Tokelau entries in Pollex-Online
| Protoform | Item | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| OC.NATU.1 | Natu | Knead (grated coconut or arrowroot)... | (Sma) |
| PN.NEFU.2A | Ne/nefu | (of eyes, spectacles, etc.) Blur, dim; misty, hazy (weather); murky, unclear (water) | (Sma) |
| NP.NEI | Nei | Demonstrative: this, these (post-nominal); now (post-verbal) | (Sma) |
| PN.NIMO.1 | Nimo | Disappear, vanish; slip (from one's memory) | (Sma) |
| MP.NIU.1 | Niu | Coconut tree (Cocos nucifera); its wood or timber; coconut cream | (Sma) |
| CP.NOQA | Noa | Bind, tie | (Sma) |
| CP.NOQA | Noa/noa | Bind up, tie up; be confined, detained (e.g. by police) | (Sma) |
| CP.NOQA | No/noa | Secure, fasten; tie up, bind up | (Sma) |
| MP.NONO.1 | Nono | Small black flying insect about the size of the sand-fly... | (Sma) |
| FJ.NUKU.1 | Nuku | Village, town; country, place; home | (Sma) |
| EC.NUKU.2 | Nuku | The people (of the village) | (Sma) |
| PN.NUMI.1 | Numi | Be tangled; be muddled up, confused; wind, coil around something | (Sma) |
| PN.NUMI.1 | Nu/numi | Crumple; bundle up; wind (or coil) around something; be mixed up, confused, confusing | (Sma) |
| PN.OO.2 | O | Yes (in answer to being called by one's name) | (Sma) |
| EO.OFAGA | Oofaga | Nest, brood (n); to nest, lay eggs in a nest | (Sma) |
| OC.QOHO | Oho | Provision of food for outing (e.g. fishing voyage); to be provisioned | (Sma) |
| PN.OI.2 | Oi | Exclamation of surprise or pain | (Sma) |
| FJ.OLO.1 | Olo/laakau | Grove of bushes and trees | (Sma) |
| FJ.OLO.1 | Olo | Fortress, shelter (from enemy); stumps, wicket (in cricket) Borrowed | (Sma) |
| PN.ONA-POO | Onapoo | Days, times | (Sma) |
| PN.QOSO | Oho | Jump; hop; rush upon; interrupt (in conversation); (of water) overflow; (of sun, moon and stars) rise; (metaphorically, of feelings, illness, etc.) arise, flare up, occur | (Sma) |
| PN.PAA.5 | Paa | Explode; be punctured (e.g. balloon); break out (of loud weeping); | (Sma) |
| PN.PAE-PAE | Paepae | Pavement made of stones around a house; build a stone pavement around a house | (Sma) |
| PN.PAKEE | Pakee | Hit; tap, rap (of noise); make a noise | (Sma) |
| MP.PAKU.D | Paku/paku | Scab | (Sma) |
| PN.PAQALA | Paala | Fish sp., Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) | (Sma) |
| MP.LAFA-LAFA | Paa/lafalafa | Flat (of tables, boards, etc., but not land) | (Sma) |
| SO.PAA-LAPU | Paalapu | Traditional name given to the north-west by west wind which blows during the laki or hurricane season | (Sma) |
| PN.PALE.1B | Pale | Spread or lie something on something for support, cover, etc. | (Sma) |
| PN.PALI.2 | Pali | The genital part of a woman where the pubic hair grows | (Sma) |
| PN.PAPA-A-TUQA | Papaatua | Back (of man and animals) | (Sma) |
| CE.PASU.1B | Pahu | Sharkskin drum | (???) |
| PN.PEGU | Penu | (of sharp edges) Be dented, damaged Phonologically Irregular | (Sma) |
| OC.PENU.A | Penu | Grated coconut (from which the cream has been extracted); butt remaining of a chewed pandanus fruit; term used of the growing seedlings of pandanus whose leaves are used for mat-weaving | (Sma) |
| NP.PETI | Peti | (of animals) Fat; fatness, corpulence | (Sma) |
| MP.POA.1 | Po/poa | Be abounding with fish (attracted by the ground bait) | (Sma) |
| PN.POLA-POLA | Polapola | Basket (woven roughly with coconut leaf) | (Sma) |
| PN.PONA | Pona | Knot; lump, swelling; node, knob; defect, fault; have a lump, protrude, bulge | (Sma) |
| CP.POTO.2 | Poto | Intelligent, clever; skilled, expert; wise | (Sma) |
| PN.POO-QULI | Poouli | Dark; darkness | (Sma) |
| PN.PULE.2 | Pule | Authority, power; chief, director, manager; the corporate body in authority, council of elders... supervise, control, command | (Sma) |
| PN.PUNOU | Punou | (of head) Bend, bow; (of back) bend downwards, stoop | (Sma) |
| PN.PUNUA | Punua | Young of a bird, animal or shark | (Sma) |
| OC.SAKA.3 | Haka | Boil, cook by boiling in water; food (esp. starchy foods) cooked by boiling | (Sma) |
| PN.SAKE.3 | Hake | (of an outrigger canoe on the sea) Overturn, heel over | (Sma) |
| MP.SAO | Hao | Escape (from death, injury etc.), be safe, get through to safety | (Sma) |
| AN.SAPO | Hapo | Catch (a ball etc.) in the air | (Sma) |
| PN.SAPOTU | Hapotu | (of heart) Beat faster than normal, palpitate; be short of breath, gasp for air | (Sma) |
| EO.SAU.6 | Haau/a | Feel the wind of something passing swiftly by | (Sma) |
| PN.SEPO.A | Hopo | Lick food off something; scrape last morsels of food from a dish with fingers and lick them Phonologically Irregular | (Sma) |
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