Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
QUMAGA Garden: *(q)umaga
QUMATA Rainbow
QUME Unicorn fish (Naso. spp.)
QUME-LEI Fish (Naso sp.)
QUMITI Hungry for fish or meat
QUMO Pinch
QUMOTI Stopper, bung
QUMU.1A Earth oven
QUMU.1B Halo round moon or sun
QUNA Fish scale; turtle-shell
QUNAFI To scale fish; fish scale
QUNOKO Contused, bruised
QUNU Move over, move along; approach, draw near
QUPOKO.* Head
QURA Crayfish
QUSI Dark-coloured, including dark blues and greens
QUTA.1 Shore (from sea), inland (from shore)
QUTA.2 To consider, deliberate on
QUTI.1 Bite
QUTI.2 Soft but inedible flesh of mollusc; tail-like part of crustacean: *qut(i,e)
QUTO Sprouting coconut, containing sweet, spongy kernel
QUTU.1 Fill with water
QUTU.2 Rock, crag, promontory
QUTU.3 Fish sp. (Aprion sp.) (Hpr)
QUU.A Bundle of long thin things (Clk)
QUU.B Reed (Miscanthus sp.)
QUUQUU Coconut crab (Birgus latro)
RAA Demonstrative particle: there, yonder (not near speaker or addressee)
RAAFUI.* Prohibit
RAAGAHU.* Charcoal
RAAKAU.1 A phase of the moon (full moon and/or third quarter); a series of nights of the lunar cycle (following the middle period).
RAAKAU.2 Medicine
RAFIRAFI Temple, of head: *rafi-rafi(-ga)
RAFO Rod or lath used in construction
CK RAGA Search
RAGATIRA Chief of secondary status
RAGI Exercise leadership, give directions (particularly in food distribution)
RAGI-AATEA Placename
CK RAGI-MAARIE ??
RAGI-TOTO Placename
RAKO Light-coloured, pale
RAKOA.1 Sea bird sp.
RAKOA.2 Fish sp.
RAKU Scratch (v.t.)
RAMA Torch; to fish at night with torches
RANO Lake, swamp
RANU.A Bathe or wash in fresh water, add water
RANU.B Amnion, amniotic fluid; other fluids associated with childbirth
RAPU Gather
RAQA Branch (of tree)

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