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vavine

vavine

Molima

Noun

vavine

  1. woman

References

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

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'."