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 | Una | Turtle shell; hawk's bill turtle |
| Tokelau | Unu | Pull up (of a plant) |
| Tokelau | Uho | Same-sex sibling |
| Tokelau | Uhu | Pay court, woo; be in session (of a meeting) |
| Tokelau | Uuhu | Throbbing (of pain) |
| Tokelau | Uhu | To rise and leave in the morning |
| Tokelau | Uta | Cargo |
| Tokelau | Uta | Islands on far side of lagoon from village |
| Tokelau | Ute | Conserve, reserve, be careful with Problematic |
| Tokelau | -utou | Second person plural possessive suffix |
| Tokelau | Utu | Put away something precious Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tokelau | Utu | Fill (of containers) |
| Tokelau | Utu | Grey Jobfish (Aprion virescens) |
| Tokelau | Utua | Shelving reef, point of land and reef extending seawards; reef finger(s) on the ocean side |
| Tokelau | Utupoto | Cross-beam of a traditional house |
| Tokelau | Vaa | Space, distance or room between two points, things; relationship between two people or groups of people; be apart, be separated; be on bad terms |
| Tokelau | Vae | Lower limb, including foot |
| Tokelau | Vavae | Divide, share |
| Tokelau | Vaaega | Group, share, division, part |
| Tokelau | Vaelua | Cute, divide or break into two parts |
| Tokelau | Vai | Water |
| Tokelau | Vaka | Canoe |
| Tokelau | Vaakili | Inspect, look for (e.g.lice) Phonologically Irregular |
| Tokelau | Vavale | Slimy, of mucous, fish slime etc. |
| Tokelau | Vale | Mentally ill person; idiot, fool, lunatic (in colloquial sense); be totally absorbed in some activity |
| Tokelau | Vali | Paint, to paint |
| Tokelau | Vali/valia | Mushy, of food |
| Tokelau | Valo | (of birds) Make a noise in an alarmed manner |
| Tokelau | Va/valo | Prophesy, foretell, predict |
| Tokelau | Valu | Eight |
| Tokelau | Valu | Scrape |
| Tokelau | Vana | Black sea-urchin with long, brittle spines (Diadema sp.) |
| Tokelau | Vaha | Ocean, wide ocean, open sea |
| Tokelau | Vahe | To draw a line; marked line; rule |
| Tokelau | Vave | Quick, fast, quickness, speed |
| Tokelau | Veka | A kind of bird in mythology |
| Tokelau | Vela | Cooked |
| Tokelau | Vele | To clear by pulling out weeds, chopping down trees |
| Tokelau | Ehi | Papaw (Ldn) |
| Tokelau | Velo | Hurl, throw (as a javelin; dart javelin; shove, thrust; play darts |
| Tokelau | Vete | Break open, open up, split; dismantle, demolish, take apart; burgle, loot, vandalise; plunder, loot, spoil |
| Tokelau | Veve | Leaves used in previous oven directly above food, now used as outer layer |
| Tokelau | Veve | Topmost covering of an oven, usually leaves; property of a poor person |
| Tokelau | Vale | Of no avail, futile, worthless, unproductive; (useless, meaningless) |
| Tokelau | Vela/vela | To warm, heat up gradually |
| Tokelau | Vevela | Hot; have a high temperature |
| Tokelau | Vii | Fermented |
| Tokelau | Vii | Kind of mango found in Samoa only |
| Tokelau | Viki | Song to commemorate and celebrate someone or something |
| Tokelau | Vi/vili/ | Twist |
