peo¹ splash water on something or somebody; sprinkle water on [...]

• • splash water on something or somebody; sprinkle water on something or somebody; scatter something somewhere
  • • transfer

  • • Example 180:
      

      Enam re tasu, tasu, tasu varavuravu o ana suva, enam repaa peo mana ee komano vasu.

      We beat, beat, beat the suva roots into crumbs, and then we scatter them between the stones (lit. inside the stones).

      Source: Hel 15R 025-026

    • Example 5582:
      

      Benam peo peo peo, a iana repaa namihi bona peesi tea tahii, ...

      When we sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle (the pieces of bêche-de-mer in the pool), the fish taste the bitterness of the saltwater, (of the bêche-de-mer that we have cut, and then they start dying.)

      Source: Hel 16R 028-030

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• See also:
  • peepeo splash water on somebody; sprinkle water on something or someone; scatter
  • vapeepeo splash water (on someone); perform the water-splashing ritual