Protoform: QATUA [MP] Deity, spirit

Description: Deity, spirit
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to MP: Malayo-Polynesian
Notes:

*1 Cf. SO *vaka-qatua "spirit medium"
*4 POC *qatuan 'deity, supernatural being' (LPO VI:245).
*5 PMP *qatuan "deity" (ACD).

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
Anuta Atua Spirit being (Fbg)
Easter Island ʔAtua Dios, ser potente, ente sobrenatural (Bxn)
Easter Island Atua Gentleman, god, Lord (Fts)
East Futuna ʔAtua Deity (Bgs)
East Uvea ʔAtua Dieu, divinite (Rch)
Emae Itua Supernatural being Phonologically Irregular (Cpl)
Hawaiian Akua Deity (Pki)
Ifira-Mele Te/etua Spirit (Clk)
Ifira-Mele Atua God (proper name) from SAM Problematic (Clk)
Luangiua ʔAkua Deity (Smd)
Luangiua A/akua God (Smd)
Mangareva Etua Dieu; être méchant (Rch)
Manihiki-Rakahanga Atua God; anything malign or disagreeable (Bck)
Marquesas Etua Dieu, divinité (Lch)
Marquesas Àtúa A deity; a departed spirit. European. (Crk)
Marquesas Atua, etua Très habile; artiste (Dln)
Marquesas Atua Dieu. S'emploie le plus souvent au pluriel en parlant des hommes (Dln)
Moriori Etchu Patron spirit (Bke)
Moriori Atua, t/etua God (Bke)
New Zealand Maori Atua Deity (Wms)
Niuafoʔou Atua Spirit, god (Cct)
Niue Atua God. Spirit, ghost (obs.) (McE). (Sph)
Nukumanu TeAtua God (Trt)
Nukuoro Atua A god, a spirit (Crn)
Penrhyn Atua Spirit; supreme god (Lmt)
Penrhyn Atua Spirit, ghost; deity, god; God (Sta)
Pukapuka Atua God (Bge)
Raʔivavae Atua A god, divinity, deity.... (Stn)
Rapa Atua God (Sks)
Rarotongan Atua Deity, god (Bse)
Rennellese ʔAtua God, spirit, deity, worship (Ebt)
Samoan Atua Deity (Prt)
Tahitian Te Atua Dieu (Lmt)
Tahitian Atua God, the general name for a Deity (Lmt)
Takuu Atua Spirit (aitu) taxon, about which little is now known; (Christian) God Problematic (Mle)
Tikopia Atua Supernatural being or object; spirit; ghost; goblin; god (Fth)
Tokelau Atua God, supreme being (Sma)
Tongan Hootooa An immaterial being, as a god, spirit, &c.; also any evil by the infliction of the gods, a bodily complaint, a boil. This word sometimes applies to foreigners. (Mar)
Tongan Hotooa pow A demon (Mar)
Tongan ʔOtua Deity (Cwd)
Tuamotu Atua Deity (Stn)
Vaeakau-Taumako Athua Spirit, devil (Hvn)
West Futuna Atua Ghost, spirit (Te-Atua 'God') (Cpl)
West Futuna Rakau otua Priest, diviner. Bon sorcier, médicin (Rve). (Dty)
West Futuna Atua, t/etua Ghost, spirit, demon; ancestor; Christian God (Dty)
West Futuna Tua Apparition (Cpl)
West Uvea Atua feuu Sorcier (Hmn)
West Uvea Atua Dieu (Hmn)

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