Futuna-Aniwa

n the activity of spearing fish

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n row, line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n village (lit. row of houses)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n row, line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n ghost, spirit, demon, ancestor

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[bai] Pile of stones used to mark boundaries.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n name

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sea creature

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sweetheart

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the end

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knowledge

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n word

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n meeting, council

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to poison, bewitch, curse

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n conshell used in making necklaces

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bay, harbor; passage through reef

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n circle of people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n exchange of food between two or a few people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v beg from one who has nothing; teasing, joke-telling

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n language, speech

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n stone

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell necklace

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stick for fixing fire into canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a braid or braided piece of rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n traditional dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a spring at sea, sweet water for drinking

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a killing stick (black)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a killing stick

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a rich man, who has many plants and much food

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a mound between two rows of yams

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n calabash, bottle

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the brim edge of a vessel

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v travel (by sea), go on a trip, go abroad

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n holes though sinet in canoe making

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

a new, young

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v fishing just beyond the reef for the fish melomelo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the separation and confinement of young boys during circumcision rites

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[furufare] n a row of thatch

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n pot, cauldron, utensil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n forbidden food that cannot be touched directly

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n tortoise shell

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n anchor

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[hŋoro saki] A song sung before coming ashore with fish. Includes fish shouts.

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n cooking, preparation of food

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n story, tale, legend

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n belt, strap, strip of cloth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sling, speargun

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n inland people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to scale fish

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[ho] yes

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n middle part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

v to plant, cover seeds with earth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n pole used for carrying things on shoulders

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[tʰao] n Saturday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

v to cook, roast on embers

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

for, because

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a native dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n native dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long club with one root at head

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sleeping mat

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kaleleŋa] A hammock.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n long club with roots at head

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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 long pole, club, bar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to husk coconuts

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n dried coconut meat

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[koupa] A fence made of small sticks.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n loop knot

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n killing stick shaped like the stalk of a banana plant

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n village common

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n a small feast

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n fishhook

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knife

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n stranger, guest

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n sail made of coconut leaf matting

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n back part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n ball

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n lobster trap

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nakunari] n traditional cure, medicine

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n dwarf

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n puberty ceremony for girls

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nisouri] A traditional broom.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[nisouri] A traditional broom.

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

Saturday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n marriage agreement ceremony

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

menstruation

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

place with little earth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[popokiŋa] Song sung before coming ashore with fish and continued, with dance, after bringing the fish onto the beach.

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n bailer (for a canoe)

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n Sunday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[tʃinea] A traditional necklace.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n lower sail

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu