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 | 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 Borrowed |
| 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 |
| Rennellese | Toha | Construct, as a cult site; conduct an opening ceremony |
| Rennellese | Tohe | Small, edible, white bivalve or barnacle, as on floating logs |
| Rennellese | Tohi/tohi | Break into pieces |
| Rennellese | Lobi | To shave Borrowed |
| Rennellese | Lobi/kuu | To shave, as the head of someone else; to chop off, as nearly all the fronds of a coconut Borrowed |
| Rennellese | Tonga | East |
| Rennellese | Hai /toʔonga/ | Artefact, as mat or tapa, as offered to gods |
| Rennellese | Tongahiti | Stranger, foreigner, traveler, Melanesian |
| Rennellese | Tongi | Cut, as steps in a coconut tree |
| Rennellese | Tongo | Mangrove, (Bruguiera gymnorhiza) |
