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 | Muriaha | The name of the third or fifth (or twelfth) month of the year |
| Tuamotu | Hiriŋa | The fifth or seventh month; May or July |
| Tuamotu | Vai/tua | The sixth month |
| Tuamotu | Hiŋaaia | April or June; the name of the fourth or sixth month... |
| Tuamotu | He/rehu | A star name; October, the tenth month of the Tuamotuan calendar... |
| Tuamotu | Kaaua | Palisade, fence, barrier; to enclose, fence, shut in Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Teeraa | That, over there; referential object away from both speaker and addressee |
| Tuamotu | Peera | Thus, like that, in that way (HAO) |
| Tuamotu | Tauama | The left/port side of a canoe; the outrigger side |
| Tuamotu | Toko | To prop up |
| Tuamotu | Ania/nia | Be dizzy, feel vertiginous Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Aruke, raruke | To delouse Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Faiti | Obstructed, blocked, cluttered up; narrow, hence difficult to pass through |
| Tuamotu | Fakaata | Deceive, bluff, hoax by pretences...pretend, simulate |
| Tuamotu | Heke | To defecate; to ebb |
| Tuamotu | Heke | To dash away, flee (of a group); to go, proceed, usually by water; to take passage on a ship, migrate; to go, return to the village |
| Tuamotu | Haka/heke | To be carried, blown along on the wind |
| Tuamotu | Haka/heke | To miscarry; purging |
| Tuamotu | Matie | A small-bladed, self-spreading variety of grass (Lepturus repens) |
| Tuamotu | Pokeea | (Portulaca lutea) |
| Tuamotu | Moouku | Sword-grass (Xiphagrostis floridulus) |
| Tuamotu | Meika | Banana |
| Tuamotu | Paa | Touch lightly |
| Tuamotu | Reru | Discoloured, muddy, of water Problematic |
| Tuamotu | Rure | Strike, thump, beat, pound...with a heavy stone or stick until soft |
| Tuamotu | ŋaarue | Tremble, shake violently; be strongly agitated, move up and down (as surface of sea) |
| Tuamotu | ŋaaue/ue | Swing, sway violnetly (as branches); tremble, quake violently (as the earth)... |
| Tuamotu | Moti | Bounded, limited (as one section of land by another); consumed (as food), destroyed, exterminated |
| Tuamotu | Apu | To completely enclose, seize in a cavity, as when a large fish seizes a smaller one in the mouth; to take the bait, as fish; to gobble, as a piece of food... |
| Tuamotu | Puu | The belly of an octopus |
| Tuamotu | Kookaha | A variety of tree fern (Asplenium nidus)... Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Kori | To dance with joy, exult, be joyous; various types of dance.... |
| Tuamotu | Ori | To stroll, ramble |
| Tuamotu | Rako | A variety of owl, now extinct; a variety of large black bird, similar to the kari9a or ruru Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Paaruru | Take shelter |
| Tuamotu | Hue | To scrape up rubbish off the ground... |
| Tuamotu | Mahue | Heaped up by the wind and waves: as sand in banks |
| Tuamotu | Fakatuu, hakatuu | Set upright, cause to stand up;....inaugurate, instigate... |
| Tuamotu | Muunaa | Ring-worm; a skin disease |
| Tuamotu | Kautaa | A small flat wooden implement which is slipped under the prepuce in the superincision operation |
| Tuamotu | Kauariki/rooa | The miro tree (Thespesia populnea) (Myth.) |
| Tuamotu | Faaŋoŋo | A baby at the breast; a very young child |
| Tuamotu | Kakano | Width, breadth |
| Tuamotu | Hakavare | To deceive, lie to; cheat, impose upon, dupe |
| Tuamotu | Hakavaa | To adjudicate, pass judgement upon; condemn...; a judge |
| Tuamotu | Fakatika | To recount, narrate, tell |
| Tuamotu | Hakatika | To authorize, grant, permit, allow... |
| Tuamotu | Hakakore | To desist from, cease doing; to pardon, annul a penalty or conviction |
| Tuamotu | Taka | To be separated; to knock, thrust away, as with a blow |
| Tuamotu | Tapa | The inside of the leg, adjoining the groin |
