Reconstruction Level: NP - Nuclear Polynesian

Reconstruction Description
TAI-TEA Sapwood
TAKA.1C Keep company
TAKA.1D Loose, separated
TAKA.2A Tread on, trample: *taka-fi
TAKAA Snood, the binding attaching a hook to a fishing line
TAKA-FULI Turn over v.i
TAKALO Play; game: *ta(a)-kalo
TAKE.1 Base, origin, source
TAKELE.B Bottom of the sea
TAKELE.C Hollow out, empty
TAKINI Part of lower abdomen
TAKU.3 Hollow (n), concavity
TALAGA Traditional person, parent of Tikitiki; a star
TALA-TALA.B Soldierfish or Squirrelfish sp
TAMA-MEAMEA Newborn child
TAMA-QA-LOA Boy, young man
TAMA-QITI Child: *tama(qiti)qiti
TAMI Taste food
TAMUMU Make low continuous noise
TANA.A Third person singular a-class possession
TAPA-TAI Sea shore: *tapa-(a)-tai
TAPATUU.* Fish (Sphyraena sp.) (Hpr)
TA-PENA Tidy up, prepare
TAPERE Temporary structure
TAQO.2B Wooden poles weighing down roof thatch
TASI.1 One
TATIFI Fish sp. (Naso sp.) (Hpr)
-TA-TOU First person inclusive plural possessive suffix
TAU-AMA Rope connecting outrigger with canoe
TAU-MAFA.* Heavy
TAU-MATA Eyeshade
TAU-SINU.* Tree Heliotrope (Tournefortia argentea): *tau-s(i,u)nu
TAWA.2 Bivalve shellfish sp.
TEE-FEA Which? which one?
TEE-HENA Demonstrative pronoun: That (near you) *te(e)-naa
TEE-IA.* Demonstrative, this, that: *te(e)-ia
TEE-LAA Demonstrative pronoun: that (distant), yonder *te(e)-laa
TEE-NEI This: *te(e)nei
TEKI.1 To hop
TELE.3B Flow, as liquid
TEQE-AGA Careless, inattentive; common
TE-TASI A certain (one), a particular but unspecified one, another: *te(e)-tasi
TIFI Tip, point, extremity
TII.3 Shine (of sun)
TIIGAA Pain, painful
TII-PUTA To make a hole in something; a type of cape or poncho
TIKO.B Menses
TIMO.2 Peck (as a bird)
TINA-QI Extinguish (a flame); destroy
TINI.2 Praise publicly

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