vavine

Boselewa

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Bwaidoka

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Diodio

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Gabadi

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Declension

inflection of stem vavine
singular plural
nominative
stem + -na/-da
vavinena vavineda
locative + instrumental
stem + -nai/-dai
vavinenai vavinedai
inalienable possessive forms
1st person singular possessive (my) vavine’una
2nd person singular possessive (your) vavinemuna
3rd person singular possessive (his/her/its) vavinenana
1st person plural inclusive possessive (our) vavinegana
1st person plural exclusive possessive (our) vavinemaina
2nd person plural possessive (your) vavinemuna
3rd person plural possessive (their) vavinedada

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Hahon

Noun

vavine

  1. sibling of the opposite sex

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Iamalele

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Keapara

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Koluwawa

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Lengo

Noun

vavine

  1. sibling of the opposite sex

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Longgu

Noun

vavine

  1. sibling of the opposite sex

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Malango

Noun

vavine

  1. sibling of the opposite sex

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Minaveha

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Molima

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

References

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages (1988), page 52

Papapana

Noun

vavine

  1. sibling of the opposite sex

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
  • Ellen Louise Smith, A grammar of Papapana (2015)

Raga

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

References

  • ABVD: Raga (an alternate name for Hano): "woman/female: vavine"
  • Papers in Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, issue 1 (1978), page 188: "The TP plural indicator ol has no structural counterpart in English, whereas Raga has the plural marker i-ra which can occur with nouns referring to people, e.g. i-ra vavine plural woman 'women'."

Sinaugoro

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)