Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands): Example 2106

Word senses:

• ~pinoe   dance, esp. perform a ritual or traditional dance (opp. ~mako, ‘perform any dance’)
• tepapa   stomping boards. During ngapiene festivals, a blateno pole is erected in the middle of the village area (mane). Laid out in circle (~dai, ~dadai) around it, are a number of wooden boards half buried (~iu) in the ground, on which dancers leap and stomp (~viaene, ~wate) during the celebrations, in a loud and joyful dance.
• ~wate tepapa   stomp on the dancing boards (see tepapa): perform the main dance at the ngapiene festival