Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Hakanoho | Seat, cause to sit down or up; install (a chief, elder, spirit medium), put into office |
| Takuu | Non/nono | Human brain; edible meat inside the head of a fish Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | N/noto | (of wound, hole etc.) Deep |
| Takuu | Noto/hia | (of canoe) Fully laden; riding low because of the weight of its contents |
| Takuu | N/nuu | Make a whirring or vibrating noise; whimper, whine, (of pig) squeal Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Nutu-a, u/nutu/a | Scold someone |
| Takuu | Oo | Provisions for a sea journey, comprising coconuts, but no cooked food |
| Takuu | Oo | Exclamation of surprise Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Ohana | Bird nest |
| Takuu | Oho | Awaken, wake up (vi) |
| Takuu | Oko | Gather or collect scattered items to be picked up one or a few at a time (e.g. shellfish, ripe coconuts, firewood) |
| Takuu | Oko | Adductor muscle of a nakohu giant clam, which holds the two shells together at the base |
| Takuu | Oma/oma | (of a bird) Soar |
| Takuu | One | Sandspit, sand bar, sandy place on the reef (obs.); sandy flat area where the spirits of each clan reside |
| Takuu | Ono | Six |
| Takuu | Oriori | Song type.... |
| Takuu | Osi | Young shoot of a plant that has developed from a sucker of an old plant |
| Takuu | Oso | (of liquid in a container) Overflow |
| Takuu | Oto | Length of sennit cord long enough to attach one vertical row of thatch panels to a roof Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Paa | Pearl oyster |
| Takuu | Ppaa | Flat surface, floor of a house, flat rock, reef flat |
| Takuu | Pae | Pile, heap, elevated area; pile of clothing forming a baby's bed |
| Takuu | Paena | Border areas of the community's garden on Takuu Island where men grow giant taro in individually prepared holes Problematic |
| Takuu | Paki | Men's dance using stylised wooden clubs; club used in this dance |
| Takuu | Pakia | Be lucky in finding plenty of what one is trying to get Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | (P)paku | Burnt; dried out from overcooking |
| Takuu | Paku | Burnt, hard part of a food (e.g. rice); outer part of the core of a tree where the wood is dry and hard |
| Takuu | P/paku | Indelible stain from the blood of a fish, turtle or human |
| Takuu | Pakuu | Strike against something creating a banging sound; run aground; arrive at a destination; rhythmic striking of paddles against a canoe hull to attract a shark |
| Takuu | Pa/l/laha | Flat |
| Takuu | Pani | Smear, as of a mark on the skin; paint face or body, apply turmeric markings to corpse |
| Takuu | Paopao | One-man outrigger canoe (considered something of a toy) |
| Takuu | Paa/paki | Poisonous jellyfish sp. with white body, red spots and dangling tendrils Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Papu | Wrasse sp. |
| Takuu | Para | Wet |
| Takuu | Paara/i | Paint, smear |
| Takuu | Parani | Blue-dotted Hairtooth Tang (Ctenochaetus strigosus) and other spp. |
| Takuu | Pare | Lean, veer off-course |
| Takuu | P/pare | Veer, steer, turn |
| Takuu | P/pata | (of sand) Coarse; (of rain) having drops large enough to indent the skin. |
| Takuu | Patu | (of coconut embryo) Firm |
| Takuu | P/pau | Count, enumerate |
| Takuu | Pee | Break wind, fart (esp. audibly) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Ppee | Generic term for butterfly, moths, hoppers |
| Takuu | Pela | Earth, soil, land which is muddy in times of heavy rain |
| Takuu | P/pela | (of ground) Soft |
| Takuu | Pese | Song, anything sung (obs.) |
| Takuu | Peva | Prehensile tail-like protrusion from the rear of a large male turtle, containing the penis |
| Takuu | Pia | Foam (on the ocean, coconut toddy, etc.) |
| Takuu | Pia | Sediment |
