Futuna-Aniwa

n crowd, group of people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n strands, threads

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n devil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sacred row of plaiting in mats

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n short upright sticks which brace and plug interior canoe wall

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

v to dream continuously of one thing

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a steep place

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

n a fight

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n birth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stranger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n word

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n charm worn for the dead

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n outrigger pins

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n wood planks, prepared lumber

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to poison, bewitch, curse

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n circle of people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n exchange of food between two or a few people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arrow (for a bird)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n language, speech

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n story

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stone

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shooting contest

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bay, harbor, anchorage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stick for fixing fire into canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n maker of rain

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a braid or braided piece of rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to peel or skin something

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

interjection a call to the clouds to rain

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n food customarily eaten after drinking kava

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 trip, voyage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish from land or reef

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

a new, young

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to bind, to tie by wrapping rope around

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n grindstone

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 fishing lure

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n village green

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bow

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

hello

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a game of peek-a-boo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

adj exceedingly small

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish using large nets

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n food prepared with coconut milk

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n hunting

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to thatch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n wrapper, cover, stopper; penis sheath

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to cook, roast on embers

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

n sideboard of canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n beater for drum

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell axe fashioned from the conch shell

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bow string

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n twirl stick or club as in some dances

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n forward portion of canoe hull

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kato iotea] A type of traditional woven bag.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[kato ʋaka] Type of traditional woven bag.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n to swim

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

n a feast

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n reed fence

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish with a long line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to husk coconuts

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n torch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knot

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n car, truck

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n harvest festival

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n girdle, men’s

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n sail made of coconut leaf matting

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n fishhook

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n back part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[hmori] n prayer

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n ball

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[matariki] n tribe

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n canoe paddle

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[nakunari] n traditional cure, medicine

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n a traditional dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n dwarf

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n pipe, flute; musical instrument

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n magic sign, lucky omen

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nisouri] A traditional broom

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n request

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n trousers, pants

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

place with little earth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[phane] Coconut grating bench.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n Sunday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson