Entries from Hovdhaugen 2006 in Pollex-Online
Hovdhaugen, E. (2006). A Short Dictionary of the Vaeakau-Taumako Language. Oslo, Kon-Tiki Museum, Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Vaeakau-Taumako | He/lele/kaki, he/lele/kina | Fly about |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lelehua | A kind of moth |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lemo, lemu | Slippery |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Ta/lemo | Slip (vi) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Leo | Language; voice; word; culture, custom; order, command; speak |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Nga/lepu | Ripple (vi) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Leu | Ripe |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Leva | Be unstable, on the point of falling, almost losing one's balance, fall |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Leve/ia | Leave someone or something alone Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Leva | A small tree, its fruits are not edible |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Li/hia, li/sia | Tie, bind |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Li/hi | Be tied, be bound, be attached to |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Li/li/nga | Hafting of the head of a stone axe |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Liaki/na | Throw, drop, leave |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Liaki | Stick (to kill fish with, for drumming, etc.) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lieki/lieki | A dance where people walk around within the dancing circle Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lingi/a | Pour, empty (vt) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lingolingo | An insect, a type of grasshopper, similar to lakii singing at sunset |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Liki/liki | Small |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Pa/liki | Small (pl), young (pl) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lilo | Disappear, be out of sight |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lima | Five |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lima | Arm, hand, finger |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Limu | Seaweed, used to make colour for puke-canoe. Type of seaweed rubbed into canoes; produces a white surface as protection against seaworms (Lch). |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Limu/a | Paint with seaweed |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Liu | Hull of a canoe; hold (of canoe) (Ebt). Hull of canoe (Hvn) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loo | Ant |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loa (plural la/loa) | Long |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loa | Really (emphatic postnuclear qualifier) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Longo | Be silent (about things, not persons) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Longo | Hear, listen |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Longo | News, words, sayings; reason |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lolo | Bunch [e.g. of coconut, breadfruit] |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lou | Hooked, long stick to get down breadfruits or leaves of breadfruit trees. Main strut from crossbeam to end of middle float (of Te Puke canoe) (TAU) (Gge). |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loimata | Tear |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lokohia | Be in trouble Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loku | Bow (n) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lole | Kind of seaweed Problematic |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lolo | Come, break [e.g. wave] |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lo/lolo | Wave (a special and rare type of wave with several small waves coming together as one big wave) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Longo, lhongo [NUP] (trans. longo/ina) | Sing, song |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Loma | Wave; break (of waves) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Ha/loto | Be angry |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lua | Vomit |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lua | Two, second |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Lu/lua/nuku | Earthquake |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Numane | Small, edible jellyfish with long tentacles |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Ma | And, with, or (conjoins mainly noun phrases, occasionally verb phrases or clauses) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Maa | Ashamed, shy |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Ma | We two (1de prenuclear clitic hortative pronoun) |
