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 | Guufeke | Cuttlefish |
| Tokelau | Gugu | Name given to a number of complaints including gout, rheumatism, arthritis |
| Tokelau | Aa | What? |
| Tokelau | -angafulu | Ten of a kind |
| Tokelau | Aagai | Go towards, head for |
| Tokelau | Ai | Who? |
| Tokelau | Ake | Post-verbal directional particle; upwards, inland, away (in same direction as speaker) |
| Tokelau | Aku | Fish sp.similar to Giant Needlefish (Strongylura sp.) |
| Tokelau | Ala | Road, path, way |
| Tokelau | Ama | Outrigger of a canoe |
| Tokelau | Au | Needle for sewing thatch; tattooing comb |
| Tokelau | Paki/au/ | Tattooing pen |
| Tokelau | Ifo | Downwards, towards the sea |
| Tokelau | Ila | Feel the effect of something; be hurt Problematic |
| Tokelau | Ili | Be caught on top of something, be stuck fast |
| Tokelau | Igoa | Name |
| Tokelau | Iva | Nine |
| Tokelau | Ogo/hia | Be hurt, feel pain |
| Tokelau | Oge | Famine |
| Tokelau | Oko | Arrive, reach; be on, happen, eventuate, take place |
| Tokelau | Olo | Grate, grind, file, rub, smooth out (as Pandanus leaves for thatch) |
| Tokelau | Ua/agalu | Set of eight big waves |
| Tokelau | Huhu | Breast, milk |
| Tokelau | Ui | Lift off (something hanging), take off clothes, cut down bunch of Pandanus fruit |
| Tokelau | Uku | Dive under the water |
| Tokelau | Uli | Fish sp., Mackerel scad (Decapterus pinnulatus) |
| Tokelau | Ulu | Enter, go through |
| Tokelau | Ulu/fia | Be possessed by a spirit |
| Tokelau | Ka | Future, esp. immediate future |
| Tokelau | Ka | But (short form used before ko and kua) |
| Tokelau | Kae | But, and (then), when |
| Tokelau | Lau/kafa/ | Coconut husk fibre |
| Tokelau | Kafu | Cover oneself with sheet |
| Tokelau | Kai | Eat |
| Tokelau | Kakaha | Sharpness, keenness Phonologically Irregular |
| Tokelau | Kaaiga | Family household (e.g. father, mother, children); extended family, including uncles, aunts, cousins etc.; relative; marriage relationship; spouse; cognatic descent group |
| Tokelau | Kaka | Coarse, fibrous material at base of coconut fronds |
| Tokelau | Kakai | Village, city, town |
| Tokelau | Kakai | Legend, folktale |
| Tokelau | Kakau | Swim, swimming |
| Tokelau | Kakava | Sultry (of weather) |
| Tokelau | Kake | Climb (of tree, mountain) |
| Tokelau | Ka/kala | Sting, cause an acute pain (on wound or cut); be sore (of throat) |
| Tokelau | Kalaa | Hard, heavy stone found on ocean side of outlying islets on an atoll |
| Tokelau | Kalaga | Shout, call |
| Tokelau | Kalamihi | Land Crab (Geograpsus sp.) |
| Tokelau | Kalea | A small Cone-shell about 3 centimetres long |
| Tokelau | Kaaleva | Long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamis sp.) |
| Tokelau | Kaleve | Sap extracted from bud of coconut tree |
| Tokelau | Ali | Wooden pillow Problematic |
