Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands Part 21

Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands Part 21

_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. _luui_


_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. _maa_.


_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_,