haan passageway; place where the reef ends and the ocean meets, [...]

Part of Speech n2
    • passageway; place where the reef ends and the ocean meets, creating a natural passageway that is used to launch canoes into the ocean
      • environment
      • Example 1785:
        Gunaha vasiihum koa tea tabae o hum bona vue o hum masimasi romrom, amaa haan.
        (The plane) didn't land too often as that particular area was an area with reef sections in between, (there were) passageways.
        Source: Mah 03R 086
      • Example 1786:
        Goe ta hua kaakoo tea haan.
        Do not paddle towards the passage at the end of the reef.
        Source: SiiSen 01W 060
      • Example 1787:
        O poha na takaku nana tea haan.
        The waves break at the end of the passage of the reef.
        Source: SiiSen 01W 061

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