Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
ANO.3 Leaf ball, game played with leaf ball (Rby)
ANOO Still, continuing
AO.1 Scoop up, gather together
AO.2 A dry or fleshless coconut
AO.3 Bind (Ebt)
AO.4 World
AO.5 Go (by sea): *(h)ao
AOA Bark (of dog): *ao(a)
AO-MARAMA World of light (this world, contrasted with the underworld)
AO-RAGI Place name
APAI.1 House purlin: *a(a)pai
APAI.2 Lift, carry on arms or hands
APAKULA Legendary person
APARAGI Sky, vault of
APELE Full
APERE Game, kind of
APO Raise hands (or weapon) in defense or threat
APU.A Seize, take, gather
APU.B Seize in the teeth; take or eat food eagerly, gorge, gobble
AQU Come, reach, arrive
AQU-MOHE Fast asleep
ARA-FATA Bridge or ladder
ARAHURA Place name
ARA-NUI Main road
ARA-TAURA Rope-ladder: *ara-taura
ARE-ARE Clear, open
ARI Wait! Exclamation of surprise: *ari(a)
ARUHE Fern sp., bracken: *a(r,n)uhe
ASA.1 To grate
ASA.2 Fin
ASEU A fish (Caranx sp.)
ASI Sandalwood (Santalum sp.)
ASOGAA Shrub sp. (Pipturus sp.)
ASU Smoke
ATA.1 Dawn: *ata(ata)
ATA.2 Carefully and deliberately
ATA-FAI Kind and gentle: *(q)atafa(q)i
ATA-LIKI Son of a man (Clk)
ATA-RAGI Some celestial or atmospheric phenomenon
ATA-RAU
A-TE-.1 Article preposed to singular personal pronouns following ki/i
ATE.2 A shrub (Wedelia [=Wollastonia] biflora) (Clk)
ATI.1 Narrative conjunction, then: *(a)ti
ATI.2 Keep a lookout for, wait for
ST ATIGI.* Empty container
ATO Ascend
ATU Postposed particle indicating direction away from speaker
ATUA A night of the lunar cycle
ATUA-LOA Centipede
ATU-MATA Mesh of net

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