Tuamotu entries in Pollex-Online

Protoform Item Description Source
PN.KAPI.C Kapi Shut (as bivalve); crowded... (Stn)
EP.PAU.1D Pau Consumed, used up, exhausted (as provisions, food); exterminated, destroyed...spent (of the breath) (Stn)
PN.TUQA.1B Tua The place behind, at the back, above (of clouds, winds); remote, high regions or spaces... (Stn)
CP.TAGI.B Taŋi Make characteristic sound (Stn)
PN.OQO Oo Penetrate, enter into; find room, get in (implying difficulty or reluctance) (Stn)
PN.POI.C Poi To toss up and down, as waves in a storm (Stn)
TA.PEKE.1C Peke/peke Speeding; quick, light on one's feet; sprightly, lively (Stn)
TA.PEKE.1C Pe/peke Hurry up, hasten (Stn)
NP.QASA-GA.B Ahaŋa The high seas, far-away seas; the distant ocean expanse (Stn)
PN.KALU.A Karu Loose flesh; a fold of loose flesh; cheek, as of face or buttock; lips, as of the cunnus (Stn)
EP.KALU.D Karu/karu Wrinkled, baggy, hanging in folds (of skin); slack, loose (as rope); a new-born infant (Stn)
TA.KOO-UA Kooua A coconut at the first stage of development (Stn)
PN.MEQA.B Mea To do, deal with, perform (a non-descript predicative substituting for any action mentioned, understood or implied) (Stn)
PN.KAWE.2B Paa/kave Carrying strap (Stn)
PN.MUKA.1A Muko/ko The young shoot of a plant Phonologically Irregular (Stn)
NP.MUKA.1B Muko/niu The soft, newly formed flesh of the young coconut (Stn)
CE.RAWA-IKA Ravakai To go fishing; a fishing trip... (Stn)
PN.TAFA-TAFA Tahataha The littoral; whole length of land (Stn)
CE.WAHA.3 Vaha The sheet of a sail (Stn)
TA.KAUNUNU Kaunu December or January (first or eighth month) (Stn)
NP.PALOLO-MUQA Paroro-mua The third or tenth month; March or January (Stn)
NP.PALOLO-MULI Paroro-muri The fourth or eleventh month, April or February (Sks)
PN.MULIFAA Muriaha The name of the third or fifth (or twelfth) month of the year (Stn)
PN.SILIGA-KELEKELE Hiriŋa The fifth or seventh month; May or July (Stn)
NP.WAI.2 Vai/tua The sixth month (Stn)
CE.HIGAIA Hiŋaaia April or June; the name of the fourth or sixth month... (Stn)
CE.REFU.3 He/rehu A star name; October, the tenth month of the Tuamotuan calendar... (Stn)
PN.KAU-QAA Kaaua Palisade, fence, barrier; to enclose, fence, shut in Phonologically Irregular (Stn)
NP.TEE-HENA Teenaa That, there by you; referential; location near addressee, away from speaker (Sks)
NP.TEE-LAA Teeraa That, over there; referential object away from both speaker and addressee (Stn)
NP.PEE-LAA Peera Thus, like that, in that way (HAO) (Stn)
NP.TAU-AMA Tauama The left/port side of a canoe; the outrigger side (Stn)
PN.TOKO.1C Toko To prop up (Stn)
PN.FAA-QITI Faiti Obstructed, blocked, cluttered up; narrow, hence difficult to pass through (Stn)
NP.FAKA-QATA.C Fakaata Deceive, bluff, hoax by pretences...pretend, simulate (Stn)
EC.SEKE.1B Heke To defecate; to ebb (Stn)
CE.SEKE.2 Heke To dash away, flee (of a group); to go, proceed, usually by water; to take passage on a ship, migrate; to go, return to the village (Stn)
NP.SEKE.1D Haka/heke To be carried, blown along on the wind (Stn)
EC.SEKE.1B Haka/heke To miscarry; purging (Stn)
TA.MATIE Matie A small-bladed, self-spreading variety of grass (Lepturus repens) (Stn)
CE.POKEA Pokeea (Portulaca lutea) (Stn)
TA.POO-FATU.2 Pofatu (Sophora tomentosa) (Raynal 1983) (Rch)
MP.MAHUKU Moouku Sword-grass (Xiphagrostis floridulus) (Stn)
PN.GA-LUE ŋaarue Tremble, shake violently; be strongly agitated, move up and down (as surface of sea) (Stn)
PN.GA-UE ŋaaue/ue Swing, sway violnetly (as branches); tremble, quake violently (as the earth)... (Stn)
EC.PUU.5 Puu The belly of an octopus (Stn)
TA.KOO-TAFA.B Kookaha A variety of tree fern (Asplenium nidus)... Phonologically Irregular (Stn)
TA.ORI Ori To stroll, ramble (Stn)
NP.SUE.2 Hue To scrape up rubbish off the ground... (Stn)
NP.MA-SUE Mahue Heaped up by the wind and waves: as sand in banks (Stn)

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