Entries from Feinberg 1977 in Pollex-Online
Feinberg, R. (1977). The Anutan language reconsidered: Lexicon and grammar of a Polynesian Outlier. New Haven, Human Relations Area Files Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anuta | Mounu | Bait |
| Anuta | Mua | To go first |
| Anuta | Muni/muni | A game in which people hide |
| Anuta | Mungaarai | Forehead |
| Anuta | Muri | Back, the rear portion of something |
| Anuta | Rongo | To hear |
| Anuta | Namu | To bleach one's hair by the application of a suspension of lime (calcium hydroxide) in salt water Problematic |
| Anuta | Na/namu | To have an unpleasant odour, to stink; sour, pungent or other disagreeable odour, such as the smell of *ma*, or rotten fish |
| Anuta | Nepu | Fog |
| Anuta | Neve/nga | A load carried by a woman by tying it to her back with a strip of barkcloth |
| Anuta | Nima atamai | Right arm, right hand |
| Anuta | Niu mata | Young coconut |
| Anuta | Niu matuu | Mature coconut (before the stage where the liquid congeals to form the *oko*) |
| Anuta | Niu motomoto | Coconut before it has become fully mature and fallen from the tree |
| Anuta | Niu vi | Green coconut Phonologically Irregular |
| Anuta | Nono, nounou | Short |
| Anuta | No/noa | Promise (n,v) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Anuta | No/nongi | To ask for something; a request |
| Anuta | Noo/kapa | A belt made from sennit cord |
| Anuta | No/(u)ua | To hang by the neck |
| Anuta | Ngauta | Landward, ashore, inland, toward the centre of the island |
| Anuta | -nga | Substantive suffix, often used to change a verb to a noun |
| Anuta | Ng/aaio | Calm weather; sometimes used as generic term for weather |
| Anuta | Ngaki | To be short of wind Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Anuta | Ngao, ngau | A kind of bird Problematic |
| Anuta | Nga(a)/pure | Married man |
| Anuta | Ngaru | Breakers, surf |
| Anuta | Ngatara | A kind of reef fish... |
| Anuta | Ngau | To chew |
| Anuta | Ngavari | Slack (as a fishing line) |
| Anuta | Ngo | Prefix indicating that an object has in some way been altered in such a manner as to prepare it for use (e.g. ngo-ika 'piece of cooked fish', ngo-paka 'piece of tobacco ready for smoking') Problematic |
| Anuta | Ngongo | A type of bird |
| Anuta | Ngutu korekore | To curse someone or shout in anger |
| Anuta | Nguu | A hum or soft groan; to utter such a sound |
| Anuta | O | Of |
| Anuta | Oka | Transverse beams supporting roof of house |
| Anuta | Oke | To remove the husk from a coconut |
| Anuta | One(one) | Beach; beach sand |
| Anuta | Ono | Six |
| Anuta | Oro | Go (plural) |
| Anuta | Oti/ka | And then |
| Anuta | Ou | To come |
| Anuta | Ova atu, o atu | To give, to present with |
| Anuta | Pa | To be hoarse (E pa na reo) |
| Anuta | Pa(a) | Traditional fishing lure with pearl shell "spoon" and turtle shell or green snail hook; necklace made from same |
| Anuta | Paaoa | People |
| Anuta | Pa(a)/pai | To split an object; to divide objects into two or more groups; to break, to destroy |
| Anuta | Paa/teve | A kind of plant (Tacca leontopetaloides) |
| Anuta | Paa/tio, paka/tio | To look (in a direction) |
| Anuta | Faau | To grab something |
