agaagaa fish while sitting in a floating canoe

Part of Speech vi
Morphology aga-agaa
Gloss RED-float
    • fish while sitting in a floating canoe
      • fishing
      • Example 53:
        Eam kahi nao tea sunuu taataana mia pihae, enaa kou kahi tahoa mi nom o raama tea agaagaa en Teavorana.
        You will go and do torch fishing on the reef with (torches made of) coconut fronds, while I will set off with the lamp to fish while floating in the canoe near Teavorana.
        Source: Eno 16W 126
      • Example 54:
        A pasuaboon na rahi raara bona sitiring tea agaagaa ge tea sunuu taataana.
        We catch the beardfish with a plastic line while sitting in a floating canoe or walking on the reef with torches.
        Source: Eno 11W 169
      • Example 55:
        A roovu na gono raara tea araa - tea kaku araa to dao raara bona agaagaa ge busubusu ge tea sunuu taataana.
        We get the grouper by line fishing - a kind of line fishing that we call "floating" or "casting" or "torching".
        Source: Eno 11W 195-196

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  • See also:
    • pasuaboon kind of goatfish
    • roovu grouper; Honeycomb Grouper; Brown-Spotted Reef Cod
    • sunuu taataana fish with the torches on the reef
    • araa1 angle; catch fish with a fishing rod and a fishing line
    • busubusu fishing with a line while sitting in a floating canoe
    • matapuhii Humpnose Big-Eye Bream
    • rahi1 pull something; catch something (with a string)
    • taninii Barred Spanish Mackerel
    • toobono Bluespotted Trevally