Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| KALO.1 | Dodge, evade | |
| KALO.2 | A tree | |
| KALO.3 | Pick something out of a hole, excavate, dig out | |
| TO | KALO.4 | Stir |
| KALOLO | Bowstring; taut (as a bowstring, stay in rigging) | |
| KALU-KALU | Jellyfish | |
| KALU.A | Loose or wrinkled membrane or flesh surrounding a harder interior substance, as around seeds or the eyeball | |
| KALU.B | Viscous or clotted matter, e.g. mucus, clotted blood, dregs or residue | |
| KALU.C | Viscous, clotted, jelly-like | |
| KALU.D | Loose, slack, wrinkled; skin of foetus, newborn or elderly person | |
| KAMA-KAMA.1 | Crab sp: *ka(ma)-kama | |
| CC | KAMA-KAMA.2 | Fish sp |
| KAMA.1 | Talkative | |
| KAMA.2 | Burn, afire, alight | |
| KAMAI | Fish sp., Rainbow Runner (Elegatis bipinnulatus) | |
| KAMATA.1 | Begin | |
| TO | KAMATA.2 | Taste |
| KAMI.1 | Open and shut mouth, gills | |
| KAMI.2 | To desire something | |
| NO | KAMI.3 | Run or walk in a particular way |
| KAMO.1 | Beckon; make sign with hand or eye | |
| KAMO.2 | Steal; approach or take by stealth | |
| KAMU.1 | Chew, munch | |
| KAMU.2 | Cut off | |
| KAMU.3 | Coral | |
| KANA-KANA-QA-LAGI | Fish sp. | |
| KANA.1 | A kind of sponge used as an abrasive; to polish with such | |
| KANA.2 | Stare at; give the evil eye | |
| KANAGA | Joke, personal taunt | |
| KANAHE | Mullet | |
| KANAPU.1 | Seabird (Sula sp.) | |
| KANAPU.2 | Lightning | |
| KANAWA | A tree (Cordia subcordata): *ka(a)nawa | |
| KANE-KANE | Anus | |
| KANIWA | The Milky Way | |
| KANO-FI-MATA | Eyeball: *kano-((f,q)i)-(mata) | |
| KANO-KANO | Wasp | |
| KANO-MATE | Meat, esp. lean meat | |
| KANO-WAKA | Crew of canoe | |
| KANO.1A | Flesh (of plant or animal); substance, or essential part of anything; seed, kernel | |
| KANO.1B | Social group | |
| FU | KANO.2 | Unwilling, reluctant |
| KANOFI | Flesh of fruit or animal | |
| KANOPOGI | Bereavement | |
| KANU | Pattern, design (e.g. on pottery, tapa, tattooing)(Clk) | |
| KANUME | A tree (Diospyros sp.) | |
| KAO-KAO | Side, rib; analogous parts of a house or canoe *(hui) kaokao | |
| KAO.1 | New shoot; to sprout | |
| KAO.2 | Dried food, such as sweet potato, taro or fish | |
| KAO.3 | Green heron (Butorides striatus) (Clk) |
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