SAUKAI : 
saukai 1. v. i., to grate coconut on a scraper, 
sdukai niu. 2. n., a coconut scraper, 
made of a tree trunk with two branches 
for legs and the butt resting on the 
ground; a piece of clam shell with ser- 
rated edge is lashed to the upper end 
of the trunk; a man sits astride the 
sdukai holding a half coconut (teu), rubs 
the meat over the clam shell, and the 
grated nut falls into a bowl (nime) 
placed below. M.A., p. 338. Florida 
taukai. 
siulehi n., evening, dusk, from about 4 o’clock 
on; e sdulehi ‘oto, it is dusk; i seuleht, in 
the evening; sdulehi melumelu, dusk. 
Florida nulavi, Mota ravrav, Motu 
adorahi, Wango suurahi. 
saumaata-(na, da) U.,n., used as verb, to know; 
nau ga‘ike saumaatana, I don’t know it. 
Sd4u mwa‘elu the landing-place in the rocks 
opposite Mwado‘a, Ulawa. 
sdiunge‘ini v. tr., to put the handle on an axe. 
sd4‘usemu S. cf. sému. 
sd‘usesu S., n., a whirlwind, waterspout, a 
squall of wind. sdsu. 
sawa n., a fish, mullet, found in the lake at 
Korea and in the lagoon at ‘Olu Malau. 
melu lai tola sawa i Malau, we went to 
get mullet at the Three Sisters. 
sawalo n., the flying fox, a tooth of the flying 
fox used as money. qd‘u ni sawalo, 
four flying-fox teeth, a unit in counting. 
sawaoli‘e S., adj., darkened, black with clouds. 
sawaru, sasawaru v. i., to whisper. 
Sawarunge v. n., a whisper, whispering. 
sawarunge‘ini tr., to whisper anything. 
sawarunge‘inila-(na) gerund. 
sese v. i., to fence, to protect; used with prep. 
ahu'‘t. 
seu cf. siu. 
si 1. illative; then, thereupon; used with the 
verbal particle ko as kosi, or without it. 
‘oto kire kosi teuri, thereupon they said; 
‘oke lae mii ‘osi teuri, when you come 
here say this; nge nesi ‘unue, then said 
I; mu rato e ngiu na kire si mae, the 
fathers ate and are dead. 2. adv., first, 
first time, just, only; xoko si lae mai ‘ie, 
this is my first time here; nou si kele 
hele mola, I only just touched it; maholo 
nou si lae wau, when I first went. 
si 3. U. dehortative; don’t. ‘o si ta‘ata‘a, laa, 
don’t, I say. Lau si, negative particle. 
si 4. genitive; in certain phrases. tawa- 
sipua. tangisi hudi, a hand of bananas; 
qa‘usi henue, the head of the community. 
si 5. verbal suffix; mae, to die; maesi, to die of. 
sie-(ku) 1. n., used as preposition; at the house 
of, with, to (motion toward), to (offering 
or sacrifice to); used in Sa‘a only in the 
first and second singular, for the rest 
saa is used; in Ulawa used in all persons; 
the locative i may be prefixed. ro ‘u‘u 
maana siena a Ta‘a Pea, his two eye- 
balls to Ta‘a Pea (a curse); 7 siedaelu, in 
their house, at their home. Nengone 
se, with; Sesake se, si, here; there. 
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si‘e U. 2. negative particle, used of future time, 
also dehortative. ‘o si‘e lae, do not go. 
Savo sika, sia, prohibitive; Vaturanga 
jika. 
sihana S., with locative 7, out of doors, oustide. 
sinaha. 
siho, sisiho 1. v. i., to descend, to disembark, 
to land. ha‘asiho. siho hou, to de- 
scend; siho i one, to land on the beach, 
stho toli. 
siho 2. to be at hand, to befall, to happen; 
qongi ko sisiho ‘oto, the time is at hand. 
siholi tr., to course through (of disease), 
to assault; e stholie sapeku, it went all 
through my body. 
sihola‘i partic., passed through. Mota siwo. 
siho 3. v. i., to relate, to tell a tale; used with 
poss. 3. siho ‘aela ana, to spread evil 
reports of; siho ‘aelalamami, gerund., 
our evil report; siho raga ana, U., to 
exaggerate. 
sihosihonga v. n., a tale, gossip. 
sihoa‘i partic., mu sihoa‘i wala, mere words, 
just a tale. 
siholi siholi wei, south wind, gentle breeze with 
fair weather. 
sihopulu ha‘asihopulu, a stone sinker for a fish- 
line. 
sii 1. v. i., to break wind. Viti dhi. 2. to fly 
(of sparks), to flare (of fire); mu sit 
dunge, sparks. 
si‘firi to-day, now; mi demonstrative may be 
suffixed and locative i prefixed. 7 si‘irt, 
i si‘irini, to-day; si‘iri ‘ie, in this day; 
haidinge si‘iri, today; nekesi lae st‘iri, 
let me go to-day; si‘iri i rodo, to-night. 
sikare n., a variety of yam. 
sike 1. v. tr., to reject; ‘ast 3 may be added. 
sike hu‘e to divorce a woman; sitke 
hu‘anga, n., divorce; sika ‘asi, to reject. 
Florida sika. 
sike 2. n., a thorn; sikei hana, thorn on top of 
the tuber of the spiny yam. Viti stka, 
needle. 
sikera‘ini v. tr., to reject, to condemn. 
sikeri 1. v. tr., to plait. 2.n., a rope plaited 
flat, a wick (late use). 
siki 1. v. i., to come loose, to become detached; 
mei ‘epu e siki ana, his seed. 
sikihi tr., to undo, to untie, to detach, to 
take off. ha‘asikihi. e‘a sikihia qé‘una 
uhi, she takes off the heads of yams; 
hono stkihi, to shut off by itself; susu 
sikihi, to cast off, to reject. 
sikite v. n., mu sikitei ola, flakes, chips. 
Wango sigi, Florida siki, Viti singi, to 
move. 
sikile‘ini tr., to detach, to set free, to loose. 
sikile‘i partic., detached; v. i., to rebound. 
sikite ‘ini tr., to detach. 
siki 2. v. i, to tap, to touch with the fingers. 
stki raho, a beetle which is caught and 
held upside down on a piece of thatch 
(raho) which it raps (sik?). 
sikihi tr., to infect, to carry contagion to 
person after person. 
sikili tr., ‘to twang with the fingers; to 
