ka‘a olaike, there is nothing at 
all; hele ola, to act; hou ola, a thing of a 
round shape; mu ola hu‘ihu‘i, dangers, 
difficulties; tho‘oit ola, a bundle; mu 
lehui ola, worn-out things; lede ola, 
mischievous; nou ‘ure mdi i ola, I am 
from such-and-such a place; mangoi ola, 
breath; meameatani ola, a huge thing; 
molatana nga ola, innumerable things; 
ana ke ola mwamwadau, if possible; 
ola ni mwane, a sacred thing; me‘i olana, 
the thing; nikei (nikenz) ola, a big thing; 
_oa ni ola, a pair; odohaana mu ola, cor- 
rect, exact things; odohaana i ola, oppo- 
site to, off, such-and-such a place; mu 
qa‘atai ola, shreds; si‘ohaa‘i ola, to be in 
a poor way; fa‘ela‘i 7 ola, beginning from; 
mu te‘itesi ola, flesh; mu tale‘i ola mola, 
inferior things, nga ola, pooh! absurd! nga 
ola taa, what? nou ka‘a to‘oana nga ola, I 
have nothing. 
olanga, ere ni hedi olanga, to take an oath; 
lauhi olanga, succor; lede olanga, mis- 
chief; lude olanga, carrying cargo; saai 
olanga, wisdom, knowledge; tari olanga, 
riches. 
ole v. tr., to scrape with a shell, to get the skin 
off yams, etc. 
‘oli v. i., to return, torelapse. hd‘i‘oli. melu 
‘oli ‘oto, we have returned; mu ola 
‘oli‘oli, changes; ‘oli ana, to succeed to 
a thing, to inherit. 
‘olinge v. n., return. 
bounty. 
‘olisi tr. to change, to alter; ‘olisi to‘ohaa, 
to exchange money, to buy; poo ke ne‘i 
lalamoa ko ‘olisie ‘oto a mwaena, the pig 
is the victim in place of the man. 
‘olisila-(ku) gerund. 
‘olite-(ku) n., used as preposition, in place 
of. mxoko lae ‘olitana, I come in his 
place. 
‘oli‘olite v. n., heir; a ‘oli‘olite, the heir. 
Wango ori, Mota kel. 
‘olie‘i v. i., to return, to turn back, to go home; 
kira‘elu ‘a ta‘e hé‘i ‘olie‘i, they embark 
on their return journey. 
‘olie‘inga U., v. n., return. 
olo, oloolo 1. v. i., to swim. 
oloolonga v. n., swimming. 
ha@‘the‘i‘olinge, v. n., 
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olo, oloolo 1 (continued). 
olohi tr., to swim for and get. 
oloha‘ini to swim with, holding. Florida 
olo, Wango oro. 
olo 2. v. i., olo ngéu, to abstain from food; olo 
ngadunge, fasting; olo ana hi‘olo, to be 
faint from fasting; olo manini, to be of 
orderly behavior. 
Solo, ‘olo‘olo 3. v. tr., to cut the ends off; ‘olo 
ga‘u, to cut hair; ‘olo kou‘e ihune, to cut 
the hair off the whole head. 
‘olo‘i tr., to sever the shoots of; nga ‘oha 
na kira ‘olo‘ia ‘oto, the betel plants from 
which they cut off the shoots. Mota 
goro 2. 
Oloha a village on the west coast of Little 
Malaita, its landing-place Ha‘au; the 
language of Oloha is Tolo, the speech 
of the people of the Mara Masiki Chan- 
nel; it was known to Bishop Patteson, 
who made a small sketch of its grammar. 
‘olo‘olo v. i., to reel, to stagger; dsu ‘olo‘olo, to 
be loose, unstable. 
‘olo‘oloa‘i v. i., to stagger about. 
gologolo, Malagasy horohoro. 
oloolonga U., n., a company, a party. 
olopa‘i U., n., a yam with fruit on the vine. 
‘olu 1. numeral, three; ‘olune, third, third time; 
ha‘a‘olu, three times. Mota tol, Poly- 
nesian tolu. 
‘olu 2. S., dialectic for molu. 
omi v. tr., to suck, to smoke tobacco. 
ominge v. n., sucking, smoking. Maori 
momt. 
omo n., arrow; nanga, the barb of an arrow; 
to‘onga‘i omo, to draw an arrow. 
‘omolu pers. pron., plural 2: you; used as sub- 
ject, or attached to verb or preposition 
as object; more restricted in meaning 
than ‘omu. 
‘omu pers. pron., plural 2: you; used as sub- 
ject, or attached to verb or preposition 
as object; used following the longer 
form t‘omu, 
‘omoro, ‘omoro‘i, ‘omoru‘e S., pers. pron., 
dual 2; used as subject, or attached to 
verb or preposition as object. 
fresh-water limpets with poisonous 
spines; ona e mwakolieu, the shellfish 
spiked my foot. 
ona 2. a deep-sea fish. 
onanala adj., lumpy (of ‘éumanga, taro pud- 
ding), rough (of a road). 
one n., sand, beach; one mamae, fine sand; one 
piruu, S., one giruu, U., black sand, such 
as is found on the beaches at San Cris- 
toval; apau one, the lee side of an island; 
‘asi dodo hule i one, deep water right 
in to shore; awalosi i one, the north- 
northeast wind; idumia one, U., count- 
less; maraau ro one, the east-northeast 
wind; kira ‘asi usuli one, they went 
then along the beach; e urihana nga 
one, like the sands, of countless num- 
bers; ‘u‘ui one, a grain of sand. 
one‘a S., onela U., adj., sandy. Mota one, 
Maori one. 
Mota 
ona 1. 
