RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY 



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avai continued. 



avai tohaga no mai, free, for nothing. 

 avai titikaga, to invest. 

 avai varavara, a series, to go one by 

 one. 

 ke avai 



hinihini ke avai, ancient. 

 ika ke avai mo, abuse. 

 kori ke avai, abuse. 

 maori ke avai, skilful, handy. 

 mau ke avai, abundance, to abound. 

 pipiro ke avai, disgusting odor. 

 tupu ke avai, of rapid growth. 

 ua ke avai, a shower, long and heavy 

 rain. 

 avaihaga bequest. 

 avaitahi partial, partiality. 

 Mq. : avai, to leave, not to take. 

 avamouga {ava i-mouga 2) valley. 

 avava to throw, to hurl. 

 averi to warn. 



e 1 by. 



P Mgv. : e, from, by, on account of. Mq. : 

 e, by (agent). Ta.: c, by, of. 

 e 2 and. 



Mgv., Ta.: e, and. 

 e3 oh! 



P Mgv. : e, sign of the vocative ; exclama- 

 tion "here, take it!" Mq.: e, 

 sign of the vocative; interjection 

 of grief, surprise, scorn, refusal. 

 Ta. : e, sign of the vocative. 

 See note under aue. 

 e 4 yes. 



PS Mgv. : e, a sign of assent, yes, truly. 

 Mq. : e, yes, it is true. Ta. : e, yes. 

 Sa.: e, id. 

 See note under ae. 

 e 5 verb sign. 



P Pau., Mq., Ta.: e, verb sign. 

 e 6 negative verb sign. 



e maaa, inexperienced. 

 ina e negative sign. 



ina e rakerakega, innocent. 

 ina e ko mou, incessant. 

 e ko not, except. 

 P Mgv.: te, no, not, without. 



The Rapanui is the only speech which 

 preserves for us the form of the preposi- 

 tive negative which by inference we judge 

 to be primitive. In modern Samoan it 

 has become le and in modern Tahitian te. 

 In Melanesia a negative of the Viti sega 

 type is most frequently found; but for 

 comparison we note Omba he, te, hete, and 

 Sesake and Efate ti. 

 e 7 wave T. 



e 8 weak demonstrative, functioning as arti- 



ticle. 



Mgv. : e, the definite article. 



This is proposed in explanation of the 



forms eaho, eanuhe, egarua, a compound 



type which is more common in the Pau- 



motu. The vowel carries the most general 



sense of existence; thus it may serve to 



represent a diffuse speech element from 



e 8 -continued. 



which paradeictic and demonstrative may 

 start in specific evolution. In Nuclear 

 Polynesia the article is supported by con- 

 sonant coefficients, se indefinite, le def- 

 inite, which are represented in the Tonga- 

 fiti by he and te. This e as article is found 

 in Tahiti, which abundantly uses h as an 

 s-mutant; in Rarotonga, which is a doubt- 

 ful instance since that language lacks 

 sibilant and aspiration and might derive 

 this e from Tongafiti he; in the Marquesas, 

 where it exists concurrently with he as here 

 in Rapanui; in Mangareva, where he is 

 phonetically possible but is not found in 

 use. Its consistent presence in Southeast 

 Polynesia not only argues a Proto-Samoan 

 source but points to a migration from 

 Nuclear Polynesia before the device of 

 variety through consonantal coefficients 

 had been fairly established even if 

 already invented. 

 ea to go out, to bring out. 



ea ki aho, to send away. 

 raa ea mai, the sun rises. 

 ka ea, be off. 

 P Mgv.: ea, to spring, to issue. 



The germ sense being regarded as that 

 of emergence the unity of signification 

 comes into view. 

 eaai {ea-vai) a torrent. 

 eaha (aha), 

 eahe (ahe). 

 eaho fishing line. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta. : aho, fishing line, thread, 

 string. 

 eanuhe caterpillar. 



P Pau.: anuhe, snail; hanuhe, caterpillar. 



Mgv.: enuhe, caterpillar. Mq.: 



nuhe, id. Ta. : anuhe, a fern. 



The earliest form of the stem is nufe 



which appears in Viti nuve and Marquesas 



nuhe. The addition of the word-making 



prefix gives the secondary forms: 



anufe Samoa. Maori, Hawaii, Rarotonga, Pau- 



motu, Tahiti. 

 enufe Hawaii, Mangareva. 

 unufe Tonga. 



Tertiary forms are Paumotu hanuhe and 

 Rapanui eanuhe. In general the word 

 signifies worm and caterpillar; its altera- 

 tion to snail in Paumotu and to a fern in 

 Tahiti is not really remote in a classifica- 

 tion based on superficial resemblances. 

 eeriki carpet. 



Mgv. : eriki-kura, a piece of cloth painted 

 yellow used to cover the breast of 

 a corpse. 

 eete anger, horror; detestable, hideous, hor- 

 rible; to astound, to feel repug- 

 nance (ete). 

 kokoma eete, to abhor, to detest, angry, 



to be in a rage, ungovernable. 

 tagata kokoma eete, adversary. 

 eete manava, affected, moved. 

 manava eete, anger, consternation, 

 fright; to astonish, to shudder, to 

 tremble. 



