kae, kaekae 2 (continued). 
kaengaha v. n. (double noun ending), deceit. 
kaesi tr. 
kaeta‘ini tr. (Qaloto dialect). 
ka‘elu 1. U., pers. pron., plural 1, incl.: we, 
more restricted than ki‘a in meaning; 
with future particle ‘e, ka‘elu, contracts 
to ka‘el‘e. ka‘eka‘elu, come on, let us 
be off; ka‘el‘e lae, let us go. 2. pers. 
pron., plural 1, incl., suffixed to nouns; 
‘amaka‘elu, our father. 3. U., pers. 
pron., plural 1, incl., suffixed to verbs 
and prepositions; e sdunika‘elu, he 
beat us. 
kahite S., uwwerikahite, rags. 
kahu cf. makahu. 
ka‘i contraction of kd‘u 7; ‘o lae ka‘i tei, where 
did you go to. 
kaka v. i., to be torn, to be split. 
kakasi tr., to split. 
kakahite v. i., to gape open, to split. kahite. 
kakahu U., exclam. of astonishment at some- 
thing of great size; kakahu ni ola, a 
monster! 
kakahuru S., v. i., to be taken by surprise. 
ha‘akakahuru. 
kakalihe n., a guarding, a guard. kdli 1. 
kakalo v. i., to grope with the hands; kakalo 
‘ulu‘ulu, to grope blindly. 
kakalu S., n., a well of water. kilu, U. 
kakamo U., v., to be stringy, of hana. 
kakamu 1. v. i., to itch. 
kakamu 2. n., with genitive nz; fringe, skirt. 
kakamuni n., an armlet of shell. 
kakapoo n., a strong-smelling herb. 
kakata n., a handle; kakatai heu, an iron rod; 
with suff. pron., kakatana, its handle. 
Mota kaka, to stretch out the hand 
and catch hold. 
kakau S., v. i., to shout, to cry aloud. 
kakau‘e adj., prickly. kdu 1. 
kakawe (na) n., tentacles of octopus. cf. ‘ahe 3. 
Mota gave, a crab, so named from its 
claws; Motu gave, tentacles of octopus. 
kala v. tr., to cut pieces of nautilus shell 
(reoreo) for purposes of inlaying; kala 
‘apanit paale‘o, to cut nautilus shell in 
triangular patterns; kala hite, to cut it 
in rectangular pieces and to split the 
ends in V-shape; kala toohe‘o, to cut 
shell hooks. 
kalani a fish, i‘e ni Ralani. 
kale 1. (ku) n., a child, ason, a daughter; with 
personal article a kale, the son; kalena 
a ola, son of So-and-so; kale madu ineu, 
my beloved child; Rale ni ulao, a bastard; 
mdsi kaleku, my child; kent kalei Ston, 
daughter of Sion; nga keni mala a 
kalemu, a girla mate for yourson. Lau 
gale, Florida dale, Wango gare, New 
Hebrides gari, New Britain garra. 
makaka. 
cf. kRele. 
kale 2. ha‘akale, to wait for, to watch, to keep 
aneyeon. cf. kali. 
kale‘a adj., heavy with child, to be inchildbirth. 
Kalenipa‘ewa the name of a canoe in a story, 
Little Shark. 
KAO 
kali, kakali, kakakdli 1. v. tr., to watch, to 
surround, to double a point of land ina 
canoe. lilikeli. kéli pele, to be cap- 
sized in rounding a cape at sea; kili ta‘a, 
to emerge; ddu keli, to surround; 
kakGli he‘the‘i‘oli, to take turns in 
guarding; lili keli, to encircle; e piru kelé 
eku, surrounded me; si‘o kdli, to spy; 
e kali z ‘elingeku, it sounded in my ears. 
kakdlinge v. n., watching, guarding. 
kalila-(ku) gerund. 
kdlite‘i partic., ko kelite‘t honotamu, round 
about thee. 
kélite‘ini tr., to keep watch over, to guard. 
Florida tali, Omba dali, round; Wango 
gari, Mota kal, to stir, tal, to go around. 
kali 2. kali awala, a sum of money (haa) made 
up of ten strings (kawe) each a fathom 
long. 
kalikeli 1. adv., around. 
pron. (du), around. 
kdlinga (na) U., a hole; kalingana, its hole. 
kdlinge S., n., a well of water. 
Kalitaalu one of the legendary persons of ‘Olu 
Malau; his drinking-place (tonohaana) 
is at Lenga in Ulawa where he is reputed 
to have thrust his fishing-rod into the 
stream as it poured over the rock into 
the sea and to have drunk the drippings. 
kdlite‘i‘a U., adj., used as noun, a strand of 
rope; ro kdlite‘i‘a, double thickness. 
kalona U., n., garden ground on the second 
range of hills above the beach, ¢ kalona; 
uhi ni kalona, yams from this region, 
firm and hard as opposed to whi ni ge‘u, 
which are more mealy. 
kalu 1. n., a hand net tied to the four corners 
of two bent sticks laid at right angles 
to one another, a third stick serving 
as a handle. 2. v. tr., to use such a 
net in fishing from a canoe for parrot- 
fish (te ni kelu), a live fish tied by the 
gills to a stick is used as a decoy, where- 
upon fish of the same sort come out 
to the decoy and are caught in the net. 
The decoy fish when not in use is kept 
in an artificial pond (lopo). 
kdlu‘i tr., to catch fish with such a net. 
kalu 3. v. tr., to bend a bow. 
kana, kanakana 1. v.i., tosing. 2.n., a song. 
huu ni kana, a company of singers at a 
dance; nga odoni kana, a song sung 
straight through; supu kana, to com- 
pose songs. 
kananga v. n., a song; sulu kananga, a sing- 
ing of songs; supu kananga, v. n., com- 
posing songs. 
kanali tr. Wango gana. 
kao 1. n., the bottom planks of a canoe, the 
keel. tkao. 2. with suff. pron. 3 pers. 
na, kaona, the under part, the hold, of 
canoe or ship. 3. U., 4 Raomu, under- 
neath you; mwalo suhu kao, a rock that 
pierces the bottom, sunken rock; pali 
kao, a drop left in the bottom, dregs;. 
e ka‘a to‘o kaona, bottomless. Wango 
kao. 
2. prep., with suff. 
