Entries from Salisbury in Pollex-Online
Personal Communication
Language | Item | Description |
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Pukapuka | Yoo/yoo | Move (used with directional mai, atu) |
Pukapuka | (Yo)yongo | Smell of urine |
Pukapuka | Yopu | Descend, swoop down (e.g. of wind); get off a canoe |
Pukapuka | Yooyaa | Weary, bothered |
Pukapuka | Yua | Start a chant |
Pukapuka | Yuki | Pierce, stab |
Pukapuka | Yulu | Finishing off plaiting-edge by use of a "needle"; to place in, fasten in ; insert |
Pukapuka | Yuyulu | Shine ; illuminate, as light of the moon |
Pukapuka | Umu/lenga | Orangelined Triggerfish (Balistapus undulatus) Phonologically Irregular |
Pukapuka | Taa/tatau | Sp. of butterflyfish with four spots Problematic |
Pukapuka | Taaea | Paddletail snapper (Lutjanus gibbus) |
Pukapuka | Tawauli | Large size of black trevally (Caranx lugubris) |
Pukapuka | Tawiti | Tahiti. |
Pukapuka | -tanga | As in monotanga: island-wide feast; nootanga: group of people; wonotanga: ankle, joint |
Pukapuka | Tangau | A red snapper fish ; yellow-margined Sea Perch (Lutjanus fulvus) |
Pukapuka | Tai uli | Dark wood (esp. of Cordia subcordata) |
Pukapuka | Taayao | Morning (modern form) |
Pukapuka | Taenawa | Heavy Phonologically Irregular |
Pukapuka | Taitea | Soft wood of Cordia subcordata and Guettarda speciosus |
Pukapuka | Taaiva | Onespot Snapper (Lutjanus monostigma) |
Pukapuka | Taka | Apart, separated |
Pukapuka | Taaki | Pull out or up, hoist |
Pukapuka | Tala/wue | Sterna sp. poss. Crested tern, Sterna bergii |
Pukapuka | Kiikii | Holocentridae spp. Problematic |
Pukapuka | Kiikii wuutalaloa | Soldierfish spp. Problematic |
Pukapuka | Tamaki | Fight |
Pukapuka | Taamule | Orange-finned Emperor (Lethrinus erythracanthus) Borrowed |
Pukapuka | Tana | His, her a-class possession |
Pukapuka | Tapayi/a | Break, split (archaic) |
Pukapuka | Taa/tatau | Sp. of butterflyfish with four spots Problematic |
Pukapuka | Ta/tau | Count |
Pukapuka | Taua | A fight |
Pukapuka | Taua | That one understood --- only in a few ancient chants, late 18th C. Problematic |
Pukapuka | Taupoo | A kind of boil (prob. Rar. borrowing) |
Pukapuka | Tautai | Fishing expert |
Pukapuka | Tavai | Foreign tree sp. in chants |
Pukapuka | Tavake toto | Red-tailed Tropicbird |
Pukapuka | Teeia | This (in chants); limited to phrase "teeia wawine" |
Pukapuka | Ta/teka | Roll |
Pukapuka | Teenei | This |
Pukapuka | Waka/teni/teni | Praise [prob. post-contact borrowing from RAR] Problematic |
Pukapuka | Tiaki/na | Wait for, guard Problematic |
Pukapuka | Tiitii taeyinu | Ornate butterflyfish (Chaetodon ornatissimus) Problematic |
Pukapuka | Tuu/tiketike | Stand on tiptoe |
Pukapuka | Tinilau | Male associated with Yina in stories |
Pukapuka | Tiipuu | Cut, chop with an adze (old word) Problematic |
Pukapuka | Tito | To pick up from the water when hovering (of birds) Problematic |
Pukapuka | Too | Your (singular), o-class |
Pukapuka | Toa | Warrior, champion; male animal |
Pukapuka | Toi | Chip using an adze |