Entries from Shibata 2003 in Pollex-Online
Shibata, N. (2003). Penrhyn-English Dictionary. Kyoto, ELPR.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Penrhyn | Utanga | Cargo |
| Penrhyn | Uto | Sprouting coconut; spongy stuff contained in germinated coconut |
| Penrhyn | Vaa/vaa | Obscure, not clear; dumb, deaf-mute; obscure noise |
| Penrhyn | Vae/vae | Foot, leg |
| Penrhyn | Vaaere | Clear ground, weed |
| Penrhyn | Vaha | Carry something on one’s shoulder or back |
| Penrhyn | Vaha | Mouth |
| Penrhyn | Vahie | Firewood |
| Penrhyn | Vahine | Woman |
| Penrhyn | Vahii | Cover, case |
| Penrhyn | Vaha | Out, outside |
| Penrhyn | Vai | Water |
| Penrhyn | Vairanga | Storage place |
| Penrhyn | Vaka | Canoe |
| Penrhyn | Vare | Slime |
| Penrhyn | Vari | Mud |
| Penrhyn | Vari/vari | Muddy |
| Penrhyn | Va/varo | To call |
| Penrhyn | Va/valo/ | Call, howl, bark |
| Penrhyn | Varo | Kind of mantis shrimp or burrowing shrimp |
| Penrhyn | Varu | Eight |
| Penrhyn | Varu | Tuna, fish sp |
| Penrhyn | Varu | Scrape, grate |
| Penrhyn | Vana | Sea-urchin |
| Penrhyn | Nava | Long-spine black sea urchin (Diadema savignyi etc) |
| Penrhyn | Vaananga | Notice, word; teaching. Learning (Bck). |
| Penrhyn | Voo | Bush, forest |
| Penrhyn | Vasa | Interval; just now (in the past); right now (in the future) |
| Penrhyn | Vaasi | To split, open |
| Penrhyn | Vaavaa | Grashopper, cricket |
| Penrhyn | Vave | Quickly; early |
| Penrhyn | Vera | To be hot |
| Penrhyn | Verevere | Tassels; edge of mantle of Tridacna shell, something like short spines |
| Penrhyn | Veri | Centipede sp. with painful bite |
| Penrhyn | Vero | Pierce, thrust, puncture |
| Penrhyn | Vete | Yellow-striped goatfish, yellow-fin goatfish (Mulloidichthys flaviolineatus, Mulloides vanicolensis) |
| Penrhyn | Veu | Tassel-decoration, loose ends for fans and hats |
| Penrhyn | Vii | Mango (Mangifera indica) |
| Penrhyn | Vi/viki | Hurry, be swift; quickly, fast |
| Penrhyn | Viri | To drill, bore, twist |
| Penrhyn | Vii | Wring, twist stalk to pluck a fruit Phonologically Irregular |
| Penrhyn | Viti/viti | Fast |
| Penrhyn | Viivii | Grasshopper |
| Penrhyn | Puka tea | Lettuce tree (Pisonia grandis) |
| Penrhyn | (H)akairo | Mark, sign |
| Penrhyn | Mara(mara) | Unpleasant to the taste, bitter; not fresh, brackish |
| Penrhyn | Tahora | Expanse of rocks and sand between the larger rocks in the lagoon, where people dive |
| Penrhyn | Kapi(kapi) | To become congested, bloodshot, swollen, have black rings around one's eyes |
| Penrhyn | Pau | Consumed, used up, run out; lose a game |
| Penrhyn | Pau/roa | All |
