Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_loo_ v. i., to be fierce, wild, suspicious.
_falooi_, to persecute, cause to be wild. S. _loo_.
_looua_ gra.s.s.
_loulou_ 1. v. i., to be quick; 2. adv., quickly, quick. S.
_lauleu_.
_loulou_ 3. adj., whole, entire, in one piece. S. _laku_.
_lu_ contraction for _olu_ three, used to form trial number of p.r.o.noun; _dalu_, _golu_, etc. S. _lu_.
_luga_ v. i., to loose.
_lugatai_, _lugataini_ v. v. tr.
_lugala_ v. n., loosing. S. _luhe_.
_lui_ v. tr., to forbid, reserve; _alu lui_ to set a taboo mark on.
S. _luu'i_
_luk.u.mi_ v. tr., to restrain.
_lulua_ 1. a stranger, guest.
_lulua_ 2. a basket of plaited coconut leaf. S. _luelue_.
_luu_ v. tr., to move, to depart. S. _luu_.
M
_m_ adjectival prefix; _moi_ broken.
_ma_ 1. conjunction; _ma ana_, though; _ma ka langi_, or not, in questions; _ma ta_, but.
_ma_ 2. adjectival prefix of condition; _madiu_; _matala_. S. _ma_.
_maa_ 1. (_gu_) n., eye, face, aperture, gate; _i maa_, at the door, in the courtyard; _gula i maa_, outside; _maana bara_, gate; _maa too_ (_gu_) to visit; _toongi bono maa_, sackcloth: 2. art.
one, a; _maa ni dara gi_, young men; _fai maae oru qailiu_, the four winds; _maae dangi_, a day, _maae dangi i fafo_, two days hence; _maae rodo_, darkness; _maae fera_, a village. S. _maa_.
_maa_ 3. voc., father; _maa nau_, father. S. _ma'a_.
_maabala_ to no effect; _rao maabala_, to work unprofitably. S.
_maatala_.
_maabe_ v. i., to be willing; _mu maabe ni elela_, you were willing to rejoice.
_maadara_ (_gu_) n., forehead. S. _dara_.
_maafu_ v. tr., to cover with wrappings; _maafu maa_, to blindfold.
_maala_ an ulcer, a sore.
_maaligwou_ v. i., to be thirsty, _gwou_ 1.
_maalimaea_ enemy. _mae_.
_maalitafa_ channel in reef. S. _maalitawa_.
_maamana_; _ro maamana_, father and son.
_maasi_ v. tr., to await, expect.
_maasia_ adj., while.
_maauugala_ to mock at, used with poss.
_mabe_ v. i., to be obedient, willing; _manata mabe_, patient. Cf.
_gwarimabe_.
_mabesi_ v. tr., to correct, rebuke.
_madafi_ v. tr., to perceive, feel.
_madalaba_ oven.
_madiu_ adj., different, other, another, astray; too _madiu gi_, gentiles,
_madiua_ 1. exclam. well, I never! 2. adj. different. S. _diu_.
_mae_, _mamae_ v. i., to die, to be ill, to be numb, to be eclipsed, of moon.
_maeli_ v. tr., to die of; _bae maeli_, to condemn to death.
_maea_ v. n., death, sickness,
_maela_ (_gu_) v. n., death, danger,
_maemaefa_ v. n., sickness. S. _mae_.
_mafo_ v. i., to be healed. Mota _mawo_.
_magu_ n. clothing; _si magu_.
_mai_ 1. adv., here, hither, this way; _ita ana mai_, hither; _ita mai_ logo, thence. S. _mai_,
