Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| MAUII | Left (not right) | |
| MAUKU | Recede, go down, deflate | |
| MAULU | (To go or come) secretly, unobserved, unnoticed | |
| MAUMAU.1 | Spoiled, wasted | |
| MAUMAU.2 | Unfortunate | |
| MAUNU | Bait: *m(a(a),o(o))-unu | |
| MAURE | Night of lunar cycle | |
| MAURI | Twenty-ninth night of moon | |
| MAURU | Content, pleased | |
| MAUTINI | Gourd (Lagenaria sp.) | |
| MA-UU | Sink | |
| MA-WAHE | Separated, divided, parted: *ma(a)wahe | |
| MA-WESE | Divided, separated | |
| MA-WETE | Untied, loosened, separated: *ma(a)wete | |
| MA-WEU.* | Disordered, disarranged, in confusion | |
| MA-WIRI | Twist: *ma(a)-wiri | |
| ME.1A | If | |
| ME.1B | As if, as it were; like | |
| ME.2 | Prescriptive mood marker | |
| ME.3 | With, and | |
| MEA.1A | Reddish | |
| MEA.1B | Gills, of fish | |
| MEA.1C | Gums | |
| MEA.1D | Baby, infant | |
| MEAQA.* | Clean | |
| MEGE | Shrivelled, wrinkled | |
| MEI.1 | From | |
| MEI.2 | Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis): *m(a,e)i | |
| MEI.3 | Flinch, draw back | |
| MEI.4 | Almost, nearly | |
| MEKO | Withhold, refuse to give, tease | |
| MELE.1 | Reject; defective | |
| MELE.2 | A star (Venus or Antares) | |
| MELE.3 | Speak with difficulty; clear one's throat | |
| MELO | Red/brown (Clk) | |
| ME-MEA | Goatfish sp., (Mulloidichthys sp.) | |
| MENE | Shrink back, withdraw, contract; round, fat | |
| MEO | Discontented, dissatisfied | |
| MEQA.A | Thing | |
| MEQA.B | Do (used for a range of verbal senses, particularly 'do, make, cause', 'intend', 'say') | |
| MEQA.C | Predicative base | |
| MEQA-KAI | Food | |
| TO | MEQE | Dance |
| TO | MERARI | Fish sp., wrasse |
| MERIE | Free of tapu | |
| MESA-MESA | Lonely; apprehensive | |
| MESO | Rail (Porzana sp.) | |
| METO | Extinguished, destroyed | |
| MIGAO | Respectful | |
| MIGI | Curly (of hair) |
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