Protoform: QUNAFI [AN] To scale fish; fish scale

Description: To scale fish; fish scale
Reconstruction: Reconstructs to AN: Austronesian
Notes:

*1 Cf. PN *quna "fish scale; turtle shell"
*4 POC *qunap "fish-scale; to scale fish" (LPO I:166).
*5 PMP *qunap "scales" (Dpf. 1938).

Pollex entries:

Language Reflex Description Source
Easter Island ʔUunahi Fish scale (Fts)
East Futuna ʔUnafi Fish scale (Bgs)
Emae Unafi Scale of fish (Cpl)
Hawaiian Unahi Scales of a fish; scaly; to scale (Pki)
Kapingamarangi Unahi Scale fish (Lbr)
Lau Unafa Scale fish (Ivs)
Luangiua ʔUŋahi Fish scales, turtle shell Problematic (Smd)
Luangiua Uŋahi Scales of fish (Smd)
Mangareva Unaʔi. Uunaʔi (Rch). Fish scale; to scale fish. Ecaille de poisson (Rch). (Jnu)
Manihiki-Rakahanga Unahi/a To scale (Sve)
Manihiki-Rakahanga Unahi (e) Scale of fish (Sve)
Marquesas Unahi Ecaille (des poissons), écailler (Dln)
Motu Unahi-a To scale a fish (Lst)
New Zealand Maori Unahi Scale of fish etc.; scale fish (v) (Wms)
Niue Inafi To scale a fish (Motu dial) Phonologically Irregular (McE)
Niue H/inafi Fish scale, to scale a fish Phonologically Irregular (Sph)
Nuguria Na/unahi Fell (Ths)
Nuguria Unahi Fish scales; scale (fish) (vt) (Dvl)
Nuguria Unafi Fish scales (Ray)
Nukuoro Unahi Fish scale (Crl)
Penrhyn Uunahi Scales (of fish); to scale (Sta)
Penrhyn Unahi Fish scale (Sta)
Pukapuka Unaawi Fish scales (Bge)
Rarotongan Unaʔi To scale fish, fish scale (Bse)
Rennellese ʔUnahi Scale (v) fish, scales (Ebt)
Rotuman Unehi Scale fish (Cwd)
Saʔa Unehi Scale fish (Ivs)
Samoan Unafi To scale fish (Prt)
Sikaiana Unahi Fish scale (Dnr)
Tahitian ʔUunahi Ecailler le poisson Phonologically Irregular (Lmt)
Takuu Unahi Scale of fish; to scale a fish (Mle)
Tikopia Unafi Fish scale; remove scales (Fth)
Tokelau Unafi Scale (n,v) (Sma)
Tuamotu Unahi To scale fish (Stn)
Tuvalu Unafi Fish scale (Rby)
Vaeakau-Taumako Unahi Scale of fish (Hvn)
Waya Nive Fish scale Problematic (Ply)
West Futuna ((H)nu)nafi/a To remove fish scales, scale fish (Dty)
West Futuna Na/unafi Scale of fish (Dty)
West Futuna Unafi Scale of fish (Cpl)
West Uvea Unafi-a Écailles de poisson, écailler poisson (Hmn)

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