Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| PURAPURA | Descendant | |
| PURARA | Scatter, disperse | |
| PUROTU | Beautiful, handsome | |
| PURUGA | Parent-in-law | |
| PUSA.1 | Box n | |
| PUSA.2 | Foam, spray, vapour, smoke; to give off foam, vapour, or smoke; to burst, expel air, vapour, etc. |
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