Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Umu | Earth oven, consisting of a shallow pit filled with coral pieces |
| Takuu | Una | Turtleshell plate |
| Takuu | Unahi | Scale of fish; to scale a fish |
| Takuu | Unu | Drink |
| Takuu | Upu | Semi-spherical object such as half coconut shell, cup, basin, rat-guard |
| Takuu | Uso | Soft innermost core of a tree, pith |
| Takuu | Uta | A boat’s complement (cargo or passengers); board (a vessel), load (cargo onto a vessel) |
| Takuu | Uta | Ashore, inland, (while at sea) towards land |
| Takuu | Uto | Coconut embryo, which is round, spongy and sweet to the taste |
| Takuu | Utu | Fill a container with liquid, pour liquid into a container |
| Takuu | Utu | Fish sp., caught on a line in the lagoon and on the ocean |
| Takuu | V/vaa | Noise; to make a vocal noise; (of fish) create turbulence near a canoe; loud, noisy |
| Takuu | Vaelani | Horizon |
| Takuu | Vaelo | Small lagoon fish sp. Problematic |
| Takuu | V/vae | Distribute, divide |
| Takuu | Vai | Fresh water, liquid, well for drawing water, puddle, lake, or other body of water |
| Takuu | Vaka | Canoe, ship, vessel |
| Takuu | V/vare | Insensible, ignorant, lacking sensibility or knowledge; (of a limb) asleep, numb; drunk, intoxicated; foolish, silly, crazy; ignorant person |
| Takuu | Varo | Crustacean species: Mantis Shrimp, squilla |
| Takuu | Varovaro | Tree sp. [Premna taitensis] (strong, heavy wood used for posts and paddles) |
| Takuu | Varu | Scrape a coconut or fibres from a swamp taro stalk (e.g. to make a hat), grate; grate coconuts |
| Takuu | Vao | Uncultivated area with trees, bush; vegetation used as mulching material |
| Takuu | Vasi | Split in half, cut lengthwise; cut a taro corm from its stalk; reap taro (pull it from the ground, cut off the corm, and replant the stalk) |
| Takuu | Vaavaa | Intestines, guts, bowels of humans, turtles and pigs, after they have been removed from the body |
| Takuu | Vave | Quick, swift, rapid, fast, come soon |
| Samoan | Sa/veʔu | In confusion, topsy-turvy; (fowl) having bristly feathers |
| Takuu | Vere | Weed, cultivate, garden, cut grass, clear vegetation |
| Takuu | Verevere | Spider, spider web |
| Takuu | Velo/velo | Fish sp., similar to a mataere, not often caught. Poss? a Coral Cod |
| Takuu | V/vete | To lower (an object), release something that is attached (particularly when the attachment holds it up) |
| Takuu | Vete | Goatfish [Mulloidichthys vanicolensis], the adult growth stage of the karo fish |
| Takuu | Vvela | Hot, (of the sun) very hot; heat, heat blister, state of feeling uncomfortably hot |
| Takuu | Vii | (of coconut toddy) Fermented; (of water) stagnant and bad-smelling |
| Takuu | V/viri | (of a male) Masturbate |
| Takuu | Visi | Entangle, (during weaving) merge two sets of cordage; entangled; mixed up, in a confused state; closely related (and therefore unable to marry) |
| Takuu | N/namu | Try a food, taste |
| Takuu | Atumata | One mesh within a hand net |
| Takuu | M/mara | Bitter (esp. of stored giant taro corms that have gone bad); (of spirits or tobacco) strong; (of alcohol) fermented; (of smoke, salt water etc. in one's eyes) irritating, stinging, painful |
| Takuu | Loohi/a | (Of a canoe) take in water |
| Takuu | Ume rei, umarei | Variety of Naso unicornis |
| Takuu | Mataere | Fish sp., Grouper (Plectropomus sp.) (red with black spots and blue lateral lines...) |
| Takuu | Kurapo | Fish sp., prob. Sea-bream (Gymnocranius sp.) |
| Takuu | Seai | No, not (independent form); to say 'no'; nonexistent, absent, deficient, no longer; of no value |
| Takuu | Sukisuki | Tip, extremity, narrow end, tip of a branch, upper area of a tree where the trunk begins to narrow; indicates the end of a limb or the adjacent tendon Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Tua- | Referring to a layer or degree of thickness (Tuatoru. Three layers); (of kinship relations) beyond the second ascending or descending generation: great- |
| Takuu | Haoa | Bilateral kindred (syn. of hare aakina) |
| Takuu | A | Name marker for singular personal pronouns and names of humans and spirits, but not canoes. |
| Takuu | Aa- | Prefix indicating direction towards something Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Ahana | Formerly the space between the lagoon foreshore and the first row of houses; front yard, where canoes are kept |
| Takuu | Ahatea | A type of hano [Guettarda speciosa] tree that drifts to Takuu, though a few specimens grow locally |
