Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
MAGI A condition of ill health
MAGITI Vegetable food
MAGO Dry; old (of things)
MAGOO General term for sharks
MAGOO-QALAWA-FENUA Shark sp.
MAGOO-ROA The Milky Way
MAGU.1 Black
MAGU.2 Dried up (of that which was wet or moist)
MAHAE A kind of fish
MAHARU Night of lunar cycle
MAHOI Supernatural being
MAHU.A Be abundant, plentiful (of food)
MAHU.B Satisfied (of bodily need), quenched (of thirst)
MAHUKU Grasses, sedges, ferns and other small plant spp; overgrown fallow area, swidden: *m(a,o)huku
MAI-MAI Call to approach
MAI-MOA Pet, plaything
MAI.A Particle indicating motion or orientation towards speaker
MAI.B Give me! (vt)
MAI.C Come!
MAI.D From, preposition
MAIFA Break, crack; type of sore on the body
MAIHI Some part of the end of a house: *ma(a)(h)ihi
MAIKA Banana (Musa sp.): *m(a,e)ika
MAILE A fragrant vine or shrub (Alyxia sp.)
MAITU Fourteenth night of the moon (Grn)
MAKA-LILI Cold
MAKA-SUNU Oven stone
MAKA-TEA Dead coral of raised reef
MAKA-VAA Distance, gap
MAKA.A Stone
MAKA.B Sling; to hurl with a sling; to throw
NO MAKAKA-TAU Hard, firm
MAKALA Crackle
MAKARI Tree sp
MAKAU.1 Bend, turn
MAKAU.2 Be hostile (Rby)
MAKERE Fall, drop: *mak(e,i)r(e,i)
MAKI Sickness, illness; sore
NO MAKINI White: *ma(ki)kini
MAKO-MAKO A bird, Honey-eater sp., perhaps (Gymnomyza samoensis)
MAKO.1 A small land-bird
MAKO.2 Dance
MAKO.3 Tree sp.
MAKOHE Frigate Bird (Fregata sp.): *m(o,a)ko(f,s)e
MAKOPUNA.* Grandchild
MAKUKU.1 Sound of cracking, snapping (Ebt)
MAKUKU.2 Sprained, dislocated
MAKULU To fall (of fruit)
MAKUPUNA Grandchild: *m(a,o)kupuna
MAKUTU Diligent (Ply)

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