Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
LIGO Calm, quiet
LIGO-LIGO An insect, cricket
LIHA Nit, egg of louse: *li(h,s)a
LII-TAI Petrel sp.
LII.1 To throw
LII.2 Tie, bind, wind round
LII.3 Type of coconut with edible husk
LIIWAI Urinate: *li(i)vai
LIKA Fear of falling, have nightmare (? of falling)
NO LIKI Beat, flog : *(li)liki
LIKO.1 Dirty
LIKO.2 Encircle, surround
LIKO.3 Twilight; be dazzled
LIKO.4 Chase away
LIKU.1 Back side or windward side of island
LIKU.2 Short, of a woman's skirt
LILA Thin, emaciated, sickly: *li(i)la(a)
LILI.1 To be angry
LILI.2 Agitated (of liquid); rough (of sea), stormy; boil (of water)
LILO Out of sight, lost, hidden; to disappear
LIMA.A Five
LIMA.B Hand, arm
LIMU Moss, seaweed
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: *(qa)lito
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

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