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Fucca láta, To tame; to make mild.

lélle möoói. To amaze; to wonder; to astonish;

to start.

léo. To watch; a watchman; a sentry.

lía-lía. Abominable; filthy; odious; ugly.

lili. To put in a passion; to irritate.

lillé. To make good; to mend; to make peace; reconcile; a pacification; an armistice.

lóa-lóa. To elongate.

Táffa fúcca lóa-lóa.

To slit; a slit: a cut.

lolongo or lóngo-longo. To quiet; to recompose;

to hush; quiet.

longóa. Noisy; to roar; to make a noise.

loóö. To excavate.

ly. Adulation; to cajole; to coax ; to wheedle. ma. To abash; also to defecate; to cleanse. machíla. To sharpen.

maene. To titillate; to irritate gently; to tickle. máha. To drain.

mahági. To sicken; to disorder.

maléca. Sensual pleasure.

málo. Ease; to rest.

malóhi. Forcibly; by force.

Tóho fúcca malóhi. To drag by force.

malóló. To refresh.

máloo. To shade.

mamáhi. To excruciate; to hurt; to pain..

mamáta. To indigitate.

manáco. Amiable; to endear; to be fond of.

manátoo. Memento; to remind.

manáva gnatá. Depectible; tough or clammy. mánava-hé. To frighten or alarm; to appal. mánava-chí. To frighten, &c.

mánga. Το open the mouth; to gape; to gasp.

Fucca mánga váe. Astride; to get astride.

máoo. To explain; define; elucidate; explanation; also to compensate.

Tai fa fúcca máoo. Inexplicable.

matáffa. A gash or great cut.

matóloo. To incrassate; to inspissate; to thicken. mátta. To sharpen.

méle-méle. To mingle among; to be strewed or dispersed among.

mími. To make or encourage a child to make

water.

móa móa. To desiccate or harden; to dry up.
móco-móco. To cool.

móhe. To lull; to make sleepy.
mólle-mólle. To plane; to smooth.

móloo. To intenerate; to soften.
--momóco. To cool.

momóho. To ripen; to maturate.
mooʻni.

Proof.

möoói. To quicken; to animate: to heal.

móoonoo. To bless.

motoóa tangáta. To be economical; (to act the

old man ;) thrifty; saving.

mow. To make fast; to fasten; to secure; to tie;

to furl, (as a sail.)

mow aloónga. To heighten.

helálo. To deepen.

na. To appease; to quiet; to silence, (as a child.) námoo cacála. To scent; to perfume.

nófo. To seat, or cause to sit.

noné. To shorten.

6chi. To conclude; to perfect; to extirpate; to demolish.

-- ófa. To caress; to fondle.

Fucca offi. To approach.

oo'a. To divide in two; to bisect.

ooli. To begrime or make dirty and black; to blacken.

sése. To impoverish.

táboo. To interdict.

táha. To adjoin; unite to; coalesce; connect ; interlace; to league; to be in company with; together; inseparate.

Páloo fúcca táha. To intermix as fluids

(páloo, to mix with water.)

Láto fúcca táha. Unanimity; unanimous.
Tái fúcca táha. Separate; not unanimous.

takky. To begird; to coil.

tammachí. Boyish; childish.

Léa fúcca tamachí. To prattle.

táne. To sit cross-legged on the ground as the men do: the way the women sit is called fúcca faite (vid. fulcca faite.)

tangáta. Manly; as a man; (worthy of a man.) Lo'to fucca tangáta. Magnanimous.

Tải fúcca tangáta. Unmanly ; ungenerously.

tattow. To equalize.

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téë. Water excursions; to cause to float.

télefoo'a. To denude; to divest; to strip.

tetéme. Trembling; shivering.

Aloo fúcca tetéme.

To waddle; to walk

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toloa. To degrade; common; vulgar; inelegant.

too'boo. To beget; to cause to spring up or grow. to-o'chi. Jointly.

Fucca too'goo. To appease; fu'cca tooga énne i'ta (to appease his anger,) to interrupt.

tootoo'e he momo'co. To tabefy; to waste away, as the body with a consumption.

toto'noo. To straighten; to make a discourse clear and direct; upright.

totoole. To macerate.

tow. To barter, truck or deal with; to commute; to lay a wager or bet.

To squeze or wring out, as water out of a sponge. va, To disport, play, or toy.

váca. Haft; handle.

vakky'. Mindful.

vakkyánge. Warily; carefully.

váky. To plait; to pucker.

váve. To accelerate; quicken; to go faster; cur

sory.

vavéa. To huddle.

vícoo. To dip or wet any thing.

· vy'. To dissolve; to melt; to indrench.

- vy-vy'. To enervate; weaken; invalidate.

Ge. Yet.

G.

Géa. A species of the bread fruit.

Géhe. Different; differently; apart; separate; separately;

removed; contrary; uncommon; also elsewhere; which last word cannot be expressed by ge'he-ge'he, which see. Géhe-géhe. The same meaning as gehe, only that it does not mean elsewhere.

Géle. A dike; a ditch; to dig; to intrench..

Géle-géle. Earth or mould; the ground; nofo ge'le, living in mud.

Géle-geléa. Muddy; miry.

Geléa. A conch; also muddy; slimy.

Gélemoo'too. The common earth-worm.

Gémo. The eyelash.

Gémoo. To wink.

Géna. To champ; to munch; to devour; to eat; to corrode or canker, as iron or cloth with age and ex

posure.

Genanga. Food; also any place where people have sat

down to eat.

Ger. The sign of the infinitive mood to; also of the subjnnctive or potential mood that.

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Géte. The abdomen; the belly; the stomach; the gizzard of fowls.

Gétoo. Lame; to hobble; méle-méle gétoo, to hop.

Ghe. A quarrel; disturbance; affray; dispute; to wrangle; to dispute.

Gi. To whistle.

Gi. At; to; into; than (see gia,) towards; among; through; until; before (in point of excellence ;) against; opposite.

Gia. Than; (only used when the subject referred to for comparison has a proper name, as this box is heavier than Toobo'; otherwise gi is used;) also to or towards, used before proper names.

Gi-ai. There; in that place.

Gi-alo'onga. Above; aloft; on; upon.

Giáte. To; na fecow ia giate gi'nowtoloo, he commanded them; he bade to them; among; used chiefly before pronouns.

Gi-bo'too. On one side; towards.

Gi-fé? Where whither ?

Gi-háge. Upwards.

Gi-héna. There; thither.

Gi-héni. Here; hither; to this place.

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