Entries from Bruce Biggs, field notes in Pollex-Online
Language | Item | Description |
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East Futuna | Fanaga | Fairytale |
East Futuna | Fanake | Go from one place to another (both distant from speaker) |
East Futuna | Faapuku | Large dark-coloured spotted deep-water fish |
East Futuna | Faʔasiga | Kind, sort |
East Futuna | Fata | Stage, shelf, bier, smoking tray for fish |
East Futuna | Fatu-ʔaki | Plait (as a floor/sleeping mat) |
East Futuna | Fetu/ʔi | Fold, of mat |
East Futuna | Fatukala | Kind of stone from `Uvea, black, with small holes |
East Futuna | Fatuliki | Thunder-clap. Foudre (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Fatu-manava | Heart. Coeur (litt. pierre ventre) (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Faʔu | Build a house or a canoe |
East Futuna | Feʔitaʔaki | Be angry with each other |
East Futuna | Feeneʔi | Like this |
East Futuna | Feneʔekiʔi | Like this |
East Futuna | Feʔao/qaki | Go with (as lover) |
East Futuna | Feʔauʔaki | Have an affair, have sex. Fréquenter quelqu'un, se fréquenter; fiancés (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Fefe | Wrinkled |
East Futuna | Fefeʔeki | How? |
East Futuna | Fefeka | Hard |
East Futuna | Fegu | Blow nose. Souffler fortement par le nez |
East Futuna | Fekite | Meet one another. Apparaître chacun d'un côté (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Felaʔi | Open a wound |
East Futuna | Feelaavei | Meet |
East Futuna | Fe/felo/ | Yellow |
East Futuna | Fenua | Country; land |
East Futuna | Vesi | Large tree, probably Intsia bijuga |
East Futuna | Fesikiʔaki | Change places |
East Futuna | Fetuʔu | Star |
East Futuna | Fetuʔu ʔao | Venus as a morning star |
East Futuna | Fia- | Verbal prefix indicating wish, desire |
East Futuna | Figota | Shellfish, including sea-urchins, but not loli, feke |
East Futuna | Filo | To twist cord from fibre (e.g. sennit) |
East Futuna | Finegalo | Want, desire to do something |
East Futuna | Fine matuʔa | Mature, married woman; wife |
East Futuna | Fiti | Fillip, flick with fingers |
East Futuna | Fiti | Flower |
East Futuna | Foo | Clothes to be washed, laundry |
East Futuna | Foa | Make a path. Dégager (une route) (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Fofoga | Handsome, beautiful (of face). Visage, figure (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Faa | Unitising particle preposed to names of small, compact objects such as fruit, cans, containers Problematic |
East Futuna | Foli | Travel about, make a tour of |
East Futuna | Fota | Fishtrap made of stones on the reef |
East Futuna | Fuufuu | Clap hands together to make a hollow sound |
East Futuna | Fu/fuu/ | Secret |
East Futuna | Fua | Postposed particle, only just, just now |
East Futuna | Fuga | Upper surface. Le dessus; sommet, cîme, faîte; au-dessus (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Fui | Bunch, cluster, tie in bunch |
East Futuna | Fuu | Generic name for cone-shells |
East Futuna | Fuke | Uncover, as an earth-oven |
East Futuna | Fule | Retract (as foreskin) |