vavine

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)

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Bwaidoka

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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Diodio

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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Gabadi

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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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)

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Iamalele

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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Keapara

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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Koluwawa

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Minaveha

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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

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Molima

Noun

vavine

1. woman
   • Molima New Testament, Madiu 26:

     8 Ta tuta nana Ieisu ana toʼabibodayavo vavine nana ena […]

References

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

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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)

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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'."

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Sinaugoro

Noun

vavine

1. woman

Further reading

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