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 | Hakakoi | To whet, sharpen, as an edge |
| Tuamotu | Taupiri | The tail of a kite (FAG,ANA) |
| Tuamotu | Turi rima | The elbow |
| Tuamotu | Amoŋa | Shoulder-pole; burden carried on a shoulder pole |
| Tuamotu | Hetika-ave | Comet |
| Tuamotu | Maahu | A nebula, star cluster |
| Tuamotu | Matariki | The two small eyes of a coconut; a barnacle, barnacles |
| Tuamotu | Viro-ma-tautoru | The name of a constellation |
| Tuamotu | Ruru | Tremble with cold (VHI) |
| Tuamotu | Teitei | High, lofty, ?tall; exalted |
| Tuamotu | Kooua | A coconut at the first stage of development |
| Tuamotu | Pei | To juggle, toss; juggling balls |
| Tuamotu | Namu/namuaa | A smell, odor; evil-smelling |
| Tuamotu | Aahiohio | Violent whirlwind |
| Tuamotu | Fai | To follow, pursue, chase |
| Tuamotu | Peu | Airs, mannerisms, affectations; wiles, tricks; trick, hoax |
| Tuamotu | Maimoa | A toy, plaything; a favourite, a pet, a petted child |
| Tuamotu | Mahea | Clear up, cease, as rain; be clear, as the sky after rain |
| Tuamotu | Maihi | To come-, peel-, strip, flake- off, exposing the under surface (as bark, skin) |
| Tuamotu | Taaute | To heed, pay attention to; to look out for, protect Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Tuamotu | Maruu | Gentle, to be, gentleness, mildness |
| Tuamotu | Naa | That (as just mentioned, seen, implied, referred to); there (in the vicinity of the person addressed or his abode) |
| Tuamotu | Ra | ? Then, there; there in the vicinity of that person/thing [implies that the thing spoken of is at a considerable distance from both the speaker and person spoken to] |
| Tuamotu | Mura | Kindling wood; wood suitable for producing fire by friction |
| Tuamotu | Muura | To blaze, glow; a flame (obs) |
| Tuamotu | Aro/aro | To line a garment; the roof, ceiling... |
| Tuamotu | Kave | Tendril |
| Tuamotu | Paa/kave | Carrying strap |
| Tuamotu | Moko/tara | A variety of pearl shell with a narrow rainbow-like band just inside the lip |
| Tuamotu | Ranu | Overflow, as sea over adjoining land; a flood tide... |
| Tuamotu | Nanu | Thrush; the whitish discharge from the mouth of a newborn baby; navel before healing |
| Tuamotu | Nanu | To be at flow (said of the sea at high tide) Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Taetaevao | A savage, barbarian...forest-dwellers....refugees living in mountain valleys... |
| Tuamotu | I | Particle of location |
| Tuamotu | Kooivi | The bare stem of a leaf; the nerve of a leaf; the root, the heart of a matter... |
| Tuamotu | Kura | Any valued possession, treasure... |
| Tuamotu | Totoro | To crawl, creep (as a rat, turtle, sea slug) |
| Tuamotu | Poro | The rounded end of a house; a corner; the butt, end of a stick; the fleshy pad on the bottom of the heel of the foot; elbow; the buttocks; bend, curve |
| Tuamotu | Haupo, hooupo | Heart (of man or beast) |
| Tuamotu | Tapariri | Writhe, flounder, wriggle, thrash about, throb, shudder... Phonologically Irregular |
| Tuamotu | Kuukina | To give one crunching sound, as food in the mouth; to crunch, as gravel, shale, underfoot or beneath a keel |
| Tuamotu | Koonini | The sexual act/experience |
| Tuamotu | Takeo | Poisoning; an illness due to poisoning; poisonous, deadly, causing death (e.g. food) |
| Tuamotu | Kiriti | To jerk up a fish line; to have spasms or convulsions; to twitter in a sudden, spasmodic way, as the cry of the sandpiper (torea) |
| Tuamotu | Makoki (ROI), mokoki (MKM) | To be sprained |
| Tuamotu | Puutiki | A tress, plait, top-knot of hair; to do up the hair in bunches, tufts, or knots |
| Tuamotu | Utari | To follow along, traipse after; wait on, attend |
| Tuamotu | Hakakite, fakakite | To inform, show, reveal, disclose; announce, proclaim, make known, bear witness to.... |
| Tuamotu | Koreeŋa | The act of nulligying, abrogating, eliminating; a becoming not, a disappearance; dispersal, vanishing, absence |
| Tuamotu | Kooreŋa(reŋa) | Yellowish; straw-coloured... |
