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 |
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Anuta | Tavake | Tropic Bird |
Anuta | Toake | Tropic Bird |
Anuta | Te | Definite article singular |
Anuta | Tee | Excrement Problematic |
Anuta | Tepa/tepa | Stagger (as when wounded, drunk, famished) |
Anuta | Tenga | Seed |
Anuta | Teki | Jump or twitch, as when bitten by an ant |
Anuta | Tipa | Pearlshell |
Anuta | Tipitipi | A kind of fish |
Anuta | Tika | A type of dart made from a reed shaft about four feet long, with a heavy hardwood head; a contest in which men compete to see how far they can throw their *tika* darts...; to throw something after the fashion of throwing a reed dart |
Anuta | Tiri | A kind of net used in Tikopia but no longer in Anuta |
Anuta | Timu | Light rain, drizzle |
Anuta | Too | |
Anuta | Topi | Garden, orchard |
Anuta | Tonga | East to south-east; wind from that quarter; season during which such winds are common (trade-wind season) |
Anuta | To/ti | Pull or carry a canoe out to sea, lift, bring Problematic |
Anuta | Toke | Eel |
Anuta | Tokerau | Northeast; wind coming from a northeasterly direction |
Anuta | Tore | Female sex organ |
Anuta | Toru | Three |
Anuta | Tonu | Correct, right, true |
Anuta | Tou | First person incl. plural incorporated pronoun |
Anuta | Tu(u) | To stand; to be particularly prominent or outstanding |
Anuta | Tuu | Pierce or stab, from the point of view of the instrument |
Anuta | Tuatina | Mother's brother |
Anuta | Tipunga | Carpenter; the man who performs the operation during a boy's initiation (circumcision) rite |
Anuta | Tungia | Put fire to something; throw something in fire |
Anuta | Tui | Formal title for an Anutan chief |
Anuta | Tuke | Lower abdomen |
Anuta | Turuaapo | Midnight |
Anuta | Tuma | Slow (of a canoe) |
Anuta | Tumu | Protuberance on tree-trunk Problematic |
Anuta | Tumuoki | Top of human head |
Anuta | Tupa | Land crab |
Anuta | Tupu | Fontanelle Problematic |
Anuta | Tui | Point with finger |
Anuta | Tutu | To pound, as in preparing bark-cloth |
Anuta | Tutu | Kindle, ignite, light (pipe); to burn oneself |
Anuta | -u | Second person singular possessive suffix |
Anuta | Upi | Yam |
Anuta | Upi/upi | Cover a canoe with leaves; to mulch (taro) |
Anuta | Upurei | A kind of yam (of the *Taumako* variety) Phonologically Irregular |
Anuta | Ua | Rain (n,v) |
Anuta | Uka | Thin line or cord |
Anuta | Uka | Muscle, sinew, blood vessel |
Anuta | -(k)oru(a) | Second person dual possessive suffix |
Anuta | Urumatua | Firstborn child |
Anuta | Umata | Rainbow |
Anuta | Umo/ti | To pinch |
Anuta | Una | Turtle shell |