Protoform: TAU.12 [PN] Cover (vt); covering of earth oven

Description: Cover (vt); covering of earth oven
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian
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Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Futuna Tau Feuilles de bananier ou d'arbre à pain utilisées pour recouvrir le four (Mfr)
East Uvea Tau Les feuilles de bananier (Rch)
Hawaiian Kau/pale To cover an oven, especially with rocks on its edge to keep earth out (Pki)
Ifira-Mele Tau Leaves placed on top of oven stones (Clk)
Luangiua Kaua haku Oven for taro (Smd)
Mangareva Tou/evere Couvrir d'herbes ou de feuilles vertes un four polynésien (Rch)
Mangareva Tou/veve Herbage avec lequel on couvre un four (Rch)
Niue Tau To cover (of earth oven or house) (Sph)
Niue Tau/aki To put stones on an oven (McE)
Nukuoro Dau (umu) A cover for an earth oven (Crl)
Rennellese Tau Leaves for covering oven; to place these (Ebt)
Samoan Tau Leaves used to cover up a native oven of food (Pki)
Tokelau Tau Fresh wide leaves of pupu (Asplenium nidus) used in covering a traditional oven... (Sma)
Tongan Tou/aki To throw more stones on the fire in a native oven (Cwd)
Tongan Tau Green leaves...for covering food in a native oven (Cwd)
West Futuna Tau To thatch (Cpl)
West Futuna Tau/seieifo To place native cabbage and grated coconut in puddings Uncertain Semantic Connection (Cpl)
West Futuna Tau/seya To put smelling leaves near rose apple, apua and bananas to keep flying foxes from eating them Uncertain Semantic Connection (Cpl)
West Uvea Tau umu Couvrir de feuilles le contenu du four (Hmn)

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