Protoform: PUPU.A [PN] Crowded, close together (of plants or people); dense, thick (vegetation), overgrown, littered; clump (of vegetation)

Description: Crowded, close together (of plants or people); dense, thick (vegetation), overgrown, littered; clump (of vegetation)
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian
Notes:

*4 POC *buburu "grass; grow densely, as grass" (ACD).

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Uvea Pupu(pupu) Se grouper, se rassembler, se réunir; groupe d'arbres ou d'arbustes, touffe, bosquet; groupe en générale (Rch)
Easter Island Pupu To collect, accumulate (Chl)
Hawaiian Pu/pupu Numerous, crowded, thick, teeming, congested (Pki)
Luangiua Pupu Cluttered; covered; bush (Smd)
Mangareva Pupu Paquet, faisceau, botte; réunir (une assemblée, un peuple) (Rch)
Mangareva Pupu/pupu Etre épais (se dit des arbres épais et rapprochés les uns des autres) (Rch)
Marquesas Pupu Fagot, touffe, buisson. (Dln)
Niue Pupu Weeds (generic for weeds and plants growing wild in the bush); overrun with weeds (Sph)
Nuguria Pupu Woods, thicket, bush (Dvl)
Samoan Pupu A clump of trees (Prt)
Sikaiana Pupu Dirty, unclean (Dnr)
Takuu Pupu Weed-infested (Mle)
Takuu Ppuu Untidy, cluttered (esp. with rubbish); (of a bush area) densely vegetated or uncultivated, littered with uncleared domestic rubbish (Mle)
Tokelau Pupu (of plants) Clustered together, grow thickly together (Sma)
Tongan Pupu Close together, crowded; (of events) frequent (Cwd)
Tuvalu Pupu Impenetrable (of forest) (Rby)

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