tavine

== Bulu (New Guinea) == === Etymology === From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”). === Noun === tavine woman === Further reading === Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) == Meramera == === Etymology === From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”). === Noun === tavine woman === Further reading === Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) == Mota == === Etymology === From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”). === Noun === tavine woman === Further reading === François, Alexandre, Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu (2013) == Muduapa == === Etymology === From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”). === Noun === tavine woman === Further reading === Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988) René van den Berg, Peter Bachet, Vitu grammar sketch (2006) == Uneapa == === Etymology === From Proto-Oceanic *tapine, from earlier *qatapine, from *qata (“person”) + *pine (“female”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /taβine/ === Noun === tavine woman === Further reading === Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)