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 | Ao/ao | Supremacy; whole, totality |
| Tokelau | Ao | Be good, successful at catching or gathering foodstuffs |
| Tokelau | Aapoo | Tonight |
| Tokelau | Aaheu | (Caranx melampygus) |
| Tokelau | A/ahi | Visit, call on, inspect |
| Tokelau | Aho | A huge, clumsy, grey, deep-sea fish about twenty feet long and weighing about a ton. Probably belongs to the shark family but is not as fierce |
| Tokelau | Aho | Day, date |
| Tokelau | Ahu | To bail, ladle, scoop |
| Tokelau | Ahu | Smoke, smoky |
| Tokelau | Ata | Daybreak, dawn, first light |
| Tokelau | Ata | Preverbal particle denoting ability to perform action referred to by the verb Problematic |
| Tokelau | Ata/ata | Shadow |
| Tokelau | Atafai | Be kind |
| Tokelau | Atamai | Intelligence, wisdom, knowledge |
| Tokelau | Ate | Liver |
| Tokelau | Aatea | Clearing, open space |
| Tokelau | Ate pili | Spleen |
| Tokelau | Ati | Build with stones or bricks |
| Tokelau | Ati | Fetch fire |
| Tokelau | Atigi- | Prefix denoting that a container is empty |
| Tokelau | Ato | To thatch; roofing |
| Tokelau | Atu | Direction from speaker to hearer |
| Tokelau | Atua | God, supreme being |
| Tokelau | Au | I, first person singular pronoun |
| Tokelau | Au | Reach, get at, have a good range; be matured at birth, be born at full term |
| Tokelau | Au | Current, flow |
| Tokelau | Aua | Negative imperative particle; do not! |
| Tokelau | Ava | A channel (through or across the reef); a natural channel (running up into the reef from the ocean side) |
| Tokelau | Avaa- | Prefix to noun meaning two together. |
| Tokelau | Aavaga | Spouse; be married |
| Tokelau | Ave | Tail end (of a fish) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tokelau | He/avea | Wait for a moment, delay for a little while |
| Tokelau | E | Non-past tense-aspect |
| Tokelau | E | Agent marker |
| Tokelau | Ea | Surface (v); look up, raise (the head) |
| Tokelau | Eto | To lick Problematic |
| Tokelau | Faa | Four |
| Tokelau | Faa | Husky, hoarse (of voice) |
| Tokelau | Faafaa | Feel with hands or feet, grope; massage |
| Tokelau | Fafangu | Awaken someone |
| Tokelau | Faafaalua | Eagle Ray (Aetobatis narinari) |
| Tokelau | Fafine | Woman |
| Tokelau | Fafo | Outside, out of doors, exterior |
| Tokelau | Faga | Bay |
| Tokelau | Faga | Trap |
| Tokelau | Fagamea | Red Snapper (Lutjanus bohar) |
| Tokelau | Faagota | School of fish; fish, catch fish |
| Tokelau | Fagufagu | Flute |
| Tokelau | Fai | Ray |
| Tokelau | Fai | Do, create, make |
