Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_taa_ 2. v. i., to be bad, evil.
_taala_ v. n., evil; _ade taala_, evil doing. S. _ta'a_.
_taba_ with suff. _ani_, _tabaani_, v. tr., to destroy, remove. S.
_tapa_.
_tae_ v. tr., to lift up. S. _ta'e_.
_tafa_ adv., out; _bae tafa_, to speak out.
_tafangaini_ v. tr., _sae tafangaini_, to speak out. S. _taha_.
_tafangi_ v. tr., to understand; _liona e tafangia_, he understood it.
_tafe_, a bed, bench, barn, bier. S. _tahe_.
_tafi_ v. i., to flee.
_tafila_ v. n., flight. S. _tahi_.
_tafo_ 1. v. tr., to catch fish; _tafo ge ia_.
_tafo_ 2. v. tr., to purchase;
_tafoa_ v. n., a bought person, servant. S. _taho_.
_tafua_ dung heap. S. _alilehu_.
_tafusi_ v. tr., to strain; _gae tafusi_.
_taga_ 1. v. i., to scatter, throw away.
_tagaani_ v. tr.
_taga_ 2. v. tr., to lay out, spread.
_taga_ 3. v. i., to sprout, burst into leaf. S. _taka_.
_tagala_ 1. v. i., to be lost.
_tagalaini_, _tagalangaini_ v. tr., to drive away, cause to be lost.
_tagalaa_ adj., promiscuously, _ala tagalaa_, feed here and there.
_tagala_ 2. adj., irreverent; _soe tagala_, take one's name in vain, _tataga_.
_tagalo_ v. i., to be wandering.
_tagalola_ adj., overgrown. S. _takalo_.
_tagaloloa_ n., dust.
_tagesi_ v. tr., to garnish, decorate, adorn.
_tai_ 1. numeral, one; _agala mana tai_, eleven; _taifili_, alone.
w.a.n.go. _tai_.
_tai_ 2. v. tr., to mend.
_taila_ v. n., a patch, seam.
_tai_ 3. trans. suff. to verb; _goni_, _gonitai_; _olitai_ participle.
_taifili_ (_a_) alone; _taifili gera_, they alone. S. _hili_.
_taini_ trans. suff. to verb; _foaa_, _foaalaini_. S. _ta'ini_.
_taingaini_ v. tr., to lay up, store up.
_take_, _tatake_, v. i., to stand; _takefonosi_, to guard. S.
_ta'e_.
_takedila_ v. tr., to cause to hit, knock.
_takufi_ v. tr., to receive. S. _takuhi_.
_tala_ 1. way, path. S. _tala_.
_tala_ 2. (_gu_) n., place, room; _nao talagu_, lead the way for me; _roo talai fangala_, work for food. S. _tala_.
_tala_ 3. with prefix _ma_, _matala_, only, alone. S. _tala_ 4.
_talaa_ v. i., to s.h.i.+ne, of sun.
_talae_ v. i., to begin, to become; _talae na ne_, from this (that) time forth.
_talaela_, v. n., beginning. S. _tala'ae_.
_talai_, _talani_, partic., wantonly, for no reason. S. _tale'i_.
_talatala_ v. i., to be diligent.
_talo_, with prefix _aini_; _ainitalongaini_, to proclaim. S.
_talo_.
_talu_ v. i., to sprinkle; _talu fafi_. S. _danu_.
_tama-_ (_gu_), used with _sae_ to know; _nau gu sae tamana_. I know (it).
