tataraha² strips of bamboo or palm wood

• • strips of bamboo or palm wood
  • • house

  • • Example 2303:
      

      Kopaa maa o kururu are paku amaa tataraha mene huha atovo.

      Cut the kururu bamboo into long strips, so that we can make the bamboo-strips for sewing the sago palm thatch.

      Source: Eno 19W 012

    • Example 5180:
      

      eara repaa ororo taviri mana a inu bona tataraha

      we eventually make a fence from split palms around the house.

      Source: Eno 06W 056

    • Example 7340:
      

      A tobara, a inu to paku riori bono tataraha.

      The tobara is a house that they make from split palms.

      Source: Vaa Mah 04R 005

    • Example 7341:
      

      No mosi maa o are vaoi, are kopaa e mene a tataraha. Ere Demon, Nasin ae Vuraa tau nao tea tataraha.

      Go and cut that betel nut palm over there so that we can cut it open and cut off strips of wood. Demon, Nasin and Vuraa will go now to split the palm.

      Source: Sii 17W 090

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• See also:
  • are¹ betelnut palm
  • kururu bamboo species
  • ororo taviri make a fence from something around something