Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
TOSI.1 Split Pandanus leaves into strips
TOSI.2 Score, draw (e.g. a line), mark, write
TOTI.1 Lame; limp, hop
TO TOTI.2 Peck, prick
TOTO-TOTO Suffused with blood
TOTO.1 Blood, sap
TOTO.2 A tree (Euphorbia sp.)
TOTOGI Price, payment, cost
TOU.1 A tree (Cordia sp.)
TOU.2 First person inclusive plural preposed subject pronoun: *(ta)tou
TU-FERA Be open, as legs, door
TU-QUTA Reach shore, land
TU-TUQU Dolphin, porpoise
TUA-.3 Same generation kinship prefix
TUA-FAFINE Sister of a male
TUA-FINE.* Sister of a male
TUA-GAQANE.A Brother of a woman
TUA-GAQANE.B Cross-sibling .i.e. sibling of the opposite sex
TUA-KANA Elder sibling of same sex
TUA-TEA White-capped wave: *tu(u)a(a)tea
TUA-TUAI Bivalve mollusc sp: *tuatua(i)
TUA.1 Fell, chop down
TUA.2 Sea creature
TUA.4 Yam variety
NO TUAA-TOLO Plant sp., vine or creeper
TUAHI Coconut grater
TUAI Of ancient times, old; (take) a long time, late, slow
TUAKI Disembowel fish or fowl
TUAQA Penalty, punishment
TUFA.1 Divide, share out
TUFA.2 Spit
TUFAFINE.* Sister of a male
TUFI Gather, collect
TUFU.1 Fresh-water spring, usually on the beach
TUFU.2 A fish
TUFUGA Expert, priest
TUGA-TUGA Rough, uneven surface
TUGA.A Larva, maggot, organism causing internal decay
TUGA.B Blemish, imperfection
TUGAANE.* Brother or male cousin of a female
TUGAGA Rubbish heap
TUGAGE Shellfish sp
TUGAKI Make a sign with head or face, nod
TUGI.* To ignite, light: *tugi(a)
TUGOU To nod, bow: *tu(u)gou
TUGU.1 Cough
TUGU.2 Hollow where water collects: *tu(g,m)u
TUI Thread pierced objects on a string; sew
TUI-TUI.1 Hawk sp
TUI-TUI.2 Candlenut tree (Aleurites moluccana)

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