akamapai

Verb

 * 1)  he/she/it dies ceases to live
 * Akamapai, aitsa neke amunauntapai. Inyaun opalutsato, kehoto wekehopei. Naatsa weke otainyaun, punuba inyaun akamawamiu, amunaun akama wamiu, punuba otain, iya kehoto wekehopei. Itsatai.
 * [If a chief's sons are still children when] he dies, they are not yet made chief. The co-chief [the partner of the late principal chief] becomes principal chief. After the children of the first chief are grown, you see, the co-chief also [eventually] will die, and so then the grown sons of the first chief will become chief. That's how it is.
 * Aminya pakulukata. Akama yajo wiu. Aitsa minya kutowa.
 * Don't worry. It's really dead [lit., it really died]. It won't wake up.
 * [Said of a piranha just caught and clubbed, lying at our feet in the canoe.]
 * 1)  he/she/it weakens is sick, ill, unwell
 * Nakamapai. Kaupai notowonaku, kaupai nipinyunaku, nukahopai atai.
 * I'm feeling sick. I have a headache, a sore throat, and a fever.
 * Nakamapai yiu. Patokene natu wi!
 * I'm dying in here. You [must] dig me out now!
 * [From a tradtional story in which a woman is buried alive and then rescued].
 * 1)  he/she/it passes out becomes unconscious