Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HULI.2* | Shoot of a plant, sprout | |
| HUQA | To be rising or high (of the tide) | |
| HUQI.1 | Take off a garment; take something off a hook or peg; pick pandanus fruit | |
| huri- | Element in words for 'hurricane, cyclone' | |
| HURU-MAKI | Insert, put in | |
| HURU-MANU | A social category | |
| HURU.A | Enter | |
| HURU.B | Enter into, possess (as a spirit does a person) | |
| HUU-WAI | A shellfish | |
| HUU.1 | Ask, enquire (vi) | |
| HUU.2 | Take refuge | |
| I-NAAKUANEI | Just now, earlier today | |
| I-NANAFI | Yesterday | |
| I-NAPOO | Last night | |
| I-OO | In, within, at (locative particle); at the home or place of | |
| I.1 | Past tense marker | |
| I.2A | Preposition: locative (of space or time), source, cause: *(q)i | |
| I.2B | Preposition, direct object marker | |
| IA.1 | Third person singular pronoun (independent) | |
| IA.2 | Demonstrative particle: that, those (previously mentioned) | |
| IA.3 | Postposed emphatic particle | |
| IA.4 | Interjection | |
| IFI.1 | Blow | |
| IFI.2 | Tahitian chestnut (Inocarpus fagifer [=edulis]) | |
| IHE | Spear, dart | |
| IKA-A-FATU | Fish, grouper sp. | |
| IKA-TAPU | Large Carangid fish | |
| IKA.A | Fish n | |
| IKA.B | Human victim, slain enemy | |
| IKE | Tapa beater | |
| IKI | Undo, dismantle, disentangle | |
| IKU.1 | The end of something; tail | |
| IKU.2 | File, rasp | |
| ILI-FIA.2 | To be afraid, overcome (with emotion) | |
| INA-FEA | When? (past) | |
| INA-INA | Singe a pig; expose to radiant heat | |
| INA.1 | Be angry, furious | |
| INA.2 | If, when | |
| INAKI | (Portion/segment of) roof thatch | |
| INO-QI | Lean over, bow, fall *(i)no(q)(i) | |
| INU | Drink | |
| IO.1 | Yes | |
| IO.2 | Longitudinal strip of flesh | |
| IPO | Lover | |
| IPU | Container for liquid | |
| IRI-FIA.1 | Fan (v), blow (on), be blown on | |
| IRI.A | Fan (n) | |
| IRI.B | To fan, to blow | |
| ISE.1 | Halfbeak spp. including (Hyporhamphus acutus) (Hpr.1994) | |
| NO | ISE.2 | Shoo away, drive away (fowls etc.) |
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