Takuu entries in Pollex-Online

Protoform Item Description Source
PN.TUGI.* T/tuni Set fire to, burn (e.g. grass, rubbish); heat up rocks, shells, or similar hard materials;cook (coconut cream) by inserting hot stones or by heating over a fire; (of the sun) burn fiercely, be uncomfortably hot (Mle)
AN.TUI Tui Pierce with a sharp object, pin pandanus leaves to a stick to construct thatch panels; pin, sharpened stick, wooden needle used to tie thatch panels to the rafters (Mle)
AN.TUI T/tui Sew together, string, lace; feel like needles, give or have a pricking sensation or stabbing pain; thread fish on a cord (for carrying purposes) (Mle)
PN.TUKE.2 Tuke Corner, angle, edge, border, rim (Mle)
AN.TUKI.A Tuki Pound (taro, etc.); bag (copra) (Mle)
AN.TUKI.A T/tuki Hammer (vt) (Mle)
PN.TUKI.C Tuki Food pounder; drum (Mle)
CP.TUKU.A Tuku raa Lower a canoe sail (Mle)
CP.TUKU.A Tuku/na Location where shark fishing occurs... (Mle)
CP.TUKU.A T/tuku (Of wind) let up, subside, abate (Mle)
PN.TUKU.B Tuku Leave (something), place, put down; lay (an egg); set or lay (a trap or snare) (Mle)
PN.TUKU.D Tuku Stop temporarily, pause, quit (Mle)
PN.TUKUKU Tikkuu Various Damselfish of the genera Abudefduf and Pomacentrus Phonologically Irregular (Mle)
PN.TULE.1 Ture (moe) Feel sleepy, doze (Mle)
PN.TULEKI-NA Tuureki, tuuruki (pass. turekina) Push (Mle)
AN.TULI.1 T/turi Deaf (Mle)
FJ.TULI.2 Turi Small, black shore bird (kivi) with a white breast and protruding eyes, probably a Turnstone (Mle)
FJ.TULI.2 Tiri/kakoni Common sandpiper Phonologically Irregular (Hdn)
AN.TULU.1 T/turu (of a house roof) Leak, drip (Mle)
??.TULUMA Turuna, turuma Tubular wooden container for turmeric, sealed at one end and covered with fine plaiting (Mle)
NP.TULU-TULU.1 Turuturu House post (Mle)
PN.TUMU-QAKI Tuumaki Crown of the head; soft spot on the crown of an infant’s head Phonologically Irregular (Mle)
AN.TUNA Tuna Moray Eel (Mle)
AN.TUNU Tunu Cook on hot coals, roast (Mle)
OC.TUPA Tupa Species of green edible land crab (Mle)
PN.TUPE.1 Tupe Various hard seeds (from seed pods) that drift to Takuu (Children thread them into necklaces.); operculum or cat’s eye of a llia shell (Mle)
AN.TUPU.A Tipu Grow up or into something, develop, emerge, appear; (of bread) rise (Mle)
SO.TUPU.D Tipu Grow up or into something, develop (Mle)
SO.TUPU.D Tipu/tipu Resemble, look like; assume the form of something, emerge as; manner, form, style, character, resemblance (Mle)
OC.TUPUQA.A Tipua Category of visible spirit having no personal name, inhabiting the area east of the houses on Nukutoa Island (Mle)
EO.TUQA.1A Tua Back (Hwd)
EO.TUQA.1A Kana/tua Back (of the body) (Mle)
PN.TUQA.1B Tua Roof of a house (Hwd)
PN.TUQA.1B Tuaa- Actual or conceptual back or bottom part of an object (Hwd)
PN.TUQA.1B Kana/tua Upper part of a turtle shell; upper or exterior portion of a taro corm or adze (Mle)
PN.TUQA.1C Tua Ocean side of an island (as opposed to the lagoon side) (Mle)
PN.TUQA-.2A Tua- Referring to a layer or degree of thickness (Tuatoru. Three layers); (of kinship relations) beyond the second ascending or descending generation: great- (Mle)
FJ.TUQI Tui Lineage title (mata) alternating with Pua for the position of ariki... (Mle)
AN.TUQU.1 Tuu Stand, be standing; stand up (from sitting or reclining position); (of breasts) firm; (of hair or body hair) stand on end (Mle)
NP.TUQU.2 Tuu Belt (Mle)
NP.TUQU.2 Tau/tuu Woven belt or something functioning as a belt (Mle)
PN.TUQU.3A Tuu Cut, chop with an axe or knife, cut into cross-sections (Mle)
PN.TUQU.3A T/tuu Cut (hair) (Mle)
NP.TUQU-LAGA.A Turana Climbing frame for children (Mle)
SO.TUQU-TA Tuta Junction of two logs forming the hull of a canoe (Mle)
PN.TUQU-TAGA Tuutana Portion cut from a larger entity; (obsolete) the five sections into which a coconut palm trunk is ritually cut should it fall on top of a grave... (Mle)
PN.TUQU-TAKI Tuutaki Imitate s.o else’s actions, mimic Uncertain Semantic Connection (Mle)
AN.TURI Turi Knee, whole of the knee joint (Mle)
EC.TURUMA Taaruma Burial mound, top surface of a grave Phonologically Irregular (Mle)
OC.TUSI Tusi Stripe (Mle)

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