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ere, ereere 1 (continued). 
talk by the wayside; ere lole ana 
ma‘unge, to talk confusedly from fear; 
ere luu‘i, U., to forbid; ere maahoosi, to 
boast; ere maleledi, to rail at; ere 
mama‘ila‘a ana, to speak despisingly; 
ere mamakinanga, to reproach; nou ere 
pele, I spoke inadvertently; ere raradi‘e, 
correction; ere raramaa, insolent speech; 
ere nt sae, to say with the heart; ere 
ta‘anga, plain speech; ere taha‘ira‘a, to 
speak plainly; ere talihe, to defend one- 
self when accused, to deny; nou ere 
taliheku, I made my _ defense; ere 
tataa‘ini, to curse; ere toli, to revile; 
ere to‘o, to be correct in one’s statement; 
‘o ere to‘o, verily; ere uge, to talk 
enviously; ere warawara‘a, clamorous; 
lopo'i ere, to deceive with words; (oli 
ereere, to cease speaking. 
erenga v. n., speech. 
eresi U., tr., to plan in speech, to decide 
upon; hu‘o ni pest koro eresia, the war 
expedition over the bows which they 
planned. Motu erena, speech. 
ere, ereere 2. v. tr., to make up in a roll, to 
coil. 
ereereta v. n., a roll, a coil; mu ereeretai 
usuusu, the roll of the book. Lau ereere. 
ereerea‘ile S., ereere‘a U., ereereta‘a U., 
rolled up in acoil, round, disk-shaped. 
ereha‘ini S., v. tr., to set alight, to light a torch. 
ereha‘i partic., lighted. Lau ere, fire. 
‘erete‘a adj., whitish, pale; hote sa‘a kole wa 
nga me‘i ola ‘erete‘a ket t'o i sapeka, the 
paddles must not rattle nor anything 
of light color be about our bodies. 
Maori kiritea, fair, tea, white; Samoa 
tea, white. 
ero, eroero S., v. tr., to deceive, to tell lies. 
ha‘aero. ko ero, he is lying; mwane ‘o 
eroau, do not deceive me; a eroero, the 
deceiver. 
eronga v. n., lying, deceit; ko lehie eronga, 
in travail with lying. 
erola-(ku) gerund., erolana walumalau, the 
deceits of the world. 
erota‘ini tr., to deceive. 
esi 1. € 1. si, illative; esi kele loto, he has just 
washed. 
esi U. 2. n., a ghost, considered harmless. 
cf. ‘akalo. 
eso, esoeso S., v. i., to flare up, to flame, to 
burn. ha‘aeso. sae esoeso, to have 
indignation. 
esoesoha v. n., flame; used with poss. 3; 
esoesohaana dunge, the flame of the fire; 
esoesohai dunge, flame of fire. 
esolana gerund, its flaming. 
‘eta S., numeral, one; used with definite article 
nga and denotes another, different. ‘e 
4, for ta cf. ta‘a 2. nga ‘eta ola; nga 
‘ela mu ‘inoni, various people; ‘eta 
muini, some; maholo ‘eta mwane e 
ha‘atau ue, while the other was yet far 
off; ‘eta ina‘o, to be in the lead. 
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‘eta (continued). 
‘etana ordinal, first, the first time; ‘etana 
ngaile, ‘etana ngaini, the first one. 
Malay sa, one; Mota tea, indefinite 
pronoun. 
ete ha‘aete, S., v. tr., to importune, to be per- 
sistent. 
eu ddu eu, to play tunes. du 3. 
eueu pepe i eneu, a butterfly. 
ewa U., to brandish a spear; ewa lulu, a measure 
of a yard and a half. 
ewe, eweewe 1. v. i., to have water in; e ewe 
ta‘ane, it has water in it (said of a 
bamboo). 2. to be in a liquid state. 
3. n., flood; ewe e ulungaa méurihaaku, 
the floods have covered over my soul; 
ere koni, to gather together, of flood 
water. 
eweewe (na) n., juice; mu eweewei ola, 
liquid. 
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ha termination of verbal nouns: mduri, to live; 
méurthe, life. 
haa 1. shell-money discs made from the red 
hinge of the oyster shell (roma); the 
chief places of manufacture are Langa- 
langa in Big Malaita and Makira in 
San Cristoval. The Malaita shells are 
obtained in the Mara Masiki Channel. 
The discs are always strung on string 
and the value is proportionate to the 
length of the string and the smallness 
of the discs. ‘enite haa, how many 
moneys? to make a haa four strings 
of shell discs are used, the strings are 
kept together by being passed through 
strips of tortoise shell hapa. df. 
huresoso; haa i mwe‘i, money in the 
bag, earnest money, security paid to 
the parents of a girl to insure getting 
her as a bride for some lad; haa pdine, 
large money discs, not considered of 
much value; haa ni siwe, blood money; 
haa tahanga, a sum of money consisting 
of four strings of haa tied together, each 
string a fathom long, the strings are 
separated by strips of tortoise shell; 
haa ni Ulawa, small and valuable shell- 
money discs, often strung in a kind of 
crochet pattern with malo and huresoso 
added to complete the design; haa ni 
wili, tribute money; hdéu haa, red brain 
coral; hune haa, to display bridal 
moneys at the bride’s home; ito ni haa, 
a bunch of money; Jai loosi haa, to go and 
inspect the money given for a bride; 
mwaritei haa, a strand of money; sulu 
haa, to collect money; wili haa, to thread 
shell money; maapou, a measure of shell 
money, from finger tips to elbow; 
to‘ohaa money, both shell and teeth 
(dogs and porpoise). Wango haa. 
ha‘a 2. a platform for storing yams; ha‘a ni 
‘arasi, ark of the covenant; hd‘u ha‘a, to 
tie the laths on a platform, to make a 
