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 |
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Rarotongan | Ngooia, ngooio | Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) |
Rarotongan | Ngore(ngore)-ʔia | Cut short, shave(d) close, strip(ped) or prune(d) bare |
Rarotongan | Ngoro | Snore |
Rarotongan | Ngoru | Weak (in the muscles), feeble, paralysed, crippled |
Rarotongan | Ngooee | Soft, gentle (like breeze) Phonologically Irregular |
Rarotongan | Ngote-a, -ʔia | Suck in/up; absorb |
Rarotongan | Nguu | Grunt v |
Rarotongan | Ngungu | Gnaw |
Rarotongan | Nguru(nguru) | Grunt, rumble, murmur |
Rarotongan | Ngutu | Lip, rim, entrance, orifice |
Rarotongan | Aa | Drive away, chase away |
Rarotongan | Aʔa | What |
Rarotongan | Anga | (Turn and) face |
Rarotongan | ʔAi | Who? |
Rarotongan | Akau | Coral reef |
Rarotongan | Ake | Up, upwards |
Rarotongan | Aku | Swordfish, Garfish |
Rarotongan | Ara | Road, path, passage, way, trail, track |
Rarotongan | Arataki | Lead, guide, direct v |
Rarotongan | Ama | Outrigger float |
Rarotongan | Amu | Chant (war, love, epic) |
Rarotongan | Amumu | Taunt, tease |
Rarotongan | Au | Wooden needle |
Rarotongan | Eke | Be in rut, ready to serve female (of animals) , |
Rarotongan | Iʔo | Downwards |
Rarotongan | Ira | An illness affecting babies in which the eyeball is said to turn blue (?infantile gastroenteritis) (Bse) |
Rarotongan | Iri | Rest on some support, lodge on something; have a place on board; go aground; descend or light upon one (of a title, curse, blame, or luck) |
Rarotongan | ʔInanga | Whitebait |
Rarotongan | Ingoa | Name |
Rarotongan | Iva | Nine |
Rarotongan | O/onge/ | Famine |
Rarotongan | Oka | Rafter(s), beam |
Rarotongan | O/oka/ | Rafter(s), beam |
Rarotongan | Ooro | Grate, grind, rub back and forth |
Rarotongan | ʔOopara | Push, shove; compel |
Rarotongan | Uu | Nipple, breast |
Rarotongan | ʔUnga | Labouring, employed on manual work, planting on another's land |
Rarotongan | Uru | Enter |
Rarotongan | Ka(a) | Inceptive aspect: future; imperative |
Rarotongan | Kaa/reka | But (as for) |
Rarotongan | Kaʔa | Sennit |
Rarotongan | Kaʔika | Tree sp., (Syzygium malaccensis) |
Rarotongan | Kaʔika (papaʔaa) | (Eugenia jambos) |
Rarotongan | Kaika/tea | A forest tree (Smith 1898:175) |
Rarotongan | Kaia/tea | An inland tree (Weinmannia samoensis) Problematic |
Rarotongan | Kaaʔiro | Mix, blend |
Rarotongan | Kaa/kaʔu/ | Clothing |
Rarotongan | Kaaʔui | A bunch (as of fruit) |
Rarotongan | Kaʔuru, kaaʔuruʔuru | Surmullet (Mullidae) |
Rarotongan | Kanga-ʔia | Play, lark about, play tricks, meddle, tamper with, ill-treat, misuse, spoil; damage, mischief |