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 | Maaolo | Press, massage Borrowed |
| Pukapuka | Velo | Stern cover of canoe |
| Pukapuka | Kainga | Rubbish |
| Pukapuka | Tuku moana | Method of hand-line fishing with a composite fishing apparatus from a stationary canoe outside the reef |
| Pukapuka | Tuku/tuku | To pay out a line in fishing |
| Pukapuka | Tuku | Let be; permit; hand to; leave until, wait |
| Rarotongan | Tuku | Release |
| Pukapuka | Vene | Delicious, sweet Borrowed |
| Pukapuka | Pulu tau/tape | Menstrual pad |
| Pukapuka | Kamai | (Elegatis bipinnulatus) |
| Pukapuka | Poo | The Underworld; burial ground... |
| Pukapuka | To/ki | To erect |
| Pukapuka | Tua a mata | Temple bones |
| Pukapuka | Yiki | To remove |
| Pukapuka | Ngaaipu | Split coconut shell from which flesh has been removed |
| Pukapuka | Tae | Gather, collect |
| Pukapuka | Ta/tapi | To suffer from diarrhoea Problematic |
| Pukapuka | Taa/pii | Splash, sprinkle |
| Pukapuka | E | Particle used before numbers and numerical compounds meaning how man of the people or things in question |
| Pukapuka | To/toi | Drag, pull; jerk (as on line in fishing); crawl along |
| Pukapuka | Tuuleki | Push over or down |
