taluaito traditional healer – both a seer and a sorcerer / medical doctor

Part of Speech	noun
Phonetic Form	taluaito
Proto-Form	Vaeakau-Taumako: taulaitu 'seer, prophet, shaman'

1. • traditional healer – both a seer and a sorcerer
   • • Myth
2. • medical doctor
   • • Mod

   (Part of) Synonym (for)

   dokita

   • • Example 1338:
       

       Taluaito i-la tongolukilo i-mini men' one.

       The doctor gave some medicine to my child.

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• See also:
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  • uro charcoal, obtained from burnt wood or plants / charcoal reduced to powder, for various uses; black soot / inkpen, pen / black magic, sorcery
  • ~lanasu bewitch, kill ‹s.o.› using sorcery