Futuna-Aniwa

n strands, threads

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n devil

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n chief, ruler, God, spirits

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n elder

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n bed, platform, shelf

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n anger

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 knot, knob, ring

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n the end

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a fight

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

A person with one parent from each moiety.

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n trip

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n house, dwelling

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n church (house of prayer)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n knowledge

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n word

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n charm worn for the dead

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n wood planks, prepared lumber

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n exchange of food between two or a few people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n peacemaker

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell necklace

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n servant

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n stick for fixing fire into canoe

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a braid or braided piece of rope

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[foe] n paddle, rudder, oar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n deck

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n band, group, troop

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n wall or fence near yam mound

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a killing stick (black)

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a killing stick

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

a to be engaged to be married

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n little harvest of breadfruit or chestnuts

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 small canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

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 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 piece of wood, plank, flooring

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

interjection shut up

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

adj exceedingly small

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n inland people

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[hnofoŋa] n dwelling

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[ho] yes

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n wrapper, cover, stopper; penis sheath

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n pole used for carrying things on shoulders

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n native dance

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[jiama] n outrigger float, pontoon

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

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 sleeping mat

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n shell axe fashioned from the conch shell

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n twirl stick or club as in some dances

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n forward portion of canoe hull

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long club with roots at head

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kato iotea] A type of traditional woven bag.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n basket with two cornered base

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[kato ʋaka] Type of traditional woven bag.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

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 a feast

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n square woven mat for sitting on

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n coral bits; gravel

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n long pole, club, bar

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[koupa] A fence made of small sticks.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n legendary hero

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n a small feast

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n fishhook

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

[matua] the planting season

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

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 yesterday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n dwarf

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n grave

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nieli] n friend

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[nisouri] A traditional broom

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

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n spirit

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

n stone fence

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

n canoe with outrigger

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

menstruation

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

place with little earth

Speaker: Dougherty 1983

n sideboard (of a canoe)

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu

[sakiri] general term for swear words, formal

Speaker: Nigasau Misikofo

[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 Sunday

Speaker: Ausdin Jackson

[tʃinea] A traditional necklace.

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

Speaker: Anselon Seru

n front part of the canoe

Speaker: Donald Tamalua Wotu