Entries from Davletshin 2013 in Pollex-Online

Albert Davletshin, field notes

Language Item Description
Nuguria Riki Whip (with rope, long stick); hunt (adult birds, hitting them);
Nuguria Ku hatu taku roto (I am angry)
Nuguria Hai/hai Knot, bundle; tie (up), tie a knot
Nuguria Hara/hara Harvest, reap (swamp taro, with a kipa-kipa digging stick), dig (kanokano)
Nuguria Hau/makariri, sau/makariri Very cold
Nuguria He [indefinite article]
Nuguria Hee/hee Seek, look for (food, fish, firewood)
Nuguria He/hua, se/hua Thousand (counting money and coconuts) [Takuu word?]
Nuguria Sepu-, hepu- (with directional) Descend, go down (e.g. from tree)
Nuguria Vaka-hii A method of fishing, catching tuna by casting...
Nuguria Hihi Shell meat, lips of clamshells
Nuguria Au-hiohio Tornado
Nuguria Sivo, siva Nine [< Takuu?]
Nuguria Huu-koro-koro Squids, big ones
Nuguria Huke Open up, uncover an earth oven
Nuguria Huru Set (of sun)
Nuguria Taheta Container for kaauna [turmeric powder], with a lid, made of pandanus or kanokano [swamp taro] leaves; kind of small basket, handbag
Nuguria Kaamata Start, begin; beginning
Nuguria P/pui Pen, fence (n) (for pigs or chickens)
Nuguria Huku(huku) Top (of a tree), extremity, tail (of coconut leaves, paunu etc.)
Nuguria Huku/vae Foot (not leg)
Nuguria Huku(huku)rima Wrist
Nuguria Moi/huku Tail (of fish, whale, dog, rat, etc.)
Nuguria Tanaroa Falling star, meteor
Nuguria Haka/puku Clench a fist
Nuguria Hakatonu Try to reconcile two or more people
Nuguria Hakatipu(tipu) To pile, heap up (clothes), gather
Nuguria Hakamata Sharpen (spear, pencil, husking stick)
Nuguria Hai-hai-rua Devil fish Phonologically Irregular
Nuguria Haka/ri/ti Suicide, hang oneself
Nuguria Taupiri Near, close by; adjoin, border on
Nuguria H/hata Having a blister, blistered Phonologically Irregular
Nuguria Hihi Shell meat, lips of clam-shells
Nuguria Hino Bent, bowed down (of a person) Phonologically Irregular
Nuguria Hiti Black people (Melanesian and Bougainville people)
Nuguria Huku (te tao) Shaft (of spear)
Nuguria Iri Fan (n); a kind of dance for women
Nuguria Karrapa Central coconut leaf midrib Phonologically Irregular
Nuguria Kaukau Longitudinal house strut Phonologically Irregular
Nuguria Koi Only (postposed) Uncertain Semantic Connection
Nuguria Kuro A kind of parrot
Nuguria Manua Get insects (of an old flower)
Nuguria Mauraro Low, shallow (of water)
Nuguria Oe Answer to a call
Nuguria Pakaheu K.o. bat (smaller than peka, not eaten) Phonologically Irregular
Nuguria Pare-pare Chair
Nuguria Poko/poko Covered with sores (hands) Uncertain Semantic Connection
Nuguria P/pana Inept, clumsy Uncertain Semantic Connection
Nuguria P/pao Moor (vt)
Nuguria Raaraa/ppura Tiger shark