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mori

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móri

a. over-ripee, very soft or yielding.
a. hump-backked.
n. a very ripe soft fruit.

Sabatier

mori

a. soft, tender, over ripe, hunch backed, bent.
fig. bruised, dead tired, tired out, knocked out, extenuated.
sup. momori, morimori, nimorimori, kimorimori: very..., extremely... (S.) muri, murimuri...
v. mori, mori nako: to fall off tree from excessive ripeness, to faint away with tiredness, to bend under the burden.
ex. e mori nukana: he is hunch backed morimori n taetae: to speak in soft spoken manner.

mori1

n. te mori: a very ripe fruit (esp. breadfruit), tiredness, weariness.
vc. ka-mori: to let ripen after plucking from tree, to let soften, to tire out, to extenuate, to make bend under burden, to soften.
n. te kamori: a fruit allowed to ripen or soften after picking.