sunuu² light torches / fish with torches

1. • light torches

   • • Example 6666:
       

       Saka sunuu bata haari?

       Don't they light torches?

       Source: Vos 02R(Sao) 120

2. • fish with torches
   • • fishing

   • • Example 6667:
       

       Eara pasi varoto rara a vateen to pasi vateen bata nom a moon, bea otei sunuu batana.

       We would tie up the backpack that a woman would carry, while the man was torch fishing.

       Source: Sii 26W 048

     • Example 6668:
       

       A sunuu o kaku vagana vaa tea bon, ei bean vagana nio pihae geo raama. Eara na antee rara tea paku e namana teo sinivi ge tea hana taataana tea maa kopua beara pita bata koara, beara mosi batara o iana bono rapisi. Teo sinivi eara na vagana bata ni rara o makaree ge eara na antee rara tea nao koa tea araa.

       Torching is a kind of fishing at night when you fish with a torch made from the coconut frond or with a lamp. We can do it in the ocean in the canoe or at low tide on the reef in the pools while walking along and killing the fish with a knife. In the canoe we fish with the spear or we can just go and fish with a line.

       Source: Eno 16W 123-125

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• See also:
  • pihae coconut frond
  • raama lamp
  • raama benesin kerosine lamp; Coleman lamp
  • sunusunuu ni use something for torch fishing
  • sunuu taataana fish with the torches on the reef
  • sunusunuu light torches for someone