Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Purapura | Multi-coloured, mottled |
| Takuu | Purau | Stink, smell like something rotten |
| Takuu | Pure | Cowry shell (Cypraea spp.); general name for inedible molluscs |
| Takuu | Pure | Hereditary title of second-ranking man on Takuu...; someone chosen to act as medium for a deceased person... |
| Takuu | Purotu | Hereditary performing arts specialist. A male expert in performing and teaching a clan’s entire song and dance repertoire, and also beating the slit drum on the ritual arena to accompany them. Hymn-leader (Hwd). |
| Takuu | Puru | Stopper, object used to prevent a liquid from passing through. Tampon (Hwd). |
| Takuu | P/puru | Grab, clutch or grasp firmly in one’s fist, hold s.t. against one’s body, clasp hands; ... shake hands |
| Takuu | P/puna | Squirt up, issue forth; (of a bubble) rise to the surface; leak |
| Takuu | Puni | Shut off, blocked, closed off; (of bivalve) having its shell closed; (of eyes) blind; (of customs, knowledge, etc.) forgotten, obsolete, no longer in use |
| Takuu | Punua | Young bird, fledgling; young animal |
| Takuu | Puusaki | Blow (smoke, etc.); (of a whale) spout. Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | S/sae | Split, tear (esp. into strips); separate or spread (esp. one’s legs) |
| Takuu | Sahe | Successful in fishing |
| Takuu | Sai | Tie, bind; join (as two pieces of wood) |
| Takuu | Sakare | Edible part of the shoot at the top of a coconut tree; core (germinating part) of a taro or giant taro corm Problematic |
| Takuu | S/sako | (of tree trunk, etc.) Straight; (of person) have an erect posture |
| Takuu | Sakuraa | General term for swordfish, sailfish, marlin |
| Takuu | Saakure | Search for lice in someone's hair |
| Takuu | Sara | Wrong, mistaken, incorrect; miss, err, make a mistake; different, other; error, mistake; unusually, exceptionally |
| Takuu | Sarato | Plant sp. (Laportea sp.) with broad, stinging leaves |
| Takuu | Sare | Walk, go somewhere on foot, sail a canoe |
| Takuu | Sari | Leak faeces from the anus after eating oilfish or during severe diarrhoea; (of tears) flow. |
| Takuu | Sariki | Crossbar on a canoe outrigger, stringer; horizontal beam along the wall of a house |
| Takuu | Samono | Porpoise. Constellation: five stars within Ursa Major on the northern horizon outlining a leaping porpoise. |
| Takuu | Sao | Fit into or through something, (of clothes) fit; escape, survive; small distance or gap separating two locations |
| Takuu | Saaputu | Snapper or Emperorfish |
| Takuu | Sannaa. Ssaannaa (Hwd). | Tie-beam of a house Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Sau | Lift, carry; shunt, move sail from one end of canoe to the other; (of outrigger float) rise out of the water while sailing; raise the height of something (e.g. a taro mound) |
| Takuu | Sauna | Odour (of any sort but usually unpleasant), smell; have a smell |
| Takuu | Saavare | Spit (vi) |
| Takuu | Seke | Slip or slide unintentionally; (of an object) fall out of one’s possession and be lost; lose weight, become thinner |
| Takuu | Sere | Tie with a clove-hitch, tie something so that it hangs (e.g. from a rafter); string for making a string-figure |
| Takuu | Sere | Trip someone using a leg; wrestle; wrestling match |
| Takuu | Sere | Scatter baitfish among rising tuna (an action performed by the fishing leader) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Sema | Jellyfish sp., Sailor-in-the-wind [Velella sp.] |
| Takuu | Sena | Golden, dark yellow, yellowish |
| Takuu | Seu | Erase, remove; break something apart, destroy; do the first rough cutting of a log in carving a canoe (generally using an axe) |
| Takuu | Sii | A method of catching bonito by casting |
| Takuu | Sii | Ejaculate; semen |
| Takuu | Siapo | Tapa, bark cloth; cotton laplap |
| Takuu | Sina | Fall to a prostrate position, fall over, fall down |
| Takuu | Sika | Mesh needle for nets; backstrap loom part, shuttle; javelin formerly thrown as sport (obs.) |
| Takuu | Sika | Fireplough; make a fire with a fire-plough |
| Takuu | Siko-hia | Catch (e.g. ball) |
| Takuu | Suki | Tail of a bird, lizard or fish Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Sukimata | Outer corner of the eye, top of cheekbone beneath eye |
| Takuu | Simu | Triggerfish |
| Takuu | Sina | White or grey hair |
| Takuu | (A)sina | Legendary character (a very beautiful woman) appearing in fables (kkai) |
| Takuu | S/sipa | Fish sp., a distinct species of flying fish, or the juvenile growth stage of the ssahe |
