sirisiri tear something into narrow strips

• • tear something into narrow strips
  • • unclassified

  • • Example 5062:
      

      Sirisiri maa o obai are vaave nie.

      Tear the obai vine so that we can use it for making the thatch of the house.

      Source: Eno 19W 019

    • Example 6471:
      

      mepaa sirisiri maa bono panasu gina,

      and pulled the bark off the panasu tree starting from the top,

      Source: Mor 03R 166

    • Example 6472:
      

      Sirisiri, ean re sirisiri, ean re sirisiri a karaa tean, ...

      Split (the pandanus leaves), split (them), tear your pandanus leaves into strips, ...

      Source: Nan 01R 117-118

    • Example 6473:
      

      eove he kapa bono kapa no panasu, mepaa hihi maa bona, me rahi sirisiri bona, ...

      he pulled the bark of the panasu tree off and took the fibres out, and pulled and tore them off, ...

      Source: Mor 03E(Eno) 132

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• See also:
  • siri¹ tear something off; split something (e.g. leaves, pieces of cloth, ropes)
  • tasu sirisiri beat and thereby split something