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
Tuamotu U/uto/ Sprouting coconut
Tuamotu Utu To return in kind; compensate, reward, requite; an offering to appease; a gift
Tuamotu Utu Vengeance
Tuamotu Utu Dip into
Tuamotu Utu Large growth stage of kakaravi, a kind of fish; a variety of beaked fish, white in colour
Tuamotu Utua Protruding, extended, thrust out
Tuamotu Vaa Interval (of space or time)
Tuamotu Vae Leg
Tuamotu Vaero Tail and adjacent parts of four-footed animal
Tuamotu Vaerua Spirit, soul
Tuamotu Kaa/vaha/ Carry pick-a-back
Tuamotu Taa/vaha/ Carry pick-a-back
Tuamotu Vaha Mouth
Tuamotu Vaahi Place, portion
Tuamotu Vahiine Woman
Tuamotu Vehi To wrap (food), as in a coconut leaf; case, sheath
Tuamotu Vaho Exterior, outside
Tuamotu Vae Divide, division, separate
Tuamotu Vai Water
Tuamotu Vaiho Leave, leave behind, put, place, set down
Tuamotu Vai mata A tear (poet.)
Tuamotu Vaka Canoe, boat, ship, vessel etc.
Tuamotu Vaka A tribe, subdivision of people
Tuamotu Vara/vara Wide apart, scattered
Tuamotu Vare Slime, viscous fluid, matter
Tuamotu Vare Forget
Tuamotu Vari/vari Watery, of sand or soil
Tuamotu Vari/ŋa A marsh
Tuamotu Vari Menstrual blood
Tuamotu Vari/ia Soiled with blood or mire
Tuamotu Varo Murmur, indistinct sound
Tuamotu Vaaro (Lysiosquilla maculata)
Tuamotu Varo Deep hole, pit, abyss; silt
Tuamotu Varu Eight
Tuamotu Varu (Sarda chilensis)
Tuamotu Vau (Gymnosard unicolor) (Conte 1988:319)
Tuamotu Varu Scrape v
Tuamotu Vana Very sharp-spined variety of sea-urchin
Tuamotu Vanavana Spiny, bristling; quiver, thrill, shiver as from cold, quaver, as voice
Tuamotu Vao Forest
Tuamotu Puu/vata/ An opening, hole, interstice
Tuamotu Vaavaa Grasshopper, Stick Insect
Tuamotu Vava(a)i Vine (Triumfetta procumbens) whose fibres used to make cordage and clothing
Tuamotu Vave Quick
Tuamotu Vekeveke Dried leaves of Pandanus
Tuamotu Veku Frayed; hair of armpit
Tuamotu Vera Hot, heat
Tuamotu Vere To clear-, cultivate- land (Stn) Problematic
Tuamotu Vere Membrane, soft ligament, fold of body flesh; ligamentous lip of bivalve molluscs
Tuamotu Verevere Pudenda muliebria