panasu2 raft

Part of Speech n3
    • raft
      • boats & other means of transport
      • Example 5157:
        Saka o sinivi haana, o panasu to paku ori.
        It was not a canoe, (it was) a raft that they made.
        Source: Aro 04R 136
      • Example 5352:
        A abana na haehae koa bona panasu.
        The people only used rafts.
        Source: San 02R 002
      • Example 5353:
        A kave vaa nabunuu na dao riori bona a kave baoru. Meori vavaahae bari tea panasu, ei kou na hiki to sinivi, na toku rori tea paku sinivi.
        The nets of the past were called kave baoru. And they loaded them onto the rafts, because they did not have a canoe, they did not know how to make canoes.
        Source: San 02R 006-008
      • Example 5354:
        Nomaa vai tea roava, eiei kopua Karepana to ma tapa e bono panasu.
        Now (he) came during the day, (it was) here at the Karepana lagoon where he came (and) built a raft.
        Source: Pur 05E(Eno) 037

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  • See also:
    • tapa build something (a raft, bed, floor, but not a house)