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iango

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iángo

vi. reflect, consider, ponder, meditate.
n. consideration, deliberateion.

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iango

n. thought, idea, consideration, reflection, imagination, deliberation, plan, solution, fable, fairy tale, fiction.
ex. au iango, am iango, etc.: my thought, etc.
n. karakin te iango: fable, story (invented).
v. iango: to think, to meditate, to reason, to reflect.
vt. iangoa: to consider, to meditate on, to think about, to imagine.
n. iangoraoi: wisdom, intelligence.
v. iangobuaka: to think in a confused way, wicked way, badly.
iangoi baika buakaka: to have bad thoughts, impure thoughts, wicked thoughts.
iango n aomata: to think in a serious way, reasonably.
ex. iango ni kewe: to plan to decieve.
vc. ka-iangoraoi, ka-iangobuaka: to make...
kaiangoraoa, kaiangobuakaea.
v. iangomaka: to meditate, to reflect well, to calculate well, to arrange well one's plan.
ex. iangororoko: idem. to reflect at length so as to formulate good ideas.
vc. ka-iango: to make reflect, to give food for thought, to alarm.
n. bain te iango: the fruit of thought, invention, discovery, intelligent finding.