Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Hetau | Polynesian Mahogany (Calophyllum inophyllum) |
| Takuu | Hetuu | Star, constellation, planet; starfish spp. |
| Takuu | He/una | To work; work, job, task, occupation |
| Takuu | Hia | How many? How much? |
| Takuu | Hiahia | Happy, joyful |
| Takuu | Hii- | Desire, want (desiderative verb prefix denoting an action not normally done) |
| Takuu | Hiikai | Hungry, want to eat; hunger |
| Takuu | Hiinota | Various kinds of shellfish having edible contents, seafood gathered by women |
| Takuu | Hilo | Roll sennit strands on one's thighs to make rope |
| Takuu | Hilo | Mix or intermingle (as in mixing swamp taro with fish) |
| Takuu | Hiloa | Variegated Emperorfish (Lethrinella variegatus) |
| Takuu | Hina | Sweetheart, lover |
| Takuu | Hinaona | Collective term for affines of the generation above one's spouse... Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Hiri, f/firi | (of hair, sennit cord) Braid, plait; fence, enclosure |
| Takuu | Hiri | Choose, select |
| Takuu | Hiti | Shifted, moved, risen, protruding, (of a disease) spread to another person |
| Takuu | Hiti | Risen (of sun) |
| Takuu | Hiti | Melanesian or dark-skinned person |
| Takuu | Hitu | Seven |
| Takuu | Oo | Fish taxon, very small fry of unknown species |
| Takuu | Hoe | Paddle, oar, rudder...steering wheel...to paddle, row... |
| Takuu | Hoki | Again, also, too; indicates continuation of verb action |
| Takuu | Hono | The built-up sides of a canoe; washstrake plank |
| Takuu | Honu | Deep (of water); high (of tide) |
| Takuu | Hookii | Hand over, lend, give with expectation of return, pass something to someone Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Hora, vora | Spread out, unfold, stretch (one's legs), open (one's arms), distribute over an area; display |
| Takuu | Maahora | Flattened |
| Takuu | Taahora | Very smooth or flat |
| Takuu | Horau | Voyage, journey, travel a long distance by sea; vessel, fleet |
| Takuu | Horo (pl. f/foro) (pass. horomia) | Swallow (v) |
| Takuu | Hota/hota | Humid, muggy, stuffy |
| Takuu | Hoto | Barb of a stingray |
| Takuu | Hota | Adze the interior of a canoe |
| Takuu | Hotu | Penetrated, pierced, having a hole (through an object), holed; hole (through and object); vagina |
| Takuu | Hoou | New |
| Takuu | Huu | To hide something; secret, secretly |
| Takuu | Hua | Denotes the absence of something normally present or expected; empty, bare, pure |
| Takuu | Hua | Sing (a song) |
| Takuu | Hua | Egg (of bird, fish, turtle, lizard, spider); piece of fruit |
| Takuu | Hua | Testicle |
| Takuu | Huahua | Red Coral Trout or Leopard Cod (Plectropoma leopardus) Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | H(u)aitino | The entire human body |
| Takuu | Huata | Season, as of fruit, taro, and migratory pelagic fish, esp. tuna |
| Takuu | Hue | Two types of ground creeper (Vigna marina, Canavalia maritima) |
| Takuu | Hue | Fan or swish away flies or mosquitoes |
| Takuu | Hue/hue | Fly-whisk |
| Takuu | Hui | Bunch (of coconuts or pandanus fruit, while on the tree); cluster of stones on the seabed |
| Takuu | Huia | Atoll Starling (Aplonis feadensi) |
| Takuu | Hukahuka | Tree with soft white wood that drifts to Takuu |
| Takuu | Hula | A women's dance reputedly introduced from Nukumanu in the 1950s |
