discursive: expanding the tanru - making a tanru.
Discursive attitudinal; marks that one is explaining the meaning of a tanru by expanding it into a longer expression with, for example, a relative clause. Example: lumci cinza .i ta'u cinza be fi lo ba'o se lumci 'a wash-pincher, that is, something that pinches a thing that has been washed' [= a clothespin]. See also tanru.