Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
LIMU-TALA. Seaweed (Sargassum sp.)
LINO Twist (as cord)
TO LIOGI Ritual action
LIPI.1 Sharp edge, cutting edge, gash v
LIPI.2 Fold
LIPO Eddy, swirling water, disturbed water
LISA-MUQA Name of a lunar month
LISA-MURI Name of a lunar month
LITA Name of a god
TO LITI Throw
LITO.1 Burn, flame
LITO.2 Unexpanded leaf shoot: *lito~*tilo
LIU.1 Bilge of vessel, bilge-water
LIU.2 Turn round
LIUA River
LOA.1 Long (in space or time); tall
LOA.2 Intensity, immediacy (postposed manner particle)
LOA.3 Face paint
LOFA.1 Bowed down (as with sorrow or fatigue)
LOFA.2 Extended, spread out (e.g.of a bird's wings)
LOFA.3 Sea bird sp., probably a petrel or shearwater (Clk)
LOFI Flood, flooded *lo-lofi, *loofi-a
LOGA Large group, many
LOGO Silent: *(l,r)ogo
LOGO-LOGO Cycad species (Cycas rumphii [= circinalis])
LOGOAQA Noise, noisy, rumour (Clk)
LOHI Falsehood, lie; to lie, dissemble, deceive
LOHOLOHO Spadix of coconut palm; the many-branched stem on which the nuts form; spathe or sheath that encloses the spadix. *lo(h,s)olo(h,s)o
LOHU Fruit-plucking pole, hook something with a pole
LOKA Rough, of sea (Rby)
LOKI Enclosed area, such as an inner room
LOKONIU Widow
LOKU Bent, bowed down
LOLE.1 To do something carelessly or inadequately
LOLE.2 Rub
LOLI Sea-slug, sea-cucumber (Holothuria)
LOLO-QI.A Prepare food with coconut cream
LOLO-QI.B Coconut cream; food prepared with coconut cream
LOLO.1A Coconut cream or oil
LOLO.1B Delicious, sweet, rich, oily, fatty (of food)
LOLO.2 Flood, submerge
LOLOGA Section of long net
LOLOGO Sing, song
LOMA.1 Flood; high or rising tide
LOMA.2A Subside, abate (of flood, tide, sea, strong wind)
LOMA.2B Calm, quiet
LOMI Squeeze, press down upon, massage
LONA Hiccups, have hiccups; to choke: *lo(o)na(a)
LOO Ant
LOO-LOO Wet, soaked

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