Entries from Pawley & Sayaba 2003 in Pollex-Online
Pawley, A. and T. Sayaba (2003). Words of Waya: A dictionary of the Wayan dialect of the Western Fijian language. Canberra, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Waya | (Y)aasaa | Roam, not stay at home, wander about, travel around |
| Waya | (Y)ate | Liver (traditionally considered the locus of courage and fear) |
| Waya | Ate vuso | Lungs |
| Waya | (Y)ati | Postverbal particle: indicates actual or figurative movement away from a starting point and towards a goal (either the addressee or a distant goal) |
| Waya | (Y)atu | Yellowfinned Tunny (Thunnus albacares); also generic for Thunnidae spp. (bonito, tunnies) |
| Waya | (Y)atu | Group of things standing in a row or line,,, |
| Waya | Atule | Fish sp.: Mackerel (Selar crumenopththalmus) |
| Waya | (Y)au/ti- | Transport a load of something, carry a number of things from one place to another |
| Waya | (Y)au | Flow, run freely, as a current of water or blood from a wound |
| Waya | (Y)avi(y)avi | Evening...from late afternoon (about 4 pm) until darkness |
| Waya | (Y)a/vita | Make a housewall by lashing reeds; reeds lashed in wall of house |
| Waya | Ba/saga | Bifurcate, forked, crotched; crotch or fork (in a branch, road etc.) |
| Waya | Vaka/beka | Have doubts (about the authenticity of something), be unbelieving, skeptical |
| Waya | Bele | Shrub taxon: Abelmoschus spp. |
| Waya | Bii | Many, numerous, much, a lot |
| Waya | Bokola | Body of an enemy to be eaten... |
| Waya | Lialia | Foolish, stupid; mad, insane |
| East Futuna | Siki | Façon de tresser les nattes (plus un numéral)... |
| Waya | Cake | Climb up or on, ascend, mount |
| Waya | Boka | Split by a blow (of hard objects) |
| East Futuna | Taa/taa | Jouer (de la guimbarde) |
| East Futuna | Niu mata | Coco jeune à chair tendre |
| East Futuna | Nei | Sert à l'expression de l'exclamatif (modalité postverbale avec les modalités kao ou koi) |
| East Futuna | Poko | Coin; repli, pliure interne |
| East Futuna | Polo | Se faire des taches de curcuma ou de charbon sur le visage; marque que l'on fait sur un bois pour indiquer ou doit se faire la coupe |
| Waya | Butuki | Help finish work begun by another |
| Waya | Tuku-ci- | Hang, dangle |
