Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| LAU.2A | Speak formally; mention, enumerate, recite; count; read | |
| LAU.2B | Indefinite large number, countless | |
| LAU.3 | Surface area, expanse, breadth, size | |
| TO | LAU.4 | Harmonize |
| LAU-FALA | Pandanus leaves for weaving; a type of pandanus | |
| LAU-GA | Public discourse, speech: *la(a)uga | |
| LAU-GUTU | Lips | |
| LAU-HAKAU | Area covered with reefs | |
| LAUKAU | ?? | |
| LAU-LASI | Broad | |
| LAULAU | Basket or leaves for serving or carrying food; to serve food | |
| LAULAUFAU | Fish sp., butterfly fish sp., or moorish idol | |
| LAU-MANU | Flock of birds (indicating a shoal of fish) | |
| LAU-MEA | Gills of fish | |
| LAU-PAPA | Broad flat surface | |
| LAU-PATA | Tree sp. (Macaranga sp.) (Ebt) | |
| LAU-QEFA | Wide | |
| LAU-QITI | Narrow | |
| LAU-QULU | Hair of head | |
| LAU-RIKI | Narrow: *lau-(ri)riki | |
| LAU-TOLU | Creeper sp. | |
| LAVA-A | Able, capable | |
| LAWA.1A | Enough, sufficient, abundant, completed | |
| LAWA.1B | Postposed verbal particle intensifying the verb | |
| LAWA.1C | Overcome, conquer; accomplish | |
| LAWA.2 | Bind, wrap | |
| LAWA.3 | Item of clothing, loincloth, skirt: *lawa(-lawa) | |
| LAWA-KA | Abundant *la(uw)a-(k,q)a | |
| LAWA-LAWA | Spider | |
| LAWE.1 | Quill feathers, plumes | |
| LAWE.2A | Be caught, snagged (as fish on hook, hook on snag) | |
| LAWE.2B | Take, lay hold of | |
| LAWE-A | Wounded, injured | |
| LAWEGA | Fish sp | |
| LE | Definite article singular | |
| LEA | Speak | |
| LEFE | Fold or crease covering body orifice | |
| TO | LEFIO | Moth |
| LEFU-LEFU | Shorebird sp. | |
| LEI.1 | Whale tooth, whale ivory | |
| LEI.2 | Leap | |
| LEIA | Choke | |
| LEKA.1 | Pleasant | |
| LEKA.2 | Short, dwarf | |
| LEKA.3 | Belch, regurgitate | |
| LEKE.1 | A cavity or recess | |
| LEKE.2 | Butt end (e.g. of adze, weapon, fish-hook); heel of foot | |
| NO | LEKIA.* | Black Noddy (Anous minutus) |
| LEKILEKI | Puzzlenut tree (Xylocarpus sp.) | |
| LELE.A | Fly, run, leap |
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