Futuna-Aniwa

n devil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n present, gift

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n substitute, duplicate (examples include a person killed in retaliation for another’s death, one of two persons chewing kava, or one who chews kava for others to drink).

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[bai] Pile of stones used to mark boundaries.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n sea creature

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to copulate (profane)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n anger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n first yam of the year to be eaten

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knot, knob, ring

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 trip

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n birth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stranger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n outrigger pins

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n taboo stone

Speaker: Iarawoi Rezel Samana

n meeting, council

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to poison, bewitch, curse

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n circle of people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arrow (for a bird)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

adj knotted or snarled (of fishing line)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n language, speech

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n story

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bay, harbor, anchorage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a braid or braided piece of rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a spring at sea, sweet water for drinking

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n traditional dance done by women

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 trip, voyage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v fishing just beyond the reef for the fish melomelo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[furufare] n a row of thatch

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n fishing lure

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n forbidden food that cannot be touched directly

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n story, tale, legend

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n protection, shield

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n food prepared with coconut milk

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sling, speargun

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n hunting

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to thatch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n pole used for carrying things on shoulders

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to pound, beat with sticks

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[iŋoa] name

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

v to drink

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[ʃiɾa] v to sail?

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n tabooed food

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sideboard of canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long club with one root at head

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n evening star

Speaker: Iarawoi Rezel Samana

n shell axe fashioned from the conch shell

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n twirl stick or club as in some dances

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kato ʋaka] Type of traditional woven bag.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n fishing rod

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fishing net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n adze

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a stick for a net

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

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

n square woven mat for sitting on

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long pole, club, bar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n large crowbar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n firestick

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n torch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knot

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n loop knot

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n car, truck

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stranger, foreigner

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n legendary hero

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n killing stick shaped like the stalk of a banana plant

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n village common

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n truth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n peace

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n girdle, men’s

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n knife

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n stranger, guest

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[motu taɸanua] the harvest season

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n bait for fishing

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n ball

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n lobster trap

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n magic sign, lucky omen

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nieli] n friend

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n puberty ceremony for girls

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n adze

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nisouri] A traditional broom.

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

Saturday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n trousers, pants

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

v to give little in return, give a small return feast

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

[potupʰuku] n mat for sitting upon

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n sideboard (of a canoe)

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[tamori] general term for swear words, informal

Speaker: Nigasau Misikofo

[tʃinea] A traditional necklace.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru