Takuu entries in Pollex-Online
| Protoform | Item | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| PN.PONA | Pona | Scab, scar | (Hwd) |
| MP.PONO.1 | P/pono | Enter a reef passage, pass between (e.g. two people), insert (specifically place in a hole or into a sealed/sealable container); lid, stopper, cork | (Mle) |
| MP.PONO.1 | Pon/tau | Large log on which mahaurani spirits drifted to Takuu, allegedly from Kiribati, in the mythical era Problematic | (Mle) |
| MP.POO.1A | Poo | Night; dark (at night) | (Mle) |
| OC.POO.2 | P/poo | Cup one’s hand, slap with a cupped hand, clap cupped hands | (Mle) |
| PN.POO-GIA | Poonia | Continue past dark, be overcome unexpectedly by darkness | (Mle) |
| AN.POO-POO.A | P/poo | Cup one's hand, slap with a cupped hand, clap cupped hands Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| PN.POO-QULI | Poouri | Dark (as of night) | (Mle) |
| AN.POPO.1 | Popo | Decayed, rotten, rusted through | (Mle) |
| PN.PORO.1 | Poro | Advise, give advice Borrowed | (Mle) |
| XO.POSU | Posu | Be full, satisfied from eating | (Mle) |
| EP.POTI.2 | Poo/poki | Marine creature: sand bug, mole crab Problematic | (Mle) |
| OC.POTO.1 | Po/poto | Short | (Hwd) |
| OC.POTO.1 | P/poto, poto/poto | Short | (Mle) |
| PN.POTU.1 | Potu | Section of coconut-frond dragnet which may be opened to insert a mooise net; point at rear of mooise net toward which fish are driven; point on shank of fishook where the curve starts; corner of a house | (Mle) |
| OC.POU.1 | Pou | Post of a house. (Formerly only the posts that reached the ridgepole, but today this term refers to any major house post). | (Mle) |
| FJ.PUA.1A | Pua | Tree sp. (Gardenia?) | (Mle) |
| OC.PUAKA | Puaka | Pig (obs.) | (Mle) |
| CE.PUA-PUA.3 | Puapua | Swollen glands in the neck Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Mle) |
| PN.PUI.A | Pui/pui | Close; govern (as conqueror) | (Hwd) |
| PN.PUI.A | P/pui | Close something; block (e.g. path); make forbidden; forbid access...; use magic to make someone else unlucky at fishing; govern (as a conqueror); invoke ancestors to ward off malevolent spirits (tipua) at night. | (Mle) |
| RO.PUKA | Puka | Tree sp. (Pisonia grandis) | (Mle) |
| FJ.PUKE.1A | Puke | Membrane of sand which the puiari and uu crabs make to cover the entrance to their holes | (Mle) |
| PN.PUKE.4 | Puke | End-piece of traditional canoe, bowsprit | (Mle) |
| NO.PUKEI | Pukei | Canoe sail | (Mle) |
| MP.PUKU.1A | Puku | General term for a group, clump or division | (Mle) |
| MP.PUKU.1A | Puku/puku | Bump, swelling, knot (in wood) or any other rounded protuberance | (Mle) |
| FJ.PUKU.3 | Puku/a | Mouth of an animal, entrance to reef channel, eye of coconut shell | (Mle) |
| XO.PUKU-LIMA | Pukurima | Elbow | (Mle) |
| XO.PUKU-TULI | Puku turi | Kneecap | (Mle) |
| XO.PUKU-WAQE | Puku turi | Kneecap | (Mle) |
| XO.PUKU-WAQE | Puku vae | Protrusion at the ankle | (Mle) |
| MP.PULA.1 | P/pura | Glow, be phosphorescent | (Mle) |
| OC.PULAKA | Puraka | Former name for Swamp Taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis) | (Mle) |
| OC.PULAPULA | Purapura | Cutting or seedling of a plant | (Mle) |
| NO.PULA-PULA.2 | Purapura | Multi-coloured, mottled | (Mle) |
| NO.PULA-PULA.2 | Pura | Colour, pattern; coloured portion or pattern of a woven mat | (Mle) |
| XO.PULAU.* | Purau | Stink, smell like something rotten | (Mle) |
| MP.PULE.1 | Pure | Cowry shell (Cypraea spp.); general name for inedible molluscs | (Mle) |
| PN.PULE.2 | Pure | Hereditary title of second-ranking man on Takuu...; someone chosen to act as medium for a deceased person... | (Mle) |
| PN.PULE.2 | Pure/pure | Farewell, say goodbye | (Mle) |
| AN.PULE-PULE | Pulepule | Purapura. :Mottled, multi-coloured | (Hwd) |
| FJ.PULEWA | Pureva | Large sea anemone sp. | (Mle) |
| PN.PULOTU.2 | Purotu | Hereditary performing arts specialist. A male expert in performing and teaching a clan’s entire song and dance repertoire, and also beating the slit drum on the ritual arena to accompany them. Hymn-leader (Hwd). | (Mle) |
| MP.PULU.1A | Puru | Soft fibres of coconut husk | (Mle) |
| MP.PULU.1A | Si/puru | Soft fibres from the inner husk of a coconut, object used to prevent liquid from escaping; menstrual pad, tampon | (Mle) |
| NP.PULU.1B | Puru | Stopper, object used to prevent a liquid from passing through. Tampon (Hwd). | (Mle) |
| NP.PULU.7 | P/puru | Grab, clutch or grasp firmly in one’s fist, hold s.t. against one’s body, clasp hands; ... shake hands | (Mle) |
| MP.PUNA | P/puna | Squirt up, issue forth; (of a bubble) rise to the surface; leak | (Mle) |
| PN.PUNI.1A | Puni | Shut off, blocked, closed off; (of bivalve) having its shell closed; (of eyes) blind; (of customs, knowledge, etc.) forgotten, obsolete, no longer in use | (Mle) |
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