Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Toti | Lame, have a limp |
| Takuu | Ttoo | Blood; thick, viscous sap of certain trees and plants; general term for discharge of blood through bodily orifices (including by menstruation) |
| Takuu | Tuu | Stand, be standing; stand up (from sitting or reclining position); (of breasts) firm; (of hair or body hair) stand on end |
| Takuu | Tuu | Belt |
| Takuu | Uhouru, hoouru | Hat, cap; to wear a hat Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Tuu | Cut, chop with an axe or knife, cut into cross-sections |
| Takuu | Tua | Ocean side of an island (as opposed to the lagoon side) |
| Takuu | Tuai | Wooden three-legged stool for grating coconut; coconut-grater commonly used as a stool itself |
| Takuu | Tuai | (of an object) Old, ancient; (at the same endeavour or location) for a long time |
| Takuu | Tuaki | Stuff and cook (a turtle, fish, bird, etc.) |
| Takuu | Tuunia | Burn, burned |
| Takuu | Tui | Pierce with a sharp object, pin pandanus leaves to a stick to construct thatch panels; pin, sharpened stick, wooden needle used to tie thatch panels to the rafters |
| Takuu | Tuke | Corner, angle, edge, border, rim |
| Takuu | Tuki | Pound (taro, etc.); bag (copra) |
| Takuu | Tuku | Leave (something), place, put down; lay (an egg); set or lay (a trap or snare) |
| Takuu | Tikkuu | Various Damselfish of the genera Abudefduf and Pomacentrus Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | T/turi | Deaf |
| Takuu | Turi | Small, black shore bird (kivi) with a white breast and protruding eyes, probably a Turnstone |
| Takuu | Turi | Knee, whole of the knee joint |
| Takuu | T/turu | (of a house roof) Leak, drip |
| Takuu | Turuturu | House post |
| Takuu | Tuna | Moray Eel |
| Takuu | Tunu | Cook on hot coals, roast |
| Takuu | Tupa | Species of green edible land crab |
| Takuu | Tupe | Various hard seeds (from seed pods) that drift to Takuu (Children thread them into necklaces.); operculum or cat’s eye of a llia shell |
| Takuu | Tipu | Grow up or into something, develop, emerge, appear; (of bread) rise |
| Takuu | Tipua | Category of visible spirit having no personal name, inhabiting the area east of the houses on Nukutoa Island |
| Takuu | Tusi | Stripe |
| Takuu | Aa/u | Second person singular possessive postposed pronoun, sg and pl, of yours |
| Takuu | Uu (pass. uu/tia) | Bite; (of medicine applied to skin, spicy hot food, etc.) sting, burn |
| Takuu | Uu | Coconut Crab [Birgus latro] |
| Takuu | Ua | Neck (of a person, animal, bottle, etc.) |
| Takuu | Ue | Jiggle, shake about |
| Takuu | Una | Tell someone to do something, order, invite |
| Takuu | Una | Hermit crab; types of shell occupied by hermit crabs |
| Takuu | Ua | Rain, rain water |
| Takuu | Uila | Lightning |
| Takuu | Uka | General term for rope, string, thread, fishing line, wire |
| Takuu | Uka | Vein, artery, blood vessel, pulse |
| Takuu | Ukau | Pus, phlegm |
| Takuu | Aiaa | Take it! Here! |
| Takuu | Ura | Burn with an open flame, be burning; flare (as on a ship), meteorite, shooting star, lightning bolt, skyrocket |
| Takuu | Ura | Lobster, crayfish |
| Takuu | Ure | Penis |
| Takuu | Uri | Dark-coloured, black |
| Takuu | Urua | Fish sp. [Caranx ignobilis] |
| Takuu | Uru tuki | Fish sp., poss. Rock Cod or Handfish... |
| Takuu | Umo/oma, uma/uma | Scapula, shoulder-blade |
| Takuu | Ume | Unicorn fish [Naso unicornis] |
| Takuu | Umi | To taste, touch something to the lips |
