🔊no isibo o vazay am, ji niboan o maláhet a ipipinapinan, a no apipia rana am, ori rana o isibo rana.If you want to hold a ceremony for a new boat, you must not take very bad tools. When your tools are prepared, you can go cut the wood needed.
🔊mangay do takey am, mi toposan o pimoamoan, apen o niagazan a kowli rana nia.After getting to the mountains, go to your own orchard, cut down the trees you previously marked, and carry them home.
🔊kaktokto jia, aktoktoan o pikatangyan am, pikavangan am, cinedkeran sira, mitartarek sira.The measurement depends on personal need—whether building a single-person boat, a two-person boat, or a large boat.
🔊ta pizangkapan o manoang ya, ta beken a o mateteneng a tao a, papira sira? raroa am, asa aka tao saon o mateteteneng do makeykeylian am.Connecting the ribs of the boat is not something everyone can do—only those who have the skill. In a village, usually only one or two people can do it.
🔊ori o ji to mitatalai no ji ateteneng, ta ji da napai o kaji da makatenengan jia, a manngo si Mangday a, to na na ngaolii do kalahet na.Therefore people who do not know boatbuilding do not start recklessly—they fear doing things wrong. Like si Mangday, who gave up when he felt the boat was turning out poorly.
🔊o masisidongen am, ji da todey nidonga, ori o ipiciataretarek no tao a mahay a mitatala, ta o ji asisidongen am, sino o somidong sira?Those who usually help others with boatbuilding will also receive help when they build their own. But those who never help—who will help them?
🔊o ji ateteneng a tao am, ji aro o arian da am, o mateteneng am, a sino mangri, ori o ipiciataretarek no mahay a mapakavos so vazay ya.Those who do not know boatbuilding waste much material; those who know do not. This is why some finish quickly and others very slowly.
🔊o mazoazoayin am, “ji vateki o kma sia”, am a no apia o langolangoy na am, to vateki ori.If a newly built boat looks beautiful, a boastful person will say, “Why not carve it?”—and so they begin carving.
🔊o avak no tatala am, to vateki ori, no apen do kapakainahahapan jia, no kapia na no ngilin no masasagaz ya nivatekan am, ori o vatekan da do dang.If you consider good fortune, catching more fish, or success at sea, then even an ordinary boat may be carved.
🔊am no nakem da so kapivatek da am, ji sira pa mamiromiroa a kapitatala da rana; am ori o ji miyangayi no todaka piteytatala ya.If one intends to carve the boat, they will first reorganize the taro field before starting boatbuilding—different from those who build just to build.
🔊ta no ji mivatek am, to da minanakeman, ta ji da pa nakenakema o yahap da sia am, do akma sang.If carving is not intended, there will be no preparation. But those who intend to hold a completion ceremony will prepare everything thoroughly.