Entries from Buse 1996 in Pollex-Online
Buse, J. (1996). Cook Islands Maori dictionary with English-Cook Islands Maori finderlist. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rarotongan | Vaʔo | Exterior, outside |
| Rarotongan | Vae | Divide, division, Separate |
| Rarotongan | Vai | Water |
| Rarotongan | Vaiʔo-ʔia | Leave sthg. alone, leave sthg. stay |
| Rarotongan | Vairanga | Place where something is kept, container, receptacle |
| Rarotongan | Vaka | Canoe |
| Rarotongan | Vaka | Tribe, clan, party of men (Etn) |
| Rarotongan | Va/vare | Saliva, spittle |
| Rarotongan | Vare | Duped, deceived, misled, cajoled |
| Rarotongan | Varo | Indistinct sound, deep booming sound |
| Rarotongan | Varo | Banded Prawn-killer (Lysiosquilla maculata) |
| Rarotongan | Varu | Eight |
| Rarotongan | Varu | Scrape v |
| Rarotongan | Vana | Sea egg or sea urchin sp |
| Rarotongan | Vanavana | Gooseflesh |
| Rarotongan | Vana | Stand up on end (hair, spines of fish) |
| Rarotongan | Vaananga | Talk, converse; talk, conversation |
| Rarotongan | Vao | Forest |
| Rarotongan | Vaaʔi | To break, split, share |
| Rarotongan | Vaavaa | Cricket |
| Rarotongan | Vavao | To separate combatants, break up a fight |
| Rarotongan | Vave | Quick |
| Rarotongan | Veku | Tear off, rip off, pull aside |
| Rarotongan | Vera | Be hot; heat |
| Rarotongan | Verevere | A tassel; wattles, dewlap, the two pendulous lumps of hard skin under chin of goat; the uvula |
| Rarotongan | Maa/verevere | Fringed, a fringe |
| Rarotongan | Veri | Centipede |
| Rarotongan | Vero | Stab, thrust, hurl spear; pierce (of sun’s rays) |
| Rarotongan | Veru | Fringe, tassel |
| Rarotongan | Veru/veru | Remnants, rags, tattered, torn |
| Rarotongan | Veo | Brass or copper |
| Rarotongan | Veʔe | Divide, separate |
| Rarotongan | Ve/vete/ | Tear apart, rip up or off |
| Rarotongan | Vete | Kind of Goatfish. Yellowstripe Goatfish (Mulloidichthys flavolineatus) (McC). |
| Rarotongan | Veve | Poor, short of, indigent |
| Rarotongan | Vii nitaa | Pawpaw |
| Rarotongan | Vi/viki | Be quick, fast; quickly; speed |
| Rarotongan | Viki | Blazed, marked out, made (of a track or trail) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Rarotongan | Viri | Twist; to drill, a drill |
| Rarotongan | Viti | Lively, vigorous, energetic |
| Rarotongan | Viivii | Grasshopper |
| Rarotongan | Mana | Have authority and the rights and prestige it confers |
| Rarotongan | Poa | Fishy (smell or taste); scales, rust |
| Rarotongan | Vaa | Gap, intervening space or distance; period of time, interval |
| Rarotongan | Kaʔika | Malay apple (Syzygium malaccense) |
| Rarotongan | A(a) | At, on (referring to future time |
| Rarotongan | ʔAkairo(iro) | Make a mark |
| Rarotongan | ʔIakai | To feel hungry (dialectal) |
| Mangaia | Mara | Bitter |
| Rarotongan | Mangio, mangeo | Itch, prick or sting (as the skin does from insect bites or nettles, or the throat from pungent food); irritant, stinging |
