Entries from Hovdhaugen 2006 in Pollex-Online
Hovdhaugen, E. (2006). A Short Dictionary of the Vaeakau-Taumako Language. Oslo, Kon-Tiki Museum, Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Toko- | Prefix attached to numerals and words indicating quantity referring to human beings |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tokotoko | Walking stick for old people |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tukutuli | Kneel Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tolo | Sugarcane |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tolu | Three |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tona | Wound after infection or mosquito bite, difficult to heal. Ulcer, sore (Ray). |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Kili/tona | Scar (after a small sore) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tono/a | Push away Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thonu | True, really |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tonu/ia | Be on time for, be timely at |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lo/thonu/thonu | Middle, halfway |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tau/thonu | Meet, happen to, chance |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tonu | A fish, sea bass, coral trout |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Toto/kanga | A big tree, beach heliotrope... |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | That(u) | We (1pi prenuclear clitic pronoun) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | T(h)uu | Stand, arrive, start |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tu/lia | Stand up against, fight against |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Suu | A dance where people stand still and clap hands Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tau/tuu | Belt |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuu/tuu | Cut (canoe) ; cut (trees from bottom), fell (trees) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tu/hia, tu/sia | Fell (trees); cut open (coconuts) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thue/ina | Beat, attack Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tua/one | Sand, sandbank, soil |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | T(h)uohine, thuofine (plural ve/thuahine) | Sister of a man |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | T(h)oka(na), tuokana | Older sibling of same sex, friend |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuaki/a | Take out guts of fish |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thuaivi | Mountain ridge, hills |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuha/-a | Share (n); to share, distribute |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thuohine (thuofine, tu(o)hine) (pl. ve/thuahine) | Sister of a man Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuhi-a | Collect, pick |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thungane (pl. ve/thungane) | Brother of a woman |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tui/-a | String fish (usually through the gills), thread (v); string to pass through the gills of fish for carrying them |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tutui | A tree with small leaves, its wood is used for house posts Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tukumu | Without sail; not yet grown, not yet germinated (of coconuts) Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuki | To copulate |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuki/tuki-a | Smash [e.g. breadfruit with pestle] |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuku-a | Be put, placed; put down |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Huku/a, suku/a [NUP] | Put; leave |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Siku/ai [VAE] | Put (down), put away, place |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Suku/ai | Arrange, put in order, put together, plan |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hikuku | Word referring to many small coral fish Phonologically Irregular |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tukutuku | Spider |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thuli | Deaf |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuli | Small bird with long beak living on the beach and flying in groups |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | (Ngakau) tuli/a | To like Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thulu | Drip |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | (N)dumaa | Be a numeral above ten |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tuna | Eel |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Thunu (trans. tun/aa) | Cook; cooking (n) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tupu | New offshoot (of tree or plant), growing |
