Protoform: PAAEA [XW] Orphan, friendless

Description: Orphan, friendless
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to XW: West Polynesia (TON,NIU,EUV,EFU,SAM,TOK,TUV,NFO)
Notes:

*1 Cf. PN *paqe 'be cast ashore, drift'

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
East Uvea Paʔea Orphelin; être né d'une étrangère; entrainé, roulé, rejeté par la lame (Rch)
Mangareva Paoa Etre pauvre, qui manque du nécessaire Problematic (Rch)
Niue Paea To migrate, to immigrate. Wandering, alien; exile, stranger; to exile, banish (McE). (Sph)
Niue Faka/paea To deport (Sph)
Samoan Paaea Friendless, poor (Prt)
Tongan Paaea (Of a boat or those on it) to drift out of its (or their) course (Cwd)
Tongan Paea To be oprhaned, or to be living away from one's parents and among strangers (Cwd)
Tongan Pya Destitute, an orphan (Mar)

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