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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tikopia | Ono | Six |
| Tikopia | Ono | Barracuda (Sphyraena sp.) |
| Tikopia | Ono | See, behold, look, stare, look about; take care of, have charge of |
| Tikopia | Ope | Barnacle (Anatifera sp.) |
| Tikopia | Oso | Press on, as in working hard, rushing on food, prey, etc. |
| Tikopia | Ota | Eat raw |
| Tikopia | Ota | Dry coconut scrapings |
| Tikopia | Ota | Sago palm (Metroxylon salomonense), flour |
| Tikopia | Oti | Be finished |
| Tikopia | Paa/ki | Push, shove Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tikopia | Paa | Impact, e.g. hit, strike, crash...; occur (of decisive or significant event) |
| Tikopia | Paa | Impact (ex. of wind on canoe) |
| Tikopia | Paa | Bonito lure |
| Tikopia | Paa | Explode, bang |
| Tikopia | Paa | Term of address to any man in father category |
| Tikopia | Paa | Barren, childless, infertile |
| Tikopia | Pae | Wall-like accumulation of stones |
| Tikopia | Pae | Respectful term of reference, usually with house name, to man of "father" category, or in relation of constraint Problematic |
| Tikopia | Pae | Fetch up |
| Tikopia | Pae-a | Cast ashore |
| Tikopia | Paenga | Stone heap; stone wall |
| Tikopia | Paito | House |
| Tikopia | Paka | Crab, and other creatures protected by a shell |
| Tikopia | Paka/atolo | Lumbar region of the back, posteriors |
| Tikopia | Pa/paki/ | Slap |
| Tikopia | Paki | Dance-bat |
| Tikopia | Pakia-ina | Wound, cut, stab |
| Tikopia | Pakipaki | Portuguese man-o-war (Physalia) |
| Tikopia | Paku/paku | Dry, parched, become solid |
| Tikopia | Pakuu | Rumble, bang, boom, thud |
| Tikopia | Too pakuu | Fall noisily Problematic |
| Tikopia | Faka/pakupaku/ | Starve |
| Tikopia | Para | Rotten |
| Tikopia | Pala | Damp Phonologically Irregular |
| Tikopia | Para/para | Tree fern (Cyathea sp.) |
| Tikopia | Paara | Ulceration |
| Tikopia | Para/si | Smear on, as pigment on body |
| Tikopia | Paraa | The major gods Problematic |
| Tikopia | Paara | Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) |
| Tikopia | Parangi | Surgeonfish (Acanthurus sp.) |
| Tikopia | Pararafa | Stem of coconut frond |
| Tikopia | Parapu | South (Gaimard). Nor-nor-west |
| Tikopia | Pare/pare | Decline, of sun |
| Tikopia | Pali | Constrained in behaviour (esp. in food and from dancing due to mourning obligations |
| Tikopia | Paru | Large sea-fish of several species |
| Tikopia | Paru | Put powder in suspension in liquid, dissolve; mix, as kava |
| Tikopia | Pane | Skull |
| Tikopia | Pane/rua | Parrotfish, including Bluntheaded Parrotfish |
| Tikopia | Pani | Mark of colour, applied to person or object, incl. charcoal stripe in trad. ritual; to paint, apply colour |
| Tikopia | Panoko | Reef fish (Blennidae sp.) |
