Protoform: TE-TEA [PN] Albino, of light skin colour

Description: Albino, of light skin colour
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian
Notes:

*0 << PN *tea "white".
*8 The glottal stop in the Rotuman form is unexplained.

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Futuna Tetea Blanc, blanche (Gzl)
East Uvea Tetea Blanc (Btn)
Hawaiian Kekea Albino (Pki)
Ifira-Mele Teetea White (Clk)
Rennellese Tetea To be a little light (Ebt)
Rotuman Fefeʔa Pale (Cwd)
Samoan Tetea Albino (Prt)
Tahitian Tetea A person who remains always in the shade, and thereby becomes white; also a phantom said to appear at a spring of water (Dvs)
Tokelau Tetea Be an albino; pale, grey, whitish (Sma)
Tongan Tetea Albino, or unnaturally pale; anaemic looking (Cwd)

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