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 | Fangasere | Precious |
| Tikopia | Foe | Paddle |
| Tikopia | Foi | Particle of indivualisation (for objects and occasionally persons) |
| Tikopia | Foki | Return, retreat |
| Tikopia | Foki | Also, too, again |
| Tikopia | Fora | Spread out, straighten out, unfold |
| Tikopia | Forau | Sea voyage |
| Tikopia | Fole | Peel, strip off (as bark, skin) Phonologically Irregular |
| Tikopia | Foro | Swallow |
| Tikopia | Fono | Harangue |
| Tikopia | Fona/akava | Ritual basket of food presented to chief from clan or lineage temple rites |
| Tikopia | Fonu | Full, fullness |
| Tikopia | Fonu | Turtle |
| Tikopia | Fonufonu | Water-filled places, water-logged areas |
| Tikopia | Fosa | Child (Firth 1954:99) |
| Tikopia | Fosa | Root, especially taro corm and other root vegetables |
| Tikopia | Fota | Converging lines of stones to assist netting fish |
| Tikopia | Foto | hollow out canoe |
| Tikopia | Footu | To appear |
| Tikopia | Fotu | Hole, holed |
| Tikopia | Fou | New, modern, fresh |
| Tikopia | Fuu | Hide, keep secret |
| Tikopia | Fufu | Hidden, concealed |
| Tikopia | Fuu | Children's game in which a cat's eye operculum is hidden in the sand |
| Tikopia | Fua- | Numerical classifier, marking ten or hundred, in tally of many kinds of small objects, such as nuts |
| Tikopia | Fua | Fruit (n); to fruit |
| Tikopia | Fue/i | Egg, egg-shaped object |
| Tikopia | Fua | Fleet |
| Tikopia | Nofo fua | Naked, bare |
| Tikopia | Fu(a)fua | Covered with pimples |
| Tikopia | Fuaanga | Ancestors of maternal patrilineage |
| Tikopia | Fuanga | Whetstone |
| Tikopia | Fuatanga | Lament; dirge; funeral song; certain other traditional ritual songs |
| Tikopia | Fua tasi | Only child, solitary person |
| Tikopia | Fue | A vine that grows on the strand |
| Tikopia | /Fue/fue | Scare away Problematic |
| Tikopia | Futtu | Mountain Banana (Musa sp.); short, stubby fruits upstanding on stem Problematic |
| Tikopia | Funga | Low, of tide |
| Tikopia | Fongoona | Affinal term of reference and address to person of junior kinship grade |
| Tikopia | Fongo(v)ai | Affinal relation indicating person of parental kinship grade as object of constrained behaviour |
| Tikopia | Fui | To tie, fasten, bind on |
| Tikopia | Fii | Bundle, bunch, e.g. of coconuts (5 pairs, i.e. 10 coconuts) |
| Tikopia | Uso | Spongy interior, embryo of coconut long mature, in process of germination...; soft core in heart of tree |
| Tikopia | Fii | Bunch of coconuts; ten coconuts |
| Tikopia | Fii | Sprinkle; immerse, steep; urinate |
| Tikopia | Fui | Sprinkle, rain upon (more formal term in rite and song) |
| Tikopia | Fuke | Uncover, open up |
| Tikopia | Fura | Swell; swollen belly or other part of body |
| Tikopia | Furi | Turn, turn over, turn and run, rush off |
| Tikopia | Furitua | Turn the back |
