feri1to fix, to fasten, to attach, to peg, to drive (a peg or a nail), to nail (also: nag feri)Wa yaa pa naamu jiuku a feri du.Then he took the tail of the cow and fixed it there.2to stick, to get stuck, to sink (restr.)Logni feri ya.The car got stuck (The car sank into the mud).3to dig in, to dive inBuntoari a feri ka bagtanga po.The frog dug in the (wet) mud.4to perform the ferika-ritual (syn. piiri? piiri is not known by part of the Southern Bulsa; by other groups, e.g. in Wiaga feri is only used for a juik-shrine or for fixing the future wen-stone to the bottom of a grainstore; in Biuk ngari is used for establishing the juik-shrine), to establish a shrine (restr.) Chum te maa feri n juika.Tomorrow I will have my juik-ritual.Wa feri juik.He has established a juik-shrine.wen-ferika(only SB?, NB: wen-piirika) establishment of a wen-bogluk (personal shrine; a stone is inserted into a clay ball)
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