avisi² serve cooked food with an avisi-stick / poke cooked sweet [...]

Part of Speech

vt

1. • serve cooked food with an avisi-stick
   • • transfer
     • food & drink

   • • Example 466:
       

       peha taem mepaa avisi bana bono hoi muu o hoi o beera rakaha meori paa an bari a buaku.

       one day (their mother) served a very big basket of taro, and they ate it together.

       Source: Mom 01R 096-097

2. • poke cooked sweet potatoes or pieces of taro with a stick to test if they are done

   • • Example 467:
       

       Gono o avisi ean re avisi a nahu kaukau.

       Get the poking stick and poke the pot of sweet potatoes to test if they are done.

       Source: SiiSen 01W 031

Related entries

• See also:
  • huu butara prick or poke something to test it
  • avisi¹ small, sharpened, skewer-like stick made from palm wood used to poke food to check if it is done and serve sweet potatoes or taro
  • avisi ki serve some food for someone
  • avisi ni take potatoes out of the pot with the poking stick