Entries from Simona 1986 in Pollex-Online
Simona, R. e. a. (1986). Tokelau Dictionary. Apia, Western Samoa, Office of Tokelau Affairs.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tokelau | Ootai | A lightly sweetened dish made from the juice and grated flesh of an almost mature drinking nut, mixed together, and eaten raw |
| Tokelau | Oti | Death, funeral |
| Tokelau | Paa | Fence, wall, shield |
| Tokelau | Paa | Arrive, reach; until; touch, come in contact with |
| Tokelau | Paa | Fish lures made of shells |
| Tokelau | Paa | Sterile (of a woman) |
| Tokelau | Pae | A transverse obstacle; to pile up |
| Tokelau | Paega | A man-made pit in the sea along the beach where the strips of coconut husks are buried in preparation for sennit making |
| Tokelau | Pagugu | Crunchy (Sma) |
| Tokelau | Paia | Holiness Problematic |
| Tokelau | Paikea | Landcrab (Cardisoma) |
| Tokelau | Paka | Sea-crabs in general |
| Tokelau | Pakeva | Black-spot Jack (Carangoides ferdau jordan) |
| Tokelau | (Pa)paki | Touch, come in contact with; reach, arrive |
| Tokelau | Pakia | Be hurt, suffer seriously, be badly affected |
| Tokelau | Tuu/pakia/ | Chrysomelid or click-beetle (Elateridae sp.) |
| Tokelau | Pakipaki | A stinging jellyfish |
| Tokelau | Paakookoo | Cheek, gill-cover Problematic |
| Tokelau | Paku | Hide, skin, leather, bark |
| Tokelau | Pakuu | Fall; drop in price; be defeated (of law suit); decrease (of wind) |
| Tokelau | Pala | Rot, decay |
| Tokelau | Pala/pala | Mud, dirt, blood |
| Tokelau | Pala | To fester |
| Tokelau | A/palani | Yellow Surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus) |
| Tokelau | Palapala | Mud, dirt, blood |
| Tokelau | Palahi | To fall from a height |
| Tokelau | Palatuu | Over-ripe fruit |
| Tokelau | Palau | Brag |
| Tokelau | Palepale | The bottom plate or base of a traditional house from which the side-posts rise, which serves also to keep the coral pebble flooring in |
| Tokelau | Pale | Set (of sun) |
| Tokelau | Palu | Oilfish (Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco) and other spp. |
| Tokelau | Palu | Mix |
| Tokelau | Pani | Coral lime (used as paint) |
| Tokelau | Pao | Push one cowrie shell ahead with another in game of tiuga |
| Tokelau | Paopao | Small canoe |
| Tokelau | Papa | Flat |
| Tokelau | Papa | School of fish of certain species, especially Caranx sp.; a variety of sea-bass or grouper, reddish yellow with white spots (?Variola louti) |
| Tokelau | Papaku | Shallow, shallowness |
| Tokelau | Papo | Maori wrasse (Cheilinus fasciatus) |
| Tokelau | Paheke | Slip (v) |
| Tokelau | Pahi | Tired of, bored with |
| Tokelau | Pata | Be marked (of skin) by a blow, insect bite |
| Tokelau | Pa/pata | Coarse, big, wide (of gravel, fish, wefts) |
| Tokelau | Gutu patapata | Said of one who gossips a lot |
| Tokelau | Paatee | Small, wooden drum; beat a drum |
| Tokelau | Pato | Domesticated duck |
| Tokelau | Patoo | Goitre, swelling |
| Tokelau | Patu | Lump, tumour; be swollen |
| Tokelau | Paatuki | Hand-fish (Cirrhites pinnulatus) |
| Tokelau | Paaua | A poisonous shellfish attached under shelving coral in the lagoon |
