Entries from Stimson n.d. in Pollex-Online
Stimson, Frank (n.d.) Ra'ivavaean Dictionary. Typescript.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ra'ivavae | Hahu | To shave; plane (n,v) |
| Ra'ivavae | Haiere | A woman recovering from childbirth |
| Ra'ivavae | Haairu | To wipe off excrement |
| Ra'ivavae | Haaita | To make a grimace by twisting the jaw and drawing back the lips |
| Ra'ivavae | Haito | To measure, weigh...to equal, be equal to... |
| Ra'ivavae | Haamama | To open the mouth wide; yawn, gape, open wide |
| Ra'ivavae | Hana | To shine, glisten; (obs.) to be warm, hot |
| Ra'ivavae | Mahana | Warm; the sun; day, day-time |
| Ra'ivavae | Hana | To recoil, spring back straight, as a released bow; (frly) to shoot an arrow |
| Ra'ivavae | Hanaa | The yard of a sea-going ship |
| Ra'ivavae | Haanau | Bear a child, give birth; be born |
| Ra'ivavae | Haanau | Descendant(s) |
| Ra'ivavae | Haanaauŋa (mod. haanauʔa) | Young |
| Ra'ivavae | Haanaʔo | Long or yearn for |
| Ra'ivavae | Hano | To go, proceed (the implication is to go over water, by sail, to a considerable distance; to go overseas); (frly) to sail; to fly, as a spirit |
| Ra'ivavae | Hao | Encircle, surround; enclose, contain; draw a net around anything... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hapa | To be in the wrong |
| Ra'ivavae | Hape | Wrong, mistaken, badly performed; to diverge, wander from the path; to make a mistake |
| Ra'ivavae | Hape | Crooked, twisted (as of a foot) |
| Ra'ivavae | Haapuʔu | A variety of deep-sea fish of the Grouper species; ? the sea-bass |
| Ra'ivavae | Hara | To commit an offense; wrong, sinful; (mod.) an offense; (frly) a sin |
| Ra'ivavae | Hara | The pandanus tree... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hara/ʔute | The red pandanus flower |
| Ra'ivavae | Harara | Leaning over, off the perpendicular |
| Ra'ivavae | Harara | To come on to blow, spring up (of the wind) |
| Ra'ivavae | Hare | Building, dwelling, house... |
| Ra'ivavae | Harero | A variety of hard, branching coral... |
| Ra'ivavae | Haariʔi | To cover the hot stones of a native oven with a section of crushed banana-trunk; to cover or spread over with leaves or mats; to welcome, entertain as a guest |
| Ra'ivavae | Haariu | To turn, veer round (or partially round) |
| Ra'ivavae | Haro | To peek, peer |
| Ra'ivavae | Haroo | To tighten the final lashing of a canoe by taking three to four turns of the lashing around a small forked levering-stick, and pulling the lashing taut |
| Ra'ivavae | Haaroa | A variety of fish |
| Ra'ivavae | Haru | To seize, grasp vigorously or violently; to rape; to take by force |
| Ra'ivavae | Haruru | To thunder, rumble, resound...as thunder, pounding surf or a great drum |
| Ra'ivavae | Hata | The altare of a marae; a roost; to roost |
| Ra'ivavae | Fata | Loose, gaping open |
| Ra'ivavae | Hati | Break off, broken off; struck down; turned aside (as leader of a school of fish, into a net); dispersed, routed |
| Ra'ivavae | Hatiiŋaarima | The wrist |
| Ra'ivavae | Hatu | To interlace, interweave, twine...as sprigs of flowers or leaves...; to twist something around anything |
| Ra'ivavae | Hatu | A stone; the core of a boil |
| Ra'ivavae | Hatu | A lord, master; an owner, proprietor...; the guardian-god of a temple |
| Ra'ivavae | Hau | To tie, tie together |
| Ra'ivavae | Hau | A kind of highly ornamental head-dress having plumes and other ornaments and decorations |
| Ra'ivavae | Hau | The hibiscus tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus) |
| Ra'ivavae | Haurua | To tie two canoes together in such a fashion that the outriggers are on the outside; a double canoe, catamaran |
| Ra'ivavae | Hau | A government, administration, domain; peace...to be at peace |
| Ra'ivavae | Hau | Vital essence; the emanation of the self, psyche; warlike courage, valiance, intrepidity |
| Ra'ivavae | Haauŋa | Odor,scent, smell |
| Ra'ivavae | Hau | Dew; damp (as certain winds) |
| Ra'ivavae | Hauhau | Disgusting; slovenly, unattractive, homely; of low caste |
