Entries from Leach n.d. in Pollex-Online
Foss Leach, field notes
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vaeakau-Taumako | (Lakau) hakalava | Main outrigger boom |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Ehu/ehu | Blue Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hokasiu, hokahiu | A type of wind |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Akasia | Wind from between Reef Is. and Santa Cruz Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Feara | A type of fish |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Fili | To plait |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | La/hora | Fish trap with a narrow exit for nets |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Foro | Small stingray (juvenile?) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hue | Vine |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hue potoe | Small spherical gourd grown on Tuleki...used as lime container... |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hi/galo, li/galo | A blunt-headed large fish (beak-like jaws) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | N/aga/ii | Unit of length: span (end of thumb to little finger) Phonologically Irregular |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Oka | Main rafters |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Eku/kau | Tip of shaft of kupega net |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tu/ipu | Shark rattle |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Kalahau | Side part of te momoa (cheek area) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hakanava | Type of wood used for firestick |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Kulu te kano mala | Type of breadfruit ['bitter flesh'] |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Na/kaokao | Sides of shaft of adze helve |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Kau/kaui(i) | Sticks which become part of outrigger |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Koga/i lima | Upper arm or humerus |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Kuhi | Small hand net used by women for fish under stones |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Laga/laga/i | A type of fried bread made from banana or kumara Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loli | Black sea slug |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lulu | Owl (not found at Taumako, but in Reefs) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Magalo | Sweet |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Maga hanaa | Notched bottom of te puke mast boom |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Malae momoa | Open,Whole flat upper surface of te momoa [end piece of canoe] |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hatu mami | Most kinds of rock Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Mdapiu | Limpet spp. |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Milo | To twist on thigh for string |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hai/pepekau | Unit of length, from breast bone to finger tips Phonologically Irregular |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Pipi | Bivalve, Anadara sp. |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hau/pule | Shellfish, Monetaria moneta [money cowry] |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Ahuli, hulu | Kinds of fish |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Atu | Small type of skipjack tuna |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Atu | A line of things |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Matauutu, mdaitu, ndaitu | Headland; rocky shore next to the land |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lau | Roof slat & wall slat of house |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tai iki | Trap for wild fowl (also dogs, formerly also pigs) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tapa kaula | Betel nut bark, made into the decking of large canoe outrigger Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Tau | The cover plate of the te puke hull. Coverboard (Gge). |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Teke | The stick lashed to te hana on te puke... |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Sio | A kind of fish Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Toga, soga | A kind of wind |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Togo | Tall mangrove tree; wood used for head of ndaipakapaka arrow |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Pou/tutulu | Four large corner posts of house |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Uto/gi | One of a pair of floats of outrigger. Side float (Gge). |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Va | Vertical overlays of lau (slats of house) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Gamea | Fish sp. |
