Futuna-Aniwa

n strands, threads

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n devil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n row, line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n ghost, spirit, demon, ancestor

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n name

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n nine

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n mouth, mouthlike opening

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n women, girls

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n period of time, point in time

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n anger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to cause to dream

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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 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 betrothal, marriage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a fight

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

A person with one parent from each moiety.

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n island, land, country, homeland

Speaker: Iarawoi Rezel Samana

n church (house of prayer)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n birth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knowledge

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n meeting, council

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to poison, bewitch, curse

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bay, harbor; passage through reef

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 story

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n insult

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n peacemaker

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell necklace

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a braid or braided piece of rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n to dig around and heap earth upon taro

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a spring at sea, sweet water for drinking

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n band, group, troop

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n traditional dance done by women

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a killing stick

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to peel or skin something

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 food customarily eaten after drinking kava

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n trip, voyage

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n holes though sinet in canoe making

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v swallow, gulp down

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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 center strip for finishing and covering the peak of a roof

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v fishing just beyond the reef for the fish melomelo

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to sail, move by sail

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n arm band, bracelet

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bow

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n food prepared with coconut milk

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n middle part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n grater

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n native dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[jiama] n outrigger float, pontoon

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n long club with one root at head

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a Christian (particularly European)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kaleleŋa] A hammock.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

[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 adze

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a feast

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

v to fish with a long line

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n garden

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knot

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n figurehead of a canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n truth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n girdle, men’s

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n knife

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n stranger, guest

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n cloth

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n cloth, clothing

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[hmori] n prayer

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n canoe paddle

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

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

Speaker: Nigel Nesua

n magic sign, lucky omen

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[nieli] n friend

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n puberty ceremony for girls

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

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 Sunday

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

menstruation

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n house fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[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

[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

n canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu