Protoform: QAOA [OC] Banyan tree (Ficus sp.)

Description: Banyan tree (Ficus sp.)
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to OC: Oceanic
Notes:

*1 Cf. TO *qowawa
*2 PCP *?ayawa (Geraghty 2004).
*4 POC *qayawan "Ficus strangler fig taxon" (LPO III:303)
*5 PEMP *qayawan "banyan, strangler fig" (ACD).

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Futuna ʔAoa Banyan tree (Mfr)
Emae R/aoa Banyan (Cpl)
Hawaiian Ao/aoa/ Small seaside shrub, (Wikstroemia sp.) (Pki)
Ifira-Mele Aoa Banyan (Clk)
Mangareva Aoa Arbre: banian (Ficus prolixa) (Rch)
Mangareva Oa Arbre: espèce de figuier (Rch)
Marquesas Aoʔa. Aoa (Lch). Baobas, figuier des bananiens, (Ficus indica) (Dln)
Nukuoro Aoa Ficus prolixa, banyan (Crl)
Raʔivavae (ʔ)Aoa Banyan tree (Ficus umbilicata) (Zpn)
Rarotongan Aoa Banyan tree (Ficus prolicxa) on outer islands (Whr)
Rarotongan Ava Pacific Banyan (Ficus prolixa) (McC)
Rennellese ʔAoa Banyan-like tree, (Ficus benjamini) [l.] (Ebt)
Samoan A/aoa/ Banyan tree (Prt)
Tahitian Aoa Banyan (Ficus prolixa). The name of a tree, called also ora and ore, and of the bark of which cloth is made... (Dvs) (Aca)
Tikopia Aoa Banyan tree (Ficus sp.) (Fth)
Tupuaki Aoa Ficus prolixa (Atn)
Vaeakau-Taumako Aoa Banyan tree [Nupani Dialect] (Ray)
Waya (Y)a(y)awa Tree spp., Ficus pritchardii and F.tinctoria (Ply)
West Futuna Oa Banyan-like tree (Dty)

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