penapena n., a roller; v. i., to roll out taro 
puddings. 
penasi v. tr., to roll out, to flatten out. 
penata (ku) n., sole of foot, palm of hand, 
penatana ‘ae, penatana nime. Florida 
pera ni lima, Mota tawerai, Ambrym 
vera, Malekula feran, hand; Malagasy 
tanana, hand. M.L. p. 75. 
pepe n., butterfly, moth; pepe alaha, a large 
butterfly; pepe ni weieu, a butterfly 
(Ornithoptera cassandra); pepe 7 eueu, 
a butterfly. Solomon Islands bebe, 
Polynesian pepe. ; 
pepela‘ini U., v. tr., to cause to drift. 
peta U., n., house post. Mota pete. 
peto U., geto S., to be feeble, weak, cowardly. 
pe‘u n., tarantula, mési pe‘u, U.; called ramo 
champion from its watchfulness and 
from the difficulty of hitting or spearing 
it. 
pe‘ule n., a bird, the curlew. 
pewa‘ali v. tr., to rend. wa‘a. 
to cleave. 
pie 1. hau pie, a precipitous wall of rock, a 
cascade. 
pi‘e 2. a palm whose laths are used as cross- 
pieces for platforms. 3.a digging-stick 
made of pi‘e. 
pi‘e (na, ni) 3. a sucker of a tree; pi‘ei hudi, 
banana sucker. 
piho ha‘apiho, U., v. tr., to divide into two 
parts. 
pii 1. to cook with hot stones, stone boiling. 
M.A., p. 316. 7'7 ‘oni, to make coco- 
nut oil in a wooden bowl (nime). 
piinge v. n., yam soup; ilu piinga, U., to 
sup yam soup. 
piingi tr. 
pii 2. v. i., to strain the milk from scraped 
coconut (hero) with the net (wnu) of the 
coconut leaf. 
pii 3. ute pit, torrential rain. 
pile 1. the young areca nut in its earliest edible 
stage. 
pile (na) 2. the roe of fish. Motu bela, spawn. 
pili, pilipili v.i., to press. ha‘anipili,S. pili 
memeso, to break into powder; pili roro‘t, 
to press down tight; pili tete, to oppress, 
to tread down. 
piliha U., v. n., distress. 
pilingi tr. 
pilila-(ku) gerund. Wango Diringi. 
pilomo to be dented, to have a gapped edge, 
to be pitted. 
pine S., pina U., the name of several large birds; 
pine awa, the hornbill, so called from 
the rushing sound (awa) of its wings 
in flight; pine ni ‘esi, the booby; pine 
ni ou, the Nicobar pigeon (Geophilus 
nicobaricus). Florida bina. 
piola adj., thick. 
pipisi 1 (na, ni). the eaves of a house, pipisine 
nume. 2. pipisi ana ménu, tail feathers 
of a bird. 
pipisu n., a bird, the shiny starling (Callornis 
metallica), building in colonies. 
piru 1. v. i., to close upon; e piru keli eku, sur- 
hite pewa‘ali, 
PONGAPONGA 
piru (continued). 
rounds me. 2.n., an ornamental collar 
made of dogs’ teeth strung on cords 
with intervening sections of shell 
money (haa). 3. v. tr., to make such 
a collar; e pirue mu ‘usu ineu, he made 
my dogs’ teeth into a collar. 
pirupiru U., a sacred grove, altar. 
toval birubiru. 
piruu S., qiruu U., black, grey, of sand as on 
San Cristoval, one piruu. 
pito S., qito U., v. i., to grow. 
poe 1. poe rare, to plait a mat out of green 
coconut leaves (rare). 
poe 2. U., poe hui, to pull wild taro, hut ni 
matawa. Mota koe. 
poe 3. tocram. 
poe 4. poe aro, a nose-stick of bamboo or shell. 
poe 5. U., poe t‘a, a poisonous fish. 
po‘e 6. to sprout. 
poe 7. ha‘apo‘e, n., yam or taro mash. 
poepoe to sigh, to heave a sigh, to gasp. 
poi 1. S., adv., up, hither; lae kai‘u pot, come 
up here; hane poi ile‘u, climb up, come 
up, here to me; ‘omu ke ha‘ahu‘o poi, 
be here early in the morning; po‘o pot, 
up here. Wango oz, hither. 
poi 2. to be concerned about; used with poss. 3. 
pola, polapola v. i., to jump, to assault, to 
attack; pola likiliki, to leap; pola 
mwaani, to desert a ship; pola nguru, a 
month, September; pola tala, U., to 
fail; ‘ono pola, to gulp, to swallow whole. 
polahi tr., to leap on, pounce on, to assault. 
ha‘apolahi, hé‘ipolanga. 
polahila-(ku) gerund. 
polaha‘i ha‘apolaha‘t, v. tr., to cast away, to 
disregard. 
polahiroa to meddle in. 
polahiwasa to gad about, to be a busybody. 
polale n., a bird, swamp-hen (Porphyrio sp.), 
destructive to gardens. 
polali Jolo polali, red ant, sugar ant. 
pole S., qole U., ma‘ahu pole, v.i., to dream, 
v. tr., to dream of; ma‘ahu polenga, n., 
a dream, dreaming. 
pole, polepole 2. U., polepolei sesu, smoke. 
polo poloi haa, a strand of shell money. ‘afolo. 
polopolo U., wart. 
pona 1. a fountain, spring of water. Niué puna. 
pona 2. ha‘apona, to interrupt with questions. 
pono, ponopono, popono v. i., to close, to mend, 
to be closed, stuffed up; simouke ineu 
e popono, my pipe is stuffed up; sist 
pono, tobe closed over (of a sore); 
to‘oni pono maa, patched clothes; 
e popono papau i purida, closed up 
tightly behind them. 
ponosi tr., to stop up, to close, to dam; 
diu ponosi, to put the lid on; hele 
ponosie wawana, keep his mouth shut. 
ponosila-(ku) gerund. ha‘aponosi. Mota 
wono, Florida pono. 
ponopono n., lid, stopper, cork of bottle 
(late use). 
pongaponga to be loose, to fit badly. 
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