Reconstruction:Proto-Polynesian/tulaki
Proto-Polynesian
editEtymology
editPossibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tulak (“to push away; shove; repel”) with the fossilized suffix *-i.
Verb
edit*tulaki
- to push over
Descendants
edit- Tongic
- Tongan: tulaki
- Nuclear Polynesian
References
edit- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “TULAKI”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online