onuka

Verb

 * 1)  he/she/it kills something or someone
 * Awapotene yiu, aunukawi, umakonapai ipitsi. Awapoteneu. Hoona! Piya patoka topoho. Natu napotebeni! ipiSUN wi.
 * "Well, let's bury her, let's kill her [and be done with it]," 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.]
 * Ehen, amamitsatai. Minyulitai. Amamitsapai. Maka onuko. Maka akiyuntuapa.
 * Yes, she was just tricking him. It was just a lie. She was deceiving him. So that she could kill him. So that she could get her revenge.
 * Ninye nunuka kuhupojato.
 * I'm off to hunt birds (lit., I'm off to kill [some] birds).
 * 1)  he/she/it attacks, harms, injures something or someone
 * 2)  he/she/it is angry at, bears ill will toward something or someone
 * 1)  he/she/it is angry at, bears ill will toward something or someone

Usage notes

 * Because the Wauja believe that human witches can cause harm, and even death, to other people through angry thoughts and secret incantations, the Wauja consider that bearing someone ill will is a form of harming them.