kapa² lift and remove something (for example a stone from the ground, [...]

• • lift and remove something (for example a stone from the ground, the shell from a turtle when butchering it, or the lid of a pot); skin (a manioc); the sheath of the wild banana
  • • removal

  • • Example 2869:
      

      Bean kapa a vasu, ean paa tarae.

      When you lift a stone, you see them (i.e. the hikoon cowry shellfish).

      Source: Sii 45W(Joy) 111

    • Example 2870:
      

      Bean kapa o vasu, ean paa tara riori.

      When you lift the stones, you see them (i.e. the Silver Mouth Turbans).

      Source: Sii 45W(Joy) 188

    • Example 2871:
      

      Nam pasi kapa ve a tapeako.

      We will skin the manioc.

      Source: Hel 01RG 011

    • Example 2872:
      

      Ean repaa kapae.

      (Cut the shell on its chest, subsequently cut the sides.) Then you take its shell off (the shell of the turtle).

      Source: Naph 01W 041

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• See also:
  • kapa¹ cover (of something); skin (of animals, root crops, etc., but not of humans); shell of turtles and shellfish; exoskeleton; bark of trees
  • mosi kapa cut off the bark of a tree
  • takapa peel off by itself; be uncovered; be removed (of a cover); be lifted (of a cover)
  • kapa ahe lift (stones) and recognise something
  • kapa kahi lift and remove something from its place
  • kapakapa try to lift open something