~pinoe dance, esp. perform a ritual or traditional dance (opp. [...]

Part of Speech	verb, intransitive
Phonetic Form	(i·)pinoe
Tanema Equivalent	~pimo

• • dance, esp. perform a ritual or traditional dance (opp. ~mako, ‘perform any dance’)

  • • Example 2105:
      

      Wa bale we Ginio, pi-pinoe ñei.

      We use ankle rattles to perform our dances.

    • Example 2106:
      

      Li-wate tepapa, li-viane tepapa ponu; ka li-pinoe pon ta ka li-mako.

      They were hitting the boards, stomping on the boards: such was their dance.

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• See also:
  • ~wate tepapa stomp on the dancing boards (see tepapa): perform the main dance at the ngapiene festival