TOLI 
toli (continued). 
vakonga, patience; toli rohu, to cease 
speaking; mango toli, to faint; toli ereere, 
to cease speaking; moutoli, to cease. 
7. ere toli, to revile. 8. to refrain from 
certain foods in mourning; foli ola, toli 
uhi, toli ngeulaa. 9. the bass drum in 
para ni ‘o‘o. 10. toli ‘epu, to fast, to 
observe a tabu; hdnua e toli ‘epu 
isulird‘elu, the village was fasting on 
their account. 
toliaa v. i., to leave off, to cease, to desist. 
toli‘asi v. tr., to yield, to renounce, to remit, 
to grant. toli‘asilana, gerund. 
tolimaa S., a mark, sign, proof. 
tolinge (ku) a portion, a share (of food ata 
feast); ga‘u ni tolinge, the chief portion 
of food. 
tolingi 1. v. tr., to assign a portion of food to 
a person at a feast. 2. to permit, to 
grant. 3. hele tolingi, to hold in sub- 
jection. 4. to inlay with shell. 
tolo (na) 1. a hill; the hill country. mu tolot 
henue, the hill folk; ‘ure ta‘ tolona haénue, 
from out of the hills; 7 Tolona Hdnue, 
a district of Little Malaita; mu Tolona 
Hénue, the people of that district. 
2. i Tolo, in strangers’ country, Big 
Malaita; mu Tolo, people of Su‘u Rodo 
or of Big Malaita; ra‘e ni Tolo, a spear 
covered with plaiting of colored grass. 
3. to be a bushman, to be ignorant, 
uncouth, nou tolo, nou tolona hénue. 
4. the languages of Big Malaita, e mala 
Tolo. Wango toro, hill; Maori toro- 
puki, mound; Viti koro, heap of sand; 
Mailu oro, hill; New Guinea lolo, lola, 
kola; Florida tolo, to rise up. cf. totolo. 
tolo 5. ‘u‘u tolo, a piece of bread. 
Tolosi a district of Little Malaita above Mara 
Masiki Channel. 
tomwa, tomwatomwa v. i., to walk on tiptoe, 
to limp. 
tomwaso a shrub with large leaves which grows 
in clearing; huui tomwaso, a thicket of 
the shrub. 
tono, totono U., v. i., to drink, to drown. 
ha‘atonohi, konokono. tono qaagqi‘a, the 
water tastes brackish; tonohaana a 
Kalitaalu, Kalitaalu’s drinking-place at 
Lenga, Ulawa. 
tononga v. n. 
tonohi tr., to drink anything. 
tonola-(ku) gerund. 
tongo 1. v.i., to begin to rise, to turn (of tide); 
e tongo ‘oto, the tide has turned; ‘esi kele 
tongo, the tide is rising a little. 2. tahe 
tongo, U., to sip. 
tongolili v. i., to straggle, to be long drawn out, 
one after another, irregular. Mota Jil, 
astray, fall away from. 
too, tootoo 1. to be shallow (of the sea); mu 
le‘u e tootoo, shallows, shoals. 
to‘o, to‘oto‘o 2. to hit, to encounter, to succeed, 
to have, to be rich, tohealup. ha‘ato‘o. 
déu to‘o, with poss. 3, to hit; sae to‘o, 
with poss. 3, to desire, to wish to have; 
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to‘o 2 (continued). 
to‘o eleelena, its tip, the top; to‘ohaa, mu 
to‘ohaa, money; to‘o hu‘e, to have a 
wife; to‘o hu‘anga, marriage (of a man); 
e ka‘a to‘o kaona, bottomless; to‘o 
mango, to have breath; fo‘o ola, to‘o 
olanga, to have possessions, prosperity; 
to‘o poro, to have a husband; to‘o 
poronga, marriage (of a woman); to‘o 
qa‘u, to carry on the head; to‘o sape, to 
have the shape, the appearance of; 
e to‘o talaku, room for me; kire to‘oana 
keni mwala ko holie, they own the girl 
who is being bought. 3. to be, to be 
fixed, to set (of colors in dyeing); z‘o 
to‘o, to be fixed; z‘o konito‘o, to remain, 
to rest assured; e to‘o mou, e to‘o mou- 
tana, to cease, to be broken off; tolt 
to‘o, to be patient; ere to‘o, to be correct 
in statement; ‘o ere to‘o, verily; to‘o 
lelengana, not aroused from sleep; lio 
to‘o, to find; lio sae to‘o, to favor; e to‘o 
i saena, it came into his mind; gongiku 
e to‘o mone ‘oto, my time has come; 
to‘o méd‘ume‘utana, terrifying; to‘o 
nunu‘e, spotted, speckled; fo‘o pulo- 
pulo, specked. 4. to be related to; 
melu to‘o ada, they are our relations. 
5. to‘o hili, with poss. 2, to‘o hili nada, 
they alone apart from others. San 
Cristoval too. 
to‘ohi tr., to desire, to be set upon (of the 
mind); saeku e to‘ohie, my heart is set 
upon it. 
to‘o 6. prefixed to numerals, at a time; to‘o 
ta‘e ini, one at a time, singly; to‘o ta‘e 
ola, objects singly; to‘o ro ola, objects 
by twos; to‘o ro nime, with just one’s 
two hands, unarmed; fo‘o ta‘e maholo, 
sometimes; to‘o ‘enite ‘oto, how many 
altogether? Mota sogo, Samoa fo‘a. 
to‘o 7. 1,000 (of fish teeth), to‘oani i‘e. Lau 
too, 1,000. 
to‘o 8. to desire. sareto‘o. 
to‘oa‘i 1. v. i., to be desirous; sae to‘oa‘i ola, 
avarice. 
to‘oa‘ila-(ku) gerund., sae to‘oa‘ilana, 
coveting. 
to‘oa‘i 2. ha‘u to‘oa‘'i he‘iliu, wandering stars, 
planets. 
to‘ohaa money, whether shell or teeth of dogs 
or porpoises, mu to‘ohaa. ‘olisi to‘ohaa, 
to exchange money for goods, to buy. 
to‘oha‘i to‘oha‘i ge‘u ana, to be entangled in, 
to be mixed up in. 
toohe‘o small hooks of shell (roa) used without 
bait for catching sardines (asaunge); 
the fishing is conducted from a stage 
built out in the water (haa); kala toohe‘o, 
to cut the hooks. 
toohi men’s club-house in the village; the 
unmarried men sleep and eat there, 
strangers are entertained in it and the 
married men foregather there. cf. 
para‘ita. 
to‘ohi‘uhi‘ula‘a adj., spotted, variegated in 
color. 
