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Nauna	cil	bamboo on sail
Baluan	sil	bamboo on sail
Lou	sil	bamboo on sail
Ahus	cil	topstick of the sail
Seimat	sil	sticks of the sail
Wayan	sila	rope (called a stay or sheet) which holds the lower side or corner of a sail to the deck of a boat; in the case of the mainsail, it is attached to the boom; in the case of the spinnaker, it is attached to the corner closest to the mast; it acts as a gear controlling the direction of boat sailed into wind or wave
Fijian	sila	the sheet of a sail
Tongan	sila	yard (for a sail to hang from); to shorten the sheet (of a sail)
Samoan	tila	sprit or spar of Samoan sail; mast
	tila-lalo	lower sprit
	tila-tū	upper sprit
Tuvaluan	tila	mast
Rennellese	tiga	ship’s boom
Rarotongan	tira	mast of canoe, boat or ship; the dorsal fin of a fish; a vernacular euphemism for the phallus; that which stands erect
Maori	tira	mast of a canoe; fin of a fish

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*jiŋana whitebait

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POC *jiŋana whitebait

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Roviana	ziŋana	a very small fish resembling whitebait
Uripiv	jiŋan	whitebait
Fijian	ciŋana	whitebait
Samoan	inaŋa ^<M	whitebait of Eleotris sp.
	iŋaŋa ^<A	whitebait of Eleotris sp.
Maori	inaŋa ^<M	whitebait, the adult of the minnow Galaxias attenuatus (also the fry), and the fry of the smelt Retropinna retropinna

Note: This interesting comparison was first proposed by Osmond (2011:100). The referent appears to be a range of small light-colored fish that are commonly used as bait in trolling for larger fish.

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Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, web edition
Robert Blust and Stephen Trussel
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