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238 Uwa, 1. to bear fruit.

Uwa, 2. to bubble, be globular; uwauwa, uwalava.

Uwa, 3. a turtle.

uwa iga, the leathery turtle; uwa gan Tariaka, very large turtle, fathom long; uwa kalo, the hawk-billed turtle.

met. inau o uwa? do you think I can't feel?

Uwalava, [uwa 2.] very large, globular; wena uwalava, rain with large drops; qagala uwalava, an hibiscus with large double flowers.

Uwarowo, [uwa 1.] a tree past bearing, as an old cocoanut,

Uwauwa, [uwa 2.] to come into bubbles, as in fast boiling, or liquor curdling.

Uwauwalog, to lift the voice in weeping.

Uwauwalon, said by some for uwauvwalog.

Uwe, 1. excl. of assent, affirmation, yes; we 2.

2. v. to affirm, assert, lay it upon a person as true; uwe weswes, to affirm publicly, constantly.

uwesag, tr. determ. to make a statement in dispute, fixing a fault on some one.

V, tr. suff. to verbs; tanov, vanov, vatagav.

Va, 1. v. M. to go or come.

2. the same used as auxiliary with the notion of going on, but not easy to distinguish from the causative va; i Bishop (Patteson) gate matmatur, we va mamamata does not sleep, is always awake; ape manara we tutun, a lau we va mamarir where the hot springs are it is hot, on the beach it is always cool.

Va, 3. causative prefix, same as vaga, which see. N.H. Bks. I. Sta. Cr. Sol. I. va, fa, v-; Loy. a; D.Y. wa; Fiji, va; prefixed to Ordinals and Multiplicatives.

Va, 4. expletive; iloke va! here it is; iloke veta va here all the while; o sava va!

Va, 5. term, of verbal nouns, tapeva, galeva.

Vaasaasa, [va 2.] to fight furiously; asa to rub.

Vaatev, M, [va 2.] to go and view, atev; visit.

Vaesu, 1. [va 3.] to make live, well, to save; esu.

2. n. (k) one who saves; i vaesuna his preserver.

3. v. to dodge an arrow, &c., na me vaesu vagaqoqo.

vaesuva, [va 5.] v. n. saving, preservation, salvation.

Vag, 1. tr. term, of verbs; sir to shave, sirvag to cut something close. Fl. vagi; Fiji, vaka.

Vag, 2. term, of verbs, but, unlike vag 1. a separable suffix, equivalent in meaning to 'with'; ni we togavag naranona he is laid up with his leg; mule to go, mulevag to go with; we mulevag o tapera go with a dish, mule raveaglue o tinesara vag o tapera go through the open space with a dish; in fact, as in Fiji, the compound mule-raveaglue-o-tinesara-vag becomes one word in verbal form.

Vaga, 1. causative prefix, but rarely prefixed to verbs; vagaqoqo to multiply.

2. pref. to Ordinals and Multiplicatives; vagarua twice, va-