F - f

faafat   vintr. believe.

faag   vintr. riddle, tell riddles.

n.

nfaag   parable, story with deeper meanings.

faai kuul   n. fish sp. Bluespotted ribbontail ray. Taeniura lymma. Category: aquatic creatures.

faai mantu   n. fish sp. ray sp. Black skin can be scraped off. Identified as both Manta ray (but see roktar) and Devil ray. Category: aquatic creatures.

faai p̃og   n. fish sp. Spotted eagle ray. Aetobatus narinari. Category: aquatic creatures.

faai pumat   n. fish sp. Bluespotted stingray. Dasyatis kuhlii. Category: aquatic creatures.

faai suar   n. fish sp. eagle ray. Category: aquatic creatures.

faai   See main entry: paai. ray, stingray.

faai   n. fish sp. stingray, general term. Category: aquatic creatures.

faakor   See main entry: paakor.

faakot   See main entry: paakot.

faalag   See main entry: paalag.

faar   n. light, as in a car's lights or another bright light. Also used to talk about someone's eyes.

faat   n. stone.

1 • stone.

faat ftak   n. bottom stones of an oven.

faat ni uum   n. top stones of an oven. Category: natural features.

2 • vatu, money. Category: human artefact.

faatfar   n. rock that is under the sea most of the time, but is exposed in low tides and sticks out of the water. Category: natural features.

faatmaama   n. sharpening stone. Category: human artefact. See: maama.

faatsal   n. stone that floats, pumice. See: sal; naf2; nasitafra. Category: natural features.

faftae   excl. thankyou. See: psawi.

fag1   v. scabby, to be covered in sores. See: nfag.

fag2   vintr. burn, of a fire that is glowing or smoking, but no flame is visible. If the flame is visible then it is said to sor.

fag   See main entry: pag.

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failuk   v. tie a loop to hold an animal.

faitau   vintr. learn.

tefaitau   n. teacher.

sum̃faitau   n. school.

fak   See main entry: pak.

fakelag   go.up:IR#.

fakelag   See main entry: pakelag.

fakelag   See main entry: pakelag.

faketan   See main entry: paketan.

fakfak   n. shellfish sp. (no poison). Conidae.. Category: aquatic creatures.

fakfukal   Variant: fakfkal. comfort.

vintr. comfort.

fakis   Variant: faksi. decorate.

vambi. decorate.

falkor   See main entry: palkor.

falus   See main entry: palus.

fam   eat.IR#.

fam   See main entry: pam.

fan   See main entry: pan.

fanei   vintr. dissolve, as of sugar in water or smoke in the sky.

fanfan   vintr. wash the face.

fanikoro   n. tree sp. Fruit like vanilla, pretty flowers, firewood. Category: plants.

faos   See main entry: paos.

far   vintr. pick pandanus leaves.

fare   See main entry: pare.

faresor   n. tree sp. Used for timber posts, firewood, burns well. Category: plants.

farfar1   n. White-bellied graybird (type of bird); Little cuckoo-shrike. Coracina papuensis perpallida. Category: birds.

farfar2   vintr. shake, as in a leaf shaking or other small movements. To shake a rattle announcing the presence of a group of people (or wal).

faria   adj. poor.

fas   See main entry: pas.

fati   n. boil that comes up on fingers. See: nmanuk; nmak; p̃onfer. Category: body part or product.

fatkao   n. barb. Category: human artefact.

fatma   n. grater for making laplap with root crops and bananas. See: skitrai. Category: human artefact.

fato   See main entry: pato.

fe   vtr. read. See: nafeifeien.

fef   vintr. count, read something.

feek   n. cockroach. Category: insects, grubs etc..

fei   See main entry: pei.

fei   interrog. who.

fekfek   vintr. show something you are proud of, show off. See: fainte; pesp̃ur.

ferfer   vintr. mark rythm.

fes   See main entry: pes.

fesfes   vintr. cheep, of birds.

festaf   See main entry: pestaf.

fetkasu   vintr. jealous, be jealous.

fgan   n. bait, used for fishing or hunting.

fi   See main entry: pi.

fiar   vintr. be unafraid of.

fiet   adj. fierce, good fighter.

fiif   vintr. twisted, to be, rolled up, curly (e.g. of hair), to be. With -ki it means to tie up. See: lefek.

fiikot   vambi. tie cloth.

1 • tie a cloth or rope onto oneself, for example, a towel wrapped around the throat.

