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 | Tika | Kind of arrow thrown in a game |
Tikopia | Tike | To go on tiptoe |
Tikopia | Tiko | Excrete, defecate |
Tikopia | Sikotara | Kingfisher (Halcyon sp.). Problematic |
Tikopia | Tira | Mast, spar of sailing canoe |
Tikopia | Tiri | Gilling net of large mesh; to net fish |
Tikopia | Tiri | Gilling net of large mesh, for lake and sea fish |
Tikopia | Tiri | Knock, hammer |
Tikopia | Faka/tiri | Increase (of crops, people) |
Tikopia | Tiro/tiro | Look in pool as a mirror |
Tikopia | Tio | Observe, look closely Phonologically Irregular |
Tikopia | Tilo | Observe closely, sight along Phonologically Irregular |
Tikopia | Timu | Rise, of wind; blow hard |
Tikopia | Popora | Large openwork basket of coconut leaf, for holding food in bulk |
Tikopia | Tinana | Mother |
Tikopia | Tino | Body of person, animal; trunk of tree; hull of canoe etc. |
Tikopia | Tipa | Skim, scutter, skip |
Tikopia | Tipi | Split open, split up |
Tikopia | Tipuna | Ancestor; rare variant of tupuna |
Tikopia | Titi | Fringe, especially of Coconut leaf or split Cordyline leaf, worn as a decorative girdle |
Tikopia | Too | To plant |
Tikopia | Too | Fall, descend; occur; sink, set (of sun) |
Tikopia | Toa | (Casuarina) |
Tikopia | Toa | Strong man; warrior |
Tikopia | Tofa | Calm, smooth |
Tikopia | Tofa/a | Make calm, smooth, level (sea, house site) |
Tikopia | Tofe | Cut, with a blade Problematic |
Tikopia | Tofe | Cut with a blade |
Tikopia | Tofu | Calm, flat calm, esp. at sea |
Tikopia | Tonga | East, east wind, trade-wind; winter; trade wind season, approximately April-September |
Tikopia | Tongi | Cut with adze on timber |
Tikopia | Tongi | Bite, nibble |
Tikopia | Tongo | Mangrove |
Tikopia | Tos/i | Pull, drag, haul, tug |
Tikopia | Toka | Settled, set firm |
Tikopia | Toka | Become calm (of sea) |
Tikopia | Tokaa | Defeated, beaten, silenced, ashamed |
Tikopia | Toka | Human prefix to numbers up to ten |
Tikopia | Tau/toka | Door, customarily a panel of sago leaf thatch |
Tikopia | Tokaara | Some feature of childbirth |
Tikopia | Tokerau | A wind point, approximately north |
Tikopia | Toki | Giant clam; adze |
Tikopia | Toko | Staff, stave, stick or post to hold something up |
Tikopia | Tokomauri | Hiccup |
Tikopia | Tokotoko | Walking stick, staff, spear |
Tikopia | Tora | Tumescent, of penis, clitoris |
Tikopia | Toro (pl. fe-toro-fi) | Creep; crawl |
Tikopia | Toro | Sugarcane |
Tikopia | Toroa | Grey duck |
Tikopia | Toroaki | Give food to, feed, nourish |