Protoform: PAAEA [XW] Orphan, friendless

Description: Orphan, friendless
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to XW: West Polynesia (TON,NIU,EUV,EFU,SAM,TOK,TUV,NFO)
Notes:

*1 Cf. PN *paqe 'be cast ashore, drift'

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Uvea Paʔea Orphelin; être né d'une étrangère; entrainé, roulé, rejeté par la lame (Rch)
Mangareva Paoa Etre pauvre, qui manque du nécessaire Problematic (Rch)
Niue Paea To migrate, to immigrate. Wandering, alien; exile, stranger; to exile, banish (McE). (Sph)
Niue Faka/paea To deport (Sph)
Samoan Paaea Friendless, poor (Prt)
Tongan Paea To be oprhaned, or to be living away from one's parents and among strangers (Cwd)
Tongan Paaea (Of a boat or those on it) to drift out of its (or their) course (Cwd)
Tongan Pya Destitute, an orphan (Mar)

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