Crossword-Solution: RODO 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

When the first member ends in _a_ the _ae_ sometimes contracts to _e_, _fufue ai_ seed, _aqale mwai_ ten baskets, but _maae rodo_, a night; also when the first noun ends in _o_ the _oe_ is contracted to _e_: _abole ai_ a log, _abolo_ a piece.

The termination _a_ is suffixed to substantives and verbs: _rodo_ night, _rorodoa_ dark, darkness, cloud; _bulu_ to be black, _bubulua_ black.

The locative need not be used with _lao_: _lao rodo_ in the night, _lao tala_ in the path, _lao salo_ in the sky.

The following are instances of language associated with flowers:-- Vista Rodo.--A plant bearing a little flower like a diamond in transparency and brilliancy, and exhaling from every green leaf a beautiful perfume.

When the heads of the Minamoto and the Taira families were appointed provincial governors in the Kwanto, they trained their servants in the use of arms, calling them iye-no-ko (house-boys) or rodo (retainers), and other local magnates purchased freedom from molestation by doing homage and obeying their behests.