Takuu entries in Pollex-Online
| Protoform | Item | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| PN.POKA.1 | Poka | (of a woman) Incapable of bearing children; sterile, barren; reach menopause | (Mle) |
| PN.POKO.2 | Poko/poko | Cavity, hole | (Mle) |
| MP.POLA.1 | Pora | Coconut leaf mat used for walls or roof of a house; mat with food on it, as a formal presentation | (Mle) |
| SO.POLE.B | Pore/pore | (of heart) Beat rapidly | (Mle) |
| PN.PONA | Pona | Scab, scar | (Hwd) |
| MP.PONO.1 | P/pono | Enter a reef passage, pass between (e.g. two people), insert (specifically place in a hole or into a sealed/sealable container); lid, stopper, cork | (Mle) |
| MP.PONO.1 | Pon/tau | Large log on which mahaurani spirits drifted to Takuu, allegedly from Kiribati, in the mythical era Problematic | (Mle) |
| AN.POPO.1 | Popo | Decayed, rotten, rusted through | (Mle) |
| OC.POTO.1 | Po/poto | Short | (Hwd) |
| OC.POU.1 | Pou | Post of a house. (Formerly only the posts that reached the ridgepole, but today this term refers to any major house post). | (Mle) |
| PN.POO-QULI | Poouri | Dark (as of night) | (Mle) |
| OC.PUU.1 | Puu | Conch or trumpet shell [Cassis cornuta], horn of a ship, car | (Mle) |
| EC.PASA | P/pasa | (of a sore) Slightly swollen or lumpy, as from an insect bite | (Mle) |
| PN.PUI.A | Pui/pui | Close; govern (as conqueror) | (Hwd) |
| RO.PUKA | Puka | Tree sp. (Pisonia grandis) | (Mle) |
| PN.PUKE.4 | Puke | End-piece of traditional canoe, bowsprit | (Mle) |
| FJ.PUKU.3 | Puku/a | Mouth of an animal, entrance to reef channel, eye of coconut shell | (Mle) |
| XO.PUKU-LIMA | Pukurima | Elbow | (Mle) |
| OC.PULAKA | Puraka | Former name for Swamp Taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) | (Mle) |
| OC.PULAPULA | Purapura | Cutting or seedling of a plant | (Mle) |
| NO.PULA-PULA.2 | Purapura | Multi-coloured, mottled | (Mle) |
| XO.PULAU.* | Purau | Stink, smell like something rotten | (Mle) |
| MP.PULE.1 | Pure | Cowry shell (Cypraea spp.); general name for inedible molluscs | (Mle) |
| PN.PULE.2 | Pure | Hereditary title of second-ranking man on Takuu...; someone chosen to act as medium for a deceased person... | (Mle) |
| AN.PULE-PULE | Pulepule | Purapura. :Mottled, multi-coloured | (Hwd) |
| PN.PULOTU.2 | Purotu | Hereditary performing arts specialist. A male expert in performing and teaching a clan’s entire song and dance repertoire, and also beating the slit drum on the ritual arena to accompany them. Hymn-leader (Hwd). | (Mle) |
| NP.PULU.1B | Puru | Stopper, object used to prevent a liquid from passing through. Tampon (Hwd). | (Mle) |
| NP.PULU.7 | P/puru | Grab, clutch or grasp firmly in one’s fist, hold s.t. against one’s body, clasp hands; ... shake hands | (Mle) |
| MP.PUNA | P/puna | Squirt up, issue forth; (of a bubble) rise to the surface; leak | (Mle) |
| PN.PUPUQA | Ppua | Crevasse or furrow in the coral reef on the ocean side of the atoll | (Mle) |
| PN.PUNI.1A | Puni | Shut off, blocked, closed off; (of bivalve) having its shell closed; (of eyes) blind; (of customs, knowledge, etc.) forgotten, obsolete, no longer in use | (Mle) |
| PN.PUNUA | Punua | Young bird, fledgling; young animal | (Mle) |
| MP.PULA.1 | P/pura | Glow, be phosphorescent | (Mle) |
| PN.PUSAKE | Pu/puake | Cleanse one's mouth Problematic | (Hwd) |
| PN.PUSAKI | Puusaki | Blow (smoke, etc.); (of a whale) spout. Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Mle) |
| AN.FAA.1 | Haa | Four | (Mle) |
| AN.FAQA.1 | Haa | Stem or stalk of a taro or swamp taro plant, base of a coconut frond or banana leaf | (Mle) |
| OC.SAE.1 | S/sae | Split, tear (esp. into strips); separate or spread (esp. one’s legs) | (Mle) |
| NP.SAFE.1 | Sahe | Successful in fishing | (Mle) |
| SO.SAAFEA | Safea | Trip | (Hwd) |
| FJ.SAGA.1B | Saana/i | Positioned, be in a correct position to do something, face towards something | (Mle) |
| MP.SAQI | Sai | Tie, bind; join (as two pieces of wood) | (Mle) |
| NP.SAKALI | Sakare | Edible part of the shoot at the top of a coconut tree; core (germinating part) of a taro or giant taro corm Problematic | (Mle) |
| PN.SAKO | S/sako | (of tree trunk, etc.) Straight; (of person) have an erect posture | (Mle) |
| MP.SAKU-LAA | Sakuraa | General term for swordfish, sailfish, marlin | (Mle) |
| OC.SAAKULE | Saakure | Search for lice in someone's hair | (Mle) |
| AN.SALA.1 | Sara | Wrong, mistaken, incorrect; miss, err, make a mistake; different, other; error, mistake; unusually, exceptionally | (Mle) |
| AN.SALATO | Sarato | Plant sp. (Laportea sp.) with broad, stinging leaves | (Mle) |
| EC.SALE | Sare | Walk, go somewhere on foot, sail a canoe | (Mle) |
| MP.SALI.1 | Sari | Leak faeces from the anus after eating oilfish or during severe diarrhoea; (of tears) flow. | (Mle) |
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