puttynut, used to caulk canoes; a tree gum, #puru nari, a resin

Geerts 1970

to gum, stick, caulk the joints of canoe planks with puttynut

Geerts 1970

a tree, Parinarium laurinum; the gum of this tree, rubbed into paste and sets hard quickly; glue, paste; a torch of gum

Fox, C. 1970

tree sap

Ross n.d. b., Anastasia Vuluku Kaue from Makiri village, courtesy of Hiroko Sato

to dress a wound

wet, moist, soaked; a soft, glossy, yellow wool on the base of tree-fern leaf stalks (Cibotium spp.); it was used to stuff mattresses and pillows

Pukui and Elbert 1971

tinder, kindling; cotton, as for quilt padding; fine linen

Pukui and Elbert 1971

to hold in one’s arms; to encircle in one’s arms, to embrace

Lieber and Dikepa 1974

torch

Fox, C. 1974

torch of nut gum

Fox, C. 1974

pulpy, thick, stiff, semi-solid; fusty, mouldy

Williams 1971

plug, cork, bung; plug up, stuff up; confine by means of a plug; thrust in, stuff in, cram in; crammed, stuffed; pulp

Williams 1971

stop the chinks of anything; caulking of a canoe

Williams 1971

to cram; protect with a pad; thatch a house; a protective spell

Williams 1971

a torch, lamp; to light a path, or a person

Fox, C. 1955

glutinous (as taro)

McEwen 1970

stale, fusty, mouldy

McEwen 1970

to hug

Carroll and Soulik 1973

a type of caulking compound, made from #bulu (the short fibers of the mature coconut husk) and sap

Carroll and Soulik 1973

adherence; compress, any soft or suitable material used as a compress; clingy, sticky, adhesive, apt to adhere

Savage 1980

be plugged or stopped with a plug

Savage 1980

resin as used for tattooing or torches; candle, torch; glow, as of sunset

Elbert 1975

to be ordered, invoked, requested; to order, request

Elbert 1975

the putty nut, Parinarium laurinum used to caulk canoes); tree gum

Ivens 1929

sticking a thing with gum

Ivens 1929

breadfruit gum (used as putty, especially for caulking canoes); chewing gum; rubber; herb (Euphorbia sp.), a common coastal plant with white latex

Milner 1966

to caulk, plug a leak

Milner 1966

to be caulked, plugged or glued

Milner 1966

birdlime

Bell 1977

white sap, especially of the breadfruit tree

Churchward 1959

gum or resin (from breadfruit, mango or #fetau 〈Calophyllum inophyllum〉 tree; whatever is used to caulk a canoe, including chewing gum

what is stuck on; adhere, be attached, stick to a surface; be patched, sealed, filled (of a tooth); have something glued on to cover it

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

given to sticking, adhering; be patched, sealed with a patch; be sticky, gluey, adhesive, cloggy, e.g. of clay or cloggy soil, too wet and lumpy to dig

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

patch something, stick a patch onto something

Pawley and Sayaba 2003

cause something to stick, seal something up

Pawley and Sayaba 2003