Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UTU-GA | Punishment, penalty, fine | |
| UTU-POTO | Tie-beam of a traditional house | |
| UTU.1A | Compensation, payment, return | |
| UTU.1B | Revenge, vengeance, punishment | |
| UTU.2 | Harvest | |
| UTUA | Rock, reef or sea-floor exposed at low tide; promontory (Rby) | |
| UU | Strike home against something | |
| UUTEE | Type of chant or song | |
| VAASIQA | Interval of space or time | |
| VAE-LUA-A-POO | Midnight, the middle of the night | |
| VAI | Be, exist | |
| VAKA-QATUA | Spirit medium | |
| VALE | Left, not right | |
| VAQE-LAGI | Horizon | |
| VAVAE.* | Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) or plant producing similar fibre | |
| VEHI | A phase of the moon | |
| TO | VELE | Avid, eager, greedy: *vele(vele) |
| VELO | A fish (Bgs) | |
| VENE | Carrying straps; to carry on back with straps | |
| VEVE | Faded, dilapidated (leaves, mats, clothing), such items | |
| VILI.1 | Masturbate | |
| VILI.2 | Draw lots, decide by lot | |
| VILIVILI | Be quick, fast: *vili(vili) | |
| VILU | Former times | |
| VIVITAI | Bird sp (Hwd) | |
| WA-WAA | Empty space, chasm | |
| WAA-LAI | Liana sp. (Mucuna or Entada sp.) | |
| WAA-WAA.2A | Intestines: *(waa)waa | |
| WAA-WAA.2B | Vine, rope: *(waa)waa | |
| WAA.1 | Roar, talk loudly | |
| WAA.2 | Interval (of space or time) | |
| WAAKULE | Search head for lice | |
| WAANAGA | Speech, to speak | |
| WAASI | Side, place, part | |
| WAATIA | A kind of pudding made from polynesian arrowroot | |
| WAAWAA.1 | Insect sp | |
| WAE | Canoe or house part | |
| WAELO | Tail of animal, bird, stingray, comet; long thin appendage | |
| WAERE.* | To weed, clear away scrub, weeds | |
| WAERUA.* | Spirit, soul; ghost | |
| WAHA-WAHA | Spread out, separated by intervals; not close together, not tight (of a joint or closure) | |
| WAHA.1 | Carry on back | |
| WAHA.2 | Mouth | |
| WAHA.3 | Sheet (of a sail) | |
| WAHE | Divide, division; separate | |
| WAHE-GA | Division, portion, share, piece of land; middle: *wa(a)he-ga | |
| WAHE-RUA | Divide in half | |
| WAHIE | Firewood | |
| WAHII | Cover, wrap; wrapping, covering | |
| WAHINE | Woman, female |
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