Entries from Donner 1983-87 in Pollex-Online
Donner, W. (1987) Sikaiana Vocabulary: Na male ma na talatala o Sikaiana. Honiara, Solomon Island
Language | Item | Description |
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Sikaiana | A(a) | Personal article |
Sikaiana | A/aha | To open up, to push apart |
Sikaiana | Ahaa | Storm, hurricane |
Sikaiana | Ahana | Path in front of lineage houses where no houses were allowed to be built. |
Sikaiana | Ahi | Fire |
Sikaiana | Ahii | Wrap, parcel |
Sikaiana | Aho | Cord, especially fishing line |
Sikaiana | Ahu | Pile up, heap up |
Sikaiana | Anaana | Soul |
Sikaiana | Au | Gall |
Sikaiana | Au | Smoke |
Sikaiana | Aitu | Ghost, spirit |
Sikaiana | Pati/aka | Root |
Sikaiana | Ala | Awake |
Sikaiana | Alaalahutu | A fish |
Sikaiana | Ali | Flatfish |
Sikaiana | Aliki | Chief |
Sikaiana | Amo | To carry on one's shoulder (Dnr) |
Sikaiana | Hi/naanahi | Yesterday |
Sikaiana | Nau | I, me |
Sikaiana | Poo/ano | A leaf ball made from eight strands of leaf |
Sikaiana | Anu | Dance (sg.) |
Sikaiana | K/apo/ | Graceful, capable Phonologically Irregular |
Sikaiana | Aso | Day |
Sikaiana | Ata | Dawn |
Sikaiana | Ata | Reflection |
Sikaiana | Atamai | Clever |
Sikaiana | Ate | Liver |
Sikaiana | Aatea | Clear (as sky) |
Sikaiana | Ati lono | Spread the news |
Sikaiana | Atu | Particle of direction away from speaker |
Sikaiana | Atu | Bonito |
Sikaiana | Aua | A command not to do something being done, a call mostly to children then their parents want them to stop some activity or prevent an activity |
Sikaiana | Ava | Passage |
Sikaiana | Avaava | Small channels used by fish |
Sikaiana | E | Non-past tense-aspect marker |
Sikaiana | E | Agent marker |
Sikaiana | Eea | To appear above the surface of the water, as coral at low tide. |
Sikaiana | Ehu | Dirty (of water) |
Sikaiana | Haa | Hoarse |
Sikaiana | H/haa | To chop |
Sikaiana | Haeko | Blood of man or animal; very, excessively; bad, cruel, unkind |
Sikaiana | Haeko | Emphatic qualifier following verb or noun qualifier, very |
Sikaiana | Hhano | Awaken someone |
Sikaiana | Haho | Outside |
Sikaiana | Hhana | Pull out, separate |
Sikaiana | Hanai | To feed |
Sikaiana | Fai | Have intercourse |
Sikaiana | Hainaohie | Simple, easy to accomplish |
Sikaiana | Hainataa | To be difficult, hard to accomplish |