Takuu entries in Pollex-Online
| Protoform | Item | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| PN.PUI.A | P/pui | Close something; block (e.g. path); make forbidden; forbid access...; use magic to make someone else unlucky at fishing; govern (as a conqueror); invoke ancestors to ward off malevolent spirits (tipua) at night. | (Mle) |
| FJ.PUKE.1A | Puke | Membrane of sand which the puiari and uu crabs make to cover the entrance to their holes | (Mle) |
| MP.PUKU.1A | Puku | General term for a group, clump or division | (Mle) |
| MP.PUKU.1A | Puku/puku | Bump, swelling, knot (in wood) or any other rounded protuberance | (Mle) |
| PN.PUNOU | Punou | (of a person) Stooped, bent over with age or infirmity | (Mle) |
| PN.PUPU.A | Pupu | Weed-infested | (Mle) |
| NO.PULA-PULA.2 | Pura | Colour, pattern; coloured portion or pattern of a woven mat | (Mle) |
| CP.PUUPUU.1 | Pupu/aki | Cleanse or rinse one's mouth | (Mle) |
| FJ.PULEWA | Pureva | Large sea anemone sp. | (Mle) |
| CP.PUULOU.A | Purou | Largest of the woven mats...Formerly used overhead as protection against rain, or as a mosquito net for babies | (Mle) |
| MP.PULU.1A | Puru | Soft fibres of coconut husk | (Mle) |
| PN.PUTO | Puto | That part of a net or sail that balloons outward from the wind or water; (of a sail or a fishing net) to balloon outwards | (Mle) |
| OC.PUTU.1 | Puutu/na | Large group of people gathering for work or entertainment; An afternoon of storytelling, singing and dancing organised as an entertaining distraction for mourners (obs.) | (Mle) |
| MP.LAKA.1 | Raka, laka | Go past, pass over | (Mle) |
| OC.LAKI | Raki, laki | Direction or season of west winds | (Mle) |
| OC.LAPA.2 | Rapa | Speak too fast to be understood Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Mle) |
| OC.LALA.1 | Rara | Plant sp. whose leaves and flowers are worn as amulets by men fishing for tuna, and as body decoration by men and women when dancing | (Mle) |
| SO.LAPITI | Raupiti, ropiti, lopiti. +Laupiti (Hdn). | Black-Naped Tern [Sterna sumatrana] | (Mle) |
| EO.LAWA.1A | Rava | Full, enough, have eaten enough food | (Mle) |
| MP.REFU.1 | Rehu/rehu | A light covering of ashes, as when blown onto one's body; turmeric, when applied to the body in a light covering | (Mle) |
| AN.LOQI-MATA | Reimata | Tears, running eyes Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| CP.LEU-LEU | Reureu | Don a laplap | (Mle) |
| CP.LEWA.2 | Reva | Tree sp. similar to frangipani, no longer growing on the atoll. | (Mle) |
| FJ.LII.2 | Rii/rii | Wind (e.g. fishing line around stick), tie (bait onto hook) | (Mle) |
| PN.LIFU | Rihu | Tire of doing something; lose patience with someone; (of a fish) refuse to take the hook, not bite; start to eat something. then realise you do not want to eat it | (Mle) |
| FJ.LIKA | Rika | (of a pet animal or bird, etc.) Partially wild, not fully domesticated; (of a person) habitually disappear during the day and return home only at night | (Mle) |
| OC.LIU.2 | Riu | Twirling movement of the paddle in the women’s hoe dance | (Mle) |
| AN.ROFA | Roha | Measure of distance between fingertips of outstretched hands: fathom | (Mle) |
| MP.LOLO.2 | Roro | (of an overladen canoe) Swamp | (Mle) |
| OC.LUU.3 | Ruu | Shake | (Mle) |
| PN.LIU.1 | Rui | Bilge of canoe; groove, depression, or inner concavity of an object (such as the grooved surface of a curved adze or the hollow of a cup or bowl) Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| FJ.LUKU.A | Ruku/ruku | (of paper, cloth etc.) Crumpled | (Mle) |
| PN.RUKU | Ruku/ruku | Deep place in the sea that is covered with seaweed and may contain coral formations | (Mle) |
| PN.KAI-HAQA.A | Kaisaa | (of people) Greedy, selfish; (of rats) to eat everything in sight Problematic | (Mle) |
| PN.SAA.2 | S/saa | (of something normally covered by water) Emerge, appear above the surface; (of one’s bones) protrude obviously, be clearly visible | (Mle) |
| NP.SAE.3 | Sae | (of frightening spirits such as mouri or tipua) Appear frequently; (of the spirit of a dead person) fly overhead | (Mle) |
| PN.SAQELE | Saere | Walk, go | (Mle) |
| MP.SAFE.2 | Sahe | Single half-hitch knot; to lash pieces of timber together, as on a canoe or house | (Mle) |
| PN.SASAWE | S/sahe | Flying fish (Cypselurus spp.) Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| CC.SAKE.2 | Sake, ssaka | Lift one’s laplap to expose one’s buttocks as an act of provocation, expose oneself | (Mle) |
| MP.KILA.2 | Saa/kila | Look or glance once out of the corner of one’s eye | (Mle) |
| NP.SAAKILI.2 | Saakiri, saekiri | Curse, swear | (Mle) |
| EO.SAQALO | Saa(o)roo | Scrape something (with a knife, etc.) in order to soften it | (Mle) |
| MP.SAPAI | Saapai | Carry in one's arms, lift [ex. child] | (Mle) |
| SO.SA-SALA | Sara kai | (of a seabird or fig. of a person) Search for fish | (Mle) |
| OC.SALALA | Saraa | Fish sp. [Atherinidae silversides], edible small blue and white fish netted and used for bait Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| SF.SALI.2 | S/sari | Wipe, remove someting with a flick/scrape (e.g. water) off the surface of something (e.g. of a human body after bathing, a common practice) | (Mle) |
| PN.SALII | Sarii | Fish sp. caught in hand nets for bait | (Mle) |
| EO.SAU.6 | Sau | Breeze, gentle wind | (Mle) |
| PN.SAU.7 | S/sau | State or condition (esp. of the human body) as specified by the following verb | (Mle) |
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