Entries from Firth 1985 in Pollex-Online
Firth, R. (1985). Tikopia-English Dictionary/Taranga Fakatikopia ma Taranga Fakainglisi. Auckland, Auckland University Press
Language | Item | Description |
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Tikopia | Kete | Kind of basket |
Tikopia | Ketu | Hop; hop. step and jump |
Tikopia | Keu | Reject, refuse, object; turn away, as in dislike, fear or anger |
Tikopia | Keva | Weak from illness |
Tikopia | Ki | To |
Tikopia | Kiato | Outrigger boom, forming also canoe thwart |
Tikopia | Kie | Pandanus sp. with relatively soft leaves, from which mats are plaited |
Tikopia | Kie | Small decorated mat used as loin garment indances |
Tikopia | Kie | Waist mat of kilt type, finely plaited from pandanus leaf... |
Tikopia | Kiki | Complementary food; proper accompaniment to a particular food |
Tikopia | Kiki | Squeakily |
Tikopia | Kikira | Shine, glisten |
Tikopia | Kira/kira | Bare of trees |
Tikopia | Ki/kira/ | Smooth |
Tikopia | Faka/kira/ | Make smooth |
Tikopia | Kiri | Skin, bark |
Tikopia | Kirikiri/fatu | Gravel |
Tikopia | Kirikiri | Pebble |
Tikopia | Kiro | Look, look hard |
Tikopia | Kina | Bevel (e.g. of an adze blade) |
Tikopia | Kiinau | In bad condition; disintegrating Problematic |
Tikopia | Kini | Clash, as of clubs up and down in fuata dance |
Tikopia | Kino/kino | Wicked (Drd). not in Firth |
Tikopia | Kio | Fowl |
Tikopia | Kiokio | Milkfish (Chanos chanos) |
Tikopia | Kiore | Rat (possible archaic name, given as one of three by Pa Fenuatara, 1929) |
Tikopia | Kita | I, abstract, reflective first person singular pronoun |
Tikopia | Kite | See, look at, catch sight of |
Tikopia | Kiu | Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) |
Tikopia | Kiu | Tapering, narrowed (said of a fish whose tail narrows to the rear) ; grimace, screw up the face |
Tikopia | Kivi | Grimace, screw up the face |
Tikopia | Ko | Specificatory particle |
Tikopia | Ko | Locative indicating further over |
Tikopia | Koa | Scum; froth on surface of liquids |
Tikopia | Koe | Second person sing., thou, in poetry and traditional tales |
Tikopia | Ko/ke | You (sg) |
Tikopia | Kofe | Bamboo, bambusa sp. |
Tikopia | Kofe | Knife, steel-bladed (Modern) |
Tikopia | Kofi/kofi | Muster, collect |
Tikopia | Kofu | Do up in package tied at top; package |
Tikopia | Kofu | Emit smoke, to foam, create spray |
Tikopia | Koso | Digging stick or implement |
Tikopia | Koi | In the act of, in the process of, still doing, being; while |
Tikopia | Kolili | Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Borrowed |
Tikopia | Koro | Fort; barrier of stone or stone against sea |
Tikopia | Koro | Hesitate, be shy Problematic |
Tikopia | Koroa | Goods, property, valued object, treasure |
Tikopia | Koru | Second person dual preposed pronoun |
Tikopia | Korua | Second person dual pronoun, both preposed and independent |
Tikopia | Komo | Narrow |