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ko

Bingham

ko

pron. thou, you (always followed by the predicate) thee, when used as a suffix to a transitive verb, often united to the verbal root by i.

ko

va. being bleached as a girl shut up for bleaching, firmly bound.
n. a girl undergoing the bleaching process.

Sabatier

ko

pron. you, thou.
ex. ko anene: you sing.
pron. (objective) thee (joined as suffix to verbs).
ex. kaniko: approach.

ko1

a. (1) close, serried, compact, tight.
vc. ka-koa: to tighten.
n. (2) te ko: a dark place where formerly young girls were kept to get beautiful.
this claustration.
Nei te ko: girl so kept.
vc. ka-koa: to enclose or keep in to get white skin.