Movatterモバイル変換

mataeyes / gaze, direction of the eyes as they look / face / [...]

- - Example 1556:
    Mata ene tevie i-meli.
    [lit. My eyes on one side hurt] One of my eyes is painful.
  - Example 1557:
    Ene ni-mede kaipa tae, ene ni-romo ñe mata ene!
    I'm not lying to you, I saw it with my own eyes!
  - Example 1558:
    Mata ene i-mokoiu.
    [my eyes are asleep] I'm feeling sleepy.
  - Example 1559:
    Mata ini kilo.
    She's blind.
- gaze, direction of the eyes as they look
- - Example 1560:
    Mata da i-koie ne moe ponu la-romo.
    [their eyes went into the house] They looked into the house and then saw it.
  - Example 1561:
    Mata i-katau tetawene na!
    Observe carefully [lit. let your eyes follow] these drawings!
- face
- grammatical subject of~ledi ‘be hungry’
- - Example 1562:
    Mata ene i-ledi.
    I feel hungry!
- opening, passage; hole
- - Example 1563:
    mata pele
    net mesh
  - Example 1564:
    mataruene
    opening of door, doorway
- cover for an opening, hence lid+
- tip, point
- - Example 1565:
    mata diro
    tip of arrow
- spring
- sprout, seedling, shoot, offshoot
- - Example 323:
    mata bale
    sprout of breadfruit tree
  - Example 601:
    La-tabe mata ka la-lui la-do i-katau ngogoro.
    They collected shoots, and began to plant them around the island.
    Example Comment
    kaori tree
  - Example 1566:
    mata luro
    germinated coconut
  - Example 1567:
    mata bule
    taro shoot

Typical Subject	s.th.
(Part of) Synonym (for)	moboe

Typical Subject	river+
(Part of) Synonym (for)	matavo

Typical Subject	plant
(Part of) Synonym (for)	mataña jie tongo