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A multifunctional Teop-English dictionary: Example 2654
Word senses:
kahu
scrape something off, for example the bark of the breadfruit tree or of vines to pull out the fibres below the bark and use them to make the strings for a fishing net; carve
kara kave
vine used for making fishing nets
kurukurusu
cut off many long thin things
Kurukurusu kara kave vakavara maa rasuu, meori paa dee voosu maa bari, meori paa ma kahu bari.
Having cut kave vines in the bush, they carried them home, and they came (and) scraped them.
Source:
Sii 06E(Joy) 048-050
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A multifunctional Teop-English dictionary
by
Ulrike Mosel
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