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Adanu

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Westermann (1905) glosses adanu as skill, dexterity and handicraft, and also as cleverness, wisdom, counsel and cunning. The phrase do adanu means to take counsel, and do adanu na ame to advise someone.

The weaver's work was praised for its adanu.

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