Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PATE.2 | Operculum of shellfish | |
| PATI.1 | Clap | |
| PATI.2 | Ask, cajole, coax | |
| PATI.3 | Element in body part terms | |
| PA-TII | Spurt, splash | |
| PATITO.1 | Growth on the head | |
| TR | PATITO.2 | A marine creature |
| LO | PATO | Duck n |
| PATOKI | Very black (intensifier with *quli) | |
| PATOO.1 | Sharp, abrupt noise | |
| PATOO.2 | Swelling | |
| PATU.1A | Strike, kill | |
| PATU.1B. | Mallet or club | |
| PATU.2 | Callus, lump, tumour | |
| PATU.3 | Build in stone | |
| PAU.1A | Definite, determined, decided, certain; definitely, certainly, exactly (post-verbal) | |
| PAU.1B | Extend to the limits of something | |
| PAU.1C | Finished, over, ended | |
| PAU.1D | Consumed, exhausted, used up, worn out, destroyed; totally, completely | |
| PAU.1E | All | |
| NO | PAU.2 | Count |
| PAU.3 | Tree sp | |
| PAUQU | Badly behaved | |
| PE | Or, whether: *p(e,o) | |
| PEA | Particle of continuity: then, still | |
| PE-AFA | Perhaps: *pe-a(h)a | |
| PEAU | Ocean swell whether breaking or not, billow | |
| PEE | Perhaps: *(qa)pee | |
| PEE- | Be like | |
| PEE-FEA | How? | |
| PEEHAU | Wing | |
| PEE-HENA | (Be) like that (near you) | |
| PEE-HENI | Like this | |
| PEE-IA | Demonstrative adverb: like this, like that | |
| PEE-LAA | Like that (demonstrative manner adverbial) *pe(e)-laa | |
| PEGU | Blunt | |
| PEHA | Bit, part | |
| TO | PE-HEE | Like that; to say |
| PEI | Small fruit; game played with these | |
| PEKA.1 | Fruit bat, flying-fox | |
| PEKA.2A | A cross, crosswise | |
| PEKA.2B | Criss-cross, branching, tangled (vegetation) | |
| PEKAHI | Fan | |
| PEKA-PEKA.1 | Swiftlet, small bat | |
| PEKA-PEKA.2 | Trouble, troubled, perplexed | |
| PEKE.1A | Ascend, climb, leap | |
| PEKE.1B | Be carried on the wind (as smoke or a kite), dissipate, disappear | |
| PEKE.1C | Quick, agile | |
| PEKE.2A | Twisted, bent, crooked, stunted | |
| PEKE.2B | Crouch, hunch up in fetal position; fold limbs |
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