Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Varu | Scrape a coconut or fibres from a swamp taro stalk (e.g. to make a hat), grate; grate coconuts |
| Takuu | Vao | Uncultivated area with trees, bush; vegetation used as mulching material |
| Takuu | Vasi | Split in half, cut lengthwise; cut a taro corm from its stalk; reap taro (pull it from the ground, cut off the corm, and replant the stalk) |
| Takuu | Vaavaa | Intestines, guts, bowels of humans, turtles and pigs, after they have been removed from the body |
| Takuu | Vave | Quick, swift, rapid, fast, come soon |
| Takuu | Vere | Weed, cultivate, garden, cut grass, clear vegetation |
| Takuu | Verevere | Spider, spider web |
| Takuu | Velo/velo | Fish sp., similar to a mataere, not often caught. Poss? a Coral Cod |
| Takuu | V/vete | To lower (an object), release something that is attached (particularly when the attachment holds it up) |
| Takuu | Vete | Goatfish [Mulloidichthys vanicolensis], the adult growth stage of the karo fish |
| Takuu | Vvela | Hot, (of the sun) very hot; heat, heat blister, state of feeling uncomfortably hot |
| Takuu | Vii | (of coconut toddy) Fermented; (of water) stagnant and bad-smelling |
| Takuu | V/viri | (of a male) Masturbate |
| Takuu | Visi | Entangle, (during weaving) merge two sets of cordage; entangled; mixed up, in a confused state; closely related (and therefore unable to marry) |
| Takuu | N/namu | Try a food, taste |
| Takuu | Raaoi, laaoi | Good, kind, generous; calm, peaceful; perfectly, exactly; good luck |
| Takuu | M/mara | Bitter (esp. of stored giant taro corms that have gone bad); (of spirits or tobacco) strong; (of alcohol) fermented; (of smoke, salt water etc. in one's eyes) irritating, stinging, painful |
| Takuu | Uhouru, hoouru | Hat, cap; to wear a hat Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Hainauhie | Easy, simple; to be treated lightly |
| Takuu | Taahora/na | Large flat area of land; plain |
| Takuu | Ume rei, umarei | Variety of Naso unicornis |
| Takuu | Mataere | Fish sp., Grouper (Plectropomus sp.) (red with black spots and blue lateral lines...) |
| Takuu | Kurapo | Fish sp., prob. Sea-bream (Gymnocranius sp.) |
| Takuu | Seai | No, not (independent form); to say 'no'; nonexistent, absent, deficient, no longer; of no value |
| Takuu | Hak/kapi | Hold under arm; tuck into the waistband of laplap; use tongs... |
| Takuu | Kapi | Part of a backstrap loom: the two wooden bars at each end of the loom which hold it taut during the weaving... |
| Takuu | Sukisuki | Tip, extremity, narrow end, tip of a branch, upper area of a tree where the trunk begins to narrow; indicates the end of a limb or the adjacent tendon Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Tua- | Referring to a layer or degree of thickness (Tuatoru. Three layers); (of kinship relations) beyond the second ascending or descending generation: great- |
| Takuu | Loohi/a | (Of a canoe) take in water |
| Takuu | Kkau | Swim |
| Takuu | Haoa | Bilateral kindred (syn. of hare aakina) |
| Takuu | Poi | Almost, nearly, practically (reference to a past action) |
| Takuu | A | Name marker for singular personal pronouns and names of humans and spirits, but not canoes. |
| Takuu | Aa- | Prefix indicating direction towards something Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Ahana | Formerly the space between the lagoon foreshore and the first row of houses; front yard, where canoes are kept |
| Takuu | Ahe | Return; go/come back immediately; turn away from something (as a school of fish from a net) |
| Takuu | Ahi | Fire; flame; ember used to light cigarette |
| Takuu | Ahii | Wrap a seafood parcel (prior to placing it in an earth oven)... |
| Takuu | Ahiahi | Late afternoon, evening, when the sun is half-set |
| Takuu | Ahina | Armpit |
| Takuu | Aho | Net gauge, spacing guide used in net construction Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Aho | Fishing line |
| Takuu | Ahu | Heap something into a pile |
| Takuu | Aahua | Shoal, rocks near reef exposed at low tide; long, straight finger of rock which was once part of the land |
| Takuu | Ahuru | Goatfish (Parupeneus sp.) |
| Takuu | Akau | The coral reef, exposed at low tide, which encircles Takuu...; isolated coral head in lagoon |
| Takuu | Aako/na | Teach |
| Takuu | Ama | Outrigger float or outrigger side of a canoe |
| Takuu | Amu | Roll coconut husk fibres on the thigh for braiding into sennit |
| Takuu | Ana | (of trees etc.) Bend slightly |
