~wate tepapa stomp on the dancing boards (see tepapa): perform [...]

Part of Speech	verb-object idiom
Variant Form(s)	~viane tepapa

• • stomp on the dancing boards (see tepapa): perform the main dance at the ngapiene festival
  • • Ethn

  Literally

  bang on boards

  • • 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.

Related entries

• Contains:
  • ~wate¹ hit ‹s.th.› with a loud noise, bang on ‹s.th.›, using o.'s hands or feet
• See also:
  • ~pinoe dance, esp. perform a ritual or traditional dance (opp. ~mako, ‘perform any dance’)