Pollex Reconstructed Protoforms

Level Reconstruction Description
SEKI Grab, snatch, pull out, jerk
SEKU Fantail (Rhipidura sp.)
SELA Asthma; gasp for breath
SELE.1A Snare; tie up
SELE.1B Trip someone, wrestle (Hwd)
SELE.2 Knife; cut
SELE.3 Beloved, prized
SELE.4 Go
SELU Comb
SEMA.1 Left (not right)
CC SEMA.2 A jellyfish: *sema(sema)
SEMA.3 Fashion wood on an angle
SEMO Become separated, slip off, be loosed; weak, exhausted
SEPE Cut, trim (with knife)
SEPO.A Suck, slurp, lap up, lick up food
SEPO.B A fruit soup or stew
NO SEPU Dive, go down into water, disembark from canoe
SEQA Call
SEQE.1 Insect spp. including Mantis, Stick Insect, Locust
SEQE.2 Negative marker
SERU Scratch the earth, as a fowl does, scrape, dig
SE-SEGI Fearful, timid, shy, untamed
SF SE-TASI A certain (one), a particular but unspecified one, another
SEU Raking or scooping motion, hence clearing, sweeping away, netting
SEWA.A Confused, in error
SEWA.B Mourning practices or ceremonies
SIAPO Paper-mulberry plant (Broussonetia sp.); bark-cloth
SIFI Whittle, pare
SIGA.A Fall over, topple over
SIGA.B Be defeated
SIGANO Pandanus flower; Pandanus sp
SIGO Look askance: *(si)sigo
SII.1 Fish with a line
SII.2A To spurt; ejaculate, semen
SII.2B (Have) diarrhoea
SIKA.1 Netting needle
SIKA.2 Make fire with fire-plough
SIKA.3 Female genitals
SIKI.1A Lift (v); carry or hold a child in the arms
SIKI.1B Support, assist (a person), esp. in childbirth; midwife
SIKI.1C Tack (a canoe)
SIKI.1D Copy, quote, translate
SIKI.1E Shift or move to another place
SIKI.2 Finish the ends or edges of a mat
SIKI.3 Club used in fishing
NO SIKI-SIKI Small bird sp.
SIKO.A Catch (with hands, esp. in the air); juggle
SIKO.B Gather up, coil, roll up (string, cord)
SIKU.A Extremity, end, tail
SIKU.B Tail of fish

5724 entries found