Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
LAU-QITI Narrow
LAU-QULU Hair of head
LAU-RIKI Narrow: *lau-(ri)riki
LAU-TOLU Creeper sp.
LAU.1A Leaf
LAU.1B Counting Classifier for flat things or some fish
LAU.2A Speak formally; mention, enumerate, recite; count; read
LAU.2B Indefinite large number, countless
LAU.3 Surface area, expanse, breadth, size
TO LAU.4 Harmonize
LAUKAU ??
LAULAU Basket or leaves for serving or carrying food; to serve food
LAULAUFAU Fish sp., butterfly fish sp., or moorish idol
LAVA-A Able, capable
LAWA-KA Abundant *la(uw)a-(k,q)a
LAWA-LAWA Spider
LAWA.1A Enough, sufficient, abundant, completed
LAWA.1B Postposed verbal particle intensifying the verb
LAWA.1C Overcome, conquer; accomplish
LAWA.2 Bind, wrap
LAWA.3 Item of clothing, loincloth, skirt: *lawa(-lawa)
LAWE-A Wounded, injured
LAWE.1 Quill feathers, plumes
LAWE.2A Be caught, snagged (as fish on hook, hook on snag)
LAWE.2B Take, lay hold of
LAWEGA Fish sp
LE Definite article singular
LE-LEA.1 Speech of those possessed by spirits
LE-LEI Good
SF LE-NEI This
LEA Speak
LEFE Fold or crease covering body orifice
TO LEFIO Moth
LEFU-LEFU Shorebird sp.
LEI.1 Whale tooth, whale ivory
LEI.2 Leap
LEIA Choke
LEKA.1 Pleasant
LEKA.2 Short, dwarf
LEKA.3 Belch, regurgitate
LEKE.1 A cavity or recess
LEKE.2 Butt end (e.g. of adze, weapon, fish-hook); heel of foot
NO LEKIA.* Black Noddy (Anous minutus)
LEKILEKI Puzzlenut tree (Xylocarpus sp.)
LELE-A.2 To be driven away by wind
LELE.A Fly, run, leap
LELE.B Possess (of a spirit, possessing a human medium)
LELEFUA.* Moth, butterfly
LELU Disturbed
LEMO.1 Drown

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