Rennellese entries in Pollex-Online

Protoform Item Description Source
OC.SIKI.1A Siki/siki To raise up, as an outrigger float in a high wind (Egt)
PN.SIKI.2 Siki To finish house thatching by cutting extended endings; to make the final side of a mat, or final seam or hem of a dress (Egt)
SO.SIKI.1B Si/siki To cut the navel cord of an infant (Ebt)
PN.TAFETA.A Taaheta Salt-water pool, coastal pool; to be shallow or slightly full of liquid (Ebt)
NP.LAU.1B Gau tens of mats, papers, flat things etc. Problematic (Ebt)
PN.KAU.2C Kau Counting classifier, decades 20-90, category 7 (pairs of yams, tubers), 20 pairs, 30 pairs (Ebt)
NP.KO-NAA Konaa Demonstrative. Those, like those, there (near addressee, of pl. objects) (Ebt)
NP.KO-NEI Konei Demonstrative. These, like these, here, belonging here, local, the people here (pl.) (Ebt)
NP.KO-LAA Kogaa (kongaa) Demonstrative. Those, those others, like those. There (far, of pl. objects); some, other (Ebt)
PN.I.2A I/ia/a/ia te Causative, instrumental, locative, ablative, and temporal preposition: because of, due to, by means of, acout, concerning, in, at, on (Ebt)
PN.TE-QA Taʔa Possessive preposition a-class (Ebt)
PN.TE-QA-U Tau/Taʔau Second person singular possessive pronoun A-class (Ebt)
PN.TE-QA-NA Tana/taʔana Third person singular possessive A-class (Ebt)
PN.TE-O-U Tau/teau/taʔau Second person singular simple A-class possessive (Ebt)
PN.TE-O-NA Tona/toʔona Third person singular O-class possessive (Ebt)
PN.MAI.D Mai From (Ebt)
PN.PE Po Conjunction indicating a question or doubt and sometimes meaning or (Ebt)
PN.TE-O-KU Toku/toʔoku 1st person singular possessive pronoun (simple form and reduplicated form) (Ebt)
SO.ITUQU Tuʔu Divison, portion, group... (Ebt)
PN.POLA-POLA Pogapoga Temporary coconut-leaf basket, as for carrying yams (Ebt)
XO.KANO.1B Kano Persons, group of persons (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-QOTI.A Hakaʔoti To put a stop to; end, terminate (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-QOTI.C Hakaʔoti Everywhere, everything (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-FULA Hakahuga Lung, air bladder (fish) (Ebt)
PN.TAGALOA.B Tangagoa Large shooting star or comet (Ebt)
PN.APO Haka/apo To aim, as a spear (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-RURU Hakagugu To protect; to seek shelter; to be blocked, closed, shut off (Ebt)
PN.FULU-MATA Hugu(hugu) mata Eyelashes (Ebt)
SO.PUQAO Poʔao Mist, fog; to be dark, as the sky before an approaching storm or during an eclipse (Ebt)
PN.PUKU.2 Puku te tuʔa To be hunchbacked (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-TONU.B Hakatonu Approve, agree (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-TONU.C Haka/to/tonu To settle differences or disputes (Ebt)
MP.FULU.2 Hu/hugu To brush off, as ants; to strip off hairs, as from panna (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-TUPU.A Hakatupu To make a sprout or life principle thrive (Ebt)
PN.MATE.1C Mate/kaga To be very thirsty (Ebt)
SO.FAKA-KAKAI Ha(k)akakai, baakakai To sharpen (Ebt)
PN.FAKA-MATA.1 Hakamata To sharpen (Ebt)
NP.AAPULU ʔAapugu To go below the surface of the sea, as a turtle does; to drown, sink, swallow much sea water (Ebt)
PN.MANU-A Manua To be infected, eaten, germ-ridden (Ebt)
SO.TUQU-TA Tuʔuta Overlap of niaki or rows of thatch panels in a house (Ebt)
NP.QALA-QALA ʔAgaʔaga To shout, dance, pray, as while carving a canoe or to alleviate the pain of one being tattooed and to keep him from fainting (Ebt)
PN.TURI-QI-LIMA Tugi (aa) gima Elbow (Ebt)
PN.QAMO-GA ʔAamonga Persons carrying a heavy load, as a canoe on shoulders; such a load (Ebt)
PN.HALA-MATUQA Aga o maatuʔa Trail taken by gods or ancestors Problematic (Ebt)
PN.WAO-MATUQA Bao ʔatua Bush, jungle; tangled, rocky forest with its mischievous supernaturals (lit. useless forest) Problematic (Ebt)
PN.WAO-MATUQA Bao matuʔa Fallow garden older than the tagipou (Ebt)
PN.WAO-MATUQA Bao maatuʔa Ancient forests (Ebt)
PN.KANAGA Kananga A chant...with hidden meanings, most commonly referring to love afffairs...A joke about someone making a slip of the tongue (Ebt)
PN.FAQA.3 Haʔa/sia To be cut, as feet on coral or stone (Egt)
PN.FAI-QUMU Haiʔumu Oven, stove, saucepan, kitchen; to make an oven (Ebt)

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