vakakato into short pieces

Part of Speech adv
Morphology va-kakato
Gloss ADVR-short
    • into short pieces
      • dimensional properties
      • Grammar Comment In the corpus <vakakato> exclusively modifies verbs of cutting.
      • Example 4678:
        Na mosimosi vakakato raara beara ipinoo bata rae bona ta naono to paa vaante vuara bona bebeahu no buo kubisi bebeahu na kuri raara.
        We cut it into short pieces after we have measured this piece of wood that we make as long as the length of two middle fingers of our hand. (i.e. when making the floats of the turtle net)
        Source: Eno 08W 033
      • Example 8572:
        O rom overe na romrom vakakato riori, ...
        The stem of the coconut palm is sliced into short pieces, ...
        Source: Joy 17W 179
      • Example 8573:
        O hiapa na peepee vakakato riori.
        The intestines are cut into short pieces.
        Source: Naph 01W 051
      • Example 8574:
        Murinae eara repaa kurukurus vakakato e.
        After that we cut the stems into short pieces of equal size.
        Source: Sii 41W 009

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