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la 1. termination of verbal nouns; attached to verbs; mae, to die, maela, death; bae, to speak, baela, speech; the meaning seems to be gerundival and to denote the act of doing a thing. Cf. S. la 5.
la 2. termination of the verbal nouns, attached to certain nouns; te, mother, ro mwai telana, mother and daughter; attached to verbs; tasa, ro fe tasala, twice as much.
la 3. adjectival ending; attached to verbs; taga, to be scattered, tagala, promiscuously; tagalo, to be lost, tagalola, lost; teo, teteola; attached to nouns, mwai, mwaila.
labu v. tr., to assault. S. rapu.
labua n., point, prick, splinter.
lada v. i., to fall down. S. lada,
lade deep water, secure anchorage. S. lade.
lado v. tr., to join, knit; lado ae, to follow.
ladola v. n., a member.
lafi, lalafi v. v. tr., to take up, pull up, draw out, Mota lav.
lafu 1. v. tr., to pull, to wrench, pluck.
lafu 2. to be worn out, old; lafue toongi, old clothes. S. lahu.
lafusi, lalafusi, v. tr., to be ignorant of.
lai transitive suffix to verb; tege, tegelai. S. la'i.
lala v. i., to stretch; lala fonosi, protect. S. lala'i.
lalaba v. i., to walk about. S. la'alapa.
lalabata, court yard.
lalago v. i., to cling. S. nanako.
lalano the ground immediately above the beach.
lalanga v. i., to be dry, without coconut milk (of yam puddings), unleavened; usu lalanga to wipe dry. S. langa.
lali (na) 1. n., root, lali ngado, to be firmly rooted.
lali 2. v. tr., to drive.
lalao v. i., to run.
lalaoa v. n., a herald. Mota valago.
lalifu (na) n. corner.
laliqate v. i., to make an oration, to preach.
laliqatela v. n. S. wale.
lamua a dove; fe lamua; ta ro fe lamua, two doves.
langae, to throw; langae fou, to cast stones.
langi 1. negative, no, not; e may be prefixed; used as negative particle; e langi nau gu lea, I did not go; si may be added, nia langi si saea, he does not know, e langi nau gu si lea, I am not going; e langi si langi lau, not again; langi lau no more; langi ana, not existing, lost; langi ta, or, if not; ma langi, ma e langi, or not, in questions; lalangi ana, nothing.
langi 2. sky, heaven; ilangi. S. langi.
lao (na) n, in; lao rodo, at night; i laogamu, amongst you, in you, laona maamu, in your eye. S. lalo.
laongi v. tr., to cross, step over; S. laongi.
Lau 1. name of the language spoken by the coast peoples of Big Malaita on the artificial Islets off northeast coast, spoken also at Port Adam on Little Malaita.
lau 2. adv. again, anew, also; go may be added, inau lau go. S. lou.
lau 3. v. tr., to wrest, abduct; lau doola, extortion; lau fafi, to deliver. S. lau.
lausi v. tr., bae lausit to compel.
lea lelea, v. i., to go; lea fonosi, to afflict; lea isuli, to follow.
leafi v. tr., to cause to move.
lelea v. n., going.
leala v. n., a herald. S. lae.
lebelebe v. i., to be weak, sick.
lebelebela v. n., trembling.
ledi 1. v. tr., to ask a question; aoe ledi, to question a person.
ledila v. n., questioning.
ledi 2. v. tr., to abominate, to renounce; qatiedi. S. leledi.
lelefe, a dish, bowl, of wood.
li 1. genitive; maalimaea, enemy; maalitafa, channel; a variant of ni.
li 2. transitive suffix to verbs, mae, maeli.
lifo (gu) n. tooth; girigiri lifoa, gnashing of teeth. S. niho.
liligali (nau), prep, all around. S. lilikeli.
lima 1. (gu) n. hand, arm. S. nime.
lima 2. numeral, five; e lima. S. lime.
limana ordinal, fifth, the fifth time.
lingisi v. tr., to reverse, turn upwards. S. lingi.
liqa, cave, hole. S. liwe.
liu, liliu v. i., to ply, come, pass by; liu idu, to pass by; liliu kali, to spread; liu inao fuagamu, go in front of you. liufa v. n., an epidemic. S. liu.
lio 1. v. i., to look, seem.
lio (gu) n., appearance. S. lio.
lio 2. (gu) n., heart, mind; lio sarofaia, harmless; lio bukonua, sorrow; ro si lio double mind; lio too, to be wise, lio tooa, lio toola, wisdom; alu te si lio, to be brave.
lita (gu) n., waist, loins,
lo adv., there, used with go, and gi; ita mai logo, thence; logo north west; na ogule boso logi, the herd of swine over there.
lobo v. i., a lake, pond. S. lopo.
lofo 1 v. i., to jump, to fly; lofo laongi, to jump over; ano lofo, dust.
lofoi v. tr., to assault. S. loho.
lofo 2. (na) n, in the neighborhood of, over against, opposite to; i lofona fera, opposite the village.
logosi v. tr., to incline, bend. S. lolosi.
lola v. i., to drown.
lologu v. i., to be palsied, crippled. S. loku.
lolosi v. tr., to bend. S. lolosi.
lolou v. i., to make a noise, reverberate. S. lolou.
loo v. i., to be fierce, wild, suspicious.
falooi, to persecute, cause to be wild. S. loo.
looua grass.
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 pronoun; 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. luu'i
lukumi 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.