Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Aa | What? what kind of?; why? (what for?) |
| Takuu | Sannee | (of horizontal beam, etc.) Bent, crooked, warped; (of fish) scatter, disperse; (of log, canoe, etc.) split, crack Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Ai | Who? whom? |
| Takuu | Ake | Post-verbal particle indicating lateral movement |
| Takuu | Aku | Needlefish or Longtom (Strongylura or Tylosurus indica) |
| Takuu | Ara | Trail, track, path, road; way, method; behaviour |
| Takuu | Api | Spotted Surgeonfish (Acanthurus guttatus) |
| Takuu | Iho/ana | Place where descent (literal or figurative) occurs |
| Takuu | Ina | Shine, of a torch or flame, light a fire or otherwise provide light...; go fishing at night with a light |
| Takuu | Inoa | Name |
| Takuu | One | Drought, famine |
| Takuu | Oka | Rafter of a house |
| Takuu | Oka | Husk (coconuts using a stick); husking stick |
| Takuu | Oro-ia | Rub against something, grind, or grate using a long blade with a back and forth motion; tool which uses this action (exs. grating taro, grinding shell artefacts, flattening pandanus leaves) |
| Takuu | Uu | Breast; suck at the breast, suckle, nurse |
| Takuu | Uri | Fish sp., blue and some yellow, caught in the lagoon with a line |
| Takuu | Uru | Enter or exit a location |
| Takuu | Kaa | Sharp (of an edge only) |
| Takuu | Kahukahu karamata | The transparent covering over the pupil of the eye; cataract; covering over the eye; eyelid |
| Takuu | Kai-na | Eat, bite (of fish), gnaw; meal |
| Takuu | Kaai | Fern sp. (Arachniodes aristata); creeper (Fabaceae sp.) Problematic |
| Takuu | Kaimarie | Generous |
| Takuu | Kaipea | Generic name for crabs |
| Takuu | Kkahi | Sail direct to a location (depending on the wind direction) |
| Takuu | Kkara | Fragrance, aroma; delicious, fragrant |
| Takuu | Kake | Climb (up), ascend, rise, increase; board a canoe; (of a ship) run aground, (whale) stranded on the reef |
| Takuu | Kannaa | Cry out (a name, etc.), call (to someone) Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Karea | General term for various types of univalve molluscs. Conch-shell (Hwd). |
| Takuu | Kareve | Coconut toddy made from the collected sap from an inflorescence of the coconut tree |
| Takuu | Karikao | Fish-hook made of trochus shell used for bonito fishing |
| Takuu | Karisi | Lizard sp. (small and brown, with blue and green colorations down its length) |
| Takuu | Karo | Dodge, avoid, shirk, divert, detour |
| Takuu | Karo | Goatfish (Mullidae auriflamma), juvenile growth stage of vete |
| Takuu | Kalloo | Cord running along the top and bottome edges of a long net |
| Takuu | Kamakama | Name for at least two kinds of edible rock crab |
| Takuu | Kamu | Small branching coral sp. with sharp spines |
| Takuu | Kanae | Sea Mullet (Mugil cephalus) |
| Takuu | Kanapu. Kenapu (Hdn). | Red-footed Booby (Sula sula) |
| Takuu | Kanekane | Anus |
| Takuu | Kaniva | Cloud Borrowed |
| Takuu | Takaniva | The Milky Way |
| Takuu | Kanu | Design or pattern with which something is covered, as a fish, turtle, tattoo |
| Takuu | Kao | Long-necked sea bird similar to a heron which walks in shallow water and stabs fish with its beak |
| Takuu | Kapakau | Wing of a bird, pectoral fin of a fish, flipper of a turtle, arm (from shoulder to fingertips); measure of distance from one's fingertip to one's shoulder |
| Takuu | Kape | Lift up and remove by using a stick, one's extended finger, or a similar object; take up, lever up; remove from fire, shove away using the foot; forcibly remove |
| Takuu | Hak/kapi | Hold under arm; tuck into the waistband of laplap; use tongs... |
| Takuu | Kapi | Part of a backstrap loom: the two wooden bars at each end of the loom which hold it taut during the weaving... |
| Takuu | Kaapiti | Mat woven from a single coconut frond used for walls of house |
| Takuu | Kasana | Ring (on one’s finger) |
| Takuu | Kasi | Bivalve mollusc sp., shell used for scraper |
