Language |
Reconstruction |
Reflex |
Description |
Rarotongan
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NP.PAALASI
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Paaraʔi
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Squash, crouch, brood or sit (as bird on nest), sit (on the ground), lie down (as pig or horse)
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Kapingamarangi
|
FJ.PALE.3C
|
Bele/dei di laa
|
Past noon
Problematic
|
Tokelau
|
PN.PALE-PALE
|
Palepale
|
The bottom plate or base of a traditional house from which the side-posts rise, which serves also to keep the coral pebble flooring in
|
Kapingamarangi
|
FJ.PALE.3C
|
Pere/tai ti raa
|
Mid-afternoon
Problematic
|
Niue
|
FJ.PALE.3C
|
Pale
|
Turned (as sun when past noon, or moon past midnight)
|
Samoan
|
FJ.PALE.3C
|
Pale
|
Set, of sun or moon
|
Pukapuka
|
NP.PALE-TAI
|
Waka/pale/tai
|
Canoe part, additional section of wood lashed to base of gunwale when gunwale not deep enough
|
Tikopia
|
OC.PALI.3
|
Pali
|
Constrained in behaviour (esp. in food and from dancing due to mourning obligations
|
West Uvea
|
OC.PALI.3
|
Pali
|
Fast, go without food
|
Hawaiian
|
CE.PARIRI
|
Palili
|
Small, weak taro shoot
|
New Zealand Maori
|
CE.PARIRI
|
Pariri
|
Shoot of a plant; shoot up, grow
|
Tuamotu
|
CE.PARORO
|
Paroro
|
Dearth, scarcity, lack of food; bereft, deprived of
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Hawaiian
|
CE.PARU.1
|
Palu
|
Food or bait made of fish head, stomach, pounded
|
Rarotongan
|
CE.PARU.2
|
Paru
|
Soft, weak, flexible ; supple, graceful, relaxed; soft and yielding, pliant, deflated (as tyre, balloon), slack (of rope)
|
Hawaiian
|
AN.PANA.1A
|
Pana
|
Shoot (as marbles)
|
Tahitian
|
AN.PANA.1A
|
Pana
|
The name of an amusement of children; to search or feel for a thing by means of some instrument; to raise up a thing with a lever or bar; to more or turn over with a hand spike; to toss or kick a football
Uncertain Semantic Connection
|
Rarotongan
|
CE.PANI.2
|
Poo/pani/
|
Plug, stopper
|
Hawaiian
|
NP.PANOKO
|
Paanoʔo
|
(Eleotridae) and (Gobiidae spp.), said to leap from pool to pool
|
Easter Island
|
PN.PAO.1
|
Paʔo/paʔo
|
To chip in reference to wood
Problematic
|
Niue
|
PN.PAO.1
|
Pao
|
To punch [hit with fist]; to nail, to hammer; stop up (as a tooth, make a filling
|
Rennellese
|
PN.PAO.1
|
Pao(pao)
|
Uproot, pull up, as with repeated motions to dislodge
|
Nukuoro
|
PN.PAOPAO
|
Paopao
|
Double-ended single outrigger with two booms
|
Tongan
|
PN.PAOPAO
|
Poopao
|
Canoe. Petite pirogue d'un seul troncc d'arbre (Btn).
|
Nuguria
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Hare-papa
|
Floor of a house
|
Luangiua
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Papa
|
Floor
|
Pukapuka
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Papa
|
To lay down flooring
|
Pukapuka
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Papa/naki
|
Driftwood, boards off foreign vessels
|
Rotuman
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Papa
|
Floor or deck if made of boards
|
Sikaiana
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Papa
|
Wooden box, coffin; timber, lumber; board in front of the weaver that supports the warp-threads
|
Waya
|
MP.PAPA.1A
|
Baba
|
Board, plank, or other flat, wide piece of wood
|
Niue
|
PN.PAPA.1B
|
Papa
|
To sit (on the flat ground); floor-mat (made from wide, unsplit pandanus leaves)l solid (with a flat base); to be hit flat, to be hit full square (completely, absolutely, exactly)
|
Tokelau
|
SO.PAPA.2
|
Papa
|
School of fish of certain species, especially Caranx sp.; a variety of sea-bass or grouper, reddish yellow with white spots (?Variola louti)
|
Tongan
|
PN.TAQO-KUPU
|
Toʔukupu kelekele
|
Foot, leg (regal)
|
New Zealand Maori
|
TA.PA-PII
|
Papii
|
Ooze, leak
|
Tuamotu
|
CE.PAAPUU
|
Paapuu
|
Level, flat, smooth; sure, certain, convinced
|
Tahitian
|
TA.PAAPUA.
|
Papua
|
Young shoots of bamboo. A green branch of a tree or plant (Dvs).
|
Hawaiian
|
CE.PAA-SERE.2
|
Pahele
|
Snare, noose, trap; needle for stringing leis
Problematic
|
New Zealand Maori
|
PN.PAASI
|
Paahi
|
Gloomy, disquieted
|
Pukapuka
|
PN.PAASI
|
Payi/a
|
Satisfied (with food)
|
Rarotongan
|
TR.PASORO
|
Paaʔoro
|
Comb (Nga Puu-toru dialect); Stroke lightly, smooth down; harrow (Bib.)
|
New Zealand Maori
|
CE.PASU.1B
|
Pahu
|
Bark (as dog); glance off, ricochet (as a dart). Alarum made of stone or wood (Wms 3rd ed). Wooden gong
|
New Zealand Maori
|
CE.PASU.1B
|
Pahuu
|
Alarum made of stone or wood (Wms 5th ed.). Burst, explode
|
Penrhyn
|
FJ.PASU.2
|
Pahu
|
Join together (usually for good)
Uncertain Semantic Connection
|
Rarotongan
|
PN.PATA.1B
|
Koo/pata/pata
|
Spotted, speckled
|
Penrhyn
|
PN.PATA.3
|
Pata
|
Bit, esp. a bit of food
Problematic
|
Penrhyn
|
TA.PATA.4
|
Pata
|
Marble game; to play marbles; shoot at; catapult
|
Rarotongan
|
EC.PAA-TAGALOA
|
Paatangaroa
|
Long-tailed Cuckoo (Eudynamis taitensis)
Problematic
|
Hawaiian
|
CE.PAATAITAI
|
Paakai/kaawele
|
A fish, perhaps an `oopakapaka
|
Penrhyn
|
TA.PAA-TARATARA
|
Paatara
|
Zigzag-hemmed; saw-toothed decoration for pandanus works...
|
Rarotongan
|
TA.PAA-TARATARA
|
Paataratara
|
Serrated, saw-edged, dog-toothed
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