Crossword-Solution: INIA 4 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Genitive relation: The genitive relation of nouns one to another is effected by the use of the propositions _ni_ and _i_: _ni_ is used mainly in construction: _baea ni sugela_ deceitful words, _gwai ni gwaila_ anointing oil; _ni_ expresses purpose: _si gula ni lea inia_ a place for him to go to, _rosuli ni manatai gami_ hear us in mercy.

The addition of the demonstrative _ne, nena_, serves to make the meaning clearer: _inia nena ai garni mi maasia_ he is the person for whom we are waiting.

Herr Andree cites, for instance, that “in the Society islands, the year was divided into two portions, the first of which was named Matari-i-inia=the Pleiades above.

Who ever saw a gun kill a manatee, they asked; or a cayman, or even an inia (fresh-water dolphin)? The boat pushed off and swung rapidly round the bend of the river, and out of sight of civilisation.

Teeth, when present, few or numerous, always of simple conical form, with at most traces of additional cusps (_Inia_); if absent their place taken by whalebone.