Entries from Stimson n.d. in Pollex-Online
Stimson, Frank (n.d.) Ra'ivavaean Dictionary. Typescript.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ra'ivavae | Hohoʔa | The appearance, form, features; a diagram, drawing; (mod) picture, likeness, photograph Borrowed |
| Ra'ivavae | Hoi | The wild yam (Dioscorea sp.)... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hoi | Interjection: The enemy have appeared/are coming! We are taken by surprise! (frly) Alas! Alack! |
| Ra'ivavae | Ho(r)o/miri | To caress, fondle with the hand |
| Ra'ivavae | Honi | To bite, gnaw |
| Ra'ivavae | Hono | To join, come together; to splice, join (as the end of broken bones); the vertical section of thatching...between two adjacent rafters... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hohonu | Deep |
| Ra'ivavae | Hope | To finish, terminate, conclude... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hopu | To bathe; (mod.) to dive (for) |
| Ra'ivavae | Hora | (Obs.) To extend, spread out |
| Ra'ivavae | Ho/hora | To lay, spread out (as a covering or mat); to lay down lengthwise (as a log) |
| Ra'ivavae | Hora/ʔiia | Spread far out...far-extending |
| Ra'ivavae | Mahora | To be spread or opened out, unfurled, unrolled; loose or undone, as hair |
| Ra'ivavae | Tahora | An open, uncultivated stretch of level land; a beach area |
| Ra'ivavae | Hora | A variety of shrub (Tephrosia piscatoria)... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hoorau | A canoe-shed |
| Ra'ivavae | Hore | To peel, strip off (as skin); bald, bare, stripped of the skin |
| Ra'ivavae | Ho/hore | To strip off outer bark |
| Ra'ivavae | Mahore | To be peeling or scaling off |
| Ra'ivavae | Pahore | Bald, bare, denuded; having the prepuce retracted... |
| Ra'ivavae | Horo | To run, move swiftly, dash; to run away, flee... |
| Ra'ivavae | Horo | To move in a continuous line or direction; to run, swarm (as a school of fish)... |
| Ra'ivavae | Horo | To swallow food |
| Ra'ivavae | Horo/mauŋa | A landslide |
| Ra'ivavae | Horo/miri | To rub or anoint with fragrant oils |
| Ra'ivavae | Horo/miʔi | To swallow, gulp down |
| Ra'ivavae | Horoi | To wash, wipe, dry off; towel, handkerchief |
| Ra'ivavae | Horu | To rear up, as a billow reaching shallow water; to rear up, be erect (of the phallus); to give out a loud, vibrating sound, as a shell trumpet Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Ra'ivavae | Horu/horu | Agitated, troubled (in mind) |
| Ra'ivavae | Hota | Cough |
| Ra'ivavae | Hota | A coral rock which rises above the level of lagoon waters |
| Ra'ivavae | Hotu | To bear fruit, fructify, produce; to heave, as the swell of the sea; to mount up, grow (as anger)... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hotu | The tip of the womb, which projects into the vaginal cavity |
| Ra'ivavae | Hotu | The fourteenth or fifteenth night of the lunar month... |
| Ra'ivavae | Hou | To drill, bore; a drill |
| Ra'ivavae | Hou | Sweat, perspiration |
| Ra'ivavae | Hou | Young, new, recent; a young child; again; newly, recently, before, prior to |
| Ra'ivavae | Hoʔa | A lashing-pin, used to bind down the ridge-comb Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Ra'ivavae | Hoʔi | Too, also; indeed, so it is, truly; as it happened |
| Ra'ivavae | Hoʔo | To exchange, barter; (mod.) to sell, buy (with atu,mai)... |
| Ra'ivavae | Huu | To eructate, break wind, fart |
| Ra'ivavae | Hua | The scrotum; (frly) private parts, genital organs (usually male) |
| Ra'ivavae | Huu/huu | Very watery (said of certain varieties of taro...) |
| Ra'ivavae | Hua | Exactly, just there, truly; surely, positively; only, merely, simply, just; singly, one alone |
| Ra'ivavae | Huare | Saliva |
| Ra'ivavae | Huavare | Spittle |
| Ra'ivavae | Huaʔi | To remove the cover of an earth oven; (frly) to reveal, disclose |
| Ra'ivavae | Hue | To fling about, throw into disorder or disarrangement |
| Ra'ivavae | Hue | The gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris)...a container made of a gourd |
| Ra'ivavae | Pohue | A climbing gourd-vine (Convolvulaceae sp.)... |
