Reconstruction Level: EO - Eastern Oceanic
| Reconstruction | Description |
|---|---|
| AFU.1 | Offspring |
| AMI | Crustacean roe |
| FAKA-.1 | Causative prefix |
| FAKA-FOHA | Boil, abscess |
| FALU | Some, any, other: *fa(l,n)u |
| FAO | Tree (Neisosperma[= Ochrosia] sp.) |
| FAQU-LUA | Sea-going craft, probably specifically a double-canoe *f(a,o)qu-lua |
| FARO.1 | Scrape, rub |
| FELO.1 | A colour, yellow |
| FILI.5 | Bird sp |
| FILO | Twist cord from fibres by rolling them on the thigh |
| FOKI.1 | Return |
| FOQI.1 | Classifying particle preposed to nouns indicating small objects of compact shape |
| FOTA.3 | Hollow out (Rby): *fot(a, o) |
| FOTU.3A | Hole that goes right through, perforation, puncture |
| FULA.3 | Go, run (plural) |
| FUSU | Box (v), fight with fists |
| GAA.1 | Breathe, pant |
| HAA.1 | Interrogative, "what?", "why?" |
| HAA.2 | Drive away |
| HAMA | Outrigger, outrigger float |
| HOKA.2 | Husk coconuts on a pointed stake |
| HUQI.1 | Take off a garment; take something off a hook or peg; pick pandanus fruit |
| INO-QI | Lean over, bow, fall *(i)no(q)(i) |
| KAI.5 | People of a place; to people a place, occupy, inhabit |
| KALAE | Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio) |
| KALISI.1A | Skink, a kind of lizard |
| KAU.1 | Swim |
| KE | Verbal particle introducing subordinate clauses; in order to, so that |
| KESE | Different |
| KETE.A | Bag, basket |
| KI-KITE | See into the future, have second-sight |
| KIMAA- | First person exclusive marker |
| KINA.1 | Sea-urchin |
| KITA.1 | First person singular pronoun (independent, affectively marked form) |
| KITAA- | First person inclusive marker |
| KOKA | Tree sp. (Bischofia javanica) |
| KOMO.2 | Suck |
| KONA.4 | Bitter |
| KUI.1 | Blind |
| KUMETE | Wooden bowl |
| LALAFI | A fish, wrasse (Cheilinus sp.) |
| LAMU | Chew |
| LAQU.1 | To get by hooking (as a fish), pinching between fingers |
| LAU.3 | Surface area, expanse, breadth, size |
| LAWA.1A | Enough, sufficient, abundant, completed |
| LIKU.1 | Back side or windward side of island |
| LULU.1A | Barn owl (Tyto alba) |
| MA-.1 | Stativising prefix: *ma(a)- |
| MA-FOA.A | Broken open, cracked open |
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