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- there are no professional dance girls
- more specifically, to light a lamp
- is used to present betel
- headhunting knife:
garī
télogoe
boeloeséwa - for rice
- raga-raga: a coarsely woven basket with a large mesh, made of rattan. Is used to transport coconuts to the market.
daga: basket carried on the back by women - preserving-jar for vegetables
pot = chamber pots are not used - there are no names for the different kinds of this in the Nias language
- padi = fache (when still on the field)
- padi = oelito (already threshed: the grains)
- to pound: toetoe
- (European)
- to make a net
to tie a knot: mamaboe-oe - small bag of woven rushes, used for betel, rice, or tobacco: bōla-bōla
- blunderbuss: famoera
- personal enemy (sataroe): faoedoe
- too ripe: angōngō
almost ripe: (Javanese: mengkel): ahoero - there is still another kind of sugarpalm, viz. "batang anau" (<?>) in the Nias language = fétō
- there is a small variety of mango, called maropalau in the Padang highlands, and marafala in Nias
- zamba: djamboe ajar
ma oefa: djamboe bol
ma ziamboe: djamboe bidji
