husband; important, major, primary; adult, mature; ripe

Feinberg 1977

parents

Feinberg 1977

unripe, of food

Geerts 1970

full grown

Fox, C. 1970

mature, ripe; hard, strong

Lithgow 2007

mother’s brother

mature, ripe, fit for gathering or digging; of people who are getting on in years it is more usual to say #qase; as adverb, strongly, vigorously

Capell 1968

old

be old (singular); age; an old person (from about 40); king (in cards); ripe, mature; an elder person of importance

parents

to grow into maturity; to mature; to act the part of a parent; to foster, adopt, as a child; to call or treat as a parent; to address as parent, aunt, or uncle, one related by affection rather than by blood or adoption; to become established or permanent

Pukui and Elbert 1971

parent, any relative of the parents’ generation, as uncle, aunt, cousin; Catholic father; main stalk of a plant; adult; full-grown, mature, older, senior; fig., benefactor, provider, anyone who cares for one; the Lord

Pukui and Elbert 1971

parents, etc. (plural of #makua)

Pukui and Elbert 1971

old, mature, ripe (of breadfruit)

Lieber and Dikepa 1974

ripe

Senft 1986

full-grown

full grown; ripe, of #ngali 〈Canarium〉 nut

Fox, C. 1974

full grown

Fox, C. 1974

parent, and more especially father; division of an army, company; placenta; adult, grown up; main, chief, important

Williams 1971

parents; first; important, large, abundant; main body of an army

Williams 1971

rest, pause, after an effort; keep steady, control

Williams 1971

full-grown, ripe

Codrington and Palmer 1896

ripe before the time

Codrington and Palmer 1896

a full-grown person

Codrington and Palmer 1896

parents

McEwen 1970

parent; relative of the same generation as one’s parents

McEwen 1970

grandparent

McEwen 1970

old folk, elders

McEwen 1970

old age; an old person

McEwen 1970

the original dense forest, virgin bush

McEwen 1970

mother’s brother

old (persons), mature, full-grown; parent, elder (senior relative)

Carroll and Soulik 1973

mother’s brother (Milke 1958)

mother’s brother

parent, elder; an expert, one who is skilled in any art or science; a master, as the navigator of a ship, etc.

Savage 1980

husband, family head, landholder, worshipper, especially the priest-chief; to be or grow old; to be or become mature, as fruit fully formed but not ripe

Elbert 1975

to act as head of household or a group of travellers

Elbert 1975

full-grown, of adult age; old, as opposed to young; to die (euphemistic); man appointed to act as spokesman for a district chief, to announce the kava, act as master of ceremonies, etc.

Churchward 1940

plural of #mafua

Churchward 1940

ripe, of yams

Ivens 1929

(be) elderly

Milner 1966

(of fruit, etc.), be mature, but not fully ripe; (of people), (be) adult, grown up; (be) older, elder; (be) old; (of bush, forest) be dense, thick; age; parent

Milner 1966

parents

Milner 1966

very, extremely, absolutely, quite, fully, completely; great, considerable

Milner 1966

orphan

Milner 1966

parent

Milner 1966

old

fully developed adult male who has reached years of discretion, not an old man, not a youth; husband

Bell 1977

very old man or woman

Bell 1977

mother’s brother

the relationship between a woman’s brothers and sisters and her children; nephew or niece; mother’s brother

(of persons) old; or mature, fully developed

Churchward 1959

old or elderly person, or elder; male person of any age (even a baby) when one is speaking in a derogatory way; parent, especially father; husband (derogatory for #mali); (of things or animals) old; or mature, fully developed; being old; preposed adjective: original, former, first

Churchward 1959

thumb (lit. ‘parent finger’)

Churchward 1959

ready to eat, ripe (as bananas)

old (of person, animal); mature, of fruit

old (of person, animal); mature, of fruit (plural referent)

strong; ripe; ready

van den Berg 2008

mother’s brother

be mature, fully developed; thus 1. (of fruit, tubers, etc.) be ripe, mature, fit for eating or harvesting, 2. (of people, animals, plants) be full grown, grown up, mature, adult, 3. honest, honorable, upright

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

(of a young child) be precocious in speech, advanced for his or her years

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

let something mature or ripen; to mature something; what matures

Pawley and Sayaba 2003