Entries from Roger Green, field notes in Pollex-Online
Language | Item | Description |
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Vaeakau-Taumako | Ana | Cave |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Au/a | Scrape up, shovel up |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Haha | To carry something on back |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Fala | A woven mat, a finished mat . Mat for sleeping, formerly also used as clothing by women |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hala | Pandanus |
Vaeakau-Taumako | A/holau/, holau, a/holai/ | Single men's house, men's house, clubhouse |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Halelo | Branch coral (porites) ; coral |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Fana | Bow, shoot with a bow |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hanaa | Mast ; mast, stick |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Vahigaleo | Adam’s apple |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Heke | Octopus |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hitu | Seven |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Foe/ia | Pound nuts |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hoaga | Sharpening stone |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hele/na | Peel or scrape breadfruit Phonologically Irregular |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hele/hele | Peeling or scratching Phonologically Irregular |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Honu | Turtle |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hua | Seed, fruit, ball, egg, flower ; flower, fruit, egg; to bear fruit |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Te /uuhu/ | Big conus for making bracelets |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hu/hui/a | Wash (clothes) |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Hula | To swell, full up ; full of food, swollen |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Ga/mouku | The bush |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Ga/haupe | Seaward |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Gau | Chew sugarcane |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Oko mai | Come |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Kava | Piper methysticum |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Kete | Type of basket . Big basket to carry food in from the bush |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Kie | Small pandanus |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Kiva, kive | Former old word for adze |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Kohe | Bamboo |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Lago | Stick or roller for canoe |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Laakau | Tree |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Laku/hia | Scratch the body |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Lano | Lake |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Lie | Nit, egg of louse . Louse egg, nit |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Tai loma | High tide or water |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Makona | Full, had enough |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Malo | Dry. Crispy (Hvn). |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Matikuku | Nails of toes and fingers |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Mau | Broad, strong |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Moana | Ocean ; sea, open sea ; deep sea ; ocean, deep sea |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Nauu | Term of address for mother |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Te e/noa | String |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Nono | Fly . A small fly |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Palapala | Clay, slippery mud. Weak, loose (Hvn). |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Paa/papa | Base volcanic rock |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Pahua | Giant clam (Squamosa maxima) |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Fugu | Blunt, dull Phonologically Irregular |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Pekapeka | Swiftlet . Small flying fox |
Vaeakau-Taumako | Penu | Shell trash. Things; remains, left-overs (Hvn). |