Protoform: FOHU [PN] Enter into, pierce
| Description: | Enter into, pierce |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *3 Cf. PML *sufu “drill a hole” |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easter Island | Hou | Hole, breach; bore, drill, perforate, pierce | (Fts) |
| East Futuna | Fou | Enter, start off on a road; pierce, dig out trunk to make canoe | (Mfr) |
| East Uvea | Fou | Passer par | (Btn) |
| Hawaiian | Hou | Push, shove, poke, stab, inject | (Pki) |
| Kapingamarangi | Hou | Bowdrill | (Lbr) |
| Mangareva | Ti/ʔou | Mordre dur (se dit des puces, poux et moustiques) | (Rch) |
| Mangareva | ʔOu | Vrille, foret; percer avec une vrille, une tarière; remuer la terre avec le groin (cochon) | (Rch) |
| Manihiki-Rakahanga | Hou | Drill | (Bck) |
| Marquesas | Hoʔu. Hou (Atl). | Foret, vrille, tarière; forer, percer. Tarière, drill (Atl). | (Dln) |
| New Zealand Maori | Houhou | Peck holes in, drill | (Wms) |
| New Zealand Maori | Hou | Enter | (Wms) |
| Niue | Fou | Squeeze out, as a thorn. Removing something small in the body with a needle or thorn (Sph). Phonologically Irregular | (McE) |
| Niue | Fo | To bore a hole | (Lws) |
| Nukuoro | Hou | Native bow drill | (Crl) |
| Pukapuka | Wou | A native drill | (Mta) |
| Raʔivavae | Hou | To drill, bore; a drill | (Stn) |
| Rennellese | Hou | Masturbate, especially by women Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Ebt) |
| Samoan | Fou | Cut into a swelling | (Prt) |
| Samoan | Fou/fou | Sight the passage for a favourable moment to enter it | (Prt) |
| Tahitian | Hou | Tarière, perceuse, marteau-piqueur; percer, forer | (Lmt) |
| Tokelau | Fou | Make octopus come out of its hole in order to catch it Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Sma) |
| Tongan | Fohu | Hole, perforation (in mooring stone) | (Cwd) |
| Tuamotu | Hou | To drill, gouge out, bore | (Stn) |
| Vaeakau-Taumako | Faka/fou/tia/ | Make a hole | (Ebt) |
| West Futuna | Fou | Drill, bore, pierce something | (Dty) |
| West Futuna | Fau-a (ANI) | To bore | (Cpl) |
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