RAPANUI-KNGUSH VOCABULARY. 



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atahenua (ata 2,-henua i) landscape, coun- 

 tryside. 

 atakai I generous, hospitable, beneficent, 

 indulgent, liberal, obliging; prodi- 

 gality, indulgence. 

 rima atakai, benevolent, generous, 

 open-handed; gift, liberality. 

 atakai 2 calm, unperturbed, grateful. 

 atari ki first born, oldest son, elder brother T. 

 PS Mgv. : atariki, eldest son. Mq. : ataiki, 

 ataii, hakaiki, chief, cf. ariki.) 

 Sa.: atali'i, son. 



This form is not only Proto-Samoan, but 

 in Nuclear Polynesia is found only in 

 Samoa. Its former element is but once 

 identified elsewhere in the Pacific, Efate 

 ata man (The Polynesian Wanderings, 

 194). Assuming the validity of this 

 identification atariki means little man, a 

 sense which comports with the use in 

 Rapanui and Mangareva. In Nuguria, 

 a distant island of the Western Verge, the 

 word means son-in-law, a recession but 

 not an impossible devolution. In the Mar- 

 quesan ataiki chief is found only in the 

 southeastern group; the general ariki chief 

 is not found save in what appears a sec- 

 ondary assumption in the form hakaiki; 

 because of the resemblance ataiki may 

 have acquired the sense of chief at the 

 time when a need of designating chiefs 

 arose. If in Southeast Polynesia the posi- 

 tion of first-born connotes honor, which is 

 not the case in Nuclear Polynesia, the 

 ennobling of the word son finds a parallel 

 in Samoa, where tama child is an informal 

 but affectionate title of respect used of but 

 not to chiefs. 

 ata-ta T evening (? ataata). 

 atatehe (ata 2-tehe 1 ) dawn. 



popohaga atatehe, morning, early in 

 the morning. 

 ate 1 liver, lung. 



mate ate, liver complaint. 

 P Mgv.: ate, the liver, inward parts of 

 the body. Mq., Ta.: ate, the liver. 

 ate 2 a dance, to dance. 

 ateate 



a. dear, attached. 



b. joy. 



atehopo (ate 1, the liver as the seat of the 

 intelligence-Zzo/w) ambition, envy; 

 avid, covetous, desirous, envious. 

 ati 1 ? 



ati ko peka, vengeance, to avenge. 

 ati 00, disciple. 

 ati 2 (hati). 



atiati 1 to wait for, to hope, to wait, to 

 attend (aati). 

 Mgv. : ati, to wait for, to hope for some 

 time. 

 atiati 2 to go boldly. 



PS Sa. : atia'i, to go softly toward in order 

 to seize, to take by surprise. 

 In the Samoan a'i is verb formative; 

 with this element removed from consider- 

 ation there is exact agreement of stem 



ataiti 2 continued. 



form and sufficient accord in sense to 

 establish this as a good identification. 

 atiave further, ulterior. 

 atiga angle, corner. 



Mgv.: hatiga, the corner of a house; 

 hatiga, hatihatiga, the joints or artic- 

 ulation of a limb. Mq.: fatina, 

 hatika, joint, articulation, link. 

 Ta. : faiiraa, articulation. 

 atikea oa atikea, ignorance, not to know. 

 atioo disciple. 

 ato to build. 



Mq.: ato, to build a house of wood, to 

 raise a tent. Ta.: ato, to build, to 

 construct, to roof a house. 

 Elsewhere in Polynesia ato designates 

 the act of thatching a house. This sense 

 may persist in one of the Tahiti definitions 

 and by a greater stretch to the Marquesan 

 tent usage (of course this is essentially 

 modern) ; to consider this extensible to the 

 whole building seems too violent, the more 

 particularly as the vocable is not critical 

 to the argument of this work in any great 

 degree. Cf. kato 2. 

 atoga event, occurrence. 



Mgv.: atoga, a design, a project. 

 atu 1 



a. directive, of motion from the speaker. 



b. somewhat expressive of the compara- 



tive degree. 

 P Pau. : atu, away. Mgv. : atu, away, off, 

 hence. Mq., Ta.: atu, away, more. 

 atu 2 pupil. 



hakaatu proof. 



hakaatuga hare hakaatuga, schoolhouse, 

 class. 

 atu 3 (hakaatu), to presage. 

 atu 4 (hakaatu), mark, object. 

 atua god, devil T (etua). 



PPau.,Ta.r atua, god. Mgv.: etua, god, 



deity, divinity; to be wicked, to be 



full of wickedness. Mq. : etua, god, 



divinity. 



The comprehensiveness of the definition, 



and the same is found in the Maori, is a 



question of orthodoxy, merely a matter of 



the point of view. Of far more moment 



in our studies is the vowel variety of the 



initial syllable. 



atua Maori, Mangaia, Tahiti, Hawaii, Tonga- 

 rewa, Rapanui, Paumotu, Samoa, l'utuna, 

 Uvea, Niue, Aniwa. 



etua Marquesas, Mangareva, Rapanui. 



otua Tonga. 



The Rotuma oiitu is probably referable 

 to aitu. 

 atutiri 



a. thunder. 



mate atutiri, to strike with thunder. 



b. a storm. 



P Pau.: fatitiri, thunder. Mgv.: atutiri, 

 id. Mq.: fatutii, hatutii, id. Ta. : 

 patiri, id. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 240.) 



