Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms
| Level | Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|---|
| POO-FUE.* | Various creeping or climbing plants | |
| POO-GIA | Overtaken by night; continue doing something after night has fallen | |
| POOKAI | To coil (as rope or string), wrap up | |
| POO-KERE | Black, dark | |
| POO-KIA | Seized, pounced on, grabbed | |
| TR | POO-NAO | Thimble, scabbard |
| POO-NIU.1 | Early stage in formation of coconut | |
| POONIU.2 | A plant (Cardiospermum halicacabum) | |
| POO-POO.A | To pat with the hands | |
| POO-POO.B | Make into a ball by kneading; ball | |
| POO-QULI | Dark night, darkness, night | |
| CK | POO-RAGI | Mad |
| POO-REHO | Cowrie-shell (Cypraea sp.): *poo-re(f,s)o | |
| POORORI | Hungry | |
| POO-RUTU | Strike hard | |
| POO-TAGOTAGO | Intensely dark night | |
| POO-TAKA | To revolve, go around; revolving or spinning object; round | |
| POOTIKI.A | Younger child or pet child | |
| CK | POOTIKI.B | Youngest child |
| POO-TURI | Deaf | |
| POO-UTO.* | Float of fishing net: *po(i,u)to.* | |
| POPO.1 | Decayed, rotten (of wood, not flesh) | |
| POPO.2 | Pointed, sharp | |
| POQOI | Pounded starchy food together with a sauce or gravy | |
| POQO-POQO | Fish sp. (Carangidae): *po(qo)-po(qo) | |
| PORI | People | |
| PORO.1 | Give instructions, make announcement | |
| PORO.2 | Blunt or truncated end or piece; in words for elbow, heel and other body parts | |
| PORO-QAKI | Give instructions (on parting) | |
| POSO | Swell, swelling, bulge | |
| POSU | Satiated | |
| POTA | Leaves eaten as greens | |
| POTI.1 | Surround | |
| POTI.2 | Bug species (Clk): *(po(ti))poti | |
| POTO.1 | Short | |
| POTO.2 | Wise, clever | |
| POTO.3 | Gathered together, assembled | |
| POTU.1 | End, piece, section; end of a village; sleeping area at end of house | |
| POTU.2 | Bug species (Clk): *po(tu)potu | |
| POU.1 | Post n | |
| POU.2 | To lower the head, plunge headlong | |
| POU-MULI | A tree (Flueggea [= Securinega] flexuosa) | |
| CK | POU-TOKOMANAWA | Post supporting centre of house ridgepole |
| PUA.1A | (Fagraea berteroana [= berteriana]), or other tree with showy flowers | |
| PUA.1B | To flower; flower, blossom: *pua(pua) | |
| PUA.2 | Turmeric | |
| PUAASIOSIO.* | Whirlwind | |
| PUAGA | Rigel | |
| PUAKA | Pig | |
| TO | PUA-LIKI | A tree |
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