Protoform: QAAWAGA.B [XW] Succubus, erotic dream; infatuation, obsession
| Description: | Succubus, erotic dream; infatuation, obsession |
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| Reconstruction: | Reconstructs to XW: West Polynesia (TON,NIU,EUV,EFU,SAM,TOK,TUV,NFO) |
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Pollex entries:
| Language | Reflex | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Futuna | ʔAavaga | Illness, often associated with a dream of a sexual nature and believed to have a spiritual rather than a physical cause. Symptoms may include irrational behaviour. Treatment includes massage with bad-smelling herbs inimical to spirits | (Bgs) |
| East Uvea | ʔAavanga | Hystérie, convulsion hystériforme | (Rch) |
| Niue | Avanga | Irregular liaison (from Samoan). Sexual connection (Tgr). Borrowed | (McE) |
| Niue | Aavaga | Wet dream, sexy, succubus (refers to traditional belief of sleeping males having sex with female spirit, as in dreams) Borrowed | (Sph) |
| Pukapuka | Waka/aavanga | The lover's act of copulating with his deceased beloved's body while it is laid out for the funeral wake | (Bge) |
| Rennellese | ʔAabanga | Rotten, as the interior of a papaya Uncertain Semantic Connection | (Ebt) |
| Tongan | ʔAavanga | Sickness caused (or believed to be caused) by a fa`ahikehe or tevolo. Be fascinated or infatuated by, or strongly attracted to a girl (or a boy) as if enchanted or bewitched Borrowed Problematic | (Cwd) |
| Tongan | ʔAavangaa | To develop a terrible craze for, as if bewitched; to be infatuated Borrowed Problematic | (Cwd) |
| Tongan | ʔAavangaʔia | To be sick with an `aavanga Borrowed Problematic | (Cwd) |
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