Protoform: PUPU.A [PN] Crowded, close together (of plants or people); dense, thick (vegetation), overgrown, littered; clump (of vegetation)
| Description: | Crowded, close together (of plants or people); dense, thick (vegetation), overgrown, littered; clump (of vegetation) |
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| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to PN: Polynesian |
| Notes: | *4 POC *buburu "grass; grow densely, as grass" (ACD). |
Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easter Island | Pupu | To collect, accumulate | (Chl) |
| East Uvea | Pupu(pupu) | Se grouper, se rassembler, se réunir; groupe d'arbres ou d'arbustes, touffe, bosquet; groupe en générale | (Rch) |
| Hawaiian | Pu/pupu | Numerous, crowded, thick, teeming, congested | (Pki) |
| Luangiua | Pupu | Cluttered; covered; bush | (Smd) |
| Mangareva | Pupu/pupu | Etre épais (se dit des arbres épais et rapprochés les uns des autres) | (Rch) |
| Mangareva | Pupu | Paquet, faisceau, botte; réunir (une assemblée, un peuple) | (Rch) |
| Marquesas | Pupu | Fagot, touffe, buisson. | (Dln) |
| Niue | Pupu | Weeds (generic for weeds and plants growing wild in the bush); overrun with weeds | (Sph) |
| Nuguria | Pupu | Woods, thicket, bush | (Dvl) |
| Samoan | Pupu | A clump of trees | (Prt) |
| Sikaiana | Pupu | Dirty, unclean | (Dnr) |
| Takuu | Ppuu | Untidy, cluttered (esp. with rubbish); (of a bush area) densely vegetated or uncultivated, littered with uncleared domestic rubbish | (Mle) |
| Takuu | Pupu | Weed-infested | (Mle) |
| Tokelau | Pupu | (of plants) Clustered together, grow thickly together | (Sma) |
| Tongan | Pupu | Close together, crowded; (of events) frequent | (Cwd) |
| Tuvalu | Pupu | Impenetrable (of forest) | (Rby) |
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