potee1 canoe type with a wide inside that has been imported from the [...]

Part of Speech n3
    • canoe type with a wide inside that has been imported from the Solomon Islands
      • boats & other means of transport
      • Example 1977:
        Teo potee, o buaku koa o vanai, o peho matana, o meho he itao.
        As for the potee, there are only two outrigger beams, one near the bow, and one near the stern.
        Source: Mor 04E(Eno) 044
      • Example 5856:
        O potee o meho kaku sinivi to tei nana Teapu.
        The potee is another type of canoe in the Teop area. (lit. that exists in the Teop area)
        Source: Mor 04E(Eno) 002
      • Example 5857:
        O kaku sinivi vai o sinivi vaa Solomon. Evehee a ta Solomon saka vaatei haari bono aga. Eve he nomaa voen meara paa vaatei o aga, ei kou a tahii teara na pohapoha sana nana.
        This type of canoe is a canoe from the Solomon Islands. But the Solomon people do not attach the float. When it came like this here, we attached the float because our sea is very rough.
        Source: Mor 04E(Eno) 047-050

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  • See also:
    • aga outrigger; float of the outrigger of a canoe
    • pohapoha (of the sea) rough
    • sinivi1 canoe with an outrigger
    • hiohio ni sit on something (e.g. the bottom)
    • itao stern; rear of a canoe
    • maramakasi kind of big tree
    • pam tie something up; tie something together; tie something to something
    • sinivi suuna original Bougainville canoe (in contrast to imported types of canoe)
    • tagihu go into the jungle; go into the bush
    • tara rakerake search for something
    • taraha plane the surface of something; carve a piece of wood into something / shave off something; cut off thin pieces of wood
    • too hata bad weather
    • vanai2 outrigger beam; poles made from the vanai tree that are used to make the outrigger of a canoe