Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Porata | Trunk of the banana palm |
| Takuu | P/pore | Shake, tremble (because of old age or sickness), tingle, shiver; (of muscle) have a spasm; (of steering handle of outboard motor) vibrate; (of limb affected by Parkinson’s Disease) tremble slowly; be afraid, worried |
| Takuu | Pori | Roll of fat around one's waist |
| Takuu | Poro | Advise, give advice Borrowed |
| Takuu | P/poto, poto/poto | Short |
| Takuu | Potu | Section of coconut-frond dragnet which may be opened to insert a mooise net; point at rear of mooise net toward which fish are driven; point on shank of fishook where the curve starts; corner of a house |
| Takuu | Puu | Place stones on top of a fire to heat them for an earth oven |
| Takuu | P/puu | (of a boil or sore) Drain |
| Takuu | Pua | Tree sp. (Gardenia?) |
| Takuu | Puaka | Pig (obs.) |
| Takuu | P/pui | Close something; block (e.g. path); make forbidden; forbid access...; use magic to make someone else unlucky at fishing; govern (as a conqueror); invoke ancestors to ward off malevolent spirits (tipua) at night. |
| Takuu | Puke | Membrane of sand which the puiari and uu crabs make to cover the entrance to their holes |
| Takuu | Puku | General term for a group, clump or division |
| Takuu | Puku/puku | Bump, swelling, knot (in wood) or any other rounded protuberance |
| Takuu | Punou | (of a person) Stooped, bent over with age or infirmity |
| Takuu | Pupu | Weed-infested |
| Takuu | Pura | Colour, pattern; coloured portion or pattern of a woven mat |
| Takuu | P/pura | Glow, be phosphorescent |
| Takuu | Pureva | Large sea anemone sp. |
| Takuu | Purou | Largest of the woven mats...Formerly used overhead as protection against rain, or as a mosquito net for babies |
| Takuu | Puru | Soft fibres of coconut husk |
| Takuu | Puto | That part of a net or sail that balloons outward from the wind or water; (of a sail or a fishing net) to balloon outwards |
| Takuu | Puutu/na | Large group of people gathering for work or entertainment; An afternoon of storytelling, singing and dancing organised as an entertaining distraction for mourners (obs.) |
| Takuu | Raka, laka | Go past, pass over |
| Takuu | Raki, laki | Direction or season of west winds |
| Takuu | Rapa | Speak too fast to be understood Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Rara | Plant sp. whose leaves and flowers are worn as amulets by men fishing for tuna, and as body decoration by men and women when dancing |
| Takuu | Raupiti, ropiti, lopiti. +Laupiti (Hdn). | Black-Naped Tern [Sterna sumatrana] |
| Takuu | Rava | Full, enough, have eaten enough food |
| Takuu | Rehu/rehu | A light covering of ashes, as when blown onto one's body; turmeric, when applied to the body in a light covering |
| Takuu | Reimata | Tears, running eyes Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Reureu | Don a laplap |
| Takuu | Reva | Tree sp. similar to frangipani, no longer growing on the atoll. |
| Takuu | Rii/rii | Wind (e.g. fishing line around stick), tie (bait onto hook) |
| Takuu | Rihu | Tire of doing something; lose patience with someone; (of a fish) refuse to take the hook, not bite; start to eat something. then realise you do not want to eat it |
| Takuu | Rika | (of a pet animal or bird, etc.) Partially wild, not fully domesticated; (of a person) habitually disappear during the day and return home only at night |
| Takuu | Rimu | Generic term for certain types of seaweeds that grow singly or in clumps but do not send out runners |
| Takuu | Riu | Twirling movement of the paddle in the women’s hoe dance |
| Takuu | Roha | Measure of distance between fingertips of outstretched hands: fathom |
| Takuu | Roro | (of an overladen canoe) Swamp |
| Takuu | Ruu | Shake |
| Takuu | Rui | Bilge of canoe; groove, depression, or inner concavity of an object (such as the grooved surface of a curved adze or the hollow of a cup or bowl) Phonologically Irregular |
| Takuu | Ruku/ruku | (of paper, cloth etc.) Crumpled |
| Takuu | Ruku/ruku | Deep place in the sea that is covered with seaweed and may contain coral formations |
| Takuu | Kaisaa | (of people) Greedy, selfish; (of rats) to eat everything in sight Problematic |
| Takuu | S/saa | (of something normally covered by water) Emerge, appear above the surface; (of one’s bones) protrude obviously, be clearly visible |
| Takuu | Sae | (of frightening spirits such as mouri or tipua) Appear frequently; (of the spirit of a dead person) fly overhead |
| Takuu | Saere | Walk, go |
| Takuu | Sahe | Single half-hitch knot; to lash pieces of timber together, as on a canoe or house |
| Takuu | S/sahe | Flying fish (Cypselurus spp.) Phonologically Irregular |
