Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Sena | Golden, dark yellow, yellowish |
| Takuu | Seu | Erase, remove; break something apart, destroy; do the first rough cutting of a log in carving a canoe (generally using an axe) |
| Takuu | Sii | A method of catching bonito by casting |
| Takuu | Sii | Ejaculate; semen |
| Takuu | Siapo | Tapa, bark cloth; cotton laplap |
| Takuu | Sina | Fall to a prostrate position, fall over, fall down |
| Takuu | Sika | Mesh needle for nets; backstrap loom part, shuttle; javelin formerly thrown as sport (obs.) |
| Takuu | Sika | Fireplough; make a fire with a fire-plough |
| Takuu | Siko-hia | Catch (e.g. ball) |
| Takuu | Suki | Tail of a bird, lizard or fish Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Sukimata | Outer corner of the eye, top of cheekbone beneath eye |
| Takuu | Simu | Triggerfish |
| Takuu | Sina | White or grey hair |
| Takuu | (A)sina | Legendary character (a very beautiful woman) appearing in fables (kkai) |
| Takuu | Laa/suru | Afternoon |
| Takuu | S/suru | Lean outwards, as of house end; be sloping or not level (as house ridge covering) |
| Takuu | S/sipa | Fish sp., a distinct species of flying fish, or the juvenile growth stage of the ssahe |
| Takuu | S/sipa | Slanted, oblique; slant, slanted edge |
| Takuu | Ssii | (of a gas, steam, etc.) Escape, hiss |
| Takuu | Sivi | Cardinal Lory (Eos cardinalis) |
| Takuu | Soa | Pair, friend, lover, sister (of a brother), counterpart, two things; be friends |
| Takuu | S/sono | Smell bad from body odour (esp. of genitals) |
| Takuu | Soko- | (with pronouns and proper names) Only, alone, single-handed, by oneself |
| Takuu | Soo/soro | Food made from giant taro or taro |
| Takuu | Somo | (of vegetation) Grow, shoot, sprout |
| Takuu | Somo | Suck the fingers after eating |
| Takuu | Sopo | Jump, (of fish) leap into the air; gush forth, spurt |
| Takuu | Sopo | (of the sun or moon) Rise, come up |
| Takuu | Se(r)e/sere | Knife |
| Takuu | Suu | Fart softly or inaudibly |
| Takuu | Sue | Toadfish (poisonous) |
| Takuu | Sui | Succeed to a position, replace, change; pay; pursue (in revenge) |
| Takuu | Suru | Bend over |
| Takuu | (S)suke | Remove or lift something to access what is underneath, uncover (esp. an earth oven) |
| Takuu | Suki | Insert pointed object into something: impale, pierce (esp. a coconut for drinking), prod for sea worms using a pointed stick, caulk a canoe by pushing koka fibres into joints; tuck in the loose folds of a laplap |
| Takuu | Sura | Appear, emerge, beget (an offspring); hole in net |
| Takuu | Surumaki-na | Insert, inject, stick into something; insert a finger through an opening (in making a string figure) |
| Takuu | Sunu | Grease, fat, coconut oil |
| Takuu | Taa | Strike (as in chopping or carving); cut; butcher a large fish, turtle, pig, etc; ritually cut four incisions in a tuna before placing it on the top of a large catch for display |
| Takuu | Taa/taa | Tattoo |
| Takuu | Tae | Excrement, faeces, shit |
| Takuu | Taea | Paddle-tail Snapper (Lutjanus gibbus) |
| Takuu | Tahaa | Coconut shell water container |
| Takuu | Taahao | Play, but more frequently refers to dancing |
| Takuu | Tahuri | (of a canoe) Overturn hull-side first, capsize, flip over...; heed; change |
| Takuu | Tana | Used to, accustomed to, not forbidden to, free from restrictions associated with the paarina mourning house |
| Takuu | Taanaki | A post-death ritual Problematic |
| Takuu | Tanata | Man, male |
| Takuu | T/tana | (of an item of clothing) Loose fitting; have too much space; spacious, roomy; have room (for more occupants, etc.); (of water in a channel, etc.) shallow, less than waist deep; (of a screw or joint) loose |
| Takuu | Tanau | Snapper (Lutjanus monostigma) |
