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bungira

Bingham

búngira

n. second share.
ex. bungiram: your second share.
vt. to increase one's share in distribution.
vt. to do an incantation to a canoe for its success.

Sabatier

bungira

syn. okira, okiria.
vt. moa ni bungiria: to repeat, to add to first amount shared.

bungira1

n. odd number of things over, after a distribution, to increase the number in each share with what was over.
ex. e bungiraki te tiba.
vt. bungira (... raea).
vc. kabungira.

Topics: Spirits, myth and belief, Numbers and counting