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- Kōloe : of unhusked rice
Ketoe : of millet
Sēngi : of maize - oefi sinà : cassava
oefi ēdàk : cassava <?> - flower: boenàk
- female young : ōpoek
male young : mànèānak
if female, and weaned : Tēnàk - = cow
calf : sapi āna, sapi ténak, sapi manèānak - foal : ndālà ānà, ndālà tēnàk, ndālà mànèānàk
- balam: Kàloeà
tekoekoer : Kàtēoe
poenai: Moe'èk - Kòde nēsoek: large kind
Kòde fèfèk: small kind - drag net : Poe'àk
casting net : Dālà
scoop net : Ndāi - red ant : Nè'è pilàs
black ant: Nè'è nggèòk
small black ant : Nè'è loetoe nggèòk
small red ant : Nè'è loetoe pilàs
large black ant : Nè'è nōloek - red : Mèngè mēà
small but long and thin : Boesa lidèk
long and large : Boetà
very long and large, with spotted skin : Lòlòmēni
poisonous : Kàisāò
small but most poisonous : Kaisāò bāi
water-snake : Ndāki - The Rotinese give names to only three months:
July : Boelàhitoe, named after the Pleiades which in the early night are visible in the western sky August : Boelà fāloe September : Boelà siò, in which poelèsiò (nine poelèk) of the harvested rice, that is the most important part of the rice which will be sown the next year, is taken to the village to be stored in the oema nitoe.
