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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sikaiana | Polo/polo | To promise, to make a commitment; (often) to marry |
| Sikaiana | P/pono | Put inside a container, cover a bottle top, patch a leak; put in jail; bottle cap |
| Sikaiana | P/poto/ | Short (sg.) |
| Sikaiana | Poto/poto | Short (pl.) |
| Sikaiana | Pou | Post |
| Sikaiana | Pouli | To be dark at night |
| Sikaiana | Puu | Conch shell, generic term for several different species; conch shell trumpet |
| Sikaiana | Puu | Start an oven |
| Sikaiana | Puna | Coral |
| Sikaiana | P/pui | Shut, be shut (as a door); prevent, stop; forbid, forbidden |
| Sikaiana | Puka | A tree sp |
| Sikaiana | Puku | Mound; fat of a turtle; stump of a tree branch; to swell from an injury. |
| Sikaiana | Puku | A hunchback's hump Problematic |
| Sikaiana | Puku lima | The elbow |
| Sikaiana | Ka/pulaka | A type of swamp taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) that is an important staple of the Sikaiana diet |
| Sikaiana | Pulau | To stink, to smell rotten |
| Sikaiana | Pule | Cowrie |
| Sikaiana | Pulotu | Dance drum; beat dance drum |
| Sikaiana | Pulou | Hat |
| Sikaiana | Puna | Bubbles of air that come to the surface of the water, as when someone lets out air under water |
| Sikaiana | Puni | Closed up, stopped up; in descent lines, to have a line without any children, or, for some speakers, with only female children |
| Sikaiana | Punua | Young, small, little, of animals: punua kulii, ‘puppy’; punua moa, ‘chick’; punua piki, ‘piglet’ |
| Sikaiana | Pupu | Dirty, unclean |
| Sikaiana | Puto | The central part of bird and fish nets where the mesh is more closely tied and the bird or fish will become caught |
| Sikaiana | S/sae/ | To tear calico |
| Sikaiana | Haele, saele | Walk, go by walking |
| Sikaiana | Sahe | Lucky, fortunate; to catch (as a bird or fish), find a spouse |
| Sikaiana | Sahe | To tie a cord around something; lock or hook arms while walking; fold arms while sitting |
| Sikaiana | Saahea | To be caught in the act of adultery |
| Sikaiana | Sai | A rope used to hold a person to a tree when he is trying to catch birds |
| Sikaiana | Saki | Expel |
| Sikaiana | S/saki/ | Dismiss |
| Sikaiana | V/akili/ | Open a wrapped material bit by bit Phonologically Irregular |
| Sikaiana | Sakulaa | Swordfish |
| Sikaiana | Sala | Be mistaken, make a mistake, be incorrect, wrong; sin (in Christian doctrine), especially through adultery and premarital sex; do by mistake, incorrectly, in a way that was unintended or unexpected |
| Sikaiana | Salato | Tree sp. (used for fertilizing the cultivated gardens; also used in play because it will cause itching) |
| Sikaiana | Sali | To turn from a solid into a liquid, to melt, to water, to shed tears |
| Sikaiana | Saalo | Make the surface smooth, of a canoe; whip with a knife in order to make soft, as in softening pandanus {kie} for weaving; whip, as in whipping a child |
| Sikaiana | Saapai | Carry an object on the front of the chest, especially to carry a child in such a manner |
| Sikaiana | Saaputu | A fish Problematic |
| Sikaiana | San(a)na. | Wall plate of the side walling of a house; a beam running horizontally on the side of a house that rests on the corner posts and supports the main rafters Phonologically Irregular |
| Sikaiana | S/sau | Carry, lift; transfer power from one person to another at the death of the chief; remember, affect emotionally |
| Sikaiana | Sauna | To smell (with following modifier) |
| Sikaiana | S/sava | To be filthy from a liquid |
| Sikaiana | Saavale | Spit, spittle, sputum, saliva |
| Sikaiana | See | To blossom, generic term |
| Sikaiana | Sea | A type of song with actions, from Luaniua |
| Sikaiana | Sekaa | Moldy |
| Sikaiana | Seke | Slip when walking or running; lose weight |
| Sikaiana | Sele | Tie up from above; set a trap using a string that jerks |
