Protoform: MUTU.1A [MP] Cut off, ended

Description: Cut off, ended
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to MP: Malayo-Polynesian
Notes:

*1 Cf. PPN *motu.a "severed, cut, broken in pieces", CE *muu.4 'blunt'
*2 PCP *muju "cut off" (Gty. 1991).
*4 POC *muju "be clipped off" (LPO I:248).
*41 PEMP *mutu "broken off, cut off" (ACD).
*5 PMP *putul, *puntu9 (Dpf).

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Futuna Mutu Cut off, that which is cut off (Mfr)
East Uvea Mutu Cut off (Rch)
Emae Mutu/kia To break something (Cpl)
Fijian Musu-k Cut off, ended (Cpl)
Hawaiian Muku Cut off, ended (Pki)
Mangareva Mutu Cut off, interrupted; be silent (Rch)
Manihiki-Rakahanga Mutu/anga End (n) (Bck)
Moriori Mutu Ended; to end (vi) (Shd)
New Zealand Maori Mutu Cut off, ended (Wms)
Niue Mutu Cut off; pluck, snap off; put off, lay off (workers from jobs) (Sph)
Niue Mutu/mutu Cut in pieces (McE)
Penrhyn Mutu To end, cease; end (n). Blunt-ended (Bck). (Sta)
Pukapuka Mutu Stop, leave off (Bge)
Rarotongan Mutu Cut off, ended (Bse)
Rotuman Mutu Cut off Borrowed (Cwd)
Samoan Mutu Cut off (Prt)
Tahitian Mutu Déchiré, coupé (Lmt)
Tokelau Mutu Cut off, lopped (of parts of living things) (Sma)
Tongan Mutu Cut off (Cwd)
Tongan Mootoo To break, to part (Mar)
Tongan Mutu/kanga Dividing line along the middle of tapa cloth (Cwd)
Tuvalu Mutu Cut off, incomplete (Rby)
Vaeakau-Taumako Mut(u)/ia Cut off (top of tree) (Ebt)
Vaeakau-Taumako Mde/muhu Blunt (Hvn)
Waya Musu Patient subj. verb, (sub. what is cut, especially the part cut off from the parent body). Be cut or broken off crossways, cut up or broken off in the middle (Ply)
Waya Mudu Verb and adj., patient subj. (Subj. usually the stem, not the piece cut off. Be cut off, amputated, severed, cut short , (Ply)

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