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waal   v. gouge.

1 • gouge a hole in something (not right through it).

2 • scoop, to scoop something out, to poke something.

waalu   vambi. take off, take out.

waf   vintr. swim. See: los.

wailu   n. yam sp, said to be from New Caledonia, kinds include: wailu imnam̃on, yellow one; white one. Has prickles on its vine. Category: plants.

wair   n. rattle.

1 • tree sp. Pangi. Pangium edule. Category: plants.

2 • rattle made from the seed pods of the tree wair. Category: human artefact.

wak   n. pig. Sus scrota. See: pwok; klet. Category: other animals.

wakmakur   n. fish sp. Drummers. Kyphosidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

wal1   n. nation, team, group of people.

walp̃tae   enemy.

walgakit   n. allies, our allies. Category: human relations.

wal   vintr. control a canoe, action of the person at the back of the canoe who controls the direction. Also used to refer to that person. See: tapol; tlei; sman.

walnre    See: tanre.

v. stir something from the bottom to the top, unlike tanre which involves circular (horizontal) stiring.

walsem̃   v. chew, grind.

walu   n. squid, cuttlefish. The cuttlefish bone is called a pot ni walu (the cuttlefish's boat). Category: aquatic creatures.

wam   vintr. heal.

wamos   vambi. tatoo.

wanaar   n. fish sp. Monocle breams and Spinecheeks. Nemipteridae. Category: aquatic creatures.

wanru   n. Least Frigatebird. (type of bird). Known as 'pikinini blong Adanman', when it flies there will be a cyclone. It is said to 'swallow the wind'. Category: birds.

warik   adj quantifier. few. See: nrfaal.

warof   n. fish sp. Emperor fish. Lethrinus spp.. Category: aquatic creatures.

was   adj. burned, to be burned.

wasau   n. Rufous-brown pheasant dove (type of bird). It hides and is hard to find. When it calls out it is burying a wild yam. Macropygia mackinlayi. Category: birds.

wasem   v. stay close to, as in a child who stays close to its parents.

waser   vintr. cough, clear one's throat.

wasket   n. moustache. From: English 'whiskers' Category: body part or product.

wat   vambi. hit.

watpun   vambi. kill. See: krakpun.

watiam   n. kidney. Category: body part or product.

watnru   v. play around.

weel   n. fish sp. fish, keeps company of map̃er. Has black and white markings. Convict surgeonfish? Acanthurus triostegus. Category: aquatic creatures.

wel   like, thus.

welkin   Variant: welkia. thus.

interject. thus. See: kia.

welu   vambi. help, assist.

welwel   n. clothes, hand-me-down clothes. Category: human artefact.

wenr   n. bed.

1 • bed. See: nawol. Category: human artefact.

2 • shelter for seedling yams. Category: human artefact.

3 • copra dryer. Category: human artefact.

wer   pron. them (3rd person plural Object).

wes1   there, at that place.

wes2   vambi. take, carry something small. See: siti; slat.

wes3   vambi. work.

n. duty, job, labour. See: weswes; nawesien.

wes4   vintr. reply.

weswes   vintr. work. See main entry: wes.

wi   adj. good.

wik   n. week. Category: temporal.

wim̃esm̃es   adj. excellent. See: top.

wit ni to   n. brittle star, eaten by chickens at the sea. Ophiothrix purpurea. Category: aquatic creatures.

wit   n. octopus. Octopodidae. Category: aquatic creatures.

wo   vintr. fall, as in rain.

woi   n. pudding made with breadfruit and green coconut. See: napos. Category: plants.

wol   vintr. flatten leaves to make a plate or a mat.

wolul   vintr. pull your legs back (e.g. so someone can pass).

woor   vintr. noise of two trees rubbing together.

wor   vintr. look, appear. Wor wi 'to look nice', worp̃onp̃et, worp̃tae'to look different'.

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woro   adj. brown. Category: colours.

wos   n. back tooth. Category: body part or product.

wou   pron. me (1st person singular Object).

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