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Reconstruction |
Reflex |
Description |
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Anuta
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NP.POKE
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Poke
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Taro balls of mashed taro and coconut sauce. A type of food made by mixing mashed, baked taro with stone boiled coconut cream and rolling it into balls (A very prestigeous food prepared on important ceremonial occasions) (Fbg).
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Rarotongan
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CE.POO-KERE
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Pookere
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A black dress material
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East Uvea
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pokia
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Etre frappé, souffleté
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Hawaiian
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PN.POO-KIA
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Poʔia
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Catch between cupped hands, to pounce, to snatch
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Kapingamarangi
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PN.POO-KIA
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Boogia
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Held up, caught by a storm
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Emae
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Catch with cupped hand
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New Zealand Maori
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Covered over; overtaken. Passive of popoki
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Ifira-Mele
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Catch by covering with hand
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Nukuoro
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PN.POO-KIA
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Boogia
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Be captured, grabbed
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Penrhyn
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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To be overwhelmed
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Pukapuka
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Grabbed
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Rarotongan
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Covered, struck by waves, overtaken. Passive of popoki
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Samoan
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pooʔia
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Be pounced on
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Tokelau
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Caught by being covered by hand
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Tokelau
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pokia
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Be caught (or found) unawares
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Tongan
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Be touched (of the eyes) by a spook and so to be injured in a certain way
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Tuamotu
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Covered over; overflowed; smothered
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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PN.POKO.3
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Phoko/hia
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Knock, beat (drum)
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New Zealand Maori
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NP.POKO-POKO
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Pokopoko
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Nymphae. Pudenda muliebria (Tgr).
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New Zealand Maori
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CE.POKO-SIWI.*
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Pokowhiwhi
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Shoulder (Aupoouri dialect WMA)
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Sikaiana
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PN.PUSO.2
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Poho/ulu
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Head of man or animal; overseer of a piece of land, especially land that has been transferred matrilaterally
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Tokelau
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MP.POLA.1
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Pola
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Bundle of thatch material
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Moriori
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FJ.POLE.A
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Pore/pore
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Propitiate
Problematic
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Hawaiian
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TA.POO-REHO
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Puuleho
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An elongated type of Cowrie (Luria isabella)
Problematic
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Tuamotu
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PN.PAKIA.1
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Pakiia
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Tapped, slapped, rapped, pounded, struck; hit, touched (as by a weapon)
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Nukuoro
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NP.POLI.B
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Boli
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Take special care of
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Rarotongan
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NP.POLI.B
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ʔAre /pori/
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A beauty-school where all well-born girls were given special diet, blanching, etc
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Tuamotu
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NP.POLI.B
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Haka/pori/
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Fatten by special feeding
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Easter Island
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OC.POLO.1
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Po/poro/
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A berry whose juice is mixed with ashes of tii leaves in tattooing . Planta de la familia umbelifera
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Hawaiian
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PN.PORO.1
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Polo
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Special prayer offered to spirits of the dead
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Kapingamarangi
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PN.PORO-QAKI
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Boloagi
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To bequeath, to will; to appoint a guardian, to entrust to someone's care
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Rennellese
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PN.PORO-QAKI
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He/pogoʔaki
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Greet ceremonially, discuss peace, bring gifts
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Marquesas
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FJ.POONIU.2
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Pooniu. (Po)poniu (Lch).
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Plante grimpante dites pois d'amerique. Liane réglisse à graines rouges avec une tache noire; plante de la famille des légumineuses (Lch).
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Kapingamarangi
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MP.PONO.1
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Bono/dia
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Obstructed, plugged up
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Emae
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MP.PONO.1
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Pono/ponotia
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Mend
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Ifira-Mele
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MP.PONO.1
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Pon/jia
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Block up, close (door)
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New Zealand Maori
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CE.PONO.2
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Whakapono-hia
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Believe; christianity
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Penrhyn
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AN.POO-POO.A
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Poopoo-hia
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To knead
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Samoan
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CE.POHE
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Pose
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To die (used jocularly). From Tahitian
Borrowed
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New Zealand Maori
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EP.POTI.2
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Poti/poti
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Sandhopper (Talorchestia quoyana), a small crustacean; a large moth
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Tahitian
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EP.POTI.2
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Po/poti
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Cancrelat ou ravet (Periplaneta americana); crustacé de petite taille (Hippa sp.). The general name for the beetle kind...esp. Indian cockroach (Dvs).
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Rennellese
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PN.POTU.1
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Potu
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Piece, portion, fraction, section, end, room; nearby corner or end, as of a village; people of the village end or nearby village; to become related through marriage to a spouse's relatives
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Samoan
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PN.POTU.1
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Potu
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The siapo screen from behind which an aitu spoke; the white border of siapo; a room (introduced from Tongan)
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Moriori
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PN.PUU.2
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Pu hhiamama
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Hollow (of tree)
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Niue
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PN.PUU.2
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Puu
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Hole (small holes, and concepts such as 'vacant, empty' associated with it); to have a hole, be perforated, punctured
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Samoan
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PN.PUU.2
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Pu
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A hole. Vagina (colloquial) (McP).
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East Futuna
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FJ.PUA.A
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Pua
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(Fagraea berteriana)
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East Uvea
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FJ.PUA.A
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Pua
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(Fagraea bertheriana (sic)
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Fijian
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FJ.PUA.A
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Bua
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(Fagraea berteriana)
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Ifira-Mele
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FJ.PUA.A
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Pua
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Wild Coconut Palm, perhaps (Veitchia sp.)
Problematic
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