Futuna-Aniwa

n the activity of spearing fish

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n row, line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sacred row of plaiting in mats

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n soul, spirit, ghosts of the dead

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n ghost, spirit, demon, ancestor

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n name

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n nine

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to copulate (profane)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n elder

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n mouth, mouthlike opening

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sweetheart

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 a kind of starchy pudding food made of bananas and coconut

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a fight

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

n island, land, country, homeland

Speaker: Iarawoi Rezel Samana

n a feast by two parties, a meeting

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n taboo stone

Speaker: Iarawoi Rezel Samana

n meeting, council

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n conshell used in making necklaces

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n exchange of food between two or a few people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arrow (for a bird)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n language, speech

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n bay, harbor, anchorage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to twist together two or more pieces

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n to dig around and heap earth upon taro

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n band, group, troop

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n wall or fence near yam mound

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

a to be engaged to be married

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

v swallow, gulp down

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n small canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

a new, young

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fashion one’s hair in the traditional manner for men involving braiding and ties

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to appear (said only of the first tooth)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n grindstone

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n center strip for finishing and covering the peak of a roof

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to set sail

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arm band, bracelet

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arrow, spear

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

interjection shut up

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sling, speargun

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to pray

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to thatch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to scale fish

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[ho] yes

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[tʰao] n Saturday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

v to cook, roast on embers

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a native dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[ikaramanga] The types of fish that fisherman are not permitted to eat.

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n native dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n evening star

Speaker: Iarawoi Rezel Samana

n twirl stick or club as in some dances

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fishing rod

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n fishing net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a stick for a net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

n reed fence

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n coral bits; gravel

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long pole, club, bar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n garden

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[koupa] A fence made of small sticks.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n torch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stranger, foreigner

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n killing stick shaped like the stalk of a banana plant

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n village common

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n peace

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n bark cloth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[matua] the planting season

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n cloth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n gift

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n canoe paddle

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n lobster trap

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nakunari] n traditional cure, medicine

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n yesterday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nahsara] n day before yesterday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n grave

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n broom

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nisouri] A traditional broom.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[pai] boundary stones

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[pai] n penis (profane); pipe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

menstruation

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

waste, rubbish, dust, dirt

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

place with little earth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n house fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[potupʰuku] n mat for sitting upon

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[ramaŋa] a season

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[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