Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FAKA-QOTI.C | Completely, exhaustively, thoroughly (post-verbal) | |
| FAKA-QUGA-QUGA | Make small notches in carving | |
| FAKA-QUTA | Consider, reflect on | |
| FAKA-RAU | To make a hundred; to increase in number, multiply (vt) | |
| FAKA-RIKI | Make small, make into small pieces | |
| FAKA-RITE | Compare, show similarity | |
| FAKA-ROGO | Hear, listen, obey | |
| FAKA-RUA.1 | Twice; to do twice, do a second time, repeat | |
| FAKA-RUA.2 | North-east (wind) | |
| FAKA-RUKU | Dive for fish | |
| FAKA-RURU | To shelter | |
| FAKA-SAA | To show | |
| FAKA-SANI | Tie two coconuts together by partially husked fibre | |
| FAKA-SEKE | Slide deliberately, play at sliding, surf | |
| FAKA-SELE | To show love or care for; person loved or cared for | |
| FAKA-SESEE | Lead astray: *faka-(se)see | |
| FAKA-SIKU | Make an ending, cut short | |
| FAKA-SOA | Pair off, make couples, put together | |
| FAKA-TAFA | Be on one side, go to one side; step aside, get out of the way | |
| FAKA-TAGI | Play (musical instrument) | |
| FAKA-TASA | Together | |
| FAKA-TASI | Join, together | |
| FAKA-TAU | Buy, sell | |
| FAKA-TAU- | Reciprocal prefix | |
| FAKA-TELE | Sail (vt), steer, navigate | |
| SF | FAKA-TEMU | Touch lightly |
| FAKA-TERE-TERE | Race canoes; practice sailing; sail toy canoes | |
| FAKA-TIKA | Agree, accept, allow | |
| FU | FAKA-TILI | To increase biologically, produce offspring |
| FAKA-TIU.* | North-west wind | |
| FAKA-TOFUTOFU | Give everyone a share | |
| FAKA-TOKA | Begin, do for first time; get ready, prepare | |
| FAKA-TONU.A | To make straight, true or correct | |
| FAKA-TONU.B | To accept or present something as true or correct | |
| FAKA-TONU.C | To judge, order, instruct, regulate, settle differences | |
| FAKA-TOO.A | Cause to fall, drop; lay (egg) | |
| FAKA-TOO.B | Descend, go down | |
| FAKA-TOSI | Labour, effort, strain, esp. of childbirth: *faka-(to)tosi | |
| FAKA-TULI | To act as though deaf; disobey | |
| FAKA-TUPU.A | Cause to grow, raise, rear | |
| FAKA-TUPU.B | To create, start, originate, cause | |
| FAKA-TUPU.C | To cause to rise, heap up, pile up; to gather, meet | |
| FAKA-TUPU.D | Take the form of, appear as, be transformed into | |
| FAKA-TUQU | Set up, establish; begin | |
| FAKA-TURI | Sexual immorality | |
| TO | FAKA-TUU | Aggressive display |
| FAKA-UMI-UMI | Reluctant | |
| FAKA-WAA | Judge (n,v) | |
| FAKA-WAKA | A handle, provide with a handle | |
| FAKA-WALE | Behave irrationally or foolishly; deceive |
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