| Language |
Reconstruction |
Reflex |
Description |
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Easter Island
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NP.WAI.2
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Bai/tunui
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Old name of month corresponding to April
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East Uvea
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PN.TA-PUNI
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Tapuni, taapunu
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Couvercle, bouchon; fermer, clore, boucher
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West Futuna
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PN.QUNU
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Ma/unu
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Go ahead, go quickly (of people in file)
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West Futuna
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PN.MAUNU
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Maunu-shia (FUT), maunu-tshia (ANI)
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To place the bait in the fish basket
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Anuta
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AN.QANUFE
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Unupe
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Caterpillar
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Takuu
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NO.SUGU
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Sunu
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Smell something
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Sikaiana
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NO.SUGU
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Sunu
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To smell something
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Nuguria
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NO.SUGU
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Sunu, hunu
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Smell (perceive odour)
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Nuguria
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PN.MAUNU
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Maunu
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Bait
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Nuguria
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NO.SUNU.1*
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Sunu
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Oil (fish oil, coconut oil)
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Niue
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PN.PUNU-TI
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Punuti
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A guard in fighting (spear or stick held horizontally over the head); a shield (mod.)
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Nuguria
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NP.TAU-SINU.*
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Tauhunu
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Tree sp.
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West Uvea
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OC.SUNU.2
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Su/sunu
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Allumer
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Nuguria
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AN.UNU.1
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Unu-hia
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Uproot, pull out/up
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Tahitian
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PN.MAUNU
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Maunu
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Bait for fish
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Easter Island
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PN.LULU.2
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Runu
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Collect, gather; pick up
Phonologically Irregular
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Nukuoro
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PN.GAFULU.*
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Huru, hunu
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Ten
Problematic
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Nukumanu
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EC.KAU-GUTU
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Kaunutu
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Hem
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Pukapuka
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SO.LAA-NUI
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Niu laanunui
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Coconut tree that bears very large nuts
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Nukumanu
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PN.MA-GUGU
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Maanunu
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Crumbs
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Nukumanu
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PN.UNU.3
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Unu
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Drink
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Nukumanu
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PN.PUNUA
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Punua, pu/punua
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Young (of animal), chicks
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Tokelau
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PN.MA-SUNU
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Mahunu
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Be singed, scorched
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Tokelau
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PN.MAA-UNU
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Maunu
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Be detached (from place), come loose (out of place)
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Tokelau
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FJ.MUNUA
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Munua
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Large bass or grouper, about a metre long when fully grown (Epinephelus sp.)
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Tokelau
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PN.PUNUA
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Punua
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Young of a bird, animal or shark
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Tokelau
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FU.UNU.2
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Unu
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Line or row of dancers
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Tongan
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PN.PUUPUU.4
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Puupuu
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Roll or ball of fe'unu [strips of pandanus leaf ready for weaving]
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Nukumanu
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NO.SUGU
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Huunu
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Smell
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Pukapuka
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??.TAAUA.2
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Taua
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Name of a goddess (atua punupunu). Goddess of Pukapuka belonging to Loto village (Sby).
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Nukumanu
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CP.FIA-
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Hi/unu
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Thirsty
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Mangareva
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AN.UNU.1
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Unui, ka/ʔunuʔi
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Enlever; take away
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Rapa
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AN.TUNU
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Tunu
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To boil
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Takuu
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PN.FE-QUNU
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Heunu
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Centipede; animal taxon for crawling creatures (beetles, caterpillars, worms)
Uncertain Semantic Connection
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Takuu
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NO.KUNU
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Kunu
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Adult stage of an edible clam which burrows into the reef (Tridacna maxima, T. crocea)
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Sikaiana
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NO.KUNU
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Kunu
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A species of oyster, popular food on Sikaiana
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Nuguria
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NO.KUNU
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Kunu
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A kind of shellfish (small, grows on stones, edible)
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Sikaiana
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PN.POO-GIA
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Poonia
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To be caught at sea when it is night, under unusual or unpleasant circumstances; not to reach a destination by nightfall
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East Futuna
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PN.PALA.1D
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Pala/pala/unu
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Etre trempé par la pluie
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Sikaiana
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PN.LAU-GUTU
|
Launutu
|
The lips of a person (archaic); the rim of a basket
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Ra'ivavae
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CE.GERE
|
ŋere
|
To be deprived; to be not, not to be; to sequestrate ceremonially (as young maidens of the hare-nunu); to take prisoner, imprison, shut into
|
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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OC.SUNU.2
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Hua/un/unu
|
Burn rubbish
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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PN.NA.4
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Na
|
He, she (3s prunuclear clitic pronoun)
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Nuguria
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XO.SUKU
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Huku(huku)
|
Top (of a tree), extremity, tail (of coconut leaves, paunu etc.)
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Tokelau
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NP.MANU.1B
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Manu
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A constellation which appears during Kaununu (early October or late November)
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Tongan
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PN.MAKA-SUNU
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Makahunu
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A kind of hard black stone...used in native ovens and for grinding kava
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East Uvea
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PN.MAKA-SUNU
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Makahunu
|
Caillou
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Tongan
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PN.SUNU-KI
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Hunuki
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To insert, stick in, in the ground; to peg out, mark out with pegs or stakes in the ground
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East Futuna
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PN.SUNU-KI
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Sunuki
|
Planter (kava, manioc)
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East Uvea
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PN.SUNU-KI
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Hunuki
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Enfiler, embrocher, piquer, planter dans
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