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*tales taro: Colocasia esculenta

PMP tales taro: Colocasia esculenta ⇫ ¶

WMP
Hanunóo	tálus	a taro with yellowing leaves
Central Tagbanwa	talɨt	taro root
Palawan Batak	täläs	taro
Palauan	dáit	taro (plant)
Nias	talõ	a tuber: Caladium
Minangkabau	talas	a cultivated yam, Colocasia antiquorum
Rejang	taleus	a root crop: Colocasia antiquorum
Sundanese	taleus	kind of tuber
Old Javanese	pa-tales-an	taro field or garden
	tales	taro: Colocasia antiquorum
Javanese	nales	having the texture of cooked taro (said of rice that is gummy from being cooked in too much water)
	tales	taro
Palawano	tales	taro
CMP
Tetun	talas	an aroid plant with highly-prized edible tubers
Rotinese	tale	taro; icon for a male person
	tale	kind of water plant with large leaves
	ta-tales	kind of water plant with large leaves; Dengka dialect

POC talos taro: Colocasia esculenta ⇫ ¶

OC
Hawaiian	kalo	taro (Colocasia esculenta), a kind of aroid cultivated since ancient times for food… In Hawaii taro has been the staple from earliest times to the present, and its cultivation developed greatly, including more than 300 forms
Nukuoro	dalo	plant sp.: taro (Colocasia esculenta), also the corm of this plant
Takuu	taro	taro (general term)
Marovo	talo	taro
Toqabaqita	alo	taro (plant and corm)
Lau	alo	taro
Tuvaluan	talo	taro, a cultivated plant, Colocasia esculenta
Kwaio	alo-na	taro corm
	alo	taro (generic); unit of 100 taro for a feast
'Āre'āre	āro	taro (several varieties)
Motu	talo	a vegetable: Arum esculentum
Pileni	talo	taro
Arosi	aro	a name for taro in some names of varieties
Bauro	aro	taro
Anuta	taro	taro: Colocasia esculenta
Rennellese	tago	taro, Colocasia esculenta (one of the most important foods, the gift of the god Tupuimatangi)
Samoan	talo	taro, a cultivated plant (Colocasia sp.), the corm of which is one of the most important sources of food
	talo-a	be plentiful in taro
Futunan	talo	taro (generic): Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. antiquorum Schott
V'ënen Taut	taro	taro
Paamese	tāro	taro
Makatea	taro	taro
Fijian	dalo	the taro plant, much used as a food, Colocasia esculenta
Sye	n	taro
	tal	taro
Niue	talo	the taro plant (Colocasia esculenta). Five groups are recognized, each with many varieties, the groups being distinguished according to differences in color and the marking of the petioles, or leaf stalks
Tongan	talo	taro, kind of arum with edible tuberous root, Caladium esculentum
Rarotongan	taro	an esculent tuber which is much cultivated for food purposes and of which there are several varieties: Colocasia esculenta
Maori	taro	Colocasia antiquorum, a plant cultivated for food
Nakanamanga	na-tale	taro

Reconstructions

PMP	tales	taro: Colocasia esculenta
POC	talos	taro: Colocasia esculenta

Note

Also Tontemboan taleʔ ‘Colocasia antiquorum, used as pig fodder’, Roviana talo ‘taro: Colocasia antiquorum’ (one of the staple foods of the Roviana people, with at least 18 varieties), Rotuman tar-kura ‘kind of taro’, tar-tea ‘kind of taro’ (< Polynesian). This form has a very wide, but thin distribution, being richly attested in Sumatra and Java, the southeast Solomons, central and southern Vanuaut, and Central Pacific languages, but it is rare elsewhere. Although Colocasia species are of central importance in the diet of Polynesian peoples, it is clear that this tuber is of only marginal dietary significance in AN-speaking societies that cultivate rice. It therefore seems likely that it was also a minor food item in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian society that came to achieve greater importance in some areas once rice cultivation was lost. The Roviana form is regarded as irregular, since this language normally retains final consonants, and we would therefore expect **taloso; at the same time this raises the question whether the POc form should be *talos or *talo.