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Life in Feejee, or, Five Years among the Cannibals
Glossary of Feejeean Terms
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Glossary of Feejeean Terms.
- Ba ni valu.—A fence of war.
- Beech de mer.—A sea slug.
- Buri kalou.—A sacred temple.
- Buri bolo.—A house to sleep in.
- Bulu.—Another world.
- Buka waqa.—Hell fire.
- Balawa.—A pine-apple.
- Kali.—A native pillar.
- Kuru.—An earthen vessel to cook food in.
- Kaise.—A poor person.
- Kawai.—A kind of potato.
- Kalavu.—A rat.
- Lotu.—Christianity.
- Leku.—A woman's dress.
- Lovo.—An oven.
- Lovo mbokolo.—Oven for the dead.
- Mate ge Mbau.—Messenger to Bau.
- Mbokolo.—A dead body.
- Mboli mboling.—Thanking.
- Mandrai.—Bread.
- Mbete.—A priest.
- Marama.—A title for the wife and daughter of a chief.
- Marama-lavu.—A title for a wife and daughter of a chief of high rank
- Masi.—Native cloth.
- Na-mata-ni-vanua.—An owner of the land.
- Ndawa —A fruit not unlike a plum.
- Ndua, whoa.—A salutation.
- Papalagi.—A white person.
- Qalova.—A ceremony used on receiving company.
- Rara.—An open space of ground, where meetings and feasts are held.
- Solavu.—A feast.
- Solavu vaka masi.—A feast where native cloth is presented.
- Sara sara.—To observe, to explore, to see.
- Solanga.—Concubine.
- Soro.—To ask pardon for an offence.
- Sala.—A head-dress.
- Saka.—A term used without reference to gender, as Sir and Madam.
- Sanka.—A vessel to hold water.
- Tui.—King.
- Turaga-lavu.—A chief of high rank.
- Turaga.—A chief.
- Tambu.—Forbidden.
- Tutuvi.—A covering for a bed.
- Tufndree.—One who assists in a beech de mer house.
- Tombi.—A neck ornament.
- Turaga ndena.—A true chief.
- Vata.—A shelf of any description.
- Vaka lolo.—A pudding.
- Venaka.—Good.
- Vari.—A plot, a conspiracy.
- Vale vatu.—A stone house.
- Vale kau.—A house built of wood.
- Waqa lavu.—A large vessel.
- Waqa vanua.—The same.
- Waqa ni lotu.—A vessel where bad conduct is not allowed.
- Yandi.—Madam.
- Yanggona.—A root producing a stupefying effect upon those who drink it.