This is a response to Allen Lockington’s letter (ST 24/7) on the meaning of Nadi.
I remember once asking my father the same question.
He responded that it meant mature or ripe.
The response he gave me in the local dialect was, “Sa nadi du ko na seka!”
The Bauan equivalent would be “momona”.
A Capells’s A New Fijian Dictionary defines momona as: said of lairo (land crab) or qari (mud crab)
when well filled with spawn or “well ripe”. It would certainly make a good pot of soorwah
