Tuamotu entries in Pollex-Online

Protoform Item Description Source
NP.LANU.A Ranu Overflow, as sea over adjoining land; a flood tide... (Stn)
CK.TAE-WAO Taetaevao A savage, barbarian...forest-dwellers....refugees living in mountain valleys... (Stn)
PN.I.2A I Particle of location (Stn)
CE.KOO-IWI Kooivi The bare stem of a leaf; the nerve of a leaf; the root, the heart of a matter... (Stn)
NP.KULA.1C Kura Any valued possession, treasure... (Stn)
PN.TO-TOLO Totoro To crawl, creep (as a rat, turtle, sea slug) (Stn)
NP.POGA.3 Niho poŋa Molaire, molar tooth (Chf)
EP.PORO.2 Poro The rounded end of a house; a corner; the butt, end of a stick; the fleshy pad on the bottom of the heel of the foot; elbow; the buttocks; bend, curve (Stn)
MQ.HOUPO Haupo, hooupo Heart (of man or beast) (Stn)
CE.TAPARURU Tapariri Writhe, flounder, wriggle, thrash about, throb, shudder... Phonologically Irregular (Stn)
MQ.KUKINA Kuukina To give one crunching sound, as food in the mouth; to crunch, as gravel, shale, underfoot or beneath a keel (Stn)
CE.KOONINI.2 Koonini The sexual act/experience (Stn)
MQ.TAKEO Takeo Poisoning; an illness due to poisoning; poisonous, deadly, causing death (e.g. food) (Stn)
CE.KIRITI Kiriti To jerk up a fish line; to have spasms or convulsions; to twitter in a sudden, spasmodic way, as the cry of the sandpiper (torea) (Stn)
TA.MA-KOKI Makoki (ROI), mokoki (MKM) To be sprained (Stn)
CE.PUUTIKI Puutiki A tress, plait, top-knot of hair; to do up the hair in bunches, tufts, or knots (Stn)
CE.UTARI Utari To follow along, traipse after; wait on, attend (Stn)
PN.FAKA-KITE Hakakite, fakakite To inform, show, reveal, disclose; announce, proclaim, make known, bear witness to.... (Stn)
EP.KORE-GA Koreeŋa The act of nulligying, abrogating, eliminating; a becoming not, a disappearance; dispersal, vanishing, absence (Stn)
CE.KOO-REGA Kooreŋa(reŋa) Yellowish; straw-coloured... (Stn)
MQ.FAKA-TOSI Fakatotohi To let blood, bleed Problematic (Stn)
EP.TAFU.B Taahu To perform certain rites involving the use of fire; to cause the wind to blow by means of sacred rites... (Stn)
EP.TAFU.B Taahu/taahu A sorceror, a conjurer of spirits, gods, demons... (Stn)
CE.AO-MARAMA Ao-maarama The World-of-light, Earth-world, World of man (Stn)
CE.MA-REKA Maareka To sense the approaching, first thrills of the sexual culmination (Stn)
PN.TAA.2 Pe/taa A cluster of ripe pandanus fruit (Stn)
CE.AI-TAGA Aitaŋa Descendants, progeny; a descent, genealogical history (Stn)
PN.FAKA-AGI Fakaaŋiaŋi Gentle, kindly (said of the eyes) Uncertain Semantic Connection (Stn)
MQ.KARAKO Karakoo The petrel or tropical bird (Pterodroma sp.) [a Mangarevan word?] (Stn)
NP.FENUQU.B Henu Splice on (Stn)
NP.FENUQU.A* Henu Fibres of the *haaveke* (Stn)
PN.MATE-HOGE Mateoŋe To be hungry, suffering from hunger (Stn)
CE.NAU.3 Nau ?To come, go (HAO); to appear, come into being (VHI); to move, sway (rhythmically, alternatively) (Stn)
CE.NO-TE-MEA No te mea Because; for the reason that (Stn)
CE.OE Oe To sough, murmur (as the wind); to make a whizzing, whishing sound; to expell the breath in a hissing whistle, as after a deep breath; to ring, clink, tinkle, as hard rock struck with metal (Stn)
CE.OE Oe/oe To make a purling, murmuring, tinkling sound, as running water; to make the sound of waves on shingle stones; to make a splashing sound... (Stn)
EP.OMA.3 Oma To retreat, shrink back into a hole...as an octopus or eel (Stn)
PN.OMA.1 Oma To dip over a wave (VHI); to swoop, as a bird; (Stn)
PN.OFO.B Oho To scatter, flee, dash, fly away, as birds or fish when startled by the approach of a person (Stn)
PN.LAGI.5 Raŋi A high-, divine chief (Stn)
FJ.LUFA Ruha Worn out, ragged, as clothing, baskets, mats (Stn)
CE.POU.2 Pou To descend (ANA) (Stn)
CE.POU.2 Taa/pou To bow down; bowed down (Stn)
CE.POU.2 Tuu/pou To bend over exposing the buttocks as a mark of contempt (AMN) (Stn)
CE.TUU-PERE Tuupere To pry, prick, break out the meat of a coconut (Stn)
EP.KORE-KORE Korekore Certain nights of the lunar cycle (6,20,23,25). (Stn)
EP.SOATA.3 (O) Hoata Third night of the moon (Fakahina, Hao, Morokau) (Aud)
NP.QALI.1B V/ari The eighth, ninth, or eleventh night of the lunar cycle (according to different lists). (Stn)
NP.QALI.1B O V/ari Night of lunar cycle ranging from 8th to 11th (Aud)
CE.FUNA.2 O Huna Twelfth (or thirteenth) night of the lunar cycle (Aud)

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