Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
SEI.1A Flower worn as decoration
SEI.1B Wreath, garland
SEI.2 Particle of future location, or purpose.
SEKA (White) fungus, mould
SEKE.1A Slip, slide; surf-ride; slip off or out; fall off or out; miss (a goal)
SEKE.1B Flow out: discharge from body; (of tide) ebb
SEKE.1C Dislocated (of joint)
SEKE.1D Sail downwind
SEKE.2 Migrate; go home; flee
SEKI Grab, snatch, pull out, jerk
SEKU Fantail (Rhipidura sp.)
SELA Asthma; gasp for breath
SELE.1A Snare; tie up
SELE.1B Trip someone, wrestle (Hwd)
SELE.2 Knife; cut
SELE.3 Beloved, prized
SELE.4 Go
SELU Comb
SEMA.1 Left (not right)
CC SEMA.2 A jellyfish: *sema(sema)
SEMA.3 Fashion wood on an angle
SEMO Become separated, slip off, be loosed; weak, exhausted
SEPE Cut, trim (with knife)
SEPO.A Suck, slurp, lap up, lick up food
SEPO.B A fruit soup or stew
NO SEPU Dive, go down into water, disembark from canoe
SEQA Call
SEQE.1 Insect spp. including Mantis, Stick Insect, Locust
SEQE.2 Negative marker
SERU Scratch the earth, as a fowl does, scrape, dig
SEU Raking or scooping motion, hence clearing, sweeping away, netting
SEWA.A Confused, in error
SEWA.B Mourning practices or ceremonies
SI-SII Hiss, spurt with a hiss
SIAPO Paper-mulberry plant (Broussonetia sp.); bark-cloth
SIFI Whittle, pare
SIGA.A Fall over, topple over
SIGA.B Be defeated
SIGANO Pandanus flower; Pandanus sp
SIGO Look askance: *(si)sigo
SII.1 Fish with a line
SII.2A To spurt; ejaculate, semen
SII.2B (Have) diarrhoea
SIKA.1 Netting needle
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)

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