Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
Level | Reconstruction | Description |
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ALIGA | Give off an odour: *a(a)liga | |
ALOA | To treat with kindness and respect | |
ALOA-MANU | A star and month name:*(a,o)loa-manu | |
ALU | Vine sp. (Epipremnum pinnatum) | |
AMA | Turmeric used as a cosmetic and sun-screen | |
AMI | Crustacean roe | |
AMO.1A | Stroke, rub gently, touch | |
AMO.1B | Prepare fibres for string-making; prepared fibre (Rby) *am(o,u) | |
AMU | Revile, mock | |
AN-ATU | Go | |
ANA.1 | Post-posed particle, marking continuance of action or state | |
ANA.2 | If and/or when | |
ANAKE | Completely, only (postposed particle) | |
NO | ANAU | First person singular personal pronoun (Rby) |
ANE.A | White ant, termite; attacked by such insects | |
ANE.B | A skin condition; substance causing skin irritation | |
ANEI | Interrogative particle (post-verbal) | |
ANO.1 | Desolate | |
ANO.2 | Go | |
ANO.3 | Leaf ball, game played with leaf ball (Rby) | |
ANOO | Still, continuing | |
AO-MARAMA | World of light (this world, contrasted with the underworld) | |
AO-RAGI | Place name | |
AO.1 | Scoop up, gather together | |
AO.2 | A dry or fleshless coconut | |
AO.3 | Bind (Ebt) | |
AO.4 | World | |
AO.5 | Go (by sea): *(h)ao | |
AOA | Bark (of dog): *ao(a) | |
APAI.1 | House purlin: *a(a)pai | |
APAI.2 | Lift, carry on arms or hands | |
APAKULA | Legendary person | |
APARAGI | Sky, vault of | |
APELE | Full | |
APERE | Game, kind of | |
APO | Raise hands (or weapon) in defense or threat | |
APU.A | Seize, take, gather | |
APU.B | Seize in the teeth; take or eat food eagerly, gorge, gobble | |
AQU | Come, reach, arrive | |
AQU-MOHE | Fast asleep | |
ARA-FATA | Bridge or ladder | |
ARA-NUI | Main road | |
ARA-TAURA | Rope-ladder: *ara-taura | |
ARAHURA | Place name | |
ARE-ARE | Clear, open | |
ARI | Wait! Exclamation of surprise: *ari(a) | |
ARUHE | Fern sp., bracken: *a(r,n)uhe | |
ASA.1 | To grate | |
ASA.2 | Fin | |
ASEU | A fish (Caranx sp.) |
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