‘oni 1. to remain, to be settled; ‘oni huu ‘oto 
ana, dwell therein forever. 
‘oni 2. v. i., to repeat, to go over again (of 
words); ko ‘oni ana ta‘ata‘a me‘i wala 
ngeena, repeated the same words. San 
Cristoval onioni, a tale. 
‘oni 3. coconut milk strained from the scraped 
flesh of the nut mixed with a little water, 
extracted by squeezing and used in the 
cooking of various vegetables; when 
without coconut milk the yam mash is 
known as helehele. tola, tocurdle. pii 
‘oni, to make coconut milk; ‘onz wet 
(a) coconut milk boiled thin into oil; 
(b) a dish of pounded yam mash with 
coconut oil. 
‘onime‘i 1. v. i., to pack, to stow; ‘onime‘i koni, 
to store up. 2. partic., well, cleverly; 
hele ‘onime‘t, to do cleverly. 
‘onime‘ini tr., hele ‘onime‘inie, to do it 
well; to stow. Wango orimaini. 
‘oni‘oni adv., always. 
‘onioninge v. n., a tale oft repeated, folklore. 
‘onisae S., v. i., to change the mind, to repent. 
‘onisaenga v. n., repentance. 
Soniteu v. i., to delay. 
ono 1. numeral, six; onona, sixth, the sixth 
time; ha‘aono, six times. 
‘ono, ‘ono‘ono 2. v. i., to swallow. konokono. 
‘ono ngisu, to water at the mouth; ‘ono 
pola, to swallow whole; hoi ‘ono‘ono, a 
pill; haw ‘ono‘ono, stones to swallow in 
ordeal. M.A., p. 212. 
‘onomi tr. 
‘onomila-(ku) gerund. 
‘onoma‘ini tr. Florida sonomi, Mota nolo, 
to swallow; Maori korokoro, throat; 
Motu hadonoa. 
‘ono‘onoma n., gullet. 
measure, a yard. 
onu holo onu, to divide and cut short. 
onu‘e adj., S., cut off short; ‘o holo onu‘e 
gongtku hao. 
‘ongo n., mangrove. 
ndongo. 
‘o‘o 1. exclamation, of dissent. 
‘o‘o 2. n., a wooden drum; the inside is hol- 
lowed out (Rkdru) through a narrow slit 
on the side, the drum when played is set 
upon the stem of a tree fern as a pedes- 
tal, the drumstick is a piece of sago- 
palm frond, the part of the drum hit is 
the center portion just above the open- 
ing. When a feast (houla) is being pre- 
pared the drums are kept in a house 
made for the purpose. Drumming is 
kept up constantly till the feast is over. 
Drums are beaten after a murder, kire 
horo. para ni ‘o‘o, a set of drums; r7‘2, 
small, treble: taha ‘o‘o, tenor or middle 
size; toli, bass; ikiikingi ‘o‘o, sulu ‘o‘o, to 
beat the drums. Wango 00, Bugotu koko. 
Soo, ‘0f00 3. to stay, to remain behind, to be; 
‘o‘o nt tehinge, to be in flight. Lau too, 
Neguna toko. 
‘o‘o 4. adv., utterly, quite. e mae ‘o‘o, he is 
quite dead; ha‘ike ‘oto ‘o‘o, never at all. 
hahani ‘ono‘onoma, a 
Florida tongo, Viti 
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‘o‘oha ‘ini, ‘o‘ohi v. tr., to draw near to. 
ooho 1. v. i., to take down; ooho ‘asi, to destroy, 
to break up (of a house); ooho toli, to 
descend, to fall headlong. 
ooho‘i tr., to take to pieces (of a house). 
oohosi tr., to take down, todetach. Wango 
ohosi. 
ooho 2. v. i., to desist from, to cease. 
‘O‘olo‘u an island in Mara Masiki Channel. 
‘o‘omae U., to‘oni ‘o‘omae, mourning attire. 
‘ofoni U., v. i., to sink. ha‘a‘o‘oni. 
‘o‘onuto, ‘o‘onutonuto to incline the head, to 
bow. nuto 2. 
‘o‘orou U., Maramara ‘O‘orou, the name of a 
canoe in a story. 
ooru 1. to blow (of winds). 2. n., the wind. 
ooru ko ooru, the wind blows; oor 
pe‘ipesi, to blow strong. 
ooruhi tr., to blow on (of the wind). 
‘oforu‘e S., adj., short. U., poru. 
opa, opaopa 1. to divide, to separate, to dis- 
tinguish, to take away from. maopaopa. 
susu opa, ornamental ridge covering; 
mwane ‘o opaopaa Li‘oa mwaani‘emi, 
take not the Spirit from us; ofa hé‘iliu, 
to be at variance; ofa hiteli, to cut up 
an animal; opa sae, to be at variance; 
didi opa olanga, discrimination, par- 
tiality. 
opasaelaku gerund., my transgression. 
opanga v. n., division. 
opa 2. v. tr., to adopt children. 
Sopa U., 3. for ‘oga, stomach. 
opo, to heat up food once cooked. ha‘aopo. 
opu 1. green coconut in its early stage with 
little flesh and with the shell still soft. 
2. the heart. 
opuopu whi opuopu, U., the name of a month, 
February. 
‘oqa (ku) belly, bowels, stomach. ‘aga. M.L., 
p. 55. Florida toba, Mota togat. 
‘oqa‘oqga U., a bay, indentation of the coast. 
ora 1. oven, altar; ova nt uunu, the altar of 
burnt offering; i epine ora, beside the 
altar. 
ora 2. U., ashes; dhuora, dusty. 
ora 3. U., to flame, to burn brightly. ha‘aora. 
Wango ora. 
ora 4. a boar pig. 
ora 5. ora lulu, to belch. 
oraa v. i., to flow. 
oraha‘a 1. adj., excessive. hele ni oraha‘a, to 
do too much; lae ni oraha‘a, to go very 
fast. 2. v.i., to sin, to contravene the 
public standards of morality. 3. n., 
sin, mu oraha‘a, déu oraha‘a; maleledé 
oraha‘a mwaanie ngaint, to rebuke a man 
for sin; sae ‘asilana oraha‘a, forgiveness 
of sins. 
oraha‘ala adj., sinful; a oraha‘ala, the sinner. 
oraha‘anga n., sin. Wango oraoraa. 
oraora 1. a holy person, one in touch with the 
ghosts. 
oraora 2. refuse, dung. cf. ora 2. 
ere 1. v. i., to remain behind, to be omitted; 
v. tr., to leave. hd‘iore. ore mwaani, 
to be left out; ruana ke‘i orea, the other 
