Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| TEKO.3 | Proud, haughty | |
| TELA | Upper, frontal surface; front of head of fish or animal | |
| TELE.1 | Peel, pare, shave | |
| TELE.2 | Increase, grow | |
| TELE.3A | Run, move quickly | |
| TELE.3B | Flow, as liquid | |
| TELE-FUA | Naked | |
| TE-NA | Demonstrative pronoun: that, those (near you) | |
| TENI | Exalt, magnify | |
| TE-NI | Demonstrative pronoun: this, these; here | |
| TEO | Clitoris | |
| TE-O-KU | First person exclusive O-class possessive | |
| TE-O-NA | Third person singular possessive O-class. | |
| TE-O-U | Second person singular possessive, o-class, your | |
| TEPA | Look sideways, glance at | |
| TEPE | Congeal, clot | |
| TO | TEPU | Lump, knot, protuberance |
| TE-QA | A-class possessive particle, dominant. | |
| TE-QA-KU | First person exclusive singular A-class possessive: >> *ta((q)a)ku | |
| TE-QA-NA | 3rd person singular possessive A-class pronoun. | |
| TE-QA-U | Second person singular dominant possessive, your, yours: >> *ta((q)a)u | |
| TO | TEQE.1 | Excrement |
| TEQE.2 | Ooze out, squeeze out (as excrement, pus, milk, gas) | |
| TEQE-AGA | Careless, inattentive; common | |
| TEQE-AI | Negative existential and pro-form; not exist, none, no | |
| TEQE-MUU | Be quiet, silent | |
| TEQETEQE | Pufferfishes (Hpr) | |
| TE-RA | Demonstrative pronoun: that, those (distant from both speaker and addressee) | |
| TERE.A | Move swiftly and smoothly, in or on water: swim (as fish), sail (vi) (as canoe) | |
| TERE.B | To travel, voyage; travelling party | |
| TERO | Perineal area | |
| TE-TASI | A certain (one), a particular but unspecified one, another: *te(e)-tasi | |
| TETE | Shiver, tremble | |
| TE-TEA | Albino, of light skin colour | |
| TE-TEKI | Feel revulsion or fear | |
| TEU.1 | To tidy up, put in order, decorate | |
| TEU.2 | A fish (Caranx sp.) | |
| TEWE | A plant (Amorphophallus campanulatus) | |
| TIA.1A | A stake, post; stick in a peg or a needle | |
| TIA.1B | To sew, make a net | |
| TIA.2 | Lower abdomen | |
| TIAKI | To guard; to wait for | |
| TIALE | Flower (Gardenia taitensis) | |
| TIFA.1A | Pearl shell | |
| TIFA.1B | Insert, inlay, patch | |
| TIFA.2 | Soar, swerve | |
| TIFI | Tip, point, extremity | |
| TIFI-TIFI | Butterfly Fish spp. (Chaetodontidae) | |
| TII.1 | Plant sp. (Cordyline fruticosa [= terminalis]) | |
| TII.2 | Throw v |
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