vateen a vateen put on a backpack

Part of Speech	vt.constr
MWE Structure	vt - NP
Morphology	vateen a vateen
Gloss	carry.a.backpack ART2.SG backpack

• • put on a backpack
  • • transfer

  • • Example 6667:
      

      Eara pasi varoto rara a vateen to pasi vateen bata nom a moon, bea otei sunuu batana.

      We would tie up the backpack that a woman would carry, while the man was torch fishing.

      Source: Sii 26W 048

    • Example 9111:
      

      mepaa vateen bona vateen,

      put on the backpack,

      Source: Siv 01E(Eno) 048

    • Example 9112:
      

      Evehe sue koa voen mea moon paa vateen bona vateen,

      He spoke like this and the woman put on the backpack.

      Source: Eno 01E(Eno) 025

Related entries

• See also:
  • vateen¹ traditional backpack in which women carry food, clothes, etc.
  • vateen² put on a backpack; carry a backpack; carry in a backpack