Entries from Simona 1986 in Pollex-Online
Simona, R. e. a. (1986). Tokelau Dictionary. Apia, Western Samoa, Office of Tokelau Affairs.
Language | Item | Description |
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Tokelau | Tele | Sail, travel under sail |
Tokelau | Telefua | Naked |
Tokelau | Teenei | Singular demonstrative particle (near speaker) |
Tokelau | Tetea | Be an albino; pale, grey, whitish |
Tokelau | Teu | (of flowers) Bunch, bouquet; wreath; ornament; beautify, decorate; store, put away; bury |
Tokelau | Tii | Shine (of sun) |
Tokelau | Tiale | Flower, blossom; to flower |
Tokelau | Tifa | Soar, hover (of a bird, aeroplane) |
Tokelau | Tike/tike | Sit on a chair, or at a higher level |
Tokelau | Tili | Types of net (including casting-net); cast a net |
Tokelau | Tili | Types of net (including casting-net); cast a net |
Tokelau | Tili/kia | Continue family line |
Tokelau | Tina | Wedge, to wedge |
Tokelau | Tini | Finish line, goal, end; goal, aim; pass the finish line, reach the goal; (of goal, wish etc) be fulfilled, be carried out |
Tokelau | Tinilau | Male personal name |
Tokelau | Tiputa | A rugged (sic) covering from shoulder to waist worn by women improvised from any suitable material Borrowed |
Tokelau | Too | 2nd person singular possessive pronoun, o-class |
Tokelau | Toa | A kind of tree |
Tokelau | Toa | Warrior, hero, brave person |
Tokelau | To/toe | Remain, be left over |
Tokelau | Toe | Again, once more, still |
Tokelau | Tofu | Have one each, receive or give one each |
Tokelau | Togafiti | Treat medically; remedy, treatment, device, invention, idea; magical trick or illusion (performed in a show) |
Tokelau | Togi | Peck, strike with a beak |
Tokelau | Togo | Mangrove |
Tokelau | Toka | Coral head; be grounded, run aground |
Tokelau | Toka | Become solid, as water freezing Problematic |
Tokelau | Toka | Calm (of ocean, wind, etc.); settle down; be peaceful |
Tokelau | Tokalua | Spouse, husband or wife |
Tokelau | Toke | Tail of an animal Problematic |
Tokelau | Toke | Tail of an animal |
Tokelau | Tokelau | North; wind from the north |
Tokelau | Toki | Adze, axe |
Tokelau | Atumata | (of net making) Row of eyes or openings of the network |
Tokelau | Tokomaunu | Hiccough |
Tokelau | Tole | Clitoris |
Tokelau | Tolo | (of crabs, insects, etc.) Crawl about in big numbers, swarm; drag something on the ground |
Tokelau | Tomo | Sink into a hole, fall into a cavity |
Tokelau | Tona | Anus |
Tokelau | Tonu | Correct, straight, just, fair; decision, resolution |
Tokelau | Tootooga | Part, organ |
Tokelau | Ki taatou | First person inclusive plural subject clitic Problematic |
Tokelau | Tuu | Stand |
Tokelau | Tua- | Classifying prefix used with numerals: unit of ten (crabs or crayfish) |
Tokelau | Tua | Back of a person |
Tokelau | Tua | Ocean side of atoll land areas |
Tokelau | Tua- | Prefix to numerals with reference to layers, strands, repetitions, etc. |
Tokelau | Tuafafine | Sister (of a man) |
Tokelau | Tuai | Lateness; being late |
Tokelau | Tuaakoi | Boundary, limit; neighbours |