Entries from Dougherty 1983 in Pollex-Online
Dougherty, J. W. D. (1983). West Futuna-Aniwa: An Introduction to a Polynesian Outlier Language. Berkeley, University of California Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| West Futuna | Para | Spoiled, watery, rotten, overripe |
| West Futuna | Para/fara (ANI) | Tree fern |
| West Futuna | Paragi | A fish |
| West Futuna | Parapu | Wind from the west |
| West Futuna | Pari | To fast |
| West Futuna | Pan/pani/ga | A ritual ceremony. Ceremony connected with the eating of the first breadfruit (Cpl) |
| West Futuna | Patapata | Be a little itchy |
| West Futuna | Pe- | Like |
| West Futuna | Pe | Ripe breadfruit |
| West Futuna | Peau | White caps, swell in the ocean |
| West Futuna | Peka | Flying-fox |
| West Futuna | Pera (WFU), pere (ANI) | Mud, mire, slime |
| West Futuna | Pena | Prepare, fix, do, make |
| West Futuna | Pen/pena | To fix up, repair, prepare; look after. Se réconcilier (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Penaa/ua | Neck |
| West Futuna | Penu | Rubbish, filth. Miettes (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Pepe | Butterfly |
| West Futuna | Pisi-a | To spray, to drizzle |
| West Futuna | Pito | End, piece, bit, part |
| West Futuna | Po | Dark, darkness, night |
| West Futuna | Ponga/vai | Pool of water |
| West Futuna | Poi/poi | To flicker, squint. Blink (ANI) (Cpl). Cligner des yeux (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Poroki/na | Invite |
| West Futuna | Pono | A cover, lid; closed up, blocked off. Penis sheath (nambas) (Cpl) |
| West Futuna | (Poh)popo | To rot; rotted |
| West Futuna | Poto | Short |
| West Futuna | Potu | A bed; coconut leaf matting |
| West Futuna | Pou | Centre house-post |
| West Futuna | Pouri, pauri | Dark, darkness; haze; blind; unclear, confused |
| West Futuna | Puga | Brain coral, coral |
| West Futuna | Fagapuga | Wrist |
| West Futuna | Puka | A kind of native cabbage |
| West Futuna | (H)puke | Mound; to swell, begin to form mounds, as of wave on beach |
| West Futuna | Puku | Short thing, protuberance |
| West Futuna | Pure (ANI) | Shell. Cowrie shell spp. (Clk). |
| West Futuna | Purau, purou | Hat, garland, crown; to don a hat; to cover, to put on a lid |
| West Futuna | Puru | Coconut husk fibre |
| West Futuna | Puru/a | To fit in the coconut fibre |
| West Futuna | Puru-cia | Catch |
| West Futuna | Pupu | Gargle, sputter. Se rincer la bouche (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Puta (ANI) | To bubble |
| West Futuna | Putu(a) | Burning of fruit trees of a person about to die, or recently dead; burn coconut fronds as an offering to the spirits |
| West Futuna | Sa | Bad, undesirable, ugly, disfunctional, incompetent |
| West Futuna | Safe/a | See, spot, find |
| West Futuna | Saga | To complete |
| West Futuna | Sag(o)/sago | Withered (of a tree). Brindilles (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Saka | Short, short of stature |
| West Futuna | Sari-a | To run, flow; to have diarrhea; to wash out (e.g. road); squishy, muddy |
| West Futuna | Samu-jia | To land a fish; to catch people |
| West Futuna | Sao | Poison fish in small pools Uncertain Semantic Connection |
