RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



a 4 



1 of. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: a, of. 



2 mine. 



3 same. 

 Ta.: d, same, 

 that place, there. 



mei a, from that place, thence, hence, 

 a 5 to lead, to conduct. 

 a 6 order, series. 



Mq.: aa, order, series, rank, file. 

 a 7 causative, see haka. 

 a 8 particle expressive of existence. 



anei, now; aneira, at once. 

 aa cascade, flood, to inundate. 

 aaki to affirm, to assure, to avow, to confess, 

 to declare, to disclose, to divulge, 

 to profess, to reveal, to speak fine, 

 to betray a secret, to warn, to ad- 

 vise, to make a false statement or 

 accusation (aki). 

 aaki ki te mea titika, to attest. 

 tae aaki, discreet, to deny. 

 aakihaga, advice. 

 hakaaaki, to confess. 

 T Pau.: faki, to declare, to confess, to re- 

 veal. Mq.: faki, haki, fai, hai, to 

 affirm, to betray a secret, to make 

 known. Ta.: aai, story, narrative. 



aamoni (hamoni). 

 aana his. 



poki aana, legitimate child. 

 aanu saliva, spittle, to spit. 

 PS. Mgv., Mq.: anuanu, id. 



Sa.: anu, to spit. To. : aanu, id. Fu.: 

 aanu, id.; anuanu, to spit often. 

 Niue: anu, to spit. Vi.: kanusiva, 

 id. (The Polynesian Wanderings, 

 417) 

 The only other appearance of what this 

 stem may have become is in Maori anuanu 

 "offensive, disgusting, to loathe; ' and Ta- 

 hiti manuanu "loathsome, surfeiting, to be 

 qualmish." The wide departure in sense 

 militates against these. The augmented 

 form of the Tahiti word is imperfectly com- 

 prehended as yet, but compare Samoan 

 afua and mafua homonyms. 



aaroa (aroha). 

 aaru 1 to raise. 



aaru ki te rima, to raise the arm. 

 aaru 2 (haruharu, aruaru). 

 aati 1 to imitate. 

 aati 2 (atiati). 

 aati 3 (hati). 



ae sword (cf. oe, one). 



PS Pau.: koke, id. Ta.: 61, id. 

 Sa.: 'o'e, a knife. 

 ae yes. 



PMq.,Ta. : ae, id. Mq.,Ta.,Mgv.: t, id. 



With two slight exceptions the element 

 common to the affirmative words of Poly- 

 nesia is e. This vowel has an equal (even 

 greater when we include Melanesia) ex- 

 tent as a sign representing the substantive 

 verb sense in its most absolute nature 

 without condition of tense. In my theory 

 of the grammar of these isolating languages 

 the e and a few other paradeictics similarly 

 employed are not verb sign, but the germ 

 of the verb idea. Thus e alu is not par- 

 sable as e verb sign and alu verb "to go;" 

 but alu attributive positing an act of going 

 and e positing the substantive idea of 

 being, thus in combined phrase "being a 

 going." Thus, while in English it is diffi- 

 cult to trace a common signification in 

 "yes" and a verb sign, it is easy to see 

 how the Polynesian may employ his equiv- 

 alent for "there is" as an affirmative; and 

 this comports with the fact that in reply 

 to any question the so-called verb must be 

 repeated. The forms of affirmation are 

 here tabled: 



e Samoa, Niue, Morion, Mangareva, Marque- 

 sas, Tahiti, Hawaii, Rapanui. 



oe Samoa. 



loe Samoa. 



io Tonga, Futuna, Uvea, Viti. 

 Futuna. 

 Rotuma. 



Maori, Tahiti, Marquesas, Hawaii, Mangala, 

 Tongarewa. 



a Rarotonga. 



The variants from the simple e fall into 

 the o-class and the a-class. Upon the first 

 inspection the latter is seen to be Tongafiti 

 and the o-class to be Proto-Samoan. The 

 simple e is found in both migration streams 

 and therefore may not be regarded as criti- 

 cal, a position which we should be chary 

 of assigning to a vocable showing such 

 absence of formal development. I have 

 provisionally assigned it to a place among 

 the Proto-Samoan material, largely be- 

 cause of its absence from the Maori. Its 

 occurrence at several points in the Tonga- 

 fiti stream may be accounted for as shown 

 in "The Polynesian Wanderings," page 44. 



aere (ahere). 



agahuru (hagahuru, hagauru). 



agai (hagai). 



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o 



ae 



