| Language |
Reconstruction |
Reflex |
Description |
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Tuamotu
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PN.MAILE
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Maaire
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A large tree
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New Zealand Maori
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TA.MAI-MAI
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Maimai
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Dance to welcome guests
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Mangaia
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TA.MAI-MAI
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Maimai
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Come here! (a call to pigs to gather them together to feed them)
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Penrhyn
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TA.MAI-MAI
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Mai mai, mai mai!
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Come here, come here! (call to summon a pig to feed)
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Rarotongan
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TA.MAI-MAI
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Maimai
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Call to pigs to come
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Tahitian
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TA.MAI-MAI
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Maimai
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A call to pigs, fowls, &c.
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East Uvea
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PN.MAAQI-MOA
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Maimoa
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Bon a rien
Problematic
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Samoan
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PN.MAAQI-MOA
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Maaimoa
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To look at, view as an object of curiosity
Uncertain Semantic Connection
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Tongan
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PN.MAAQI-MOA
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Maaʔimoa
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Play, amusement (honorific)
Problematic
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Hawaiian
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CE.MA-INAINA
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Mainaina
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Anger, wrath
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Rarotongan
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CE.MA-INAINA
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Maainaina
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Annoyed, offended; annoyance
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Tahitian
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CE.MA-INAINA
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Mainaina
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To feel anger or displeasure; cutting, galling, causing pain, as by an insulting speech
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Mangareva
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PN.MA-QINE-QINE
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Maineine
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Tickled, ticklish
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Niue
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PN.MA-QINE-QINE
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Maineine
|
Excited, ticklish
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Penrhyn
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PN.MA-QINE-QINE
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Maaineine
|
Tickle
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Rennellese
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PN.MA-QINE-QINE
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Maʔine
|
Enjoy
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Tahitian
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PN.MA-QINE-QINE
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Maineine
|
Chatouilleux, chatouiller
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Easter Island
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EP.MAQITAKI
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Maʔitaki
|
Clean, clear, neat, pure, pretty etc. Muchacha linda. Clear, plain (Wbr).
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Hawaiian
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EP.MAQITAKI
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Maikaʔi
|
Good, fine, all right, well; good-looking, handsome...
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New Zealand Maori
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EP.MAQITAKI
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Maitai
|
Beautiful, good, agreeable; iron (obs.)
Phonologically Irregular
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Marquesas
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EP.MAQITAKI
|
Meitaʔi. Metaʔi (MQN) (Atl).
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Bon, agreable. Convenable, beau, vertueux, sage, commode (Lch).
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Mangareva
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EP.MAQITAKI
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Mei/te/taki
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Beau, doux (usité pour ce qui est naturel et pas fait par l'homme). Beautiful, good, soft, sweet (Tgr). Belle femme; beautiful woman (Atl).
Phonologically Irregular
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Penrhyn
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EP.MAQITAKI
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Maitaki
|
Good, kind
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Rapa
|
EP.MAQITAKI
|
Maitaki
|
Good
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Rarotongan
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EP.MAQITAKI
|
Meitaki
|
Good, pleasant, excellent
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Tahitian
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EP.MAQITAKI
|
Maitaʔi
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De qualité; bon, bien, agréable; devenir bon; bonté, gentillesse;; bon, bien moral; devenir bon; beau (en parlant du temps qu'il fait)
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Tongan
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EP.MAQITAKI
|
Maaʔitaki
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Favourite wife or concubine
Problematic
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Tuamotu
|
EP.MAQITAKI
|
Maitaki
|
Good, pleasant, excellent
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Tuamotu
|
EP.MAQITAKI
|
Meitaki
|
Good, excellent, attractive, desirable
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Easter Island
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OC.MAQITO
|
Maʔito
|
Whitebar Surgeonfish (Acanthurus leucopareius)
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Tuvalu
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OC.MAQITO
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Maito
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(A.achilles) [Shaw], Red-spotted surgeon fish (Zann)
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East Uvea
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OC.MAQITO
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Maʔito
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(C. striatus)
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Hawaiian
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OC.MAQITO
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Maiko(iko)
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(Acanthurus spp.)
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Emae
|
OC.MAQITO
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Maito/ito
|
Fish sp. (Ctenochaetus?)
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Niue
|
OC.MAQITO
|
Meito
|
Yellowfin surgeonfish (Acanthurus xanthopterus). A black fish (McE).
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Penrhyn
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OC.MAQITO
|
Maito
|
Black surgeonfish Ctenochaetu spp.)
|
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Penrhyn
|
OC.MAQITO
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Mahito
|
Striped bristletooth (Ctenochaetus striatus)
Problematic
|
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Pukapuka
|
OC.MAQITO
|
Maito
|
Similar to ma but with red stripes on the back ; species of Surgeonfish
|
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Rapa
|
OC.MAQITO
|
Maito
|
(C. striatus)
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Rarotongan
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OC.MAQITO
|
Maito
|
Black surgeon fish (Acanthurus and Ctenochaetus spp.)
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Rennellese
|
OC.MAQITO
|
Maʔito
|
Some species of small surgeonfish, as black-spot surgeonfish (Acanthurus bariene) [Lesson]
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Tahitian
|
OC.MAQITO
|
Maito
|
Poisson-chirurgien, famille des Acanthuridae (Acanthurus nigroris) et espèces voisines
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Tuamotu
|
OC.MAQITO
|
Maito
|
A fish
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Austral Islands
|
TA.MAITU
|
Maitu
|
Fourteenth night of the moon
|
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Rarotongan
|
TA.MAITU
|
Maitu
|
Fourteenth night of the moon
|
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Tahitian
|
TA.MAITU
|
Maitu
|
The name of one of the nights of the Tahitian moon or month
|
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Tuamotu
|
TA.MAITU
|
Maitu
|
Fourteenth night of the moon
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East Uvea
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MP.MAKA.A
|
Maka
|
Pierre, rocher
|
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Tikopia
|
MP.MAKA.A
|
Maka
|
Stone for sling
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Anuta
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PN.MAKA.B
|
Maka
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Sling for hurling stones
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