Entries from Salisbury in Pollex-Online
Personal Communication
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pukapuka | Vaayi/a | Split |
| Pukapuka | Vaaia | Period of time |
| Pukapuka | (Ve)vete | To take apart, part, separate |
| Pukapuka | Vete memea | Large size of Gold-lined goatfish (Mulloides vanicolensis) |
| Pukapuka | Wulitua | Turn the back |
| Pukapuka | Akulaa | Swordfish, sailfish, marlin spp. Phonologically Irregular |
| Pukapuka | Pale | Turn, change direction, go round |
| Pukapuka | Pale | Hold, support |
| Pukapuka | Tawola | Spread out in the open |
| Pukapuka | Takuo | Fish that is noosed (in chants) |
| Pukapuka | Tua | Ocean side of atoll; out to sea |
| Pukapuka | Tainamu | Mosquito net |
| Pukapuka | Waaoa | Canoe crew |
| Pukapuka | Aayanga | Name for the unbroken stretch of built-up reef on eastern (windward) side of atoll, stretching between motu (islets) |
| Pukapuka | Ao | Breath Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Aalia | Wait a minute! Borrowed |
| Pukapuka | Ka/alia | Wait a minute! |
| Pukapuka | Omo/yi | Rub, smear Phonologically Irregular |
| Pukapuka | Te ao nei | This world |
| Pukapuka | Ao | Successful at something, e.g. diving deeply |
| Pukapuka | Onga | Extra, surplus Borrowed |
| Pukapuka | Aonga/a | Suitable, useful |
| Pukapuka | Au(w)a/e | Don't |
| Pukapuka | Au/yee | Don't (formal) |
| Pukapuka | Auyulu | Prune, cut off all the leaves of the Hernandia tree |
| Pukapuka | Eia | Here they are; narrative marker: so, then |
| Pukapuka | E/ia | Narrative marker: so, then |
| Pukapuka | E/ia laa | At last! |
| Pukapuka | Veve | Worn out, exhausted (resources), as of poor people; poor, destitute |
| Pukapuka | Waaele | Mother with newborn child |
| Pukapuka | Waailu | Wipe after defecating |
| Pukapuka | Waawine | Women |
| Pukapuka | Tama waangai | Foster child Borrowed |
| Pukapuka | Wai taua | Start a fight, quarrel Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Waainu | Give a drink Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Wakaea | To breathe, rest |
| Pukapuka | Wakaawu | To make hot on a fire (e.g. oven stones) |
| Pukapuka | Wakaipo | Have an affair, commit adultery |
| Pukapuka | Wakaita | Show displeasure; building up anger |
| Pukapuka | Wakalele | Release, allow to fly, cause to run |
| Pukapuka | Wakalongo | Be silent, not speak |
| Pukapuka | Wakayeyee | Lead someone astray |
| Pukapuka | Wakatayi | To unite, join together |
| Pukapuka | Wena | Bow (n). Toy bow (modern) (Bge). Phonologically Irregular |
| Pukapuka | Kave wetai | Cassytha filiformis |
| Pukapuka | Watinga | Joint (of hand, arm or leg) |
| Pukapuka | Waatua | Single strand of rope, incl. wrestling belt Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Wo/wou | Construct (a house or canoe) |
| Pukapuka | Wenua | People of the land. In poetry, the people of a land (Bge) |
| Pukapuka | Winako | Brazen in making advances towards opposite sex Problematic |
