Entries from Ranby 1980 in Pollex-Online
Ranby, P. (1980). A Nanumea Lexicon. Canberra, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University.
Language | Item | Description |
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Tuvalu | Fee-fea | How?, how so? |
Tuvalu | Fea | Where? |
Tuvalu | Feao | Family god; God; Jesus; spirits |
Tuvalu | Fete | Swollen; to swell Problematic |
Tuvalu | Feiti | Copulate |
Tuvalu | Fekafeka | Gills and gullet of fish |
Tuvalu | Fekau | Business, message, affair; send for |
Tuvalu | Feekau | Human excrement |
Tuvalu | Feke | Octopus |
Tuvalu | Fekiki | Struggle, wrestle; move in sexual intercourse |
Tuvalu | Fekite | Meet by chance |
Tuvalu | Fe/fela | Open (of cut, boil, labia); pull down lower eyelid. |
Tuvalu | Fe/felo | Yellow; pale complexioned |
Tuvalu | Felo | Tree sp. (Ficus tinctoria), or its fruit |
Tuvalu | Fenua | Land, country |
Tuvalu | Feo | Substance harder than coral |
Tuvalu | Fepaki | Collide |
Tuvalu | Vehu | Fix a lure to a bonito line |
Tuvalu | Fete | Swollen, to swell |
Tuvalu | Fe/fete/ | To swell |
Tuvalu | Fetuu | Star, shine (of stars) |
Tuvalu | Fetuu ao | Morning Star |
Tuvalu | Fia | To desire, want |
Tuvalu | Fiafia | Happy |
Tuvalu | Fifi | Snag a line, tangle |
Tuvalu | Fifi-mata | Eyelashes |
Tuvalu | Fili | Select, choose |
Tuvalu | Fili | Enemy |
Tuvalu | Fili | To string, as a lei, etc |
Tuvalu | Filo | Mix (of liquids, or with people) |
Tuvalu | Finagalo | Desire |
Tuvalu | Fiitaa | Be tired |
Tuvalu | Fiti/fiti | Roll over and over, flap like a fish |
Tuvalu | Fitu | Seven |
Tuvalu | Fiu | Wearied of |
Tuvalu | Foa | Break a coconut, head, canoe etc |
Tuvalu | Fofoga | Face (pl.); facial features |
Tuvalu | Fogahele | Best beloved |
Tuvalu | Foe | Paddle |
Tuvalu | Foki | Return |
Tuvalu | Fola | Spread (v.t.) |
Tuvalu | Folafola | Promise, proclaim |
Tuvalu | Folau | Voyage; boat from overseas |
Tuvalu | Fole/fole | Peel, strip bark, pull skin off |
Tuvalu | Foli | To walk back and forth |
Tuvalu | Folo | Swallow |
Tuvalu | Fono | Mend; a patch |
Tuvalu | Fono | Meeting; people at a meeting |
Tuvalu | Fonu | Full (NTO) |
Tuvalu | Fonu | Turtle |