~wete otovo prepare the roofing of a house, by pinning together sago leaves

Part of Speech	verb-object idiom
Tanema Equivalent	~so vaove
Lovono Equivalent	~se walue

• • prepare the roofing of a house, by pinning together sago leaves
  • • Techn

  Literally

  pin sago

  • • Example 646:
      

      Li-wete otovo awoiu pon li-ejau telemoe.

      Once the thatch is finished, we make the house walls.

    • Example 1728:
      

      Otovo iupa ka tamwaliko, pi-tabo pi-wete kula motoe.

      Our roofing has been damaged, we are making [lit. pinning] a new one.

Related entries

• Contains:
  • ~wete violently push a long, hard object into ‹s.o., s.th.›: pierce, spear, stab, pound+ / spear ‹fish+› / shoot ‹s.o., s.th.› with arrow / pound ‹s.o., s.th.› with the end of a long stick, or any similar implement / drive ‹digging stick, ekuo› into the ground, to soften it when planting tubers / dig out ‹swamp taro, vivilo› by driving a digging stick into the ground; hence harvest / pound ‹taros, almonds+› in a bowl, using a long and heavy pestle / grind ‹kava+› using a longish coral stone or a pestle / pin ‹clothes, leaves+› using a needle or a small pointed stick