gogi1 celebrate a successful fishing trip with a new net or canoe

Part of Speech vi/vt
    • celebrate a successful fishing trip with a new net or canoe
      • social interaction
      • Example 1636:
        Pasi gogi vua tavaan tabae o sinivi vai o voon.
        The people will have the gogi - ceremony, because this canoe is new.
        Source: San 02R 067
      • Example 1637:
        Sue vai, "Eara saka manin gogi haara, eara abana. Amaa moon to pasi nomaa tea tara bona maa sinivi iana.
        (He) said, "We don´t ever do the gogi celebration, we men. It is the women who come to see the canoes (full of) fish.
        Source: Sii 06RG 171-172
      • Example 1638:
        Eori repaa gogi. Eori repaa paku bona maa hagi teori, amaa mararae teori.
        They will do the gogi. They do their dances, their excited movements.
        Source: Sii 06RG 173-174
      • Example 1639:
        Me bean a otei a too NaoBoen vahio ni nom a moon a too NaoKaripa, amaa moon vaa tea NaoBoen to kahi gogi rori.
        So if you as a man from NaoBoen are married to a NaoKaripa woman, the women of the NaoBoen clan will gogi.
        Source: Sii 06E(Joy) 117
      • Example 1640:
        Amaa moon na ihuihuana komana bea tau vagana voosu, ore paa gogi ri bari,...
        The women had been waiting for the fishermen to come home, so that they could do the gogi for them (i.e. celebrate the successful fishing trip in a new canoe).
        Source: Sii 06E(Joy) 177-178

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  • See also:
    • vagoogogi celebration of new things, a ritual to show someone's joy about a new canoe
    • beara1 if we (including you) ...; when we (including you) ...
    • eara we (including you)
    • manini2 at all
    • moon1 woman / wife
    • voosu vaha maa come back home again