Protoform: TUTU.3 [AN] To beat out bark into felt; beat tapa
| Description: | To beat out bark into felt; beat tapa |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to AN: Austronesian |
| Notes: | *0 >> PN *tutu-a "board on which bark-cloth is felted" |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anuta | Tutu | To pound, as in preparing bark-cloth | (Fbg) |
| Anuta | Tutu/nga | "Anvil" for pounding bark cloth or pandanus leaf | (Fbg) |
| East Futuna | Tutu | Ecorce brute du murier à papier | (Mfr) |
| East Uvea | Tutu | Broussonetia papyrifera (mûrier à papier) | (Myr) |
| Easter Island | Tuutuu | To beat, strike, whip, lash Problematic | (Fts) |
| Fijian | Tutu | The beat of a drum when a village was taken or people were killed | (Cpl) |
| Hawaiian | Kuku | To beat, as tapa | (Pki) |
| Mangareva | Tutu | Battre les fibres de l'écorce de Broussonetia papyrifera pour faire du tapa. To beat into bark-cloth; the instrument for beating (Tgr). | (Rch) |
| Marquesas | Tútu | To beat (in making cloth) | (Crk) |
| Marquesas | Tutu | Battre l'étoffe | (Dln) |
| Niue | Tutu | To beat with a stick, to beat hiapo bark for cloth | (Sph) |
| Rapa | Tutu parira | To beat tapa | (Sks) |
| Rapa | Ike tutu | Tapa mallet for finishing | (Sks) |
| Rarotongan | Tutu | Beating out of anga cloth | (Sve) |
| Rennellese | Tutu | To tap, as when beating tapa | (Ebt) |
| Samoan | Tutu | Beat bark for barkcloth | (Prt) |
| Tahitian | Tutu | To beat the layers of bark with the cloth-mallet, as the women do in cloth-making; to strike or beat; to express the juice from the mati berries, in order to die a scarlet colour | (Dvs) |
| Tikopia | Tutu | Beat out (bark-cloth) with wooden beater on a slab | (Fth) |
| Tikopia | Tu/nga | Wooden slab on which bark cloth trad. beaten | (Fth) |
| Tongan | Tutu | Inner bark of the paper mulberry after the outer layer has been removed; to beat this in making tapa cloth | (Cwd) |
| Tongan | Toótoo | The bark of the Chinese paper mulberry tree | (Mar) |
| Tuamotu | Tutu | Beat (as when making bark-cloth) | (Stn) |
| Tupuaki | Ie tutu | Tapa mallet | (Atn) |
| West Futuna | Xtu/a | To pound, beat with sticks | (Cpl) |
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