| OC |
| Hawaiian |
hilo-hilo |
lengthen a speech or story by inserting new matter; embroider or spin out a tale |
|
hilo |
to twist, braid, spin; twisted, braided, threadlike; faint streak of light |
| Marshallese |
piro |
twins; double; grown together; joined; two pandanus keys joined together |
| Nukuoro |
hilo |
mix; braid strands of sennit |
| Gilbertese |
biro |
tool used to fasten ropes or tighten boards: carpenter's vice, screw jack, tourniquet |
|
biro-a |
to twist, to screw, to tighten with a vice |
| Lau |
filo-fai |
discuss, talk a thing out thoroughly |
|
filos-i |
twisted round |
|
filos-ia |
twisted round |
|
filo |
twist together, as strands, twist round |
| Tuvaluan |
filo |
twist; twist fiber on thigh to make cord; a thread; mix, of liquids; mix with other people |
|
ma-filo |
twisted (of string) |
| Kwaio |
filos-ia |
twist, wring ( < *?) |
|
filo-a |
squeeze, wring |
| 'Āre'āre |
hiro-ato |
wring out, squeeze, twist |
| Arosi |
piro |
to plait the edge of a bag |
| Rennellese |
higo |
to coil, braid; to mix, as food, or as persons with others unlike himself |
|
higo-higo |
to mix, connect; be mixed (as a person's ancestry); area between shallow and deep blue sea |
| Mota |
viro |
to turn, go round, change, turn out of the way |
|
o qaui we viro |
twisted knee |
| Samoan |
filo |
thread; cotton; reel of thread |
| Fijian |
viro |
cross-grained, of timber |
| Niue |
filo |
to twist (as a rope), to plain; string, thread, reel of cotton |
|
ka-filo |
tough, stringy, hard to snap |
| Tongan |
fio |
to mix, mix together, mingle (as with other people in a crowd) |