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 | Penaa/ua | Neck |
| West Futuna | Penu | Rubbish, filth. (FUT) generally used in plural (Cpl). Miettes (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Pepe | Butterfly |
| West Futuna | Pisi-a | To spray, to drizzle |
| West Futuna | Pito | End, piece, bit, part |
| West Futuna | Po. X/po (FUT) (Cpl). | 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). Fish sp. (Cpl). |
| 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. Puru-tshia (ANI) (Cpl). | 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. Shortness of stature (Cpl). |
| 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 |
| West Futuna | Sapa | Overlapping, unequal, uneven; surpass at games. Sloping (Cpl). |
| West Futuna | Sape | Crippled, lame; to limp |
| West Futuna | Sara | To look for, search for; to find |
| West Futuna | Save | Flying-fish |
| West Futuna | (H)sau (trans. sau/a) | To cut, chop (particularly plants or trees) |
| West Futuna | Sau | To blow (of wind). Sound of wind (Cpl). |
| West Futuna | Savari-a | To spit, spittle Phonologically Irregular |
| West Futuna | Savini | To whistle with just the lips |
| West Futuna | Se | Grasshopper, locust. Criquet (Rve). |
| West Futuna | Se | Not |
| West Futuna | Seka | A mushroom that glows blue at night |
| West Futuna | Seke (pl. h/seke) | Slide, skid, slip; pass by |
| West Futuna | Sere-a | To cut (in a back and forth slicing or sawing motion); to write, to mark. Circumcise (Cpl). |
| West Futuna | Seru | Comb (n,v) |
