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 Maunga, mounga [TAU] Mountain
Vaeakau-Taumako Mauli Life; to live
Vaeakau-Taumako Maunu, mounu [VAE,TAU] Bait
Vaeakau-Taumako Monu/hia Fasten bait
Vaeakau-Taumako Maunu Be carried away from the shore; fall down, slide; leave one by one Problematic
Vaeakau-Taumako Mavae Be separated
Vaeakau-Taumako Maveta Open up by itself; [untie]
Vaeakau-Taumako Me Particle signifying a request, indicating that something should or must be done
Vaeakau-Taumako Mea Red
Vaeakau-Taumako Mea Gills
Vaeakau-Taumako Me/mea Child
Vaeakau-Taumako Me/me Baby, little baby
Vaeakau-Taumako Milo Big tree with small fruits that are not edible, its wood is very useful for making paddles, handle of axes, etc., its leaves are used as custom medicine. Tree sp., wood used for making parts of outriggers (Lch).
Vaeakau-Taumako Milo Current in water
Vaeakau-Taumako Mimi Pee (vi)
Vaeakau-Taumako Mihi, misi Dream
Vaeakau-Taumako Mihi Small red bird, the source of feathers for feather money
Vaeakau-Taumako Mihi/lakao A blue bird with yellow breast
Vaeakau-Taumako Mikihia Slurp, lap Phonologically Irregular
Vaeakau-Taumako Mo/nanga But, because (clause linking conjunction) Uncertain Semantic Connection
Vaeakau-Taumako Mo For (O-possessive)
Vaeakau-Taumako Mo/moa Front and back end of a canoe
Vaeakau-Taumako Momoa Yellow boxfish
Vaeakau-Taumako Mongamonga Cockroach
Vaeakau-Taumako Moe Sleep
Vaeakau-Taumako Moeanga Bedding, bed equipment like mat, pillow, and bedsheet; grave, resting place
Vaeakau-Taumako Moetolo Creep secretly to a sleeping woman to have sex with her
Vaeakau-Taumako Moko Lizard
Vaeakau-Taumako Moli/a Bring someone, introduce (used e.g. about presenting a girl to her future husband's parents)
Vaeakau-Taumako Momona Oily, greasy
Vaeakau-Taumako Mona Pudding
Vaeakau-Taumako Motu Be cut, be stopped
Vaeakau-Taumako Mot(u)/ia Cut, stop
Vaeakau-Taumako Motu Island, village
Vaeakau-Taumako Muu Big-eye sea bream
Vaeakau-Taumako Mua Please (postnuclear softening word, mostly used in direct speech in questions and requests, and after (e) ai 'exist')
Vaeakau-Taumako Mde/mui/mui Arrow with three or four heads used for fishing Uncertain Semantic Connection
Vaeakau-Taumako Muli Behind, back; come back
Vaeakau-Taumako I muli At last
Vaeakau-Taumako A/muli Later
Vaeakau-Taumako Muli Last, youngest
Vaeakau-Taumako Mulivai Mouth of river, river bank
Vaeakau-Taumako Mulu Lie by fire
Vaeakau-Taumako Mde/muhu Blunt
Vaeakau-Taumako Na(a) That, those (demonstrative pronoun, that near addressee; also the neutral demonstrative)
Vaeakau-Taumako Na Particle signifying past tense, something preceding in time or being the reason or background for something else, pluperfect
Vaeakau-Taumako A/na, o/na Third person singular postnominal posssessive...
Vaeakau-Taumako Na Not, negative imperative particle often used before the TAM particle me or after aua 'don't'; TAM particle signifying irrealis (i.e. a distant or uncertain future, a possibility, something counterfactual)
Vaeakau-Taumako Naa Be placed, put; place, put (upon something else), lift
Vaeakau-Taumako Namo Lagoon. Where large boulders are on reef (Lch).