taataana walk on the reef

• • walk on the reef
  • • motion

  • • Example 4225:
      

      Be masi, o vasu, ahono ae pesuu repaa vataaree. Ean repaa antee tea taataana. Eve o vuri bona to hovu iobo raara bara avete kehaa.

      When it is low tide, the stones and the green and the brown seaweed are visible. You can walk on the reef. It is the time when we gather sea-sausages and collect shellfish.

      Source: Sii 47W 123-125

    • Example 6778:
      

      Are vaatarahi vasiihum, are paa taataana pahana vo Teavorana.

      Let's wait a bit for the tide to ebb, then let's walk across (the reef) to Teavorana.

      Source: Sii 26W 017-018

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• See also:
  • hana taataana area where you can walk at low tide
  • hio taataana settle along the coast line, be established along the coastline
  • masi¹ be low tide so that the reef becomes visible; be low tide
  • sunuu taataana fish with the torches on the reef
  • tataataana walk on the reef habitually