Futuna-Aniwa

n strands, threads

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n devil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sacred row of plaiting in mats

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n chest, front side

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n soul, spirit, ghosts of the dead

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sea creature

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to copulate (profane)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n elder

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n engine

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n mouth, mouthlike opening

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n period of time, point in time

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to cause to dream

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n 1. possessions, supplies, 2. a child’s penis

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n feast for paying those who have cut or dug a canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a native feast

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the plimsoll line on a canoe, that is the level at which the sea should hit the water when it is afloat

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the end

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a kind of starchy pudding food made of bananas and coconut

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[ɸakau sore] Said to be the oldest tree on the island, the first tree. It grows slowly and grows nowhere else. Cutting this tree is not allowed.

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[ɸana] A person with one parent from each moiety.

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

A person with one parent from each moiety.

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n church (house of prayer)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n birth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knowledge

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n outrigger pins

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

v to poison, bewitch, curse

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n exchange of food between two or a few people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

adj knotted or snarled (of fishing line)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bay, harbor, anchorage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[foe] n paddle, rudder, oar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n little harvest of breadfruit or chestnuts

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n food customarily eaten after drinking kava

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n trip, voyage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n holes though sinet in canoe making

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish from land or reef

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to appear (said only of the first tooth)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the separation and confinement of young boys during circumcision rites

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n turned words; idiomatic, symbolic speech

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[furufare] n a row of thatch

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n arrow, spear

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n anchor

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

hello

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

interjection shut up

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a game of peek-a-boo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to weave

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish using large nets

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n belt, strap, strip of cloth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[hnofoŋa] n dwelling

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

v to thatch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to scale fish

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to count, read

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to cook, roast on embers

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

for, because

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to drink

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[iriri] A traditional woven fan.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[ʃiɾa] v to sail?

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n tabooed food

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sleeping mat

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n beater for drum

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bow string

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shed

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long club with roots at head

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kato iotea] A type of traditional woven bag.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n fishing net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n adze

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kawiameta ] One of the two moieties on Futuna island. Half of the population of each village comes from this moiety.

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

[kawiameta] One of the two moieties on Futuna island. The population of each village is divided between the two moieties.

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

[kawiameta kona] A person with both parents from the moiety Kawiameta.

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

n a feast

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n coral bits; gravel

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to husk coconuts

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n large crowbar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n bark cloth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n girdle, men’s

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n bait

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n cloth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n sail made of coconut leaf matting

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n back part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n lobster trap

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a traditional dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n yesterday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nahsara] n day before yesterday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n magic sign, lucky omen

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n grave

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[natokeni] n poison for fish

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n broom

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nisouri] A traditional broom.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n day, season

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

Saturday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n Sunday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[pai] n penis (profane); pipe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n canoe with outrigger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

A marriage ceremony during which the parents of the bride and groom meet and give approval for the marriage.

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

waste, rubbish, dust, dirt

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

place with little earth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n house fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[phane] Coconut grating bench.

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n bailer (for a canoe)

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[tapou] The shout that the fishermen give to announce to the village that they have caught fish. The type of shout and number of times it’s repeated indicate type and quantity of fish.

Speaker: Anselon Seru