Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Tara/tara, taa/tara | Talk, speak |
| Takuu | Tara | Undo, unravel (a seam, etc.); unroll (something coiled) |
| Takuu | Taaraki | To open (vt) |
| Takuu | Tarava | A fish |
| Takuu | T/tari | Wait for, await |
| Takuu | Tari | Fetch and bring a large number of things from one place to another |
| Takuu | Tarie | Tree sp. (Terminalia samoensis) |
| Takuu | Tarie | Clitoris |
| Takuu | Taro | General term for taro [Colocasia and Xanthosoma spp.] |
| Takuu | Tama | Child; kinship term encompassing son, daughter, niece, nephew; classificatory child, including all nieces and nephews except those covered by the term ilaamotu |
| Takuu | Tama ffine | Daughter, young woman |
| Takuu | Taamaki | Numerous, many, plentiful, several |
| Takuu | Tama(ka)riki | Pre-adolescent child |
| Takuu | Tama meamea | Baby, young infant (before it is old enough to crawl or turn over by itself) |
| Takuu | Tama(na) | Male’s birth father, father’s brother(s), mother’s sister’s husband; female’s sister’s husband; a person one treats or considers as one’s father; collectively, one’s ancestors |
| Takuu | Tamanu | A tree (Calophyllum sp.), which does not grow on the atoll, but drifting logs are made into canoes |
| Takuu | Taanaki | (obs.) A post-death ritual in which the deceased’s family stayed inside the clan elder’s house for ten days Problematic |
| Takuu | Taane | Male |
| Takuu | Tanu | Bury, cover with dirt; fill in (a hole); covered or blocked out from view (by rain, etc.); secret, hidden underground or beneath a covering |
| Takuu | Tao | Spear, lance |
| Takuu | Tao | Cook in earth oven, bake |
| Takuu | Tau/mi | Wooden frame put on top of thatch if sago is the material used instead of the more usual pandanus (Mokena 1999) |
| Takuu | Taupuku | Hip |
| Takuu | T/tapa | Say a name, pronounce; call or identify (an object or person) by name, name after someone or something |
| Takuu | Tapatuu | Barracuda [Sphyraena sp.], third stage in life cycle |
| Takuu | T/tapi, taapi/a | Splash water or sand on someone or something |
| Takuu | Tapu | Forbidden, prohibited, sacred |
| Takuu | Tasi | Shave, cut hair; wipe clean with hands or broom |
| Takuu | Ttaa | Bail (a canoe), bailer (of a canoe); scoop up (rice or food mixtures), dish or portion out |
| Takuu | Ttau | Wring or squeeze something to express a liquid |
| Takuu | Taatou | First person plural inclusive pronoun: we, us, our, ours |
| Takuu | Tau | Equal to a task; able to do something; enough, sufficient; (of clothes) fit |
| Takuu | Tau | Hang, suspend |
| Takuu | T/tau | Count, enumerate; counting system, number |
| Takuu | Tau | Fight (in a war); war, battle |
| Takuu | Tau/tau | At anchor, anchored |
| Takuu | Tau- | Group of people of the same age, generation |
| Takuu | Tau- | Season during which something is plentiful |
| Takuu | Taaua | We two (inc) |
| Takuu | Tauffuu | Ridgepole (lower longitudinal beam at the apex of a roof) |
| Takuu | Tauna | Suspended basket for keeping food; hooked stick suspended from the ceiling on which a basket of food may be hung |
| Takuu | Taura | Anchor |
| Takuu | Taume | Spathe of a coconut pod |
| Takuu | Taupatu/rua | House part, uppermost ridge pole |
| Takuu | Tautai | Fishing leader; fishing equipment involved in pakuu shark fishing |
| Takuu | Tautu | Porcupine fish [Diodon hystrix] |
| Takuu | Tavake | White-tailed Tropic Bird [Phaethon lepturus] |
| Takuu | Te | Definite article singular: the |
| Takuu | T/tea | Light-blue, whitish-blue; period of early morning when such coloration is visible |
| Takuu | Teke | (obs.) Crossbar on mast of ancient canoe (IH); hole in the deck through which this crossbar passes when the mast is lowered |
