Takuu entries in Pollex-Online
| Protoform | Item | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NP.FUNA.1B | Huna | Don a garment by fastening it around the waist, be clothed in a laplap... | (Mle) |
| NP.FUNE.2 | Fune | A skin disease, Tinea | (Hwd) |
| SO.FUNU | Funu | Pubic hair | (Hwd) |
| EO.FUSU | Ppusu, vusu | Box, fight with fists Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| AN.FUTI.1 | Futi | Pull, hoist; fish with a line | (Hwd) |
| AN.FUTI.2 | Futi | Banana (general term) | (Hwd) |
| EO.GAA.1 | N/naa | Action involving opening the mouth and making a noise (especially when sleeping) [snore, stammer] Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Mle) |
| PN.GAA.2A | Naa | Plural definite article | (Mle) |
| XO.GA-FOA.*A | Naoa | Brains Problematic | (Hwd) |
| PN.GAHE-GAHE | Naenae | Lazy, unmotivated; fatigue, laziness, tiredness, boredom; pant, as from fatigue | (Mle) |
| PN.GAAKAU | Naakau | Part of the meat of a mollusc | (Mle) |
| NP.GAA-LAFU | Naa nafu | Encrusted layers of greyish ash residue in a hearth; dust Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| PN.GAO.2 | Nao/nao | To insert | (Hwd) |
| PN.GAOFE | Naofe | Sway from side to side (of walls of a house) | (Hwd) |
| PN.GAOFIE | -nauhie | Take a short time to do something, or have something done to it; therefore frequently translatable as 'easy, easily' | (Mle) |
| FJ.GASAU | Nasau | Arrow | (Hwd) |
| PN.GESE | N/nase | (of a person, ship, etc.) Slow in responding, or bringing something; (of a watch or clock) slow in keeping time | (Mle) |
| OC.GASU.2 | Nasu | Shrub sp. with small flowers (Scaevola sericia or Scaevola taccada)... | (Mle) |
| PN.FAI-GAOFIE | Hainauhie | Easy, simple; to be treated lightly | (Mle) |
| PN.GATAE | Natae | Tree sp. with red flowers, found only on the smaller islands | (Mle) |
| SO.GAA-TAI | Naatai | Flotsam, objects drifting to Takuu from other places | (Mle) |
| PN.GATALA | Natala | A fish | (Hwd) |
| OC.GAU | Nau | Chew (e.g. sugarcane or pandanus fruit) so as to suck the juice; (of food) difficult to swallow because it is too tough to bite through | (Mle) |
| NP.GEGE | Neenee | Illness with rapid breathing and shortness of breath | (Hwd) |
| MP.GIGIE | Nnie | Tree sp. (Pemphis acidula) | (Mle) |
| CP.GOGO.1 | Nnoo | Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus), or ? White-capped Noddy | (Mle) |
| PN.GOGO.2 | Non/nono | Part of the body (Brain ?) Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Hwd) |
| EO.HAA.1 | Aa | What? what kind of?; why? (what for?) | (Mle) |
| NP.SA-GEGE | Sannee | (of horizontal beam, etc.) Bent, crooked, warped; (of fish) scatter, disperse; (of log, canoe, etc.) split, crack Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Mle) |
| MP.HAI | Ai | Who? whom? | (Mle) |
| OC.HAKE.B | Ake | Post-verbal particle indicating lateral movement | (Mle) |
| PN.HAKU | Aku | Needlefish or Longtom (Strongylura or Tylosurus indica) | (Mle) |
| AN.HALA | Ara | Trail, track, path, road; way, method; behaviour | (Mle) |
| PN.HAPI | Api | Spotted Surgeonfish (Acanthurus guttatus) | (Mle) |
| AN.HAU | Au | Black dye used in tattooing | (Hwd) |
| FJ.HAUPULU | Taupulu | Coconut husk | (Hwd) |
| OC.HIFO.A | Iho/ana | Place where descent (literal or figurative) occurs | (Mle) |
| OC.HIFO.B | Ifo | Downwards, over long distance | (Hwd) |
| CP.HINA | Ina | Shine, of a torch or flame, light a fire or otherwise provide light...; go fishing at night with a light | (Mle) |
| PN.HIGOA | Inoa | Name | (Mle) |
| OC.HOGE | One | Drought, famine | (Mle) |
| PN.HOKA.1 | Oka | Rafter of a house | (Mle) |
| EO.HOKA.2 | Oka | Husk (coconuts using a stick); husking stick | (Mle) |
| FJ.OLO.3 | Oro-ia | Rub against something, grind, or grate using a long blade with a back and forth motion; tool which uses this action (exs. grating taro, grinding shell artefacts, flattening pandanus leaves) | (Mle) |
| AN.HUHU | Uu | Breast; suck at the breast, suckle, nurse | (Mle) |
| OC.HULI.1 | Uri | Fish sp., blue and some yellow, caught in the lagoon with a line | (Mle) |
| OC.HURU.A | Uru | Enter or exit a location | (Mle) |
| PN.KA.1 | Ka | Tense-aspect marker | (Hwd) |
| XO.KAA.2 | Kaa | Sharp (of an edge only) | (Mle) |
| MP.KAFA.1 | Kafa | Sennit | (Hwd) |
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