Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
PI-PIRI Name of a pair of stars, and a lunar month or season
PI-PISA Send up spray, spout
PIA.1 Arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides); starch
PIA.2A Sticky secretion
PIA.2B Foam, froth
PIERE.1 Pudding of grated taro, banana, etc: Kind of food made from banana, breadfruit or taro.
PIERE.2
PIGI-PIGI Tree sp. (Hernandia)
PIHE Lamentation, cries of grief: *pi(f,s)e
PII-WAI Undeveloped, of fruit, root crops, or young animals
PII.1 Young, immature
PII.2A Sprinkle water; spurt, squirt
CC PII.2B Full (of liquid); high or rising tide
PIIGAO Dragonfly
CK PIIGOFI Tongs: *piigo(f,s)i
PIIKAO Package
PIIRARI Sticky substance
PIKI-PIKI Curly (hair)
PIKI.1A Grip, cling to, stick to
PIKI.1B Climb, ascend
PIKI.2 Cramp, to have the cramp, be numb
PIKO.A Bent, curved, crooked
PIKO.B Bow, stoop, bend down
PIKO.C To think, speak or act in a wrong, false or negative way
PILAU Decayed, stinking
PILI-PILI Octopus, cuttlefish
PILI.1A Adhere, stick to; sticky
PILI.1B Be close to, next to; joined to, together
NO PILI.1C Place on top of; be on top of
PILI.2 Lizard, gecko: *(moko)pili
PILITA A yam (Dioscorea pentaphylla)
PILO To stink (of excrement), putrid
PIO Extinguished
PIPI.1 A bivalve shellfish
PIPI.2 Tree sp. (Hernandia sp.)
PIPI.3 Disciple, student, learner
PIRI Riddle
PIRI-PIRI A burr; plant spp. with sticking or clinging seed-heads
PISA.* Box; box-shaped enclosure
PISI.1 Squirt, spurt, spatter, splash up
PISI.2 Limpet (Patella sp.)
PISI.3 To affect, strike (as a disease)
PISO Head
PITI To add something
PITO.1 Navel
PITO.2 End, extremity; small piece
PITU Bamboo
PIU.1 Fan Palm (Pritchardia pacifica)
PIU.2 Throw, cast away: *pi(q)u
PO-KURU Breadfruit bark (for bark cloth)

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