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 | Kanokano | Social wasps, Polistes sp. |
| Rennellese | Kunga | Place, area |
| Rennellese | Huʔai- | Much, large, big, important, very... |
| Rennellese | Pigi | Touch; embrace |
| Rennellese | Haka/pigi(ʔaki) | To stay with or near; to put in with or alongside, add |
| Rennellese | Peʔe/peʔe/ina | Break (as a canoe) |
| Rennellese | Pongia | To be overtaken by night; to become night |
| Rennellese | Gaagaa/ʔiga | A kind of shark |
| Rennellese | Gaagaa | Back and belly fin, as of the bagukango [skipjack] and hu'aaika [trevally] fish |
| Rennellese | Sano | To suspect, guess; to trust, rely on, depend on |
| Rennellese | Si/siki | To cut the navel cord of an infant |
| Rennellese | Sugu | To set, as the sun |
| Rennellese | Sugu | To go or fall down; to fall dead, as a bird on a long flight |
| Rennellese | Taaheta | Salt-water pool, coastal pool; to be shallow or slightly full of liquid |
| Rennellese | Hua | Counting classifier for coconuts and round objects |
| Rennellese | Gau | tens of mats, papers, flat things etc. Problematic |
| Rennellese | Kau | Counting classifier, decades 20-90, category 7 (pairs of yams, tubers), 20 pairs, 30 pairs |
| Rennellese | Konaa | Demonstrative. Those, like those, there (near addressee, of pl. objects) |
| Rennellese | Konei | Demonstrative. These, like these, here, belonging here, local, the people here (pl.) |
| Rennellese | Kogaa (kongaa) | Demonstrative. Those, those others, like those. There (far, of pl. objects); some, other |
| Rennellese | I/ia/a/ia te | Causative, instrumental, locative, ablative, and temporal preposition: because of, due to, by means of, acout, concerning, in, at, on |
| Rennellese | Taʔa | Possessive preposition a-class |
| Rennellese | Tau/Taʔau | Second person singular possessive pronoun A-class |
| Rennellese | Tana/taʔana | Third person singular possessive A-class |
| Rennellese | Tau/teau/taʔau | Second person singular simple A-class possessive |
| Rennellese | Tona/toʔona | Third person singular O-class possessive |
| Rennellese | Mai | From |
| Rennellese | Po | Conjunction indicating a question or doubt and sometimes meaning or |
| Rennellese | Toku/toʔoku | 1st person singular possessive pronoun (simple form and reduplicated form) |
| Rennellese | ʔAba iho | To hand, give, or convey down, westward or northward |
| Rennellese | Kau/aki | To bring, take, pull in, escort |
| Rennellese | Heki | Not yet |
| Rennellese | Tuʔu | Divison, portion, group... |
| Rennellese | Pogapoga | Temporary coconut-leaf basket, as for carrying yams |
| Rennellese | Kano | Persons, group of persons |
| Rennellese | Hakaʔoti | To put a stop to; end, terminate |
| Rennellese | Hakaʔoti | Everywhere, everything |
| Rennellese | Hakahuga | Lung, air bladder (fish) |
| Rennellese | Tangagoa | Large shooting star or comet |
| West Futuna | Hai- | Prefix to most of the basic kinship terms indicating a reciprocal relationship between the base and closely associated kin |
| Rennellese | Haka/apo | To aim, as a spear |
| Rennellese | Hakagugu | To protect; to seek shelter; to be blocked, closed, shut off |
| Rennellese | Hugu(hugu) mata | Eyelashes |
| Rennellese | Poʔao | Mist, fog; to be dark, as the sky before an approaching storm or during an eclipse |
| Rennellese | Puku te tuʔa | To be hunchbacked |
| Rennellese | Hakatonu | Approve, agree |
| Rennellese | Haka/to/tonu | To settle differences or disputes |
| Rennellese | Hu/hugu | To brush off, as ants; to strip off hairs, as from panna |
| Rennellese | Hakatupu | To make a sprout or life principle thrive |
| Rennellese | Mate/kaga | To be very thirsty |
