Protoform: MA-FITI [PN] Make sudden movement, spring up
| Description: | Make sudden movement, spring up |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *0 << PN *ma-.1, *fiti.1a 'spring up, etc.' |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anuta | Mapiti | For a seedling to begin to show itself above the ground | (Fbg) |
| East Futuna | Mafiti | Bondir, rebondir (ballon); jaillir (étincelles) | (Mfr) |
| East Uvea | Mafisi | Jaillir, pétiller, bondir, flamber, étinceller; arriver par hasard... | (Rch) |
| Hawaiian | Mahiki | Jump, leap, hop, move up and down, vibrate etc. | (Pki) |
| Mangareva | Maaʔiti/ʔiti | Rejaillir (se dit de l'eau et des liquides) | (Rch) |
| Mangareva | Meʔiti | Vent qui passe sur un autre point; passer d'une maladie à la santé | (Rch) |
| New Zealand Maori | Mawhiti | Leap, skip; escape; glance quickly | (Wms) |
| Niue | Mafiti | Swift, quick Problematic | (Sph) |
| Pukapuka | Mawiti | Escape from one's grasp, break loose | (Sby) |
| Pukapuka | Maawiti/witi | Agile; to escape. Vigorous, energetic. | (Sby) |
| Rarotongan | Maʔiti | Start, make sudden involuntary movement; fly off, spring loose, jerk free | (Bse) |
| Rennellese | Mahiti | To jump up, protrude, become erect; to snap or jerk up | (Ebt) |
| Samoan | Mafiti | To spring out, as a spark from the fire; to spring up, as a splinter of wood | (Prt) |
| Samoan | Maafiti | Blustering, quarrelsome Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Prt) |
| Tahitian | Mahiti | To be drawn, pulled, opened, brought up; to be started, or mentioned as a subject brought to view, or hearing; to be soon angry | (Dvs) |
| Tahitian | Mahiti/hiti | Apt to fly up (of canoe outrigger) | (Dvs) |
| Tikopia | Mafiti | Appear | (Fth) |
| Tokelau | Mafiti | Jump, bounce, jerk (accidentally or spontaneously); (of foreskin) turned back | (Sma) |
| Tongan | Mofisi | To send out sparks or spray; (of sparks, spray) to shoot out, fly off; (of beverage etc.) to sparkle, fizz, effervesce; (of tide) begin to come in; (of news) to be heard fragmentarily; to bristle up, show signs of anger Phonologically Irregular | (Cwd) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Mavihi | Rise (of sun) | (Hvn) |
| West Futuna | Faka/mafiSi | To expand (the chest), breathe with difficulty; of sharks, turn on back Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Cpl) |
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