vaantee² enough; stopping (at); until reaching; sufficiently

Part of Speech	adv
Variant Form(s)	vaante
Morphology	va-antee
Gloss	ADVR-stop

• • enough; stopping (at); until reaching; sufficiently
  • • quantification

  • • Example 5900:
      

      Beo taovu pura hiava vaantee, ore paa vakavakarapi.

      When the taovu pandanus has sufficiently grown up, it branches out in all directions.

      Source: Sii 41W 036

    • Example 8081:
      

      Bean osi vaantee, ean repaa vahogoro vaha maa roho.

      When you have picked enough nuts, you come back and beach the canoe again.

      Source: Aro 08E(Eno) 049

    • Example 8082:
      

      meori no koma vaantee teo vaatete pahana

      and they went (and) poured the pig's blood until they reached a bridge

      Source: Aro 07E(Eno) 124

Related entries

• See also:
  • antee¹ stop / until / be enough for a certain time / be enough for something / need (a certain amount of something) / reach (a certain amount) / consist of a certain amount of things
  • bebeahu vaantee reach the length of something; be as long as something else
  • beera vaantee vo be/become as big as
  • bero vaantee be as many as is necessary to satisfy something
  • gigina¹ high
  • gigina vaantee be so high that it reaches something else; be as high as something else
  • pasuka moo knee