Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
KASOKASO.2 Yam variety
KATA.1 Laugh
KATA.2 Sprig of kava (Piper sp.); stem (of flower or fruit)
KATA.3 Fish sp., large Caranx (Hpr)
KATAFA.A Frigate-bird, (Fregata minor)
KATAFA.B Bird's Nest Fern, (Asplenium nidus)
KATAMU Make noise with lips, mutter
KATAU.* Right (not left)
KATEA Side of boat opposite to outrigger
KATI Bite, nip
CK KATI-POO Spider with poisonous bite
KATI-REHE Throat, gullet
KATIRU.* (Cucumis melo)
KATO.1 Basket
KATO.2 Pick, pluck, cut off (leaves or flowers)
KATOA All, whole
KATOFA Appoint a time
KATOKO Seabird sp., probably Booby (Sula sp.)
KATONE Tree sp. (Myristica) (Grf)
KATOTO A shrub
KATULI A herb
KAU-ATI Part of fire-plough
KAU-FANA Bow (the weapon)
KAU-FATA Platform
KAU-GUTU Edge, rim
KAU-HAGA Groin, crotch, inner edge of thighs: *kau(s,h)aga
KAU-HALA Roadside
KAU-I Fasten with cord, as sail to yard or net to frame, lace (Rby)
KAU-KAU Bathe
KAU-LAMA Dried coconut leaves used as torch
KAU-MAFUTE Paper Mulberry stick stripped of bark: *(kau-)mafute
KAU-MAI Give, bring (to speaker)
KAU-MATUA Elderly man: *kauma(a)tu(q)a
KAU-MEQA Associate, friend
KAU-MOANA Sailor, mariner
KAU-NA Order, command, send on an errand
KAU-NATI.* Fire-bed used with fire-plough to produce fire by friction
KAU-NATU Fire-plough
KAU-QAA Fence, wall
KAU-QAHE Cheek, chin, jawbone
KAU-QALIKI Tree sp. (Terminalia)
KAU-QAMO Shoulder carrying pole
KAU-QULI A tree (Diospyros samoensis) *(kau)kau-quli
KAU-RIMA Fireplough
KAU-TAA Small wooden implement, probably drum-stick
KAU-TALIGA Ear-lobe
KAU-WAI Bank of a stream or other body of water
KAU-WAKA Crew of a canoe: *kau-waka
KAU.1 Swim
KAU.2A Bunch, cluster

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