Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Aua | Silver Mullet or Sea Mullet (Mugil cephalus) when very small |
| Takuu | Au see | Negative imperative marker, don't! |
| Takuu | Ava | Deep passage in reef, channel |
| Takuu | Aavea, aavee | Wait a minute, hang on |
| Takuu | E | Tense-aspect marker indicating no change of state, habitual action, or a completed event |
| Takuu | Epa | Coconut leaf mat in a clan elder's house on which the elder lies, and on which very sick people are ritually treated; woven container for turmeric powder stored inside a section of large-diameter bamboo |
| Takuu | F/faa/ | To split, cut, or break open something (esp. coconuts); perform a surgical operation; (of an egg) hatch |
| Takuu | Haaeo | Bad...anger...awfully |
| Takuu | Ffaa, ppaa | Carry someone on the back; cloth used for tying a child on one's back |
| Takuu | Ffie | Firewood |
| Takuu | Ffine | Woman, girl; female animal |
| Takuu | Hainataa | Difficult, hard, slow |
| Takuu | Haitamana | Father and children |
| Takuu | Haka- | Causative prefix |
| Takuu | Hakkaa | Sharpen an edge |
| Takuu | Hakaraa | Put in the sun, expose to the sun, dry something in the sun; (of area exposed in low tide) completely dry |
| Takuu | Hakaari | Reveal, confess; show, display |
| Takuu | Hakallono | Listen |
| Takuu | Hakaseke | Slide, body-surf; sail a canoe with a tail wind, travel in a following sea; glide, as a canoe through water; drift |
| Takuu | F/fano/ | Wash one's hands |
| Takuu | Ffao | Put, pack or stuff something into something else |
| Takuu | Vaasua | Horsehoof Clam [Hippopus hippopus] Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Haatina te mataarima | Knuckle of the finger or thumb |
| Takuu | Haatina te mataavae | Knuckle of the toe |
| Takuu | Haatina rima | Measure from fingertip to elbow |
| Takuu | Haatina te turi | Knee joint |
| Takuu | Hati uku | Unit of measurement, from the fingertip of one hand to the extended elbow of the other arm |
| Takuu | Hatu (pl. ffatu) | Fold, roll up; tuck (one's legs), bend (one's elbow or knee) |
| Takuu | F/felo/ | Yellow, orange |
| Takuu | Hono | The built-up sides of a canoe; wash-strake plank |
| Takuu | Huana | Light grey pumice which occasionally drifts to Takuu... |
| Takuu | F/fui | Wash, rinse, tip something into the water to wet it; cleanse (in physical or ritual sense) |
| Takuu | F/fura | Swell, be swollen; visibly pregnant |
| Takuu | Huna | Don a garment by fastening it around the waist, be clothed in a laplap... |
| Takuu | Ppusu, vusu | Box, fight with fists Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | N/naa | Action involving opening the mouth and making a noise (especially when sleeping) [snore, stammer] Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Naa | Plural definite article |
| Takuu | Naakau | Part of the meat of a mollusc |
| Takuu | Naa nafu | Encrusted layers of greyish ash residue in a hearth; dust Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | -nauhie | Take a short time to do something, or have something done to it; therefore frequently translatable as 'easy, easily' |
| Takuu | Nasu | Shrub sp. with small flowers (Scaevola sericia or Scaevola taccada)... |
| Takuu | Natae | Tree sp. with red flowers, found only on the smaller islands |
| Takuu | Naatai | Flotsam, objects drifting to Takuu from other places |
| Takuu | Nau | Chew (e.g. sugarcane or pandanus fruit) so as to suck the juice; (of food) difficult to swallow because it is too tough to bite through |
| Takuu | Nnie | Tree sp. (Pemphis acidula) |
| Takuu | Nnoo | Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus), or ? White-capped Noddy |
| Takuu | Aa | What? what kind of?; why? (what for?) |
| Takuu | Ai | Who? whom? |
| Takuu | Ake | Post-verbal particle indicating lateral movement |
| Takuu | Aku | Needlefish or Longtom (Strongylura or Tylosurus indica) |
