Protoform: KALU.A [PN] Loose or wrinkled membrane or flesh surrounding a harder interior substance, as around seeds or the eyeball
| Description: | Loose or wrinkled membrane or flesh surrounding a harder interior substance, as around seeds or the eyeball |
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| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
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Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Futuna | Kalu/mata | White of eye | (Gzl) |
| East Uvea | Kalu/u | Sève. Substance visqueuse entre la chair et l'ecorce d'un fruit, d'un arbre | (Btn) |
| Easter Island | Karu | Grain, seed, kernel, stone of fruit | (Fts) |
| Hawaiian | ʔAlu | Loose skin over eyeball | (Pki) |
| Ifira-Mele | Karu/karu | Seaweed Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Clk) |
| Mangareva | Karu | Substance interieure des meilleurs fruits a pain. Chair d'un fruit; fruit à pain mûr et de bonne qualité | (Jnu) |
| Mangareva | Karu mata | Paupière, eyelid. | (Chf) |
| New Zealand Maori | Karu | Spongy matter around gourd seeds | (Wms) |
| Niue | Kalu/hihi | The eye (abusively) | (Lws) |
| Pukapuka | Kalu | Pouch below eye | (Mta) |
| Rarotongan | Karu | Pupil of eye | (Bse) |
| Sikaiana | Kalu | Loose, wrinkled tissue around seed | (Dnr) |
| Sikaiana | Kalu/kalu | Interstitial tissues of animate creatures | (Dnr) |
| Takuu | Karu/karu | Soft white substance like a flower beside the egg sac inside a clam | (Mle) |
| Takuu | Karu/karu | Tissues surrounding the entrance of the vagina | (Hwd) |
| Tongan | Kalu | Thin more-or-less moist skin or membrane surrounding the flesh of certain fruits, e.g. each division of an orange | (Cwd) |
| Tuamotu | Karu/nohi | Eyelid, eyelash | (Stn) |
| Tuamotu | Karu | Loose flesh; a fold of loose flesh; cheek, as of face or buttock; lips, as of the cunnus | (Stn) |
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