Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Pou | Post of a house. (Formerly only the posts that reached the ridgepole, but today this term refers to any major house post). |
| Takuu | Poouri | Dark (as of night) |
| Takuu | Puu | Conch or trumpet shell [Cassis cornuta], horn of a ship, car |
| Takuu | P/pasa | (of a sore) Slightly swollen or lumpy, as from an insect bite |
| Takuu | Puka | Tree sp. (Pisonia grandis) |
| Takuu | Puke | End-piece of traditional canoe, bowsprit |
| Takuu | Puku/a | Mouth of an animal, entrance to reef channel, eye of coconut shell |
| Takuu | Pukurima | Elbow |
| Takuu | Puraka | Former name for Swamp Taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) |
| Takuu | Purapura | Cutting or seedling of a plant |
| Takuu | Purapura | Multi-coloured, mottled |
| Takuu | Purau | Stink, smell like something rotten |
| Takuu | Pure | Cowry shell (Cypraea spp.); general name for inedible molluscs |
| Takuu | Pure | Hereditary title of second-ranking man on Takuu...; someone chosen to act as medium for a deceased person... |
| Takuu | Purotu | Hereditary performing arts specialist. A male expert in performing and teaching a clan’s entire song and dance repertoire, and also beating the slit drum on the ritual arena to accompany them. Hymn-leader (Hwd). |
| Takuu | Puru | Stopper, object used to prevent a liquid from passing through. Tampon (Hwd). |
| Takuu | P/puru | Grab, clutch or grasp firmly in one’s fist, hold s.t. against one’s body, clasp hands; ... shake hands |
| Takuu | P/puna | Squirt up, issue forth; (of a bubble) rise to the surface; leak |
| Takuu | Ppua | Crevasse or furrow in the coral reef on the ocean side of the atoll |
| Takuu | Puni | Shut off, blocked, closed off; (of bivalve) having its shell closed; (of eyes) blind; (of customs, knowledge, etc.) forgotten, obsolete, no longer in use |
| Takuu | Punua | Young bird, fledgling; young animal |
| Takuu | P/pura | Glow, be phosphorescent |
| Takuu | Puusaki | Blow (smoke, etc.); (of a whale) spout. Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Haa | Four |
| Takuu | Haa | Stem or stalk of a taro or swamp taro plant, base of a coconut frond or banana leaf |
| Takuu | S/sae | Split, tear (esp. into strips); separate or spread (esp. one’s legs) |
| Takuu | Sahe | Successful in fishing |
| Takuu | Saana/i | Positioned, be in a correct position to do something, face towards something |
| Takuu | Sai | Tie, bind; join (as two pieces of wood) |
| Takuu | Sakare | Edible part of the shoot at the top of a coconut tree; core (germinating part) of a taro or giant taro corm Problematic |
| Takuu | S/sako | (of tree trunk, etc.) Straight; (of person) have an erect posture |
| Takuu | Sakuraa | General term for swordfish, sailfish, marlin |
| Takuu | Saakure | Search for lice in someone's hair |
| Takuu | Sara | Wrong, mistaken, incorrect; miss, err, make a mistake; different, other; error, mistake; unusually, exceptionally |
| Takuu | Sarato | Plant sp. (Laportea sp.) with broad, stinging leaves |
| Takuu | Sare | Walk, go somewhere on foot, sail a canoe |
| Takuu | Sari | Leak faeces from the anus after eating oilfish or during severe diarrhoea; (of tears) flow. |
| Takuu | Sariki | Crossbar on a canoe outrigger, stringer; horizontal beam along the wall of a house |
| Takuu | Samono | Porpoise. Constellation: five stars within Ursa Major on the northern horizon outlining a leaping porpoise. |
| Takuu | Sao | Fit into or through something, (of clothes) fit; escape, survive; small distance or gap separating two locations |
| Takuu | Saaputu | Snapper or Emperorfish |
| Takuu | Sannaa. Ssaannaa (Hwd). | Tie-beam of a house Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Sau | Lift, carry; shunt, move sail from one end of canoe to the other; (of outrigger float) rise out of the water while sailing; raise the height of something (e.g. a taro mound) |
| Takuu | Sauna | Odour (of any sort but usually unpleasant), smell; have a smell |
| Takuu | Saavare | Spit (vi) |
| Takuu | Seke | Slip or slide unintentionally; (of an object) fall out of one’s possession and be lost; lose weight, become thinner |
| Takuu | Sere | Tie with a clove-hitch, tie something so that it hangs (e.g. from a rafter); string for making a string-figure |
| Takuu | Sere | Trip someone using a leg; wrestle; wrestling match |
| Takuu | Sere | Scatter baitfish among rising tuna (an action performed by the fishing leader) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Sema | Jellyfish sp., Sailor-in-the-wind [Velella sp.] |
