Entries from Bruce Biggs, field notes in Pollex-Online
Language | Item | Description |
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East Futuna | Fule/si | Retracted (of foreskin) |
East Futuna | Fuli | Postposed particle meaning all, every |
East Futuna | Fu/fulu/ | Wash, as dishes (not clothes) |
East Futuna | Fulu- | Manner, nature, sort |
East Futuna | Fuu-naa | Caché, secret |
East Futuna | Futi | Pluck, pull up/out |
East Futuna | Gaa/neʔa | Place, locality, spot |
East Futuna | Gaʔigaʔi-saa | Fast breathing |
East Futuna | Gaʔigaʔi-saa | Fast breathing, exhausted |
East Futuna | Gako | Animal fat |
East Futuna | Galo | Forgotten . Etre oublié; oublier (intransitif; se coucher (soleil); disparaitre de vue |
East Futuna | Gaofie | Easy |
East Futuna | Gaaʔoi | To work; work |
East Futuna | Gasau | Arrow |
East Futuna | Gasolo | Go quickly, speed (Bgs) |
East Futuna | Gasu | A seaside plant |
East Futuna | Gaatai | Seawards, coastal area |
East Futuna | Gateetee | Move about, be mobile (as water in a bottle) |
East Futuna | Gato | Be finished, used up. Said of e.g. paper, love |
East Futuna | Geli | Monkey |
East Futuna | Geti | A kind of sea-slug ? . Sorte de holothurie (beche de mer) |
East Futuna | Gigila | Shine, glitter |
East Futuna | Gogo | A black seabird |
East Futuna | Goto | Sink, submerge |
East Futuna | Guu | Hum, groan, grunt, say something |
East Futuna | Gugu | Chew (as of bones) |
East Futuna | Gugu | Arthritic swelling of the joints |
East Futuna | Gulu/gulu | Grunt, rumble, groan, boom, roar |
East Futuna | ʔAkili | |
East Futuna | Ali-ʔi | To scoop up fish with a scoop-net |
East Futuna | Oge | Famine; be short of food; poor |
East Futuna | ʔUa | Come in, flow, (of the tide) |
East Futuna | ʔUi | Pay a debt, settle an account; take off (a garment) |
East Futuna | Uku | Dive under water; submerge |
East Futuna | Ka | Particle of inception of new action or state . Etre sur le point (modalité aspectuelle) |
East Futuna | Kae | Subjunctive verbal particle, but . Mais; alors; afin que; bien que; malgré |
East Futuna | Kaafi/ga | A courting expedition |
East Futuna | Kafo | Injury, wound |
East Futuna | Kei | Still, while, yet Phonologically Irregular |
East Futuna | Kaiaʔa | Steal |
East Futuna | Kaiʔaa | Steal |
East Futuna | Kaiʔisi | Ask for something, beg Phonologically Irregular |
East Futuna | Kakava | Sweat |
East Futuna | Ka/kala | To smart, as from a sting, or from iodine |
East Futuna | Kalaga | Cry out a warning; call out to someone |
East Futuna | Kalala | Thin, lean |
East Futuna | Kalaʔapusi | (Acalypha grandis) |
East Futuna | Kalava | Outer layer of main midrib of coconut frond to which the leaflets remain attached when it is removed. Partie fibreuse jaune et fine de la nervure centrale de la palme de cocotier; trait délimitant chaquebande "fu'ataga" du siapo (Mfr). |
East Futuna | Kaleʔa | An edible univalve mollusc |
East Futuna | Kaaleva | Long-tailed Cuckoo |