Protoform: FAKA-QAROFA [PN] Pitiable, poor, unfortunate; to feel pity, feel sorry for
| Description: | Pitiable, poor, unfortunate; to feel pity, feel sorry for |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *0 < *faka-, *qarofa.A |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anuta | Pakaaropa | Causing sympathy; designation of persons belonging to lower two of the four _kainanga_; "commoner" | (Fbg) |
| Anuta | Pakaaropa | Causing sympathy; designating persons belonging to the lower two of the four *kainanga*: "commoner" | (Fbg) |
| Anuta | Tama pakaaropa | Orphan | (Fbg) |
| East Futuna | Faka/alo/alofa | Etre orphelin, être abandonné; faire pitié | (Mfr) |
| East Uvea | Fakaʔofa | Attirer la pitié, exciter l'amitié, aimable; disposition favorable envers une personne inférieure Borrowed | (Rch) |
| Emae | Fakaarofa | Poor | (Clk) |
| Kapingamarangi | Hagaaloho | To feel sorrow | (Lbr) |
| Kapingamarangi | Hakaaroho | Pity | (Egt) |
| Mangareva | ʔAkaroʔa | Affection, déplaisir Problematic | (Rch) |
| Mangareva | ʔAkaaroʔa | Aimer, chérir | (Rch) |
| Marquesas | Hakaʔoha | Compâtir, avoir pitié, clément, débonnaire; pitié, compassion, clémence; remercier, remerciement, reconnaissance | (Dln) |
| Niuafoʔou | Fakaʔofaʔofa | Beautiful Borrowed | (Tmo) |
| Niue | Fak(a)alofa | Love, pity, compassion; to love, pity, have mercy, bless. Greetings; handshake (in greeting); present, gift (Sph). Phonologically Irregular | (McE) |
| Nuguria | Hakaaroha | Poor, unfortunate, unlucky | (Dvl) |
| Nukumanu | Rue hakaalloha | Dirge | (Trt) |
| Nukumanu | Hakaalloha | Poor (people) (plural) | (Trt) |
| Nukuoro | Hagaaloha | Piteous, pitiful | (Crl) |
| Penrhyn | Hakaaroha | Love wells up | (Bck) |
| Pukapuka | Wakaaloa | To feel sorry for; unfortunate; the unfortunate one who has one's sympathy | (Bge) |
| Rarotongan | ʔAkaaroʔa | Pity, sorrow for, sympathise | (Bse) |
| Rennellese | Hakaʔaagoha | To be pathetic, miserable, pitiful; to grieve, show affection | (Ebt) |
| Sikaiana | Hakaaloha | To do something in a manner that makes others pity you, pitiful; to give very generously and excessively to others | (Dnr) |
| Tahitian | Faaaroha | To cause pity or compassion; a keep-sake, a relic | (Dvs) |
| Takuu | Hakaaroha | Sorrowful; cause feelings of compassion; lonely | (Mle) |
| Tikopia | Fakaarofa | Evoking sympathy, affection; in many contexts, given concrete connotation, e.g., of poverty; commoner, person not of chiefly class | (Fth) |
| Tokelau | Fakaalofa | A term for expression one's emotions of sadness or sympathy towards someone or something | (Sma) |
| Tongan | Fakaʔofa | Moving (to sympathy or pity), pitiful, stirring, pathetic, pitiable | (Cwd) |
| Tongan | Fucca-ofa | To caress, to fondle | (Mar) |
| Tongan | Fakaʔofo/ʔofa | Lovely (esp. to look at), pretty, charming, beautiful... | (Cwd) |
| Tuamotu | Hakaaroha | To take pity on...; arousing love, tenderness, pity | (Stn) |
| Tuvalu | Fakaalofa | Pitiable, unfortunate, hard up; a foreigner who lives on an island but has no land rights, an alien resident | (Jsn) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Hu/aloha | Live sadly, be sad, be sorry; repentance | (Hvn) |
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