Entries from Moyle 2011 in Pollex-Online
Richard M.Moyle, Takuu Grammar and Dictionary. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 634.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Takuu | Kinei | Here, this place by me |
| Takuu | Kinaa | There, near the listener, or place already mentioned in discourse |
| Takuu | Kilaa | There, far away from speaker and listener |
| Takuu | E, ee | Particle placed before numerals and certain other words referring to things that can be counted |
| Takuu | Pama | Storage platform above the outrigger on the ancient sailing canoe (Obs). Problematic |
| Takuu | Lani/tia | Receive something when things are divided or distributed; not be left out, be included in a group |
| Takuu | Lahu/tia | Sick from eating bad food; rash appearing on skin after eating food to which one is allergic |
| Takuu | Tosi (pass. toosina) | Move something over (a little) |
| Takuu | Tuureki, tuuruki (pass. turekina) | Push |
| Takuu | Para | Wet |
| Takuu | Marena | Green parrotfish (Bolbomeetropon musicatus) |
| Takuu | Kata | Moray Eel (Gymnothorax sp.?); snake; tapeworm and other parasitic species. Lobster (?) (Hwd). |
| Takuu | Moisi | Few, small quantity |
| Takuu | Usu | Followed by a noun, signifies the front or front end of an object |
| Takuu | Masaurani | Spirit (aitu) taxon, category of benign supernatural being; diminutive first non-spirit residents of Taku... |
| Takuu | A/manu | A constellation of three stars: Canopus, Achernar, Sirius.... |
| Takuu | Taro | Constellation: Three stars in Scorpio rising before dawn |
| Takuu | A/unu | Constellation: at least five stars in Taurus forming a V-shape |
| Takuu | Manoo | Constellation said to resemble a shark (Hwd). |
| Takuu | Kavei | Name of a constellation |
| Takuu | Maillapa | Constellation: three stars in a straight line with Aquila |
| Takuu | Hakamanaatoro, Haamanaatoro | Constellation: four stars within Aquarius forming an inverted Y-shape (lit. like (an ancient canoe's) mast-blocks)... |
| Takuu | Koo takaniva | Constellation: so-called Coalsack of the Southern Cross (Hwd). |
| Takuu | Naa Ruai/saraporu | Name of a constellation low in the southern sky: two stars within Crux and two within Centaurus |
| Takuu | Siko-hia, -ina | Coil a piece of string |
| Takuu | Keu | Twist one's body around (as in struggling to get free), hit something with one's shoulder or elbow |
| Takuu | Keu/keu | Push (freq.) |
| Takuu | Kananiho | Gum |
| Takuu | M/muu | A sound whose source is unseen; mumbles, not clearly audible (of speech). |
| Takuu | Kiitea! | It's found! |
| Takuu | Kava | Cemetery Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Manu tanirua | Bird whose nocturnal call as it flies north...is different from its call when it returns; hence its name 'two-cry bird'.... |
| Takuu | Tokorau | North, northern, northerly |
| Takuu | Pe/pesi | Fishing technique: casting out a line by hand from a canoe into shallow water |
| Takuu | Ara | Be able to sail more or less directly to a point... |
| Takuu | Kkapa | Eat lightly before undertaking any strenuous activity Uncertain Semantic Connection |
| Takuu | Kapa | Small group of fish separated from or peripheral to the main school |
| Takuu | Kapa | Change a canoe's direction by using the paddle in a stroke towards the canoe hull Uncertain Semantic Connection |
