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kaokao n., a half coconut shell used for drink- 
ing-cup (late use). Wango kaokao. 
kape hi‘uhi‘u kape, U., hi‘uhi‘u pote, S., to wag 
the tail feathers, a bird (the wagtail). 
Maori kapekapeta, to flutter; San Cris- 
toval, rurukape. 
kara, kara‘i U. 1. pers. pron., dual 1, incl.: we 
two. 2. suffixed to noun or verb or 
preposition as object. 3. suffixed to 
noun, of us two. Wango kara. 
kara 4. v.i., to scrape, to grate; kara uhi, kara 
uhinge, yam grating; ‘usu kara, to grate 
yams for yam pudding. 5. grated-yam 
pudding tied up in leaves; kara ni 
‘aharota, large puddings for a wedding 
feast; kara dodo, yam pudding put into 
bamboos and cooked over the embers; 
kara lalemo, yam pudding without 
coconut milk; kara ni mwane (hinanga), 
yam pudding used in sacrifices. Mota 
gar, cockle; Viti kari, to scrape; Maisin 
kari, Niué alati. 
kara‘i adv., preceding the verb; nearly, almost; 
nou kara‘i lae, I almost went. 
kara‘ini 1. adv., as kara‘i. 2. prep., with suff. 
pron. (Gu), near, close to. Lau garangi, 
Wango garangi. 
kar‘e U., contraction of kara‘e, let us two; 
kar‘e lae, let us be off! 
Kareimenu a fabulous person, half boy and 
half shark, changed by his mother, who 
cursed him because he frightened his 
younger brother by swimming with one 
arm bent and held at his side so as to 
resemble a shark’s fin. 
karekare U., osani karekare, a cliff. 
karenga v. tr., to watch for turtles coming up 
to lay. 
kari n., squid; used largely for fish bait; tala‘z 
keri, to entice squid with a white cowrie 
shell (puli) and red streamers (aleale). 
Mota wirita, octopus, Motu vwrita, 
Malagasy hurita. 
Karieu a ghost. M.A., p. 261. 
kdrikeri n., a piece, a bit. 
kariheni, karihani U., adv.; ‘osi Reriheni ‘aela 
laa, do not be such a nuisance. 
kariwaaro v. i., to take a circuitous route. 
waaro. 
karikeri‘ara S., kdrikeri‘ala U., a bird, the 
migratory plover, arriving in November 
at the time of the palolo worm and 
found exhausted in the gardens and 
open spaces, whence it is said oku e 
hirusia maana, the palolo has got into 
its eye. 
karo S. 1. the side walls of a house; hau suusuut 
karo, cornerstone. 
karo 2. v. tr., to pick canarium nuts, karoa 
ngali; karo siriunga, picking up cockles. 
karohure S., karohure e sasa‘ae i kaona ‘asi, the 
depths were troubled. 
karokaro (ku) side, ribs, of persons. 
nggaro. 
kadru 1. v. i., used with poss. 3; to clutch, to 
hold; kéru ana, take hold of it; more 
common in Ulawa. 
Florida 
karu, karukeru 2. v. i., to scratch with the 
finger nails; mwela ko kerukeru la‘o ha‘u, 
the child scratches in the umbrella: 
when a child is sick a wizard is called in 
and he declares that its soul has been 
stolen away; he takes leaves of dra- 
caena (dili) and collects the child’s soul 
with the leaves and places it in the 
umbrella (hd‘u) where it is heard 
scratching; he shakes the umbrella 
over the child’s body, the child is con- 
vulsed, the soul returns and the child 
recovers. 
kdrumi tr., to scratch the body when suffer- 
ing from skin disease or itching. Mota 
karu, Maori raku, Malay garut, Samoa 
la‘u, Gilb, kori. 
kdru 3. v. i., to suffer from skin disease. 
kdru 4. v. i., to hollow out a log for a drum, 
karu ‘o‘o. 
karu‘i v. tr. 
karu‘ila-(na, ni) gerund. 
kdru oe U., to be foolish, to talk foolishly. 
karu mehu S., to endure hardness. 
kasu, ka‘ukesu S., v. i., to be rotten, corrupt. 
kasunge v. n., corruption. 
kata n., a mortar for pounding areca nut, used 
by those who are toothless (dawa). 
kau, kdukeu 1. v.i., to clutch hold of (of thorny 
creepers), to catch hold of with ikeu. 
kéu lomolomo, the fourth finger; walo 
kaéukeu, a thorny creeper. 
kdusi tr., walo e kéusie, the thorn caught 
him ‘akalo e kéusie t‘ola, a ghost clutched 
and capsized the canoe; ikeu, a crook; 
for twitching off fruit and leaves. 
malakeu. Maori kakau, stalk; Lau 
kakau, fingers; Mota kau, Malay kauit; 
Niué keu, crooked. 
kau 2. n., branching coral, mu keu; huui keu, a 
spray of coral; wunu keu, to burn coral 
for lime used in areca chewing. 
kau 3. cow (English). 
kd‘u 4. adv., follows verb. 
terite, nou lae ka‘u, | went. (b) at the 
beginning of a sentence it directs 
attention, and generally it makes speech 
less abrupt; kd‘u, neke leesie, please let 
me see it; 2‘o kd‘u, stay a while, wait; 
ké‘u mei nga hue, give me one (fruit) 
please; kolu ke‘u, let us be off; Ronia 
ké‘u, wait, tarry a while; ‘oke lae ké‘u, 
you had better go; ‘omu ke mala mwela 
ké‘u, just become as little children; lio 
ka‘u, behold; loo ké‘u, look; neku ké‘u, 
be seated; nge ke ‘ue ka‘u ne, how then 
will it be; ‘oke i‘o kd‘u loosieu, wait a 
while for me; no‘i kd‘u, stay, wait a 
while; lae kd‘u ‘ohi‘i, go fetch it; taa 
kd‘u, let me see; téhi ke‘u, be off, get 
out of the road. Wango gau. 
kaule S., kaula U., frigate-bird, man-o’-war 
hawk, nests on Bio by Ugi; on account 
of its size and voracity and of its asso- 
ciation with the bonito the frigate-bird 
figures largely in the art of the southern 
Solomons. poro kéule, mwane kéule, 
(a) forms a pre- 
