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Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands): Example 1385

Word senses:

~lateli put ‹s.th.› somewhere; put away, deposit, store
moe ma tadoe place (typic. cave), whether covered or not, haunted by spirits or deities (tadoe); hence heathen temple
viko money, of the customary kind: in Vanikoro shell money, made of cowrie shells

Ka ponu li-la viko, li-lui li-lateli ne moe ma tadoe.

They took the ritual money, and deposited it in the gods’ lair.