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 | Kena | Infertile or barren, parched, dry |
| Rarotongan | ʔAa/kena/kena | Dried, stunted and unproductive |
| Rarotongan | Kenu | Turn ground, till, root (of pigs) |
| Rarotongan | Keta | Firmly lodged, caught on something; stubborn, firmly set on something, tenacious |
| Rarotongan | Keta/keta | Firm. taut, sturdy, strong, secure |
| Rarotongan | Kete | Bag, basket |
| Rarotongan | Kete | Click with the tongue (as in geeing a horse) |
| Rarotongan | Ketekete | Chatter (of teeth) |
| Rarotongan | Ketu | Turn over ground (of pigs) |
| Rarotongan | Keu | Intrans. v., move, shift, stir, budge, shake; comply, agree; be willing |
| Rarotongan | Ki | To, towards (preposed particle) |
| Rarotongan | Ki | With, by, using |
| Rarotongan | Kii | Talk, speak |
| Rarotongan | Kii | Be full, fill (intr.), teem; fullness, bounty, wealth |
| Rarotongan | Kia | Particle, essentially optative in meaning |
| Rarotongan | Kiato | Outrigger arms of a canoe joining the float to the hull fore and aft; a member of an ariki famiuly living on their land |
| Rarotongan | Kie | Sail |
| Rarotongan | Kikite | Knowing, cunning, intelligent, skilful |
| Rarotongan | Kiko | Meat; tuber; fleshy; fully developed (of tubers); bast (of paper mulberry or breadfruit) |
| Rarotongan | Kira | Barrenness, bareness, waste (referring to land) |
| Rarotongan | Kiri | Skin |
| Rarotongan | Kiriaatai | Surface of the sea |
| Rarotongan | Kirikiri | Gravel |
| Rarotongan | Na/kiro/ | Realise, become aware, understand Problematic |
| Rarotongan | Kimi | Seek |
| Rarotongan | Kina | Various short-spined burrowing sea-urchins, es. (Echinometra mathaei) |
| Rarotongan | Kini | Pinch, squeeze together |
| Rarotongan | Kino | Evil, bad, wicked, ugly, unfortunate, hurt; general intensifier |
| Rarotongan | Kio(kio) | Chirp, cheep v |
| Rarotongan | Kiokio | Bonefish (Albula vulpes) |
| Rarotongan | Kiore | Rat |
| Rarotongan | Kita | Fast, immovable, steadfast, unalterable |
| Rarotongan | Kite | See, witness, find, discover; know, understand; clever... |
| Rarotongan | Kiva | Blue space (e.g. sky) |
| Rarotongan | ʔUru/kivi/ | Feathers marked with grey and white Problematic |
| Rarotongan | Ko | Specifier particle (Preposed) |
| Rarotongan | Koo | Yonder |
| Rarotongan | Koa | Glad, joy, joyful, mirth, gladness, etc |
| Rarotongan | Koama, kooma | A small, silvery fish caught in shoals along the beach |
| Rarotongan | Koe | Second person singular, thou |
| Rarotongan | Kooʔanga | Nest (of bird or animal) (Bse) |
| Rarotongan | Koai/ naupara | (Geum urbanum) |
| Rarotongan | Kooʔao | Bloated, distended, especially of the stomach |
| Rarotongan | Koʔe | Bamboo sp |
| Rarotongan | Koʔi | Gather, collect, pick up |
| Rarotongan | Kooʔiti | General name for small sand-burrowing beach crabs |
| Rarotongan | Koʔukoʔu | Bind/tie into bundle |
| Rarotongan | Koʔu | Parcel, bundle; to wrap |
| Rarotongan | Koʔu | Mist, fog; form a pall (of smoke). |
| Rarotongan | Kooʔure-a/-ʔia | Evert, invert, turn inside-out or outside-in |
