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eteni
e-TE-ni
piece
French: le morceau / la part
Pesa ngai eteni ya mampa.
Give me a piece of bread.
Donne-moi un morceau de pain.
Piece — a portion broken off to share. Eteni is a piece or part. To break bread into biteni is to share; in a culture of the shared plate, your eteni is your fair portion of the whole.
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