Entries from Stimson 1964 in Pollex-Online
Stimson, J. F. (1964). A Dictionary of Some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff.
Language | Item | Description |
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Tuamotu | Ma | And, plus, together with |
Tuamotu | Ma | Refers to the group of which the substantive is a part..."...and his family" |
Tuamotu | Maa | Clean |
Tuamotu | Mae | Withered |
Tuamotu | Maeneene | Tingle, tickle, be ticklish |
Tuamotu | Maaha | To be gratified, calmed down |
Tuamotu | Mahana | Warm |
Tuamotu | Mahera | Open/curve/flare outward |
Tuamotu | Mafera | Open/curve/flare outward |
Tuamotu | Mahi | Exploit, deed |
Tuamotu | Mahora | Spread out, to be |
Tuamotu | Mahore | Skinned, peeled as by sunburn |
Tuamotu | Maahuu | Hermaphrodite; dolt, simpleton |
Tuamotu | Maahu | Steam, water vapour, mist |
Tuamotu | Mahuta | To skim, leap (as flying-fish); rise into flight, fly |
Tuamotu | Maahuta | Rise (of sun/moon), spring/dart/rise into flight |
Tuamotu | Maŋa | To branch; the branch of a tree or stream |
Tuamotu | Maŋa | Forked in many places |
Tuamotu | Mangaa | A fish (Promethichthys prometheus) |
Tuamotu | Maaŋa | Food |
Tuamotu | Maaŋaro | Lightly/partially covered over, invisible |
Tuamotu | Maŋaro | Edible, sweet-tasting |
Tuamotu | Mangamangatai | Starfish |
Tuamotu | Manavai | Hollow, depression in the land; trough of waves Problematic |
Tuamotu | Maaŋeo | Itch(y) |
Tuamotu | Maaŋi | Arise, ascend, float upward as as mist or vapour; evaporate, be dispersed (as heat, steam, odours); swll as a blister; tendency to rise, float upwards; obs. fleetness or lightness as of the feet; obs. mist, vapour |
Tuamotu | Maŋo | Shark |
Tuamotu | Te-mango-rooa | The Milky Way |
Tuamotu | Maŋu | Black; black (of hair); to grill |
Tuamotu | Maaŋuŋu | Make crunching, grinding, crackling sound |
Tuamotu | Maharu | 11th, 12th or 13th night of lunar cycle. 14th (or 13th) night (Aud). |
Tuamotu | Mahemo | To come out or off; to slip out or off; of itself, without an active agency; to miscarry; to be uprooted, to come out or away |
Tuamotu | Maahemo | To be born prematurely, but alive |
Tuamotu | Mahoi | Ghost, apparition of the dead; the mind. Freely, the spirit, the soul |
Tuamotu | Mau | Abundance (?), a sustainer |
Tuamotu | Maaui | Sprain, dislocated |
Tuamotu | Maauku | Sword-grass sp. (Xiphagrostis floridula?) |
Tuamotu | Mai | Towards speaker |
Tuamotu | Mai | Send hither! |
Tuamotu | Mai | Come hither! |
Tuamotu | Maaika | Banana |
Tuamotu | Maiki | Fail, give out, spent, to be |
Tuamotu | Maikuku | Fingernail, hoof |
Tuamotu | Maiire | Sweet-scented fern, (Polypodium scolopendrium) |
Tuamotu | Maaire | A large tree |
Tuamotu | Maitaki | Good, pleasant, excellent |
Tuamotu | Meitaki | Good, excellent, attractive, desirable |
Tuamotu | Maito | A fish |
Tuamotu | Maka | Throw, cast, sling; a sling |
Tuamotu | Makaiorea | Habitually eat raw or partially cooked food |