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There is an explanation for how these words are reconstructed. It seems that stress fell on the penultimate syllable if the word ended in a vowel; else it fell on the final syllable, so the same Proto-Oceanic form gives two different Proto-Temotu forms. Though, given the conservatism of the proto-language, with reference to the 2021 article, I would reconstruct these in Proto-Temotu as: