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 | Sivi | Coconut Lory (Trichoglossus harmatodas) |
| Tikopia | Soo/soo | Shrink back from anything |
| Tikopia | Soa | Friend, bond-friend |
| Tikopia | Soaka | Variety of banana, said formerly (1928) to be used as funeral food, now planted as general food |
| Tikopia | Soani | Assist in supplementary manner; term especially associated with traditional yam rites |
| Tikopia | Sofa | To sprout (of a plant that has been cut back) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tikopia | Songi | Smell |
| Tikopia | Fe/songi | Touch noses |
| Tikopia | Songo | Female genitalia |
| Tikopia | Soi | Dioscorea bulbifera) |
| Tikopia | Sooii | Comfort, favour |
| Tikopia | So/soka | Transfix, spear |
| Tikopia | Soko | To join |
| Tikopia | Soko | Cook, esp. male affine performing oven tasks for members of wife's or mother's lineage, on formal occasions Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tikopia | Soko/tasi | One, single, unique, the same, equivalent |
| Tikopia | S/soko | Thick (consistency) |
| Tikopia | Soko/soko/fia | Few |
| Tikopia | Sora | Run away, flee, evade, escape |
| Tikopia | Sori | Give, hand over |
| Tikopia | Soro | Landslide; crumble, tumble one after another |
| Tikopia | Soro | Persist; importune; frequent; follow in sequence; crowd around; and other abstract terms indicating iteration, repetition of behaviour; continually, persistently |
| Tikopia | Soro | Song of lament type |
| Tikopia | Soroi | Scrape along, trickle down Problematic |
| Tikopia | Homo | The sprout of a germinating nut. |
| Tikopia | Sope | Tufts of hair left to grow at sides of a boy's head |
| Tikopia | Sopo | Leap, jump |
| Tikopia | Sopo | Board a vessel |
| Tikopia | Sopu | Snatch from another; join oneself to Problematic |
| Tikopia | Soo | Satiated, had enough, fed up with |
| Tikopia | Suu | Soaked in water, saturated |
| Tikopia | Suua | Clear away brush-wood, weeds |
| Tikopia | Sua | Liquid (of thicker consistency than vai in some cases, though often equated) |
| Tikopia | Sua/sua | Insipid, lukewarm Problematic |
| Tikopia | Sue | Globefish (Tetradontidae canthigasteridae) and other species |
| Tikopia | Suee/i | Sweep aside, twitch aside, lift off cover |
| Tikopia | Sii/aki | Exchange, substitute |
| Tikopia | Suki | Stick in, penetrate, pierce |
| Tikopia | Suru | Stow away, sheath; a sheath |
| Tikopia | Suru | Cloth of woven type; clothing Problematic |
| Tikopia | Sumu | To cross-lash with fine coconut sinnet; such a lashing |
| Tikopia | Sumu | Triggerfish and related types (Balistidae, Monocanthidae) |
| Tikopia | (Su)sunu | Burn, set on fire, scorch, singe |
| Tikopia | Taa | Strike, hit |
| Tikopia | Te taa tau | Tattooing |
| Tikopia | Tau | First person inclusive dual preposed subject pronoun Problematic |
| Tikopia | -tau | First person inclusive dual possessive suffix |
| Tikopia | Taa | A sea-fish |
| Tikopia | Tae | Scoop fish; take, catch |
| Tikopia | Tae | Excrement |
| Tikopia | Taeturi | Earwax |
