LAU VOCABULARY
A.
a 1, personal article: used with the names of males, both native and foreign, a Masuraa, a Luke; is used also with doo, thing, a doo So-and-So, a doo na, the person; is seen also in ati who? In usage it corresponds to the i of Mota and Malagasy. Cf. S. a.
a 2, termination of the verbal noun: attached to verb, angi to cry, angia a cry, fanga to eat, fangaa a feast; added to compounds girigiri lifoa, gnashing of teeth.
a 3, pers. pron. sing. 3. suffixed to verbs as object, and to prepositions as anticipatory object and used both of persons and things: him, her, it. S. a.
a 4, stem to which the pronouns gu, mu, na, etc. are suffixed in forming the possessive. S. a.
a 5, prefix of condition making participles: luga to loose, aluga loosened. S. 'a.
a 6, adj. term, suffixed to nouns and verbs rodo, night, rorodoa, belonging to darkness, bulu, to be black, bubulua, black. S. a.
a 7, exclam. negative; don't
aba (gu) n., hand, arm, part, leaf: fuli abae ai, men's handiwork. S. apa.