Entries from Elbert 1975-81 in Pollex-Online
Elbert, S. H. (1975-81). Dictionary of the Language of Rennell and Bellona. Copenhagen, The National Museum of Denmark.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rennellese | Tabai | Tree sp. (Rhus taitensis) |
| Rennellese | Tabake | Pacific golden plover, (Pluvialis dominica fulvis) |
| Rennellese | Te | Singular definite article |
| Rennellese | Lelee | Spill out, as water; pour forth, as urine, semen; to come; to squirt, bubble forth, leak Problematic |
| Rennellese | Tea | White, light-coloured |
| Rennellese | Tehe | Vagina |
| Rennellese | Tehea | Which? |
| Rennellese | Te/tenga/ | Be black and blue, as after a bruise, reddish, as a swollen boil; to blush |
| Rennellese | Teka/teka | Roll, tip (as a boat) |
| Rennellese | Kau | Counting classifier, decades 20-90, for pairs of yams, tubers, etc |
| Rennellese | Teke | Be angry Problematic |
| Rennellese | Tege | Run, escape |
| Rennellese | Teenei | This |
| Rennellese | Te tahi | Some, other, another |
| Rennellese | Te tasi | Some, other, another |
| Rennellese | Tete | To skip across water, as a stone thrown sideways Problematic |
| Rennellese | Teʔeteʔe | Arothron and Cantigaster spp |
| Rennellese | Tetea | To be a little light |
| Rennellese | Tii | (Cordyline terminalis) |
| Rennellese | Tii | To shine, as the moon |
| Rennellese | Tiʔaki | Abandon, leave, desert |
| Rennellese | Tiage/taha | Coastal shrub, ?(Gardenia leucaena) |
| Rennellese | Tike/tike | To crouch or squat, as on the heels; to perch |
| Rennellese | Ti/tiko | Defecate |
| Rennellese | Ligho | White-collared Kingfisher (Halcyon chloris amoena) Problematic |
| Rennellese | Ligho tai | Sacred Kingfisher (Halcyon sancta sancta) Problematic |
| Rennellese | Tiga | Ship's boom |
| Rennellese | Tigi | Crush, as rocks or Tridacna |
| Rennellese | Haka/tigi | Use for propagation, as plants |
| Rennellese | Tigo | See |
| Rennellese | Ligo-bia | Look for or at, examine, inspect, observe, select, . (Bst) Problematic |
| Rennellese | Timu | Pick up, as a chicken picks up food Phonologically Irregular |
| Rennellese | Timu | Devastate, as by wind and storm |
| Rennellese | Tinaʔe | Belly, abdomen, womb |
| Rennellese | Tinana | Mother, have a mother |
| Rennellese | Tini | Ten (piles of panna, bags) |
| Rennellese | Tino | Body, trunk, stem |
| Rennellese | Tino | Ten (classifier for humans and large fauna) |
| Rennellese | Tau/titi/ | Tiny tapa loincloth |
| Rennellese | Titi | Chip out outline of canoe hull on a log |
| Rennellese | Loi | To masturbate (usually, but not exclusively of males Problematic |
| Rennellese | Too | To fall, descend, swoop, alight |
| Rennellese | Toʔo/toʔ | Possessive particle Phonologically Irregular |
| Rennellese | Toʔo | Take, be taken |
| Rennellese | To/toʔo | To belch |
| Rennellese | Toa | Ironwood |
| Rennellese | Loga | Hard core of wood; be hard, as wood, or as the core of wood, or as baked taro . (Bst) Problematic |
| Rennellese | Toʔa | Strength, authority, win v, be strong |
| Rennellese | Toaha | Crumbly yellowish lateritic soil |
| Rennellese | Toe | Be remaining, left, left over, omitted |
