iura1 above, upper area / up on the cardinal axis: towards southeast, [...]

Part of Speech locative
Phonetic Form jura
Tanema Equivalent iu-da
Lovono Equivalent leve ngau
Morphology iu ‘above’
    • above, upper area
      • (Part of) Antonym (for)
      • Example 962:
        Li-le ne iura.
        They went to the heights [of the island].
    • up on the cardinal axis: towards southeast, south or east
      • Syntactic Restriction geocentric coordinates
      (Part of) Antonym (for)
      • Example 133:
        Ngiro Palapu i-ka ka li-aiu li-ke li-pwalau i-le Iura.
        As soon as the northern wind began to blow, they left [Vanikoro] and set off to sail southwards.
      • Example 963:
        Vana uña toñaki i-ka i-loko dapa ne kulumoe na, dapa li-lui li-langatene ne Iura, Santo.
        Ships used to come to this island to collect people, and then take them away to make them work somewhere in the south, on (Espiritu) Santo.

Related entries

  • Heterosemes:
    • iura2 the Vanuatu archipelago, located south of Vanikoro; partic. the Torres and Banks Islands, in northern Vanuatu
  • See also:
    • tetavene up, on the upper side; uphill