Protoform: SIKU-SIKU [PN] Tips, projecting ends
| Description: | Tips, projecting ends |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *0 << PN *siku.a "extremity, end, tail" |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anuta | Tikutiku | End of an object; tail of fish or other animal; end of an event (story, song, etc.) | (Fbg) |
| Hawaiian | Hiʔuhiʔu | Last bits or odds and ends: remnants of matting strips that must be cut off after plaiting is finished; ends of knots in plaiting; wispy end of a braid | (Pki) |
| Manihiki-Rakahanga | Hikuhiku nikau | Tip end of coconut leaf | (Bck) |
| New Zealand Maori | Hikuhiku | Eaves of a house | (Wms) |
| Nuguria | Sukusuku rima | Lower arm Phonologically Irregular | (Ths) |
| Pukapuka | Yikuyiku | Tip of coconut frond; left over pieces of mat that are cut off and used again | (Sby) |
| Pukapuka | Lau yikuyiku, lau yukuyuku | End of coconut frond thrown as a challenge | (Sby) |
| Rarotongan | ʔIkuʔiku | End, tip (exs. ends of coconut leaves, tails of fish) | (Bse) |
| Rarotongan | Ikuiku | The leaves [sic] of a thatched house | (Sve) |
| Rennellese | Sikusiku | Tail, end, as of vine or octopus tentacle | (Ebt) |
| Samoan | Siʔusiʔu | Tail (of mammal), tail-end (e.g. of needle) | (Mnr) |
| Sikaiana | Sukisuki | End of a coconut branch {paakele}, sometimes used to mark land reserved for a person to collect coconuts {uiki} Phonologically Irregular | (Dnr) |
| Takuu | Sukisuki | Tip, extremity, narrow end, tip of a branch, upper area of a tree where the trunk begins to narrow; indicates the end of a limb or the adjacent tendon Phonologically Irregular | (Mle) |
| Tongan | Hikuhiku | Top(s) or tip(s) projecting upwards: inc. top (of a mast or flagstaff etc.); tip (of a branch), topmost branch (of a tree), projecting leaves or twigs (on top of a hedge), etc. | (Cwd) |
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