kete irihi walk along the edge of the coral reef, fishing for fish, crabs [...]

• • walk along the edge of the coral reef, fishing for fish, crabs and octopus, and collecting shells
  • • fishing

  • • Example 3311:
      

      Kete irihi, beara vagana kaakoo batara irihi. A kaku vagana bona to gono raara o biae, katoo, urita ae amaa meha sii kaku iana vaa irihi komana ei a koinia, roovu ae o paraa.

      Kete irihi (means) that we go fishing on the edge of the reef. With this kind of fishing we get trochus shells, crabs, octopus, and other kinds of creatures of the edge of the reef such as the Convict Surgeonfish, Brown Spotted Reef Cod and the paraa wrasse.

      Source: Eno 16W 071-072

    • Example 3312:
      

      Enaa sa paa dee haa mau a bonaa iobo eikou enaa paa kete irihi maa nom.

      I have not brought the basket for sea-sausages because I have come for fishing on the edge of the reef.

      Source: Eno 16W 073

Related entries

• See also:
  • katoo crab (generic term)
  • koinia¹ Convict Surgeonfish
  • paraa kind of wrasse
  • roovu grouper; Honeycomb Grouper; Brown-Spotted Reef Cod
  • urita octopus