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 | Kimoa | Rat |
| Tokelau | Kini | Thrash, beat |
| Tokelau | Ki/kini/ | Lash (as the wind); swing hard (e.g. of a net) |
| Tokelau | Kino | Bad, naughty |
| Tokelau | Kiokio | Bonefish (Albula vulpes) |
| Tokelau | Kita | First person singular pronoun. Special form which conveys an appeal for sympathy or pity . Independent and subject clitic |
| Tokelau | Kita(a)- | First person inclusive marker |
| Tokelau | Kite | Look at |
| Tokelau | Kivi | Blind (in one eye) |
| Tokelau | Ko | Specifying particle |
| Tokelau | Koo | There (away from both speaker and hearer) |
| Tokelau | Koo | Imperative or emphatic particle (postposed) |
| Tokelau | Koe | You (sg) |
| Tokelau | Kofe | Bamboo fishing rod |
| Tokelau | Kofu | Dress, garment; wrapping, parcel of food wrapped for baking; put on (a garment); wrap in leaves or foil |
| Tokelau | Kofu | Dress, garment; put on (a garment) |
| Tokelau | Koho | Coconut-husking stake |
| Tokelau | Koi | Present progressive or continuous. Still. |
| Tokelau | Kola | Slime |
| Tokelau | Koli | Dance (with excitement) |
| Tokelau | Kolili | American Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus) |
| Tokelau | Koloa | Goods, wealth, riches |
| Tokelau | Kolomatua | An old term for toeaina or old man |
| Tokelau | Koulua | Second person dual preposed pronoun Problematic |
| Tokelau | Kokoma | Squeeze (in one hand or two) |
| Tokelau | Kona | Area of belly below navel |
| Tokelau | Kona/a | Drunk |
| Tokelau | Kona | Sour, bitter, salty |
| Tokelau | Koni | Copulate |
| Tokelau | Kokono | Strain, make intense effort (as in lifting a heavy object or as a woman in labour |
| Tokelau | Kopa/kopa | Flap wings |
| Tokelau | Kopi/kopi | (of obstacles) Obstruct, be in the way of |
| Tokelau | Kopiti | Crevice |
| Tokelau | Koopuu | Gut, stomach (of fish) |
| Tokelau | Kohi | Score, scratch |
| Tokelau | Koti | Cut Parrotfish (Scarus venosus) |
| Tokelau | Koutou | Second person plural subject clitic pronoun Problematic |
| Tokelau | Koulua | Second person dual pronoun |
| Tokelau | Koutou | Second person plural pronoun |
| Tokelau | A a/ku, o o/ku | My, mine, of my, of mine |
| Tokelau | Kua | Perfect tense marker |
| Tokelau | Ku/kula | Red |
| Tokelau | Uma | Be finished, come to the end; be done Problematic |
| Tokelau | Kupu/gia | Be talked about unfavourably, criticized (as a result of doing something against the general feeling of the community) |
| Tokelau | Ia | Third person singular pronoun, he, she, it |
| Tokelau | Ia | Interjection: used to attract attention - here, hey; used by storytellers to indicate a new paragraph or phase in the narrative: so... |
| Tokelau | Ika | Fish, including turtle |
| Tokelau | Iku | Finish, come to an end |
| Tokelau | Ilaamutu | Male's sister's child |
| Tokelau | Ili | Fan (n) |
