Entries from Beaglehole 1991 in Pollex-Online
Beaglehole, E. P. (1991). Pukapukan Dictionary Manuscript. Auckland, Pukapuka Dictionary Project, Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pukapuka | Tala | Side of house roof |
| Pukapuka | Kalamea | A sharp-spined starfish (Beaglehole 1938:72) Phonologically Irregular |
| Pukapuka | Talaao | A fish (Epinephelus merra) |
| Pukapuka | Taalava | Purlin |
| Pukapuka | Tali | Keep away, delay. |
| Pukapuka | Waka/talitali/ | Think a matter over, be unable to come to a decision |
| Pukapuka | Tali | Carry, bring |
| Pukapuka | Talinga | Ear |
| Pukapuka | Talitaliuli | Echeneis naucrates |
| Pukapuka | Talo | (Colocasia esculenta) |
| Pukapuka | Talo/talo | To pray, invoke, incant |
| Pukapuka | Tama | Child. |
| Pukapuka | Tamawawine | Girl, young woman, daughter |
| Pukapuka | Tamaawine | Girl, daughter |
| Pukapuka | Tamaiti | Child |
| Pukapuka | Tamaliki | Children |
| Pukapuka | Tamanu | Another (foreign) name for wetau tree. Foreign tree name from islands to the west, for canoe making (Sby). |
| Pukapuka | Taamate | To put out (fire) |
| Pukapuka | Tami/tami | Nibble |
| Pukapuka | Tane/tane | Tinea spots |
| Pukapuka | Taane | Male |
| Pukapuka | Tanu | Plant; bury |
| Pukapuka | Tao | Spear, beak of bird |
| Pukapuka | Tao | Bake in oven |
| Pukapuka | Ta/tao | Put under, press down |
| Pukapuka | Taokete | Sibling-in-law Borrowed |
| Pukapuka | Tapa | Confer a name upon |
| Pukapuka | Tapa/tapa | Call out |
| Pukapuka | Tapa/ao | Jupiter when visible to the east in the morning Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Tapa/tapa | Crack open a coconut, to smash |
| Pukapuka | Tapele | Sleeping mat; lover's bed in bush Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Pukapuka | Tapu | A gift to a god; gift to bride or groom at wedding feast |
| Pukapuka | Tayi | Number one |
| Pukapuka | Tataa | Bailer; to bail out water from a canoe |
| Pukapuka | Taatela | A kind of shark (Triaenodon sp.) |
| Pukapuka | Taatou | First person inclusive plural pronoun |
| Pukapuka | Tatu | Alight, perch Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Pukapuka | Waka/tatu | Raise one foot after the other Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Pukapuka | Tau | To fit, look nice |
| Pukapuka | Tau | Alight, perch on, to land (of a canoe) |
| Pukapuka | Tau- | Verbal and adjectival prefix denoting intensity |
| Pukapuka | Taaua | We two (inc) |
| Pukapuka | Tauwuu | Ridgepole (archaic, in chants only) |
| Pukapuka | Taaunga | Basket container for coconut water guards |
| Pukapuka | Tauila | Small fish driven into lagoon and to the beach shallows by electrical storms Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Taulanga | Canoe anchorage; a roosting, resting or dwelling place |
| Pukapuka | Taulua | A pair |
| Pukapuka | Taumaya | To eat Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Taumata | Anything worn to protect the head from the sun |
| Pukapuka | Taume | Flower-sheath of Coconut |