2 • fasten a mat around your body, a sign of high rank. Usage: old-fashioned

fios   See main entry: pios.

fis   vambi. whip, with a rope.

fisktof   v. whip.

fisfis   vintr. masturbate, whip yourself.

fit   Variant: fitfitfitfit. run.

vintr. run. See: pelpel.

fitkaskei   See main entry: pitkaskei.

fitlak   have.IR#.

fitlak   See main entry: pitlak.

fkaar   vintr. joke, give cheek.

fkal   See main entry: pkal.

fkaskei   See main entry: pkaskei.

fket   adj. sour, to be spicy (like chilli), food which 'bites' you.

fkofuk   adj. swelling of the skin, could be from allergy or insect bite.

fkop   vintr. chase, follow fish. See: kop.

fla   PVC. conditional particle. See: -f.

flak   See main entry: plak.

fle   See main entry: ple.

flefil   n. shellfish sp. Pearl Oyster. Pinctada margaritifera. Category: aquatic creatures.

fleslu   n. shellfish sp. Moon shell, shell is white, flesh is white, black operculum, lives in the sand, not in the water. Naticidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

flik   See main entry: plik.

flor   See main entry: plor.

fnagot   n. shellfish sp. Turbo shell (small one). Category: aquatic creatures.

fnak   See main entry: pnak.

fnut   See main entry: pnut.

fo   v. See main entry: po. PSP.IR.

folfol   vintr. behave.

folfol sa   vintr. bad behaviour, copulate. See: nafolflon; pregwel; polwi.

folfolm̃ak   vintr. rub.

1 • rub.

2 • shake out, like a tablecloth, or clothes being washed, or shaking hands to dry them.

folsa   See main entry: polsa.

fon   vintr. cover oneself. See: pisp̃lolo; nafon; nasieg.

foum   Variant: faum. new.

adj. new.

fraa   vambi. beg.

frafer   vintr. scatter.

frak   vintr. slow, late, to be.

fram   See main entry: pram.

frap̃o   n. beetle (generic). Category: insects, grubs etc..

fraru   n. banana sp. Category: plants.

freg   See main entry: preg.

freg   vintr. carry basket on head, or hanging from a rope around the forehead (only of women).

fregnrog   See main entry: pregnrog.

frofur   n. full of, like the bush can be frofur with plants, or a church service can be frofur with people. Category: natural features.

fsaplil   See main entry: psaplil.

fsar   v. grab, wrestle.

fser   n. fish sp. Vermiculate rabbitfish or Forktail rabbitfish. See: tof; tofkas; sm̃os. Siganidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

fserser   vintr. different, to be.

fsofus   adj. young.

1 • young, to be.

2 • pregnant, nakon ifsofus, 'face is young', means 'she is pregnant'.

fsup̃   vintr. pointed, to be pointed, pitch, summit, pointed, something sticking up.

fti   n. fish sp. Scorpionfishes. Scorpaenidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

ftil   vintr. gossip.

ftin   vintr. hot.

1 • hot, to be.

2 • angry, be angry.

ftir   n. fish sp. stone fish, small one (Smallscale scorpionfish). Scorpaenidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

ftok   n. cane (nasul) when straightened and ready to make arrows (timen). See: naus. Category: plants.

ftom   See main entry: ptom. grow.IR.

ftup̃   vintr. punch.

1 • punch.

2 • fight. See: nafkal; tup̃.

fuelig araskei   n. coconut branch split and leaves woven together to make a mat that is used for the wall or roof of a house. Category: human artefact.

fuelig   n. basket. large basket made of woven coconut branches with two folding shutters (to carry grass or rubbish). Category: human artefact. See: nroog; likat; tip̃el; sp̃ol; tasal; polpol; nlafkir; napor; sarpotpot.

fuelig   n. coconut branch. Category: human artefact.

fuet   See main entry: puet.

fuet   adj. marked, to be. For example, the way that skin is marked after it is hit by something.

fuetsok   See main entry: puetsok.

fuiek   n. fish sp. Batfish. See: kalmat. Category: aquatic creatures.

fuk   See main entry: puk.

fuknra   n. fish sp. Twinspot snapper; Red snapper. Mangrove jack. Not eaten as it may have fish poison (ciguetera). Lutjanidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

fuknrei   n. wriggler, baby mosquito. Category: insects, grubs etc..

fum̃   vintr. flower. See: nafum̃.

fumasei   n. fish sp. Picassofish, strong skin, or Brush-sided filefish. Category: aquatic creatures.

fumatol   n. fish sp. Category: aquatic creatures.

fum̃os   n. fish sp. strongskin dark coloured (Orange-lined triggerfish?) Category: aquatic creatures.

funfnoi   vintr. fade, disappear. See: surfunfnoi; krakfunfnoi.

funre   n. ant sp. white ant, termite. See: ofet. Category: insects, grubs etc..

fup̃el   n. fish sp. Sand bass. Centropomidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

furfur   n. bundle of coconuts.

fuserek   See main entry: puserek.

fusuer   vintr. growl.

fusur tol   n. competition.

fuu1   vintr. blow hard, of the wind.

fuu2   n. fish sp. Triggerfishes, but see also p̃arp̃or. Balistidae. See: p̃arp̃or. Category: aquatic creatures.

fuu3   v adv. quick, go quickly. Usage: old-fashioned

fuum̃os   n. fish sp. Large-scaled leatherjacket. Cantheschenia grandisquamis. Category: aquatic creatures.

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