Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Hakaoti | Finish, complete; fire (a person), sack |
| Takuu | Hakaoti | Last (in a series), final |
| Takuu | Hakaoti | Completely, done so as to last or endure or be at some extreme |
| Takuu | Haka/f/fura | Puff out one's abdomen; (of certain fish) inflate themselves |
| Takuu | Hakatoo/ina | Lower (canoe sail) |
| Takuu | Haka/t/too | Decline or slope, drop off at an angle; mountainside, hillside, slope |
| Takuu | Tanaroa | Meteor, falling star, shooting star |
| Takuu | Hai- | Reciprocal prefix used in defining relationships...between pairs of people... |
| Takuu | Hakalluu-tia | Take refuge; hide, conceal |
| Takuu | Huruhuru mata | Eyelash |
| Takuu | Huruhuru kara/mata | Eyebrow |
| Takuu | Vela | Be feverish, have the flu |
| Takuu | Hakatonu | Correct, straighten |
| Takuu | Hakatipu-ria | Build up |
| Takuu | Hakatipu/rana | Pile of objects, e.g. taro, coconuts... |
| Takuu | Hakatipu/tipu | Take the form of, emerge as |
| Takuu | Hakamata-ina, -ria | Sharpen something to a point |
| Takuu | Taupiri, toupiri | Near, close |
| Takuu | Kallapa | Base of a coconut frond on which a large canoe is placed to keep it off the ground while being stored Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Kata | Moray Eel, snake, tapeworm and other similar parasites Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Kuna/aroto | Midsectional piece of a trunk of a tree... |
| Takuu | Turana | Climbing frame for children |
| Takuu | Tuutana | Portion cut from a larger entity; (obsolete) the five sections into which a coconut palm trunk is ritually cut should it fall on top of a grave... |
| Takuu | Kooina | Boundary line of swamp taro between two taro gardens |
| Takuu | Tuta | Junction of two logs forming the hull of a canoe |
| Takuu | Simu | Two four-star constellations in the southern sky considered as islands rather than stars, said to resemble a triggerfish... |
| Takuu | Otaota | Umbilical cord and placenta |
| Takuu | Haiumu | Place where the oven is located |
| Takuu | Hakasuki | Make something into a tail |
| Takuu | Inoa hakasuki | Surname, family name |
| Takuu | Soro | Rub off, wipe off; obliterate; strike (match) |
| Takuu | Ruru | Shake |
| Takuu | Aramea | Crown-of-thorns Starfish Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Sunuki | Prick someone with an object |
| Takuu | Nnau | (of a sick person) Show no sign of improvement |
| Takuu | Lotottonu, lottonu | Centre |
| Takuu | Taa sau | Beat the rhythm for sau dances |
| Takuu | Tuki | Food pounder; drum |
| Takuu | Tauara | Sail a canoe close to the wind |
| Takuu | Tauhaa | Contellation of four stars in Pegasus outlining a square (Starts the period of westerly trade winds when it sets at dawn, creating rain and wind to cool its body.) |
| Takuu | Mata | (of a coconut) At a stage where it has both meat and liquid inside |
| Takuu | Kaere | Smallest growth stage of a coconut |
| Takuu | Kaaile | An immature coconut Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Aa/moko | Early stage of coconut growth: small, some elongated, with no liquid inside Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Motomoto | Seventh named stage of coconut growth, which has relatively hard and thick meat, a dry husk, bubbly but drinkable water |
| Takuu | Matuu | Mature coconut in final stage of growth before sprouting |
| Takuu | Matasiri | Growth stage of a coconut between meemata and motomoto |
| Takuu | Hai | Have, possess, own |
| Takuu | Hai | (with directional particle) Utter in a particular context (e.g. tell, relate, inform, recount, sing) |
| Takuu | Pee | Perhaps, probably |
