‘e 3. (continued). 
the sense of, let, that it may: ne‘e lae 
ka‘u, let me go. Used with a negative: 
e gale ola ne‘e loosia, there is nothing 
that I saw, I saw nothing. With the 
preposition muni, as subjunctive or 
optative: nau ha‘alu muni ne‘e lae, I 
promised that I would go; muni ‘e 
lae mat, let him come; ‘e ‘ue, how? 
mwane ‘e‘ue, why not? Sa‘a ke. cf. 
qa‘ike, ha‘ike. 
fe 4. v. p., used with numerals and with xite; 
‘e rue, two; ‘e‘ ‘olu, three; ‘enite, ‘enita, 
how many. ‘e 3. Florida e, Maori e, 
ehia, how many? Epi ve vio, how many? 
*e 5. suffixed to poss. 1 and 2 in sing. 1 and 2, 
added to ru in ti‘emeru‘e, Rkereru‘e. 
e‘a U., pers. pron., sing. 3, and verbal particle 
Gs 
e‘asi U., e‘a, si, illative. 
fefe S. 1. areca nut (Areca catechu); hoi ‘e‘e, 
the nut of the areca palm; mu ‘e‘e, areca- 
palm trees; ‘e‘e ahaa, wild areca nut; 
eaten only occasionally in Little Malaita, 
but generally in Big Malaita. 
fefe S. 2. to be open, enlarged; wawaku ko ‘e‘e 
haaht ‘omu, my mouth is enlarged 
against you. 
‘e‘eli U., v.i., to go astray, toswerve. ha‘a‘e‘eli 
‘e‘elinga v. n., a going astray. 
‘e‘engo S., v. i., to chatter, to disturb by 
chattering. . 
‘ehi‘e cf. ‘ahi‘e. 
eho n., a round ear ornament of clam shell with 
a pattern cut like the lines of a compass 
and radiating from the center; it is hung 
below the ear by a string through a hole 
in the center. 
ehoeho S., to prate, to be a tattler; wawa 
ehoeho, to boast. 
ehu native jews-harp; e sare to‘o ehu, he wants 
a jews-harp. 
‘oats cf. "at 1. 
e‘i 2. tr. suffix to verbs, participial ending. 
gf. ait 3. 
‘Ei‘ei U., a water spring at Mwado‘a, Ulawa. 
e‘ini tr. suffix to verbs. cf. Gini. 
eke the white cockatoo, used of other white 
birds; ao eke, the white egret. 
‘ele U., kele S., adj., and adv., little, somewhat, 
just now; ‘ele poo, a little pig; a ‘ele ola, 
little So-and-so; nau si ‘ele lae mai, I 
have just come; eé ‘asi ‘ele diena, it isa 
little better. 
eleele 1. real, proper, good; mu eleelei wala, S., 
mwa eleele huu ni wala, U., real words: 
used also of yams (uhi) and of musical 
instruments (du 3). 
eleele (na) 2. n., top shoots of trees, etc.; to‘o 
eleelena, its tip. 
Selekale U., a child; ‘elekale inau, my child; 
‘elekale werewere, an infant. 
‘Ele maosi, the landing-place in the reef at 
Ngorangora. 
‘eli, ‘eli‘eli v. tr., to dig; ‘eli talana, to dig his 
grave. 
‘elinga v. n., digging, yam digging, harvest. 
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‘eli, ‘eli‘eli (continued). 
‘elila-(na) gerund. 
‘elihe‘ini tr., to dig post holes, foundations, 
etc.; ko ‘elihe‘inie kokoro, dug it deep. 
‘elihe‘i v. i., noko ‘elihe‘i, I am digging post 
holes. Mota gil, Malay gali, Borneo 
kali, Maori keri. 
‘elu 1. cf. ‘olu, three; suffix limiting the meaning 
and added to (a) pers. pron., pl. 3: 
tkira‘elu, kira‘elu. (b) suff. pron., ré, 
va‘elu. (c) in Ulawa to stem, ka form- 
ing pers. pron., pl. 1. incl., Rka‘elu we. 
‘elu 2. used in Tolo for melu we. 
‘emelu pers. pron., pl. 1. excl.; we, more limited 
and particular in meaning than i‘emi. 
‘emere, ‘emere‘i, ‘emeru‘e S. 1. pers. pron., 
dual 1, excl., we two. 2. pers. pron., 
dual 1, suffixed to verbs and preposi- 
tions as object. 
‘emi S., pers. pron., pl. 1, excl. (a) as subject, 
we. (b) with the full form i‘emi; i‘emi 
emilae mai, wehavecome. (c) suffixed 
as object to verbs and prepositions. 
Florida gami, Malay kami. 
emu cf. dmu 3. 
‘emu‘e, ‘emu'‘i S., cf. ‘imu‘e. 
ena S., demonstrative, that; possibly e 1, ma 4. 
ngeena. ha‘ike ena, not that, not so; 
mango ena, finished that, that ends it; 
nge manikulu‘anga ineu ena ka‘a ola 
tke, the glory, mine I mean, is nothing. 
eni cf. dni. 
‘enite S., ‘enita U., how many, so many, a few; 
the ‘e 4 is detachable, see nite; the suff. 
pron. na may be added. ha‘anite; 
‘entte ‘ata haidinge, just a few days ago; 
‘enite lusu, what size (of a canoe), lit., 
how many ribs; ‘enitana ‘oto ‘ie, the 
how-manyeth is this, what number; 
awala mdia ‘enita, how many over ten; 
mana ‘enite, what unit above ten; ta‘e 
‘enita ile, just a few. 
eno, enoeno to lie down; eno taalenga, to lie 
on the back. 
enonga v. n., a lying down, reclining. 
enohi tr., to lie in, to lie on; e enohie hulite, 
he lay on a mat. 
enohilana gerund. 
ha‘aenohi causative. Nguna one, Motu eno. 
epa 1. glandular swellings in the armpits and 
groins. 2. to have such swellings. 
epa 3. v. i., toto epa hanue, to cleanse well the 
village by a sacrifice. M.A., p. 137. 
epasitr., tospread over. Mota epa, a mat. 
‘epu‘i ha‘i‘epu'i, to propitiate. 
‘epule cf. ‘apule. 
ere, ereere 1. v. i., tospeak, to talk; with poss. 3, 
to forbid, to bid, to order, U. ha‘aere. 
ere ana nga ‘inoni, to forbid a person; 
ere ani le‘u honu, to boast; ere ‘asi, U., 
to reproach, to vilify; ere ‘autala, to 
speak in vain; ere ni ha‘apu tako‘ie, 
swore by him; ere haahi, to betroth, to 
bespeak a wife; ere ha@‘ihonoa‘i, to curse; 
ere hé‘isuru, to have altercations; ere 
hé‘itohe, to contradict; ere ni hedi 
olanga, to take an oath; ere laelae‘s, 
