Protoform: POO-TAGOTAGO [CE] Intensely dark night
| Description: | Intensely dark night |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to CE: Central-Eastern Polynesian |
| Notes: | *0 << PN *poo "night", *tago.1 "take hold of, grasp, grope", *tago.2 "very dark" |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaiian | Pookano | Very dark | (Pki) |
| Marquesas | Koekoe potako (MQN), koekoe potano (MQS) | Ignorant | (Chf) |
| Marquesas | Potako (MQN), potano (MQS). Pootako (MQN) (Atl). | Ténèbres, nuit obscur, sombre. Noir, ténébreux (Dln). | (Lch) |
| New Zealand Maori | Pootango(tango) | Very dark; intense darkness | (Wms) |
| Niue | Poo tangotango | Utter darkness. To be completely dark (Sph). Problematic | (McE) |
| Rarotongan | Poo tangotango | The epoch of utter black darkness | (Sve) |
| Tahitian | Potaotao | A very black or dark night | (Dvs) |
| Tuamotu | Poo tangotango | Intensely dark (of night); Kiho dwelt in the Poo-tangotango-i-Hawaiki (Stimson 1933:12) | (Stn) |
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