Entries from Firth 1985 in Pollex-Online
Firth, R. (1985). Tikopia-English Dictionary/Taranga Fakatikopia ma Taranga Fakainglisi. Auckland, Auckland University Press
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tikopia | Para/para | Tree fern (Cyathea sp.) |
| Tikopia | Paara | Ulceration |
| Tikopia | Para/si | Smear on, as pigment on body |
| Tikopia | Paraa | The major gods Problematic |
| Tikopia | Paara | Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri) |
| Tikopia | Parangi | Surgeonfish (Acanthurus sp.) |
| Tikopia | Pararafa | Stem of coconut frond |
| Tikopia | Parapu | South (Gaimard). Nor-nor-west |
| Tikopia | Pare/pare | Decline, of sun |
| Tikopia | Pali | Constrained in behaviour (esp. in food and from dancing due to mourning obligations |
| Tikopia | Paru | Large sea-fish of several species |
| Tikopia | Paru | Put powder in suspension in liquid, dissolve; mix, as kava |
| Tikopia | Pane | Skull |
| Tikopia | Pane/rua | Parrotfish, including Bluntheaded Parrotfish |
| Tikopia | Pani | Mark of colour, applied to person or object, incl. charcoal stripe in trad. ritual; to paint, apply colour |
| Tikopia | Panoko | Reef fish (Blennidae sp.) |
| Tikopia | Paopao | A canoe, seagoing but not sacralised |
| Tikopia | Papa | Plank |
| Tikopia | Papa | Flat; flat surface of various kinds (plank, sky, earth, bottom of sea) |
| Tikopia | Paapaa | Flutefish (Fistularia) |
| Tikopia | Pata | Blister; a spot on the skin, pimple |
| Tikopia | Pata/pata | Marked by large drops, blobs or squares |
| Tikopia | Pate | Medium-sized, of objects, especially fish (not humans) |
| Tikopia | Patu | Slap, hit with open hand |
| Tikopia | Pe | Or, either...or, whether...or |
| Tikopia | Pe | As if, as, like |
| Tikopia | Peau | Foam, spindrift at sea, breaking wave crest |
| Tikopia | Paku | Blunt Phonologically Irregular |
| Tikopia | Pee-ia | Throw; place away |
| Tikopia | Peka | Large Fruit bat (Pteropus) |
| Tikopia | Pekapeka | Scanty, poor, poverty-stricken Problematic |
| Tikopia | Peke | To shrink, as clothes when washed; and generally, sometimes with insulting personal reference [e.g. to genitals] |
| Tikopia | Pera | Mud, peat, swampy lakeside soil |
| Tikopia | Pela | Mud Problematic |
| Tikopia | Pere/perenga | Honouring, cherishing; kindly treatment |
| Tikopia | Peeru | Bend over, fold over |
| Tikopia | Peruperu | Fish, young of ikatapu (Caranx sp.) |
| Tikopia | Pena(pena) | Prepare; get ready |
| Tikopia | Penu/penu | Integument, outer covering of an object; shell, husk rind etc.; body in contrast to soul |
| Tikopia | Pepe | Butterfly, moth |
| Tikopia | Pese | Sing, chant; song |
| Tikopia | Peti/peti | Plump |
| Tikopia | Peu | Evade, lie |
| Tikopia | Pi | Full to top, to overflowing; brimming |
| Tikopia | Pia | Mucous secretions associated with sexual intercourse |
| Tikopia | Piki | Stick, adhere to |
| Tikopia | Piko | Bent, curved, crooked |
| Tikopia | Moko pili | Gecko Phonologically Irregular |
| Tikopia | Piro | Stinking (of faeces or urine) |
| Tikopia | Pipi | Bivalve shellfish of many species |
