Entries from Bruce Biggs in Pollex-Online
Language | Item | Description |
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New Zealand Maori | Noa | Be ordinary, of no consequence, free from tapu, without limits |
New Zealand Maori | Noa | A particle postposed to nouns (only, ordinary, just) and verbs (without restraint, without avail, unlimited, unrestricted, just) |
New Zealand Maori | Nohinohi | Small (MAN) |
New Zealand Maori | Inoi | To ask for something, to pray . Phonologically Irregular |
New Zealand Maori | Nukuroa | ? traditional placename |
New Zealand Maori | Nu/numi/ | Disappear, pass behind and so out of sight |
New Zealand Maori | Nu(u)mi-a | Passive form of nunumi |
East Uvea | O | Same actor conjunction ; pour, à. S'emploie après un verbe de movement et exprime le but et la consèquence |
New Zealand Maori | Oo | Call; answer a call by "Oo!" |
New Zealand Maori | Otira | But, but also, but in the end |
New Zealand Maori | Paa/ia | Block up, act as barrier; blocked up, obstructed, dammed; stockade, fortified place; fish weir |
New Zealand Maori | Paa | Term of address to mature, respected male; to priest |
New Zealand Maori | Whae | Mother (term of address) to mature woman Problematic |
New Zealand Maori | Paepae | Beam, bar; especially squatting beam of a latrine |
New Zealand Maori | Paawhara-tia | To rip open, open out (as a fish for smoking or drying) |
New Zealand Maori | Paakati | A fish, Spotty = paakarikari |
New Zealand Maori | Pa/paki (pass. paaki/a) | Slap, pat, slap against or together (as waves) |
New Zealand Maori | Paki/paki | (Freq. of papaki) Clap hands, pat |
New Zealand Maori | Pakoko | Dried up, as a desiccated corpse, or dried whitebait; carved figures on canoe bows or posts, with characteristic protruding chests and concave backs |
New Zealand Maori | Paarara | Bask in the sun |
New Zealand Maori | Pahu | Bark (as dog); glance off, ricochet (as a dart). Alarum made of stone or wood (Wms 3rd ed). Wooden gong |
New Zealand Maori | Paatee | A tree from which pop-guns are made Problematic |
New Zealand Maori | Patu | Strike, club, beat; kill |
New Zealand Maori | Patu | General name for mallets and short clubs |
New Zealand Maori | Whee- | Like, resembling |
New Zealand Maori | Pee | Roe of Haliotis |
New Zealand Maori | Pe(pe)ha | Pithy saying, aphorism, proverb |
New Zealand Maori | Peenaa | (Be) like that (near or associated with) you |
New Zealand Maori | Peenei | Like this |
New Zealand Maori | Wheenei | Like this |
New Zealand Maori | Peke | Spring, leap, jump upwards |
New Zealand Maori | Piingao | A shore plant (Scirpus frondosus) whose leaves dry a bright orange Problematic |
New Zealand Maori | Piki | Climb tree or mountain, ascend (actually or figuratively) |
New Zealand Maori | Piki/tanga | Upwards path, ascent |
New Zealand Maori | Aa/piti/ | To add something, supplement |
New Zealand Maori | Pito | Navel, umbilical cord |
New Zealand Maori | Piiwai | Small sweet-potatoes passed over in the first harvest butgleaned when food is short |
New Zealand Maori | Poo(w)hatu | Stone (EMA) |
New Zealand Maori | Ponga | A tree-fern (the surface of the trunk is distinctively patterned) |
New Zealand Maori | Po/poki | Cover over (e.g. earth oven); place upside down (e.g. canoe) |
New Zealand Maori | Poki/poki | Overrun, spread over; finger (as a flute). Freq. of popoki |
New Zealand Maori | Pookia | Covered over; overtaken. Passive of popoki |
New Zealand Maori | Pokowhiwhi | Shoulder (Aupoouri dialect WMA) |
New Zealand Maori | Pono | True, not false |
New Zealand Maori | Whakapono-hia | Believe; christianity |
Marquesas | Poto | Short. Court, courtaud (Lch). |
New Zealand Maori | Pou | Post n., a general term |
New Zealand Maori | Pou/pou | Carved planks supporting rafters at side walls of a house |
Marquesas | Poito | Float |
New Zealand Maori | Pou-tokomanawa | Centre pole supporting the ridgepole |