Futuna-Aniwa

n strands, threads

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n village (lit. row of houses)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sacred row of plaiting in mats

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n chest, front side

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n present, gift

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n short upright sticks which brace and plug interior canoe wall

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

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 elder

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n mouth, mouthlike opening

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n bed, platform, shelf

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knot, knob, ring

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 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 feast by two parties, a meeting

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n church (house of prayer)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knowledge

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stranger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n word

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n outrigger pins

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n meeting, council

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n conshell used in making necklaces

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

adj knotted or snarled (of fishing line)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n language, speech

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n story

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shooting contest

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 traditional dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n deck

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n band, group, troop

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 food customarily eaten after drinking kava

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n holes though sinet in canoe making

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n small canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

v to fish from land or reef

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

a new, young

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

v to set sail

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v fishing just beyond the reef for the fish melomelo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arrow, spear

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n taro and banana garden

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n tortoise shell

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n piece of wood, plank, flooring

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

hello

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a game of peek-a-boo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to weave

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n food prepared with coconut milk

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sling, speargun

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n hunting

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n middle part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[jiama] n outrigger float, pontoon

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n beater for drum

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shed

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n twirl stick or club as in some dances

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n basket with two cornered base

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

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 coral bits; gravel

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sling

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 sail made of coconut leaf matting

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n fishhook

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n cloth, clothing

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n back part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n gift

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n bait for fishing

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[namruke] One of the two moieties on Futuna island. Half of the population of each village comes from this moiety.

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

[namruke kona] A person with both parents from the moiety Namruke.

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

n yesterday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n pipe, flute; musical instrument

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n magic sign, lucky omen

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n grave

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[natokeni] n poison for fish

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n stone fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[pai] boundary stones

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

menstruation

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

waste, rubbish, dust, dirt

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[phane] Coconut grating bench.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[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

n sideboard (of a canoe)

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[sakiri] general term for swear words, formal

Speaker: Nigasau Misikofo

n Sunday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n front part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu