kao gunaha go down; move down; come down; come ashore; walk ashore (on the [...]

• • go down; move down; come down; come ashore; walk ashore (on the reef at low tide)
  • • motion
    • spatial relations

  • • Example 2809:
      

      Kao gunaha taneo bana maa teo hopo teori meori paa gunaha maa ruene.

      (They) went down starting again from their cave, and they went down to the river.

      Source: Viv 01R 044

    • Example 2810:
      

      Na teitei nana namana. Beo puhana orepaa kao gunaha vo maa tea maa kopua.

      It (the hoohoa needlefish) stays in the ocean. When it is high tide, it comes down to the lagoons.

      Source: Jub 02W 015-016

    • Example 2811:
      

      "meori paa kao gunaha kasuana"

      "(And when their strings on which they had put the fish were full,) they walked ashore."

      Source: Aro 05E(Eno) 030

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• See also:
  • gunaha go or come down; go or come down from the mountains to the beach / come ashore
  • hoohoa kind of needlefish