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 | Tupe | Pitching game throwing beans |
| Tikopia | Tupu | Grow |
| Tikopia | Tupua | Spirit |
| Tikopia | Tupuna | Ancestor |
| Tikopia | Puna | Male or female of grandparent generation or above |
| Tikopia | Tusi | Point, delineate |
| Tikopia | Tusi | Trace with finger, mark (e.g. with turmeric); write (mod.) |
| Tikopia | Ta/tusi/tusi | Marked in pattern; banded, as tail feathers of bird |
| Tikopia | Tutaki | Knot, join on, tie |
| Tikopia | Tutu | Beat out (bark-cloth) with wooden beater on a slab |
| Tikopia | Tutu | Kindle, set light to; heat |
| Tikopia | Tutu | Beat out barkcloth with a wooden beater on a slab |
| Tikopia | -u | Second person singular (possessive) |
| Tikopia | Uu | Sheaf, bundle, collection of anything; categoriser of sticks, twigs etc |
| Tikopia | Uu | Coconut crab (Birgus latro) |
| Tikopia | Ua/aki | Lever outwards, as in enlarging a hole with digging-stick, moving log with crowbar, working paddle away from canoe side |
| Tikopia | Ua | Neck, throat (external) |
| Tikopia | Ua piro | Intense desire, longing, e.g. as for fish. |
| Tikopia | Niu mata kaere | Young nut, soft shell, flesh inside (endosperm) barely formed |
| Tikopia | Ufi | Yam, of several types |
| Tikopia | Uufi | Cover, to cover |
| Tikopia | Ufu | Parrotfish, small and young |
| Tikopia | Uga | Hermit crab |
| Tikopia | Ungakoo | Teredo mollusc, boring into timber |
| Tikopia | Ungaunga | Bush nettle (Laportea interrupta) Phonologically Irregular |
| Tikopia | Ua | Rain |
| Tikopia | Viki | Prefix meaning small |
| Tikopia | Uira | Sheet lightning; summer lightning |
| Tikopia | Uka | Cord, string |
| Tikopia | Uka | Muscle, sinew, vein |
| Tikopia | Ura | Blaze, flame, burn brightly |
| Tikopia | Ura | Spiny lobster (possibly Palinurus) |
| Tikopia | Uraafi | Reef and sea fish (Scaridae) |
| Tikopia | Uraura | Freshwater crayfish |
| Tikopia | Ure | Penis |
| Tikopia | Uri | Dark colour, ranging from black to dark blue or dark green |
| Tikopia | Uru | Head, top, crest, principal, source |
| Tikopia | Uru/ao | Woods, natural vegetation |
| Tikopia | -oru | Second person dual possessive suffix |
| Tikopia | Uruua | Category term for very large fish, often aggressive |
| Tikopia | Uruga | Pillow of wood, anything used to rest head on |
| Tikopia | Uru(matua) | Firstborn child |
| Tikopia | Urutuki | Hand-fish (Cirrhites pinnulatus) |
| Tikopia | Uma | Chest, breast area in general |
| Tikopia | Umanga | Arch. term for burial place of stranded cetaceans Problematic |
| Tikopia | Umata | Rainbow |
| Tikopia | Ume | Brown Unicorn-fish (Naso unicornis) and N.hexacanthus |
| Tikopia | Umo/umo | Pinch cheek, corner of mouth |
| Tikopia | Umoti | Stopper, plug |
| Tikopia | Umu | Earth-oven |
