Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TAURA | Rope | |
| TAUSI | Take care of; observe (custom etc.) | |
| TAUTALA | ?? | |
| CK | TAUTARA | |
| TAUTE | To prepare (esp. food), fix up, take care of | |
| TAUTU | Porcupine Fish (Diodon hystrix) and related spp. : *ta(a)(q)utu | |
| TAWA-RAQU | Tree sp., Dragon Plum (Dracontomelon vitiense) | |
| TAWA-TAWA | Fish sp. (Euthynnus yaito) or (Gymnosarda unicolor) juvenile (Hpr. 1994) | |
| TAWA.1 | Tree sp. (Pometia pinnata) | |
| TAWA.2 | Bivalve shellfish sp. | |
| TAWAHI | Tree sp. (Rhus taitensis) | |
| TAWAKE | Tropic Bird, (Phaeton spp.) | |
| TAWALI | A tree sp | |
| TE-FUA | One, single, alone | |
| TE-KAU | Twenty | |
| TE-NA | Demonstrative pronoun: that, those (near you) | |
| TE-NI | Demonstrative pronoun: this, these; here | |
| TE-O-KU | First person exclusive O-class possessive | |
| TE-O-NA | Third person singular possessive O-class. | |
| TE-O-U | Second person singular possessive, o-class, your | |
| TE-QA | A-class possessive particle, dominant. | |
| TE-QA-KU | First person exclusive singular A-class possessive: >> *ta((q)a)ku | |
| TE-QA-NA | 3rd person singular possessive A-class pronoun. | |
| TE-QA-U | Second person singular dominant possessive, your, yours: >> *ta((q)a)u | |
| TE-RA | Demonstrative pronoun: that, those (distant from both speaker and addressee) | |
| TE-TASI | A certain (one), a particular but unspecified one, another: *te(e)-tasi | |
| TE-TEA | Albino, of light skin colour | |
| TE-TEKI | Feel revulsion or fear | |
| TE.1 | Definite article singular | |
| TE.2 | Allomorph of E.1 *(q)e(e) non past verbal particle. | |
| TEA | White | |
| TEA-TEA | Semen | |
| TEE-FEA | Which? which one? | |
| TEE-HENA | Demonstrative pronoun: That (near you) *te(e)-naa | |
| TEE-IA.* | Demonstrative, this, that: *te(e)-ia | |
| TEE-LAA | Demonstrative pronoun: that (distant), yonder *te(e)-laa | |
| TEE-NEI | This: *te(e)nei | |
| TEE.1 | Emit a sharp sound (as e.g. a bell) | |
| TEE.2* | Negative | |
| TEE.3 | Progressive aspect | |
| CK | TEENAA-KOE | A greeting |
| TEFA.1 | Boast, brag, show off; false display of emotion | |
| TEFA.2 | Stumble sideways, stagger | |
| TEFE | Circumcise | |
| TO | TEGA-MAE | Shellfish sp. |
| TEGA.1A | Compact, rounded objects, such as seeds, muscles, testicles | |
| TEGA.1B | Thigh | |
| TEGA.1C | Seed | |
| TEGA.2 | Cramped, aching | |
| TEGA.3 | Satisfied (of hunger, thirst) |
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