| Language |
Reconstruction |
Reflex |
Description |
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Rennellese
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MP.PISI.1
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Pisi/kia
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Be drenched, soaked; to wet, soak, splash; to receive a spurt of a liquis, as lime juice, in the eye; to cry, of eyes filled with onion scent
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East Futuna
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PN.PISI.3
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Pisi
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Take hold of something
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Rotuman
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OC.POO.2
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Poo
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To catch up to, overtake
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Tuamotu
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TA.POHUTU.2
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Poohutu
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To splash, make a splashing
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Anuta
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??.POKA.3
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Poka
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Jump with a start as when suddenly awakened
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Tikopia
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??.POKA.3
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Poka
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Wake up suddenly, start up, rouse up
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Anuta
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NP.POKE
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Poke
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Taro balls of mashed taro and coconut sauce. A type of food made by mixing mashed, baked taro with stone boiled coconut cream and rolling it into balls (A very prestigeous food prepared on important ceremonial occasions) (Fbg).
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Niue
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PN.POKI.1
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Poki
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To slap; to catch; to take a photograph
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Luangiua
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PN.POKI.1
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Haa/poʔi/poʔi
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Make into ball
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Rarotongan
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PN.POKI.1
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Po/poki
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Cover over; break (of a wave); overtake
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New Zealand Maori
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Covered over; overtaken. Passive of popoki
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Rarotongan
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PN.POO-KIA
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Pookia
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Covered, struck by waves, overtaken. Passive of popoki
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Mangareva
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PN.POKO.2
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Poko
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Make a hole; dig. Enfoncement; creuser, rendre profond; examiner
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Kapingamarangi
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SO.POLE.B
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Bole
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Tremble, vibrate, quake
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Nukuoro
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NP.POLI.B
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Boli
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Take special care of
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Nukuoro
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PN.PORO.1
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Bolo
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Make a will; according to
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Sikaiana
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PN.PORO.1
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Polo/polo
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To promise, to make a commitment; (often) to marry
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Kapingamarangi
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PN.PORO-QAKI
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Poro(w)aki
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Will; make a will, order, make an engagement
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Tuamotu
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CE.POO-RUTU
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Porutu
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Repel or check by a sign of the hand, as an unwelcome advance or displeasing remark; to trim down the edge of a strake or plank
Problematic
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Easter Island
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NP.POO-POO.B
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Poʔpó
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Ball, globe; make little balls of paper, clay etc.
Phonologically Irregular
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New Zealand Maori
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NP.POO-POO.B
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Po(p)o/i
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Knead, make into balls, of food etc.
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Luangiua
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NP.POO-POO.B
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Poopoo
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Make into balls by throwing from hand to hand
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Luangiua
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NP.POO-POO.B
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Po/i
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Rounded, make into a ball
Phonologically Irregular
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Rennellese
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NP.POTA
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Pota
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Baked or boiled greens
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Penrhyn
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CK.POOTIKI.B
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Pootiki
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Last born child (us. son); one's dear poor little child; weakest one in litter of piglets
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Tuvalu
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OC.POTO.1
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Poto/poto
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Come close to speaker
Problematic
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Tuvalu
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FJ.POTO.3
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Poto/poto
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Congregate round a speaker
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Moriori
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NP.PUQU
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Pu/take
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Base (of tree)
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Pukapuka
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MP.PUA-PUA.1
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Puapua
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A tree used to make canoes . Used figuratively for vagina
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Pukapuka
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PN.PUKE.3
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Puke
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Catch, seize, overtake
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Rarotongan
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PN.PUKE.3
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Puke/na
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Take hold of
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Tokelau
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PN.PUKE.3
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Puke
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Grab, take hold of
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Tongan
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PN.PUKE.3
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Puke
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Take hold of
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Niue
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FJ.PUKU.3
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Puku
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Draw in, take into the mouth, eat
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East Futuna
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PN.PULE.2
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Pule
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Make sign of cross
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Hawaiian
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OC.PULU.3
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Pulu
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Wet, moist, soaked, saturated
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Mangareva
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OC.PULU.3
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Puru
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Soaked (I)
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Tuamotu
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OC.PULU.3
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Puru
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To be drenched, soaked, thoroughly wet
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Samoan
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NP.PULU.7
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Pulu/lima
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Take care of
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Takuu
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NP.PULU.7
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P/puru
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Grab, clutch or grasp firmly in one’s fist, hold s.t. against one’s body, clasp hands; ... shake hands
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Tikopia
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FJ.PULU-PULU
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Purupuru
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Sea fish, up to 90 cm, thin, light-coloured; taken by hook ? Hair-tail or Scabbard Fish. Also applied to a kind of squalid shark
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Sikaiana
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PN.PUNI.1A
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Puni
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Closed up, stopped up; in descent lines, to have a line without any children, or, for some speakers, with only female children
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Tahitian
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AN.PUNI.1B
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Pu/puni
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To hide one's self, to take shelter behind another
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New Zealand Maori
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PN.PUSAKE
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Puhake
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Full to overflowing, well up, overflow
Uncertain Semantic Connection
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Marquesas
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PN.PUSAKE
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Puhake (MQN)
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Rot, roter. Eructation.
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Takuu
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PN.PUSAKE
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Pu/puake
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Cleanse one's mouth
Problematic
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Tongan
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PN.PUSAKE
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Hake
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Belch
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Tuamotu
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PN.PUSAKE
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Puhake
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Belch, eructate
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Mangareva
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PN.PUSAKI
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Puʔake
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Exhaler une très forte odeur; air odoriférant
Phonologically Irregular
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Rotuman
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FJ.PUSI.2
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Tepuhi
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A sea-snake with transverse stripes
Problematic
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