Protoform: TIKA.A [OC] Dart, throw a dart
Description: | Dart, throw a dart |
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Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to OC: Oceanic |
Notes: | *0 >> CE *teka.2a "dart" |
Pollex entries:
Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
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Anuta | Tika | A type of dart made from a reed shaft about four feet long, with a heavy hardwood head; a contest in which men compete to see how far they can throw their *tika* darts...; to throw something after the fashion of throwing a reed dart | (Fbg) |
East Futuna | Tika | Jeu de lancer | (Mfr) |
East Uvea | Sika | Petit javelot | (Rch) |
Easter Island | Tika | Dirección, huella, rastro; señal para orientarse; (fig.) hombre joven. Direction; footprint, track; mark used for orienting; (fig.) young man. Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Fts) |
Fijian | Tiqa | Reed dart | (Cpl) |
Marquesas | Tika | Percer le fruit à pain pour le faire mûrir | (Lch) |
Mota | Tipwa | Blunt arrow for birds. | (Cdn) |
Niue | Tika, hako-tika, tika-hako | Straight | (McE) |
Niue | Tika. | Javelin, dart, spear (used in sport of taa-tika) | (Sph) |
Niue | Hako/tika | Quite correct, dead right, spot on Problematic | (Sph) |
Nuguria | Tika | Javelin used in war (both ends sharp); pitching game throwing a piece of wood with a rope wrapped around it | (Dvl) |
Pukapuka | Tika | Dart | (Bge) |
Rotuman | Tika | (To play at) dart-throwing Problematic | (Cwd) |
Samoan | Tagaa/tiʔa/ | A game which consists in darting a light stick along the ground | (Prt) |
Sikaiana | Tika | A dart made from the base of a coconut stalk {tupallaha} | (Dnr) |
Sikaiana | Tika/tika | A dart game with darts {tika} made from coconut leaf. The object of the game is to compete to see who can throw his dart the furthest with an underhand throw | (Dnr) |
Takuu | Tonu ttika | (colloq.) Perfectly correct, exact | (Mle) |
Takuu | Tika | (obs.) Javelin used for sporting purposes | (Mle) |
Tikopia | Tika | Kind of arrow thrown in a game | (Fth) |
Tongan | Tonu/sika | Straight as a dart, absolutely straight or direct | (Cwd) |
Tongan | Sika | Dart, to throw darts | (Cwd) |
West Uvea | Tika | Glisser | (Hmn) |
22 entries found
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