| Language |
Reconstruction |
Reflex |
Description |
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Rennellese
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PN.HAPI
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Api
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Some spp. of Surgeonfishes and Coralfishes e.g. Acanthurus triostegus and Chaetodon miliaris
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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PN.HELE
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El/ele(ngia)
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Deny
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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MP.HIKO-FI
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Ikohi/a
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Take things with tongs, especially used about taking warm stones out of the oven with tongs
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Nukuoro
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CP.HINA
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Ina
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Light up an area at night (especially to hunt land crabs)
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Fijian
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OC.HINAGA
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Cigana
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Whitebait (Nadrogaa dialect)
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Easter Island
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EP.HIWA.2
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Hiva
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Name of the country from where, according to tradition, came the Polynesian migration of Hotu Matu`a
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Tokelau
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FJ.HOGAHOGA.A
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Ogo/hia
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Be hurt, feel pain
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Tongan
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PN.HOKO.1
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Hoko
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To arrive (especially of time); happen, occur, take place...
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West Uvea
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PN.HOKO.1
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Oko/fia
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Trouver
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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FJ.OLO.3
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Olo/ia
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Grind (vt) (e.g. manioc)
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Takuu
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FJ.OLO.3
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Oro-ia
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Rub against something, grind, or grate using a long blade with a back and forth motion; tool which uses this action (exs. grating taro, grinding shell artefacts, flattening pandanus leaves)
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West Uvea
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AN.HUHU
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Uu-mia
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Sein; teter
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Samoan
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OC.HULI.1
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Uli/sega
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Caesia sp. , fish sp.
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Tuvalu
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PN.HURU.B
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Ulu/fia
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Possessed by a spirit; inspired
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Kapingamarangi
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PN.HURU.B
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Ulu/hia
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Ecstatic, excited
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Nukuoro
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PN.HURU.B
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Ulu/hia
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A sudden access of hostile feeling
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Pukapuka
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PN.HURU.B
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Ulu/wia
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Possessed
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Rennellese
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PN.HURU.B
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Ugu/hia
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To be possessed by an unworshipped supernatural and driven crazy; to be drunk
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Tokelau
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PN.HURU.B
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Ulu/fia
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Be possessed by a spirit
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Tongan
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PN.HURU.B
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Ulu/fia
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To infect (a wound or a limb etc.) so as to cause blood-poisoning (often impl.)
Problematic
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Niue
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PN.KA.1
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Ka
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Particle of immediate future
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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PN.KA.1
|
Ka
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Particle signifying immediate and/or certain future
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Tokelau
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PN.KA.1
|
Ka
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Future, esp. immediate future
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Samoan
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PN.KAA.1
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ʔAa
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Bird cry (especially of young tern)
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Tongan
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PN.KA-E
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Ka, kae, kaa
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And (at the same time or immediately afterwards), whereupon; while, whereas, and (for his part, or for my part etc.); and (instead); but, but instead, however
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West Uvea
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PN.KA-E
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Ga
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Conjonction liant des propositions pour en marquer l'interdépendance, soit éventuelle, soit actuelle
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West Futuna
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PN.KA-E
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Kaie (FUT), Kaia (ANI)
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But
Problematic
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New Zealand Maori
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MP.KAFA.1
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Kaha
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Rope, especially on seine
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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MP.KAFA.1
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Kaha/nia
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Tie coconuts together by the husk
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West Futuna
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MP.KAFA.1
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Kafa
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Fibrous husk as of chestnut or coconut; rope made of husk fibres, sennit. Soft material at the base of coconut frond; rope of sinnet (Cpl).
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Tokelau
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FJ.KAFA.3
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Kafa
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Diamond-scaled Mullet (Mugil vaigiensis)
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East Uvea
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NP.KAFA-KAFA.*
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Kafakafa
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Liza vaigiensis (Diamond-Scaled Mullet)
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Vaeakau-Taumako
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SO.KAFI
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Kahi-a
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Invite, call, send a message to someone via someone else; marry
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Mangaia
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OC.KAFIKA
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Kaʔika
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Malay Apple (Eugenia malaccensis)
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Mangareva
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OC.KAFIKA
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Keʔika
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(Syzygium malaccensis). Pommier-rose, Eugenia malaccensis (Myrtacées) (Rch).
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Niue
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OC.KAFIKA
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Kafika
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Tree spp. (Syzygium spp.). A tree (Eugenia inophylloides) (McE).
Borrowed
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Niue
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OC.KAFIKA
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Feka/kai, fika/kai
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Malay apple (Eugenia malaccensis)
Phonologically Irregular
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Rarotongan
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OC.KAFIKA
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Kaʔika (papaʔaa)
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(Eugenia jambos)
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Rarotongan
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OC.KAFIKA
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Kaia/tea
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An inland tree (Weinmannia samoensis)
Problematic
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Samoan
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OC.KAFIKA
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Nonu fiʔafiʔa
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Malay apple (Eugenia sp.)
Problematic
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Tahitian
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OC.KAFIKA
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ʔAhiʔa
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Pomme tahitienne (Eugenia malaccensis)
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Penrhyn
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CK.KAA-FIRO
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Kaahiro
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Mix, blend, plait/braid materials of different colours
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Niue
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PN.KAFO
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Kafo/kia
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Wounded, injured
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Samoan
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PN.KAFU.B
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ʔAfuʔafu
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Peritoneum, hymen . diaphragm
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West Futuna
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PN.KAFU.B
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Kafkafu (ANI)
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Diaphragm
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Pukapuka
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CE.KAAFURU
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Kawulu
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A fish (Parupeneus trifasciatus)
Problematic
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Tuvalu
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EC.KAFUSU.*
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Kafusu
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(Barringtonia)
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Nukumanu
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EC.KAFUSU.*
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Pare/kaavuhu/
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(Barringtonia)
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Nukuoro
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EC.KAFUSU.*
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Gavaausu
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A tree (Barringtonia asiatica) used to poison fish
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Rarotongan
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CE.KAGA
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Kanga-ʔia
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Play, lark about, play tricks, meddle, tamper with, ill-treat, misuse, spoil; damage, mischief
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