raa1cfn-danland; landwardIa wol nva'at na'a raa, ia nva'at na'a roal.He doesn't live on land, he lives in the ocean.antn-roal1n-raaunspec. comp. formvitusually means go landward or up, but also means a direction that seems to have been arbitrarily choses generations ago.Ia nraa nangan al ndava vavu.He went to the forest to look for pigs.The "irregular" uses of -raa as a directional could come from an ancestral point of origin, such as the sunken island of Bair Sadi, off the southwest coast of Yamdena island.antn-roal1inra'iunspec. comp. formlocover there away fron the sea, and since most land rises soon after the beach, it means landward and upIra rna'a nuhu raroa ra'i.They are at the far away island (in the ra'i direction).

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