RAPANUI-ENGUSH VOCABULARY. 



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ao 1 continued. 



without the title of chiefly dignity and the 

 title is always actively employed in 

 government. 

 ao 2 spoon. 



ao oone, shovel. 

 ao 3 dancing club T. 

 aomai to proceed. 



Mgv. : aomai, to come hither. 

 (aone R) oone. 

 aonui (ao-nui a) midnight. 

 apaihoru (apai-horu) nannygoat. 



apaihorii tamaroa, buck. 

 api 1 sluice, bung. 



api 2 to be close, to concentrate, to con- 

 federate. 

 P Mgv.: apiapi, to be pressed, to crowd. 

 Ta.: api, full, pressed. 

 apitahi to serve, serviceable. 

 apo to-morrow, the next night, (a 8-po). 

 apoera (apo-era) to-morrow. 



apoera o te po nei, to-morrow. 

 ara 1 path, trail, road, way. 



P Pau.: eara, id. Mgv.,Ta.: ara, id. Mq.: 

 adnui, id. 

 ara 2 



a. to awake, to arouse. 



veve ara, to awaken. 

 hakaara, to arouse, to excite. 



b. to be awake. 



hakaara, to be awake. 



ara no, insomnia, sleeplessness. 



c. to watch, to guard. 



tagata ara, sentinel. 

 P Pau.: ara, to be awake, to be on one's 

 guard. Mgv.: ara, to awake, to 

 rouse up; hara, to be awake. Mq. : 

 d , awake ; ad, to be awake, to guard, 

 to defend, to stand sentinel, to 

 protect, to watch over the safety 

 of another. Ta. : ara, to be awake, 

 to be on guard, vigilant. 



(ara 3) hakaara tradition. 



araha araha hauha, to wait for, to look for- 

 ward to. 



arahare (ara i-hare) a street. 



arai (harai). 



arakea abscess, bubo, boil, fester, scrofula, 

 tumor, swelling, to swell. 

 arakea gao, scrofula. 

 Mq. : araara, scrofula, goitre; nara, to 

 swell, swollen. 



araruga moe araruga, lying flat. 



aratua 



a. to inclose, to surround, to encompass. 



b. cord, string, girdle, tassel, (haratua.) 

 are to dig, to excavate. 



arero the tongue (are to Q). 



arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter. 

 arero koumi, to report, to tell. 

 arero roroa, to report, to tell. 

 P Pau., Ta.: arero, the tongue. Mgv.: 

 erero, id. Mq.: aeo, eo, id. 

 In the Samoan we find an interesting 

 item which has a bearing on the subject 

 of sense-inverts. A word which is a per- 

 fectly good inheritance out of the past has 



arero continued. 



taken to evil courses, laulaufaiva has been 

 manufactured to designate the tongue and 

 alelo is used only in the fury of abuse. 

 From abuse to disuse is no long step with 

 a folk so ruled by courtesy as the Samoans. 

 It is only through the accident that the 

 language was caught for record in the mid 

 stage of this development that we are 

 spared the necessity of finding a reason for 

 the absence of alelo and the intrusion of 

 laulaufaiva. The Mangarevan erero finds 

 an earlier warrant in Tongan elelo. 

 are tare altar. 



^ arelare motu, oratory, chapel. 

 ariari sharp, the edge of a sword. 

 ariga 1 face, aspect, expression, mien, visage, 

 stature, superficies. 

 T Ma. : aria, to resemble. 

 (ariga 2) hakaariga to encroach. 

 ariki chief, king, lord, headman in general. 

 hakaariki, to make one a king. 

 P Pau., Mgv. : ariki, chief. Mq. : aiki, id. 

 Ta.: arii, id. 

 The Marquesan uses both aiki and 

 hakaiki in the same sense; the latter forms 

 with Mangarevan akariki a subordinate 

 couple in Southeast Polynesia. Since 

 akariki is the only form in Mangareva and 

 the Marquesas have both we may regard 

 this as indicative of the influence of Ma- 

 ngareva upon the Marquesas. In Tonga 

 we find only eiki; the vowel change is 

 quite in the Tongan manner, the dropping 

 of the liquid is most unusual; the eiki form 

 appears once more in Mangarevan ata- 

 eiki (also a language in which it is unusual 

 to drop the liquid) in the sense "to do 

 nothing and to dress richly in a luxurious 

 way. " 

 ariu (hariu). 



aro presence, body, frontispiece. 

 ki te aro, face to face. 

 P Pau.: aroga, the visage; ki te aroga, 

 opposite. Mgv.: aro, presence, 

 before; i te aro, in the presence of. 

 Mq.: ao, face, in the presence of, 

 before. Ta. : aro, face, front, pres- 

 ence, view. 

 It is probable that more than one word 

 is confounded in alo. The significations 

 which appear in Southeast Polynesia are 

 most likely derived from a Tongafiti alo 

 and do not appear in Nuclear Polynesia. 

 The alo belly and alo chief which do occur 

 in Nuclear Polynesia are also probably 

 Tongafiti, for in Samoa and Tonga they are 

 honorific and applied only to folk of rank, 

 a good indication of borrowing by the 

 Proto-Samoans from Tongafiti masters. 

 (aroha, aaroa) hakaaroha to love, to 

 adore, to be fond of, to esteem, to 

 be attached, to caress, to spare; to 

 pity, to sympathize, to show grief; 

 to honor, to revere, to pay homage, 

 to salute, to visit; affable, dear, 

 estimable, respectable. 



