~totoe chop, cut ‹s.th.› in many pieces

Part of Speech verb, transitive
Phonetic Form (i·)totoe
Tanema Equivalent ~teteo
Morphology Redup. ~toe ‘cut, chop’
    • chop, cut ‹s.th.› in many pieces
      • Example 1058:
        Kava li-totoe, kara i-koie samame.
        You chop kava to small pieces, including the roots.
      • Example 2510:
        I-totoe jebute iape.
        He cut his taro in small pieces.

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  • See also:
    • ~toe1 cut ‹wood+›, chop, with a knife or axe / harvest ‹bananas› by chopping a bunch off the tree / make ‹s.th.› out of wood