Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
PUKU-WAQE Ankle
PUKU.1A Protuberance, lump, swelling
PUKU.1B Mons veneris
PUKU.2 Short; compact, rounded; hunch, curl up (body or part): *puku(puku)
PUKU.3 Hold something in mouth (Rby)
NO PULA-PULA.2 Spotted, mottled
PULA.1 To glow, shine; flash, glitter; phosphorescence
PULA.2A A foreign body in eye
PULA.2B Stare
PULA.3 Fish sp.
PULAKA Swamp Taro, Giant Taro (Cyrtosperma merkusii [= chamissonis])
PULAPULA Propagation material for root crops
PULAU.* Stinking
PULE-PULE Spotted
PULE.1 Cowrie shell
PULE.2 Have authority; exert authority
PULELE-FUA Moth, butterfly
PULEWA Marine substance/creature with stone-like or rough exterior
PULI Fold together, mould (of farinaceous substances), roll up (Rby)
PULOTU.1 Abode of the gods
PULOTU.2 Composer of songs
PULU-PULU Dog shark
PULU.1A Coconut husk fibre
PULU.1B Plug of fibrous material; to plug up
PULU.2 Gum, resin; sticky, viscous
PULU.3 Soaked
PULU.4 A wrap, to wrap something round someone
PULU.5 Coconuts tied together by a strip of husk. Perhaps originally ten
PULU.6 Lead (metal)
PULU.7 Hold
PUNA Bubble or well up (of water); a spring
PUNA-RUA Having two spouses; polygamy
PUNAGA Refuge, hiding-place
PUNI.1A Prevent access or egress by surrounding completely; blocking up, bringing ends to meet
PUNI.1B To hide, conceal oneself
NO PUNI.1C Blind
PUNI.2 A year of ten months
PUNOU Bow down
PUNU-TI Close, block
PUNUA Young (especially of birds), nestling
PUOU Breadfruit variety ?
PUPA Copulate
PUPU.A Crowded, close together (of plants or people); dense, thick (vegetation), overgrown, littered; clump (of vegetation)
PUPU.B Group (of people), party, team
PUPUQA Deep hole on reef; blowhole
PUPUU. Boil,bubble
PUQA Cover, wrap
PUQAO Mist, fog, cloud
PUQI Smell
PUQU Base of a tree

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