Entries from Hooper 1994 in Pollex-Online
Hooper, R. (1994). Reconstructing Proto Polynesian fish names. Austronesian terminologies: continuity and change. A. Pawley and M. Ross. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics: 185-230.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tokelau | Nofu | Stonefish sp. |
| Tokelau | O/i | Verbal particule. A conjunction (sic) that one action follows another in sequence. And, and then . Introduces independent clauses in narrative where it indicates sequential (ofte consequential) action. When oi introduces subject complements there is frequently an implication of fulfilment of the situation of the clause |
| Tokelau | Ono | Great Barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda) |
| Tokelau | Haafole | Kuhlia taeniura and K. marginata |
| Tokelau | Hakulaa | (Xiphias gladius) and other swordfish spp. |
| Tokelau | Haohao | (Sphyraena forsteri) when fully mature |
| Tokelau | Saaputu | Maori snapper (Lutjanus rivulatus) |
| Tokelau | Hahaa | A fish (Spratelloides delicatulus) |
| Tokelau | Hahave | (Cypselurus simus) |
| Tokelau | He | Indefinite nonspecific singular article |
| Tokelau | Hee | Go astray, err |
| Tokelau | Hetahi | Another, any other |
| Tokelau | Humu | General name for Balistes spp. |
| Tokelau | Taa | (Holocentrus spinifer), Armoured Soldierfish |
| Tokelau | Talatala | Violet Soldier Fish (Myripristis violaceus) |
| Tokelau | Talu | Since, either, because of |
| Tokelau | Taotao | Flutefish (Fistularia petimba) |
| Tokelau | Tau- | Persistive or habitual meaning |
| Tokelau | Tautu | Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
| Tokelau | Tavatava | (Gymnosarda unicolor) when eighteen to twenty-four inches long |
| Tokelau | Te | Specific article singular |
| Tokelau | Teetee | Arothron meleagris, white-spotter pufferfish |
| Tokelau | Tifitifi | General name for Butterfly Fishes (Chaetodontidae) |
| Tokelau | Tonu | Coral Trout (Plectropomus leopardus) |
| Tokelau | Tuu-lia | Be perched upon by birds |
| Tokelau | Tuupoupou | Trumpet Fish (Aulostomus valentini) |
| Tokelau | Ulafi | Probably Yellow Parrot Fish (Scarus harid) |
| Tokelau | Ulua | Big-head Jack (Caranx ignobilis) |
| Tokelau | Ume | Unicorn Fish (Naso sp.) |
| Tokelau | Valu | (Gymnosarda unicolor), Dog-tooth Tuna when large |
| Tongan | ʔAua | Mullet sp. |
| Tongan | Faapuku | Fish sp. (Epinephelus merra) and other small cod |
| Tongan | Ngatala | Several (Epinephelus) and (Cephalopolis spp.) |
| Tongan | Lalafi | Kind of fish (Scarus sp.) |
| Tongan | Mala | A large serranid fish, like tonu |
| Tongan | Maʔava | Kind of fish (Teuthis rostratus) |
| Tongan | Malili | Red mullet |
| Tongan | Maalolo | Flying-fish |
| Tongan | Meemea | A reef fish |
| Tongan | Oo | Fish sp., small, with poison back fins ; almost certainly Siganus |
| Tongan | Palangi | A fish (Acanthurus sp.) |
| Tongan | Hapatuu | Sphyraena sp. ; kind of Parrotfish |
| Tongan | Taʔa | (Holocentrus spinifer), Armoured Soldierfish |
| Tongan | Tootao | Cornetfish (Aulostomus sp.) |
| Tongan | Kavakava | (Euthynnus yaito) Problematic |
| Tongan | Sifisifi | Butterfly fish |
| Tongan | Tonu | Coral Trout (Plectropomus leopardus) |
| Tongan | ʔUfu | Fish sp., (Anampses sp.) |
| Tuamotu | V/eve | (Epinephelus hexagonatus) and (Epinephelus merra) |
| Tuamotu | Maratea | (Cheilinus undulatus) |
