tantaneo beginning

• • beginning
  • • time

  • • Example 4607:
      

      Naa kahi sue nom a tantaneo na moon, be kahi gono bona revasin momohu teve.

      I am going to speak about the beginning of womanhood, when (she) would get her first menstruation.

      Source: Nan 02R 004-005

    • Example 7094:
      

      Enaa nao nom tea skul to daodao ori bona kindergarten. A tantaneo na sikuuru.

      I attended a school, which they called kindergarten. (This is) the beginning of schooling.

      Source: Rum 01R 024

    • Example 7095:
      

      Tea tantaneo rosin tenam, enam na rosin mea minista vaa tea Methodist, e Donald Alee.

      When we started to flee, we fled with the minister of the methodist Church, Donald Alee. (lit. at our beginning to flee)

      Source: Vaa Mah 09R 017

Related entries

• See also:
  • taneo start something; begin
  • tanetaneo³ beginning; start
  • tanetaneo¹ start many things; start something habitually with something