Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PE-AFA | Perhaps: *pe-a(h)a | |
| TO | PE-HEE | Like that; to say |
| PEA | Particle of continuity: then, still | |
| PEAU | Ocean swell whether breaking or not, billow | |
| PEE | Perhaps: *(qa)pee | |
| PEE- | Be like | |
| PEE-FEA | How? | |
| PEE-HENA | (Be) like that (near you) | |
| PEE-HENI | Like this | |
| PEE-IA | Demonstrative adverb: like this, like that | |
| PEE-LAA | Like that (demonstrative manner adverbial) *pe(e)-laa | |
| PEEHAU | Wing | |
| PEGU | Blunt | |
| PEHA | Bit, part | |
| PEI | Small fruit; game played with these | |
| PEKA-PEKA.1 | Swiftlet, small bat | |
| PEKA-PEKA.2 | Trouble, troubled, perplexed | |
| PEKA.1 | Fruit bat, flying-fox | |
| PEKA.2A | A cross, crosswise | |
| PEKA.2B | Criss-cross, branching, tangled (vegetation) | |
| PEKAHI | Fan | |
| PEKE.1A | Ascend, climb, leap | |
| PEKE.1B | Be carried on the wind (as smoke or a kite), dissipate, disappear | |
| PEKE.1C | Quick, agile | |
| PEKE.2A | Twisted, bent, crooked, stunted | |
| PEKE.2B | Crouch, hunch up in fetal position; fold limbs | |
| PEKE.3 | Soak up liquid (food) | |
| PEKEPEKE | Coconut cream sauce | |
| PELA | Mud, muddy, dirt, filth | |
| PELE.1 | Beloved | |
| PELE.2 | A plant (Abelmoschus [= Hibiscus] manihot) with edible leaves | |
| PELU.A | Bend, fold | |
| PELU.B | Improvised container made of folded leaf | |
| PELUPELU | A small fish | |
| PENA.1A | Dress hair | |
| PENA.1B | Prepare; get something ready, attend to, take care of | |
| PENA.2 | Strap, such as a belt, halter, snare; to bind up, wrap | |
| PENA.3 | Back of neck | |
| PENU.A | Trash, especially refuse of coconut or pandanus fruit | |
| PENU.B | Pestle, pounder | |
| PEPE | Butterfly | |
| PEQE | Over-ripe, soft (of breadfruit) | |
| PEQE-SI.A | Throw down, beat down, fall on | |
| PEQE-SI.B | Throw, cast; throw out, throw away, discard | |
| PEQI | An exclamation (Rby): *pe(q)i | |
| PERA | Decayed, of flesh | |
| PERE.1 | To go, roam round | |
| PERE.2 | Sudden, sharp movement, as in adzing, weeding, throwing | |
| PERE.3 | Dart, n. | |
| PERERAU | Wing |
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