mase
Example from Scripture
a namo bona dika idibalaidia auna huahuana una mo basio ania; badina be ia bavania dinana ai oi na ba mase vaitani.
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
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1 commentVerb and noun meaning "to die" or "death". As verb: "e mase" (he/she died, 366×), "baine mase" (will die, 118×), "bae mase" (they will die, 76×). Forms compound verbs: "aladia mase" (killed them, 267×), "alaia mase" (killed him, 256×). As noun: "mase taudia" (dead people, 121×), "mase tauna" (dead person, 76×), "mase gabuna" (place of death, 47×), "mase amo" (from death, 63×). Common in genealogies with succession formula: "X e mase, bena Y e lohia" (X died, then Y reigned).
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