Protoform: PUNI.1A [PN] Prevent access or egress by surrounding completely; blocking up, bringing ends to meet
| Description: | Prevent access or egress by surrounding completely; blocking up, bringing ends to meet |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *0 >> CE *taka-puni "go around, surround" |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Uvea | Puni/ga | Meeting in circle | (Rch) |
| Hawaiian | Puni | Surrounded; completed | (Pki) |
| Kapingamarangi | Haga/buni | To unite, to come together | (Lbr) |
| Kapingamarangi | Puni | Closed or joined tightly (as the blade to the handle of the adze) | (Lbr) |
| Kapingamarangi | Buni | Joined | (Lbr) |
| Luangiua | Puŋi | Stopped up, blocked up; finish; rain all the time | (Smd) |
| Mangareva | Puni | Achever, terminer, finir un ouvrage | (Rch) |
| Marquesas | Puni/puni | Un tres grand nombre, en tres grande quantite Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Dln) |
| Moriori | Puni | Blocked up | (Shd) |
| New Zealand Maori | Puni | Sheath or cover for ornamental feathers; a camp | (Wms) |
| Niue | Puni | To be completely filled, completed; to block (the wicket in cricket). Crammed (McE). | (Sph) |
| Niue | Pu/puni/ | Enclose, shut in. Block up, cover up, partition (Sph). | (McE) |
| Nukuoro | Buni | Closed up | (Crl) |
| Pukapuka | Puni | Fully occupied ; closed, shut | (Sby) |
| Rarotongan | Puni | Enclose, shut in, secrete (Intrans) | (Bse) |
| Rennellese | Puni | Entangled | (Ebt) |
| Samoan | Pu/puni | Block, bar; to close (e.g. door); screen off, hide | (Prt) |
| Sikaiana | Puni | Closed up, stopped up; in descent lines, to have a line without any children, or, for some speakers, with only female children | (Dnr) |
| Takuu | Puni | Shut off, blocked, closed off; (of bivalve) having its shell closed; (of eyes) blind; (of customs, knowledge, etc.) forgotten, obsolete, no longer in use | (Mle) |
| Tikopia | Puni | Block, bar, compress | (Fth) |
| Tokelau | Puni | Surround, encircle (fish); block off | (Sma) |
| Tongan | Puni/puni | Shut up all the doors and windows | (Cwd) |
| Tongan | Ma/booni | To shut or close up | (Mar) |
| Tuamotu | Puni | Surround, covered over, lie concealed | (Stn) |
| Tuvalu | Puni | To surround: encircle (as fish with a net) | (Rby) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Puni | Be delayed, be a long time; be diffficult (mentally) | (Hvn) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Puni/a | Delay (vt) | (Hvn) |
| West Futuna | Buni (WFU), puni (ANI) | To end (intransitive). To fail, come to nothing. Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Cpl) |
| West Uvea | Puni-tia | Bouché, bloqué; boucher, couvrir | (Hmn) |
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