atokapai

Verb

 * 1)  he/she/it digs a hole or digs up something
 * Awapotene yiu, aunukawi, umakonapai ipitsi. Awapoteneu. Hoona! Piya patoka topoho. Natu napotebeni! ipiSUN wi.
 * "Well, let's bury her, let's kill her," they all said about her. "We'll bury her. Yes, we will!" "[You, there,] go dig her grave," [one of them said]. "I will bury her!" [answered one man]. [But this man was, in fact, secretly] her lover. [He was just pretending to go along with the others.]
 * Nakamapai yiu. Patokene natu wi!
 * I'm dying in here. You [must] dig me out now!
 * Atokene tiu, tiu, iseepiyatene ipenuwaitsa kehoto yiu.
 * So he dug her out, tiu, tiu [sound of digging], a little at a time, removing the earth that was covering her.