.NP TAALAWA :Beams in roof structure of a house, rafters, purlins *1 Cf. PN *lawa.2 "bind" AIT Tarava. :Cross-pieces that support the kaho (Bck) MVA Tarava. :Terrain montagneux, endroit inaccessible. Mountainous, but particularly used of inaccessible places (Tgr) (Rch) MVA Tara'oa. :Branche de corail en mer visible à marée basse (Rch) MKI Tarawa (tarewa?). :Purlin, longitudinal joist (Bck) MQA Ka'ava. :House purlin. Poutre de la façade de maison (Lch). (Dln) MQA Kaávva. :A round log serving as a beam along the front of a house (Crk) MQA Ka'ava, ka'avao. :Filière d'une maison (Dln) MAO Taarawa. :A transverse line, e.g. a rail, a clothes-line, a line of waves on the surface of the sea; hang on a line, rail . Part of the structure of a bird snare (Bgs) NIU Talaoa. :Curved rafters leading to an interior ridgepole (Loeb 1926) (Sph) PEN Taarava. :Horizontal piece, purlin; stripes on fish skin (Sta) PUK Taalava. :Purlin (Bge) RAP Tarava. :Intermediate support for rafters of house (Sks) RAR Taarava. :Horizontal beams of a house; place horizontally, crosswise; hang up, suspend (Sve) SAM Talava. :One of a pair of uppermost purlins in a round guest house (Prt) TAH Tarava. :To lie horizontally, be across a thing; a streak or strip, a chasm in a rock; athwart, transverse (Dvs) TAH Taarava. :Etre en travers de quelque chose, s'étendre; être couché à plat dos ou à plat ventre (Lmt) TIK Taarava. :Go . Example suggest "go parallel to" (Fth) TOK Talava. :Upper purlin (Macgregor 1937:126) (Sma) TUA Tarava. :Purlins (Emory 1975:52) (Stn) TVL Talava. :Element in house-frame (Koch 1961:116). Laths of split pandanus lashed on top of the rafters and under the thatch ribs (Kennedy 1931:269) (Rby) PIL Lakau halava. :Crossbeam (of Te Puke canoe) (Gge)