Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
SIKA.2 Make fire with fire-plough
SIKA.3 Female genitals
NO SIKI-SIKI Small bird sp.
SIKI.1A Lift (v); carry or hold a child in the arms
SIKI.1B Support, assist (a person), esp. in childbirth; midwife
SIKI.1C Tack (a canoe)
SIKI.1D Copy, quote, translate
SIKI.1E Shift or move to another place
SIKI.2 Finish the ends or edges of a mat
SIKI.3 Club used in fishing
SIKO Catch, lay hold of
SIKU-LAGI Place name
SIKU-LEQO Faint voice; echo (Clk): *siku-leqo
SIKU-MATA Outer corner of the eye (Clk): *siku-mata
SIKU-SIKU Tips, projecting ends
SIKU.A Extremity, end, tail
SIKU.B Tail of fish
SILA.1A Glance, look sideways
CC SILA.1B Shy, bashful
SILA.2
SILI.1 Pass by, go beyond, exceed
SILI.2 Ask questions
SILIGA-KELEKELE Name of a lunar month
SILIGA-MAQA Name of a lunar month
SILO Entrails
NO SIMATA Thousand; large number
NO SIMU.* Triggerfish (Balistidae)
SINA-SINA A plant
SINA.1 Grey or white-haired
SINA.2 Legendary heroine or goddess
SINA.3 A gourd
SINA.4 Drip, fall in drops
SINU-SINU Oily, shiny
SINU.1 Oil, grease
SINU.2 A shrub or tree with irritating sap (perhaps Phaleria sp.)
SIPA.1 A small or immature Flying-fish
SIPA.2 Oblique, awry
SIQAGA Mentally deficient
SISI.1 Draw up, hoist up
SISI.2 Univalve mollusc, snail-like, perhaps generic
SISI.3 Scoop out, gouge out (as meat from coconut)
SISI.4 Ray of sunlight
SISI.5 Eyes of coconut
NO SISI.6 Insect sp.
SISIFO West
SIU.* Wet
SIVA Nine
NO SIVO Nine
SIWA.1 Dance and sing
SIWA.2 Black

5665 entries found