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Reconstruction:Proto-Polynesian/toki
Proto-Polynesian
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *totok (“to chop”). Cognates include Fijian toki (“to peck”) and Malay tetak (“to hack”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈto.ki/
Noun
*toki[1]
- axe
- adze
Descendants
- Nuclear Polynesian: [Term?]
- Eastern Polynesian: [Term?]
- Marquesic
- Hawaiian: koʻi
- Mangarevan: toki
- Tahitic
- Maori: toki
- Penrhyn: toki
- Rapa: toki
- Rarotongan: toki
- Tahitian: to'i
- Tuamotuan: toki
- Rapa Nui: toki
- Marquesic
- Samoic-Outlier
- Ellicean
- Kapingamarangi: dogi
- Nuguria: toki
- Nukuoro: dogi
- Ontong Java: ko'i
- Sikaiana: toki
- Takuu: toki
- Tuvaluan: toki
- Futunic
- Anuta: toki
- East Futuna: toki
- Emae: toki
- Futuna-Aniwa: toki
- Pukapukan: toki
- Rennellese: toki
- Tikopia: toki
- Samoic
- Samoan: to'i
- Tokelauan: toki
- Ellicean
- Eastern Polynesian: [Term?]
- Tongic
- Niuafo'ou: toki
- Niuean: toki
- Tongan: toki
References
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011) , “TOKI”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online