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 | Hili | Goodness, greatness; be better, the best; supreme; go beyond |
| Tokelau | Hina | White or grey hair |
| Tokelau | Hina | A heroine of stories |
| Tokelau | Hina/hina | Drip or fall in drops |
| Tokelau | Hipa | A small or young flying-fish |
| Tokelau | Hipa | Be at an angle, not level, not straight |
| Tokelau | Hihi | Draw up, hoist up |
| Tokelau | Hihi | Coconut meat scraper; to scrape with such |
| Tokelau | Hihii | Soft, sibilant sound for demanding attention or silence |
| Tokelau | Hihifo | West |
| Tokelau | Hiva | Dance, dancing, ball |
| Tokelau | Hoa | Companion, friend, partner |
| Tokelau | Hoagi/a | Be even, be paired |
| Tokelau | Hogi | Smell, sniff; kiss |
| Tokelau | Ho/hogo | Smell of urine |
| Tokelau | Hooi/a | Stop! (e.g. of noise) |
| Tokelau | Hoko | Completely covered; join, splice, link; resemble, be like |
| Tokelau | Hola | Run away, escape |
| Tokelau | Holi | Tread on, walk on; violate, breach |
| Tokelau | Holo | Landslide, slip; slide, collapse, go to pieces |
| Tokelau | Holo | Procession, parade; move in procession. All about, everywhere, up and down |
| Tokelau | Holo | A parcel of cooked, mashed pulaka [Cyrtosperma] |
| Tokelau | Hooloi | Wipe away, cancel |
| Tokelau | Homo | Sprout of a germinating coconut |
| Tokelau | Homo | Matter that collects in corner of eye |
| Tokelau | Homo/a | Discharging, covered with gum (of eye) |
| Tokelau | Honi | Chop with a knife or a spade |
| Tokelau | Hope | Tuft of hair left to grow on a child's forehead |
| Tokelau | Hopo | Overstep, go over the boundary |
| Tokelau | Hopo | Board, go on board (a canoe or ship) |
| Tokelau | Hoehaa | Annoyance, nuisance, annoying noise, pest |
| Tokelau | Hoho | Insane, demented, crazy |
| Tokelau | Hu/huu | Wet; water, wetness, dampness, moisture |
| Tokelau | Pui/pui | Wall, fence |
| Tokelau | Hua | Lever up, dig up, eradicate; charge (someone) with head and shoulders |
| Tokelau | Hua | Juice; young drinking coconut; to contain (e.g. liquid) |
| Tokelau | Hua | To come in (of the tide) |
| Tokelau | Huamalie | Sweetness |
| Tokelau | Hue | Stars and Stripes Pufferfish (Arothron hispidus) |
| Tokelau | Hui | Represent; succeed, change, replace; representative, successor; change (money) |
| Tokelau | Hui | To water down, thin down, e.g. soup |
| Tokelau | Huki | Pierce, inject, probe; stick used for piercing or probing (e.g. for turtle eggs); sticks which pierce through the ridge thatching to hold roof thatching in place; syringe |
| Tokelau | Hula | Appear, be visible, show up |
| Tokelau | Huli | Sucker of plants, e.g. elephant ear taro |
| Tokelau | Hulu | Torch, flashlight |
| Tokelau | Hu/hulu | (of a light, the sun, etc.) Shine, be bright; light (n), glare |
| Tokelau | Hunu/hunu | Cook by roasting over hot coals and turning over now and again |
| Tokelau | Taa | Hit, strike; blow |
| Tokelau | Taa | 1st person dual inclusive pronoun (short form, preposed to verb) |
| Tokelau | -taa(ua) | First person inclusive dual possessive suffix |
