Protoform: MATE.1C [PN] Feel strong desire or need
| Description: | Feel strong desire or need |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *0 > PN *mate-hoge, *mate-kai 'hungry' |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian | Make | Desire, want; to want | (Pki) |
| Ifira-Mele | Mate/a | Love passionately | (Clk) |
| Kapingamarangi | Made i di hiigai | Ravenous | (Lbr) |
| Mangareva | Mate | Avoir soif; aimer d'un amour profane, désirer passionnément | (Rch) |
| Marquesas | Mate | Besoin naturel; vif désir | (Dln) |
| New Zealand Maori | Mate | In want of, lacking; overcome with any emotion; deeply in love; desire | (Wms) |
| Niue | Mate | To desire, to need intensely, to want something very much | (Sph) |
| Rarotongan | Mate | Suffer (any oppressive physical or mental condition, e.g. hunger, thirst, misfortune, danger, intense desire) | (Bse) |
| Rarotongan | Mate/pongi | Feel hungry; hunger | (Bse) |
| Rennellese | Mate/kaga | To be very thirsty | (Ebt) |
| Sikaiana | Mate | To fall in love, including as a result of love magic | (Dnr) |
| Tongan | Mate | To 'almost die' with, to be overcome or carried away with (laughter, weeping, desire, sleepiness, fear, etc.) | (Cwd) |
| West Futuna | Mate ta vai | Thirsty | (Dty) |
| West Futuna | Mate/ia | To long for, to be dying for a thing | (Dty) |
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