of an egg: hatch; of a state of affairs: happen, occur, take place

taboo, not allowed, forbidden

current in the ocean

float in the sea, be carried by the sea

diarrhoea

foreign place: an island, country other than one’s own

trample grass, vegetation when walking on or through it

of flood water, high water in a stream, river (after heavy rains): subside, go down

look for lice in the hair, delouse

magic possessed by some people that enabled them to jump very high or far

be curved into a circle; have the shape of a circle (complete or incomplete)

taro (plant and corm)

put, put down, place (as a mat on the ground); put on (as hat, shoes); bury (a corpse); have, possess, own (other than domestic animals and pets); offer a bounty for killing someone

plant a seed, tuber; plant by covering with soil or piling up soil around

bury in the ground (impolite to use for burying a person)

to cry; to produce a sound (as cicadas, musical instrument)

wailing, lamentation for a dead person

to cry for someone or something

a fairly strong wind, comes from April to September

sea, ocean; sea water, saltwater; saltwater person (not a Toqabaqita person); salt

usually derives causative verbs (#mae ‘die; dead’ : #faɁa-mae-a ‘administer anaesthetic to, put to sleep with anaesthetic’)

to eat

eat food directly from the ground (rather than from a leaf, a plate, etc.) because of being in mourning

stone, rock; used in names of various corals; taro sp.

choose, select, prefer

how many?, how much?

ordinal form of #fita: how many times?

seven

seventh

turtle, considered a kind of #iqa (fish)

(archaic) banana tree and fruit

pregnant

be pregnant out of wedlock (#thala = of life, thoughts, situations: lack substance, solidity

look for someone or something, search for someone or something

to look for someone or something; to search for someone or something

look for, search for

mirror

species of black ant that stings

kind of traditional song; to sing (traditional #kana or modern songs)

traditionally: axe with a very long handle, used in fights; today can be used to refer to any kind of axe

to hold something with one’s fingers around it (as the handle of a fan)

species of parrotfish: Scarus sp.

1sg possessive suffix (mostly suffixed to possessum nouns in the suffixing possessive construction); 1sg object suffix with Class 2 transitive verbs

of an object, material, be old; member of second generation and beyond, ascending or descending; grandparent, grandchild, etc.; mother’s brother, mother’s sister, father’s sister; sibling’s child

remove; extract, uplift

extraction of a tooth/teeth

species of spider, very large

ginger

root

generic for large flies, bluebottles, blowflies

to change in appearance (as a woman who is pregnant, or the color of leaves on a tree)

five

the fifth

to fly

neck, throat (traditionally it was impolite to use lua to refer directly to another person’s neck, throat)

tide, sometimes with the implication of high tide

cargo, load; used primarily about a cargo, load of food carried by a canoe, although it can be used about other kinds of cargo, load, and other means of transportation as well

traditionally: house where a woman and her children lived; today: family house

moss, lichen

moss, lichen

coordinator: and (conjoins phrases, clauses and sentences); also used when there is contrast, unexpectedness between two states of affairs

used with a variety of senses that can be characterized as: focal point, eye, tip, edge; face; opening; mouth of a container, hole; front part of something; lid, that which closes something; door; with some nouns used as a classifier

feast to worship an ancestral spirit: a quantity of coconuts is collected for the purpose

space, area in front of panpipe musicians/dancers

the center of a person’s chest (on the outside)

place on the reef where the waves break

water hole, place in a stream where people collect water and bathe; mouth of a river; mouth of a water tap (#kafo = ‘fresh water’)

place, area from which a strong wind is coming (dark area in distance with black clouds)

front of a house; area in front of a house; doorway of a house

cutting edge of a knife

landing place for canoes on the seashore (#qamali = ‘sea, ocean’)

tip of a spear

the disc of the sun (‘eye of the day’)

kneecap

market place, when there is a market in progress (#uusi = ‘buy things, shop for’)

landing place (for canoes, boats, ships or airplanes); harbor; airstrip

of a sore: heal, be healed

venitive directional; signals direction toward the deictic center; in temporal noun phrases it signals that the period of time is distant from the time of reference

father; used mainly by and to children

bird

be sick, ill

sickness, illness, disease

feel sick, ill

tongue

suck one’s teeth (e.g. to dislodge particles of food); smack one’s lips when eating

anus

chert, flint; in earlier times used to make cutters and adzes and to strike fire; also used to break canarium nuts (still used in this function)

coconut tree and fruit

spp. of cuttlefish and squid, relatively small in size

used to call pigs for feeding

choker-like necklace worn by the bride during the wedding ceremony and a few weeks afterwards

〈gloss〉

leaf, leaflet

night, night-time, evening (when it is dark)

hear, listen

to hear, listen to

the way in which something or someone sounds to someone

two (in serial counting); not used to modify nouns

second; traditionally: trading partner (with whom one was on friendly terms)

be undecided, be of two minds

go, move down, descend, more or less vertically; disembark from a canoe; move along the coastal road with the sea on the right

group of people moving down or disembarking

pass wind, fart

generic for a class of insects that includes locusts, grasshoppers, stick insects, mantises, and cicadas

nine

ninth

of a source of light: shine, glow, give out light

reflecting light: sparkle, glisten (as the sea catching sunbeams)

spear (general term); of a sore, be accidentally jabbed by something

to shave, shave off (beard, hair as direct object)

juice, liquid of fruit; broth, sauce, gravy (in cooking)

the water of a coconut

fish sp., Striped emperor: Lethrinus ramak

breast, udder; milk; suck at the mothers breast

suck at the breast

hornet (insect)

of scorpions, insects: sting; mend a basket (reweaving a damaged part or replacing the carrying strap)

the Milky Pine: Alstonia scholaris; sticky sap is used as glue, the wood to make #kokobaqule (traditional dance) masks; small branches are used for traditional priests’ headdresses; trees are frequented by pigeons

tobacco

to sew

path, track, road

miss (a target); miss one’s footing, miss one’s hold; (of a limb) be dislocated

clear the ground (cutting down the bush, etc.) around the perimeter of a garden to be made

be a long time, go on for a long time, last a long time; be far, distant in time (past or future) or in space

pupil of the eye; term of endearment for one’s child: apple of the eye (#thalu = ‘egg’)

late afternoon, evening, be late afternoon, be evening

cross a stream, river

three

spp. of large cuttlefish and squid

crab sp., the Flat crab: Percnon planissimum (?)

tree (does not include palm trees, cycads, tree-ferns, bamboos, banana trees); wood; firewood; timber; stick, pole, post, beam; mast of a ship, and some other relatively long and thin objects made out of wood

used to refer to collectivities of various kinds

police unit

the founding family, group in a given place

government (as a collective body)

saga-like song which is the history of a family line

coconut grove

species of seaweed

species of bivalve shellfish: its shell is used as a scraper to clean taros, breadfruit, etc. that have been roasted in the fire, to scrape out the flesh of a coconut, and as a spoon

to eat

rafter

general name for giant clams, Tridacna spp.

grouper spp.: Brown-spot grouper: Epinephelus chlorostigma; Brown-stripe grouper: Epinephelus morrhus; Blue-tailed grouper: Epinephelus microdon; Giant grouper: Epinephelus mangiscuttis

internal shell of a cuttlefish; cuttlebone

louse