Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
Language | Item | Description |
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Takuu | F/foa | Break or crack open a round object (e.g. a mature coconut or hermit crab shell) to get at the contents |
Takuu | Haa | Be hoarse, have bronchitis |
Takuu | Haahaa | Touch with the hand, feel around for something, grope |
Takuu | Haaite | Test something; try to do something |
Takuu | Haho | Exterior, outside, outdoors |
Takuu | Hai | Do, make |
Takuu | Hai | Ray (Himantura sp.) |
Takuu | Haaite | Horizontal bar used in setting up a backstrap loom |
Takuu | Haiva | Running race; competitive sporting activity generally |
Takuu | Hakannoo | Listen to, listen for, feel; show respect for, believe, obey; understand (what one hears) Phonologically Irregular |
Takuu | Hakaara | Contribute (a gift) |
Takuu | Hakaranu | Rinse oneself with fresh water after swimming or bathing in the sea; water (a plant); add water to another liquid, dilute |
Takuu | Haki | Knock down or pluck with hand (coconuts, breadfruit, pawpaw); pluck flowers or branches |
Takuu | Mahaki | (of fruit from a tree) Fall; (of a branch) snap. |
Takuu | (H)ak/kivi | Wink |
Takuu | Hak/koro | Organize, prepare for, start, plan |
Takuu | Hana, vana, fanga, vanga | Black or brown inedible sea urchin species... |
Takuu | Hana | Fish trap, fish weir |
Takuu | Hana | Free edge of a canoe sail, leech; remove, let loose a string when making string figures |
Takuu | Haanai | Feed; formal meal for mourners |
Takuu | Hanamea | Red Snapper (Lutjanus bohar) |
Takuu | Haanau | Give birth, lay an egg; be born |
Takuu | Haanau | Same-sex siblings |
Takuu | Haanauna | Descendant; relative |
Takuu | Hano | Go (singular) |
Takuu | Hano | Tree (Guettarda speciosa) |
Takuu | Haanota | Fish, catch fish (particularly by net or some means other than line fishing); pull in (a fish, line, or net) |
Takuu | Hao | Hole drilled in the side of a canoe used for lashings |
Takuu | Hao | Very small, chisel-shaped adze...; nail... |
Takuu | Hara | Pandanus |
Takuu | Hare | House, dwelling; chrysalis; hole in which an animal lives; clan |
Takuu | Harelo | General term for coral |
Takuu | Haariki | Put a carrying cloth beneath an infant; put one's hands under someone in order to lift them up; line the bottom of a basket with leaves |
Takuu | Haaroo | (of arm or neck) Stretch, crane the neck, raise hand to reach something |
Takuu | Hasi | Cut, chop into pieces (kindling or taro) |
Takuu | Hata | Shelf, outdoor platform with holes in its base, wire rack for smoking fish |
Takuu | Hatahata | Chest (of a human) |
Takuu | Hatahata | Uneven surface of two badly joined pieces of wood or the ground where a bed is spread |
Takuu | Hati | Chorus, refrain of a song; to sing the chorus |
Takuu | Hati | Break into pieces; joint of the body |
Takuu | Mahati | Cracked but retaining the same shape |
Takuu | Hatu | Single hard object (stone, rock, coral head, grindstone...seed...callous...) |
Takuu | Hatu karaa | Hard volcanic stone... |
Takuu | Hatu manava | Heart, mind, seat of the emotions; breath, stamina |
Takuu | Hatu | Compose, fabricate, make up (story or pattern), invent |
Takuu | Hatu | Fold, roll up, tuck (leg), bend (elbow or knee), |
Takuu | Hatuke | Sea urchin sp. |
Takuu | Hau | Tree, Sea Coast Mallow (Hibiscus tiliaceus) |
Takuu | Hau | Anything worn on the head or around the neck, e.g. leaf headband... |
Takuu | Hau | Bind, lash or fasten with rope; weave |