Futuna-Aniwa

n crowd, group of people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n strands, threads

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n village (lit. row of houses)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n chief, ruler, God, spirits

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n present, gift

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n ghost, spirit, demon, ancestor

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n name

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n elder

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n women, girls

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n pan pipes made of bamboo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n anger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to cause to dream

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to dream continuously of one thing

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knot, knob, ring

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sweetheart

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the end

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

A person with one parent from each moiety.

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

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 sorcery, magic

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n language, speech

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n shooting contest

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell necklace

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stick for fixing fire into canoe

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n maker of rain

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n a braid or braided piece of rope

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n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[foe] n paddle, rudder, oar

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

v to peel or skin something

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a mound between two rows of yams

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

interjection a call to the clouds to rain

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

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to bind, to tie by wrapping rope around

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

v to appear (said only of the first tooth)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

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

n arm band, bracelet

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n pot, cauldron, utensil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

hello

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a game of peek-a-boo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n protection, shield

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n food prepared with coconut milk

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n hunting

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[hnofoŋa] n dwelling

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

v to thatch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n grater

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n pole used for carrying things on shoulders

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

for, because

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n tabooed food

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sideboard of canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a Christian (particularly European)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell axe fashioned from the conch shell

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bow string

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shed

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 fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n fishing net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n adze

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish with a long line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n dried coconut meat

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n garden

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n net

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n torch

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n loop knot

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n figurehead of a canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stranger, foreigner

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sling

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n harvest festival

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[matua] the planting season

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n cloth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n back part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n bait for fishing

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[matariki] n tribe

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n canoe paddle

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[nakunari] n traditional cure, medicine

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n grave

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n adze

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nisouri] A traditional broom

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

Saturday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

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

[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

n lower sail

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu