hihin

hihin

Petats

Noun

hihin

1. woman
   • Bible, Genesis:

     Ba hihin e hat neno.

See also

• hahine (“head woman”)
• tahelea(u) (“women”)
• heol (“female”)

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) (hihin)
• Jerry Allen, Matthew Beaso, Petats Phonemes and Orthography (hahine, tahelea, heol)