Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
LAKU.3 Carry or move many things; load or unload
TO LAKUA Fish sp.
LALA.1 Tree (Vitex sp.)
LALA.2 Scattered, disorderly
LALAFI A fish, wrasse (Cheilinus sp.)
LALI.1 Gong
LALI.2 Wet
LALI.3 Fish sp
LALO.A Below, under
LALO.B West
LALO-KOKA Placename
LAMA.1 To watch for, to ambush
LAMA.2A Lamp-black, black dye, soot (Rby)
LAMA.2B A tree used to make torches
LAMU Chew
LANEA Abundant
LANU.A Be immersed, full; rise (of tide)
LANU.B Colour
LAO Tail of crustacean
LAOI Good: *la(w)oi
LAPA.1A Flat, broad: *lapa(lapa)
LAPA.1B Flat and/or broad object (e.g. paddle blade, buttress root, coral head): *lapa(lapa)
LAPA.2 Flash (of light); to flash
LAPA.3 Disordered or inappropriate speech
LAPAKAU Skilled, knowledgeable; an expert (Clk)
LAPE A fish, Wrasse
NO LAPIAO Fish sp.
LAPITI A tern (Sterna sumatrana) *(ta)lapiti
LAPU Knead to a pulp
LAQAA.A Sun
LAQAA.B Day (period of time)
LAQAA-INA Exposed to sun, affected by sun
LAQALAQA-TEA Midday (Clk)
LAQE.A Forehead
CC LAQE.B Promontory, cape, headland
LAQOA To be choked
LAQOFIE Fine, of weather
LAQU.1 To get by hooking (as a fish), pinching between fingers
LAQU.2 Piece of yam for propagation
LASE Lime (coral)
LASI Numerous, large, great
LASO.A Scrotum and testicles
LASO.B Posterior portion of crustacean
LASU Lie, deceive
LATA.1 Tame, domesticated, familiar
LATA.2 A tree (Metrosideros sp.): *la(a)ta(a)
LA-TOU.A Third person plural preposed subject pronoun
-LA-TOU.B Third person plural possessive suffix
LAU.1A Leaf
LAU.1B Counting Classifier for flat things or some fish

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