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 | Unafi | Fish scale; remove scales |
| Tikopia | Unu | Launch (of a canoe); slip (as fish through net mesh) |
| Tikopia | Unu | Line of dancers |
| Tikopia | Unu | Wind in and out, move in sinuous line Problematic |
| Tikopia | Usi | Shrub sp. |
| Tikopia | Uso/uso | Flesh, as distinct from rind, etc.... central part of tree trunk |
| Tikopia | Uso, iso | Umbilical cord |
| Tikopia | Uto | Anus, rectum, buttocks Borrowed |
| Tikopia | Usuusu | Persuade someone against his will. |
| Tikopia | Usu | Lead off, especially in singing, but also in other activities; raise a song |
| Tikopia | Uta | Put on board a canoe |
| Tikopia | Uta | Landwards, on shore |
| Tikopia | Uti-a | Bite (esp. insect or other creature), sting |
| Tikopia | Uso | Spongy interior of germinating coconut Problematic |
| Tikopia | -otou | Second person plural possessive suffix |
| Tikopia | Utu | Defecate Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tikopia | Utu | Fill, put into a container |
| Tikopia | Vaa | Space |
| Tikopia | Vae | Leg, foot; boot, shoe |
| Tikopia | Vaerangi | Sky; weather; foreign parts |
| Tikopia | Vae | Divide; separate off |
| Tikopia | Vaenga | Separate portion in a division or distribution; section |
| Tikopia | Vae/faga | Point of division |
| Tikopia | Vai | Water, liquid; pool, spring |
| Tikopia | Vaivai | Watery, of food > |
| Tikopia | Vaka | Canoe |
| Tikopia | Vakaatua | Spirit medium |
| Tikopia | Vakavaka | Flank of person or animal. |
| Tikopia | Ivi /vakavaka/ | Ribs |
| Tikopia | Vale | Resin, saliva; valevale :slippery, gummy. |
| Tikopia | Vare | Stupid, foolish, silly |
| Tikopia | Vali/vali | Soft, weak, limp, feeble |
| Tikopia | Vaaro | News; gossip |
| Tikopia | Varovaro | (Premna corymbosa), (P.taitensis) |
| Tikopia | Varu | Eight |
| Tikopia | Varu | Large sea fish |
| Tikopia | Varu | To scrape, as distinct from grate |
| Tikopia | Vana | A needle-spined sea urchin (Diadema sp.) |
| Tikopia | -vao | Suffix in words for forest vegetation |
| Tikopia | Vasa | Open space; empty space, esp. of cosmic kind; in marine context, ocean wastes |
| Tikopia | Vaasia | Time; period; space between objects or actions |
| Tikopia | Vaatia | A pudding made from the root of masoaa; make sago pudding |
| Tikopia | Vatuke | Slate-pencil sea urchin (Heterocentrotus sp.) |
| Tikopia | Vaavaa | Umbilical cord |
| Tikopia | Vave | Quick, speedy; speed |
| Tikopia | Veku/veku | Dishevelled, uncombed (of hair) |
| Tikopia | Vera | Hot, very warm; heat, hot period |
| Tikopia | Vare | Silly, trivial |
| Tikopia | Vare/vare | General sense of not belonging to systematic order: at random, haphazard, in every direction, out of focus, etc.; common, ordinary (in social or technical status) |
| Tikopia | Vero | Sea fish, large, red, incl. Coral Cod (Plectropomus sp.) and allied kinds; taken on line |
