Entries from Feinberg 1977 in Pollex-Online
Feinberg, R. (1977). The Anutan language reconsidered: Lexicon and grammar of a Polynesian Outlier. New Haven, Human Relations Area Files Press.
| Language | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anuta | Penua | Land, island |
| Anuta | Peo | Branched, or strongly figured coral |
| Anuta | Pii/pia, pia/pia (arch.) | Want, wish, like, desire |
| Anuta | Pingota | Shellfish (Haliotis sp.) |
| Anuta | Piikai | Hunger, hungry |
| Anuta | Pitu | Seven |
| Anuta | Poi | Individuating particle |
| Anuta | Porau | Voyage, journey |
| Anuta | Pota | Child (in kinship sense, i.e. offspring) |
| Anuta | Potu | Puncture, perforation; hole going right through an object; to puncture; to go through an opening |
| Anuta | Pu/puu/ | To hide something from another person |
| Anuta | Pua | Numeral particle indicating tens (with numbers 2-9, pua N = 10 X N) |
| Anuta | Pua | Fleet of canoes which is out at sea |
| Anuta | Puanga | Sharpening stone |
| Anuta | Pua tanga | Wailing song or dirge, sung at funerals, or to mourn someone's departure from the island or the loss of a canoe |
| Anuta | Pungona | Parent-in-law, child-in-law |
| Anuta | Punu | Pubic hair |
| Anuta | Putu | Tree sp. (Barringtonia asiatica) |
| Anuta | Nga | Definite article plural |
| Anuta | Nga- | Directional prefix |
| Anuta | Ngaro | Forget, disappear |
| Anuta | Ngarue | To move (as when an object moves as the result of being pushed or pulled by a human being) |
| Anuta | Ngarue | To work (either in the sense of "do work" or of "operate properly") |
| Anuta | Ngaruru | Earthquake (n,v) |
| Anuta | Ngao | Path Problematic |
| Anuta | Ngau | A plant (Scaevola taccada) |
| Anuta | Nga(a)tai | Seaward, toward the open sea |
| Anuta | Ngenge | Slow |
| Anuta | Ngoto | To sink |
| Anuta | Nguipeke | Squid |
| Anuta | Ngutu | Mouth; cutting edge of a blade or weapon |
| Anuta | Aa | Interrogative pronoun: What? Why? Huh? |
| Anuta | Pu/angapuru/ | Ten |
| Anuta | Ai | Who?, whom? |
| Anuta | Akau | Reef |
| Anuta | Ake | Direction up |
| Anuta | Ipo | Downwards |
| Anuta | Ingoa | Name |
| Anuta | Ongongo | A small plant capable of producing severe itching for a short time |
| Anuta | Oko | To arrive |
| Anuta | Oro | Grate a tuber |
| Anuta | Uu | Breast, nipple |
| Anuta | Uui | Gather Pandanus fruit or Betel Nuts |
| Anuta | Uku | Bathe in fresh water, skin dive |
| Anuta | Uu | Enter (as a man a house, a fish a hole in rocks); to get into (an item of clothing) Phonologically Irregular |
| Anuta | Kapa | Sennit cord |
| Anuta | Kaina | Eat it |
| Anuta | (Ma)kakai | Sharp (as a knife) |
| Anuta | Kaia | To steal |
| Anuta | Kairo | No, none |
