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 | Hua | Testicle |
Sikaiana | Huaitino | Body of an animate being; trunk of a tree |
Sikaiana | Hunaona | Reciprocal term of ascending and descending generation in‑laws... (A respect relationship). |
Sikaiana | Hui | A bunch of coconuts |
Sikaiana | Se/hui | Ten (for birds, coconuts, copra, dollars) |
Sikaiana | Huke | Open up |
Sikaiana | Hula/hula | Oedema |
Sikaiana | Hule | Peel |
Sikaiana | Huli | To turn over |
Sikaiana | H/hulu | Rub something on body |
Sikaiana | Hune/a | Scabies |
Sikaiana | Vusi | Bush, inland area of an island (archaic) Phonologically Irregular |
Sikaiana | V/vusu | To punch with a closed fist Phonologically Irregular |
Sikaiana | H/huti | Pull or tug |
Sikaiana | Huti | Banana |
Sikaiana | Hutu | Tree sp |
Sikaiana | Naoaa | Heap of rubbish |
Sikaiana | Nasu | Plant species (salt bush?) - used as medicine for scabies, or for decoration |
Sikaiana | Natala | Coral Trout |
Sikaiana | Naatahi | Be the same |
Sikaiana | Nnie | A plant with strong wood |
Sikaiana | Aa | What? |
Sikaiana | Ai | Who? |
Sikaiana | Aku | Swordfish sp |
Sikaiana | Ala | Road |
Sikaiana | Ama | Outrigger |
Sikaiana | Api | Fish sp |
Sikaiana | Ohi/a | To desire, to love, to like; to want |
Sikaiana | One | Famine |
Sikaiana | Oka | Rafter |
Sikaiana | Oko | The muscle of a clam or oyster that is between the shells |
Sikaiana | Uu | Nipple or breast, of female; to suck a breast |
Sikaiana | Uui | To replace something that is hanging; to change a shoulder garment {puipui} or the bottles that hang from trees collecting coconut sap; to change something dangerous into something harmless through ritual |
Sikaiana | Ulu | Enter, go into |
Sikaiana | Ka | Tense-aspect marker, future inceptive |
Sikaiana | Ka | But, and, so |
Sikaiana | Aha | Sail guide rope Problematic |
Sikaiana | Kai | Food, eat |
Sikaiana | Kaaina | Place |
Sikaiana | Kaiaa | Steal |
Sikaiana | Kakau | Swim |
Sikaiana | Kake | Climb |
Sikaiana | Kalana | Song with dance actions brought to Sikaiana from the Gilbert Islands, probably in the 19th century Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Sikaiana | Kalamisi | An insect like a cricket Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Sikaiana | Kaleve | Sap from coconut tree collected for various uses including molasses (Donner) |
Sikaiana | Kal(o)lo | String along the bottom of a fishing net where stones could be placed to function as weights; string of a bow; string used in a bird net that connects then et to a small support near the handle |
Sikaiana | Kalu | Loose, wrinkled tissue around seed |
Sikaiana | Kamakama | Crab sp |
Sikaiana | Kanae | Fish sp |
Sikaiana | Kane/tua | Back (of person, animal, or thing) |