See anu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Anu nangaia sareangi",
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"text": "Anungku anunna anunna anungku, seʼreamami takuruài",
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"translation": "If what is ours is his, but what is his, what is it to us (figurative: said of someone who freely disposes of what we own, but gets angry when we take something of his; I.H.Spr. I 106).",
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"text": "Anungku anunna anunna anungku, seʼreamami takuruài",
"translation": "Mine is his, his is mine, there is only one thing (the wife) that we do not share (figurative: to express close unity; I.H.Spr. II 265).",
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"text": "Punna anunta anunna na punna anunna apantai ikatte",
"translation": "If what is ours is his, but what is his, what is it to us (figurative: said of someone who freely disposes of what we own, but gets angry when we take something of his; I.H.Spr. I 106).",
"type": "example"
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}
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