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eete continued. 

 eteete emotion. 



Mgv. : ete, to be afraid. Mq.: ete, to 

 shiver with fear, to tremble with 

 fear; tete, id. Ta.: eteete, to be 

 shocked, disgusted. 

 eeva (eva). 

 eeve (eve). 

 egaega red. 



PS Mgv. : ega, a plant with a red berry. 

 Sa. : enaena, yellowish brown. To.: 



egaega, yellow. 

 In Polynesian color-sense the red and 

 the yellow fall very readily into a single 

 class designation. 

 egarua bolster, crossbeam. 



In Pere Roussel's vocabulary this ap- 

 pears but once, the entry traversin. In 

 the absence of any other instance I have 

 had to assign to traversin the two meanings 

 which it has in English. I am quite sure 

 that bolster is the true meaning, for ega- 

 rua is really e garua. The latter is clearly 

 another metathesis of aluga (dacei or 

 dicEa type) and should be compared 

 with ragua. 



egu ? 



egu oone vekuveku, mud. 

 eheeuroroa frightful. 

 ehehihi Q to enjoy oneself. 

 eheva (eva). 

 ehu firebrand. 

 ehuehu 1 ashes. 



P Mgv.: ehu, ashes, dust; rehu, a cinder, 

 ashes. Mq. : ehuahi, ashes. Ta. : 

 rehu, ashes, soot, any powder. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 313, 

 482.) 

 ehuehu 2 brown, brownish. 



P Ta. : ehuehu, red, reddish. Ha.: kehu, 

 red or sandy haired. Mq.: kehu, 

 fair, blond. Mgv.: keukeu-kura, 

 id. Ma.: kehu, reddish brown. 

 Sa.: 'efu, id. To.: kcfu, yellowish. 

 Fu.: kefu, blond, red. Niue: kefu, 

 a disrespectful term of address. 

 ragi ehuehu, a cloudflecked sky. 

 ehuehu 3 imperceptible. 

 ehuhu to set in motion. 



Mgv. : ehu, to trouble, to disturb ; ehuehu, 

 to roil. Ta. : ehuehu, to be agitated, 

 disturbed. 

 ehutai a wave. 

 ei 1 for. 



tagata haga ei mea, mercenary. 

 Ta.: ei, i, for. 

 ei 2 by means of, with. 



miti ei girigapea, to dry with a sponge. 

 hirohiroa ei vai, diluted with water. 

 hagai ei u, to feed with milk, to suckle. 

 Mq.: ei, with, by. Ta. : e, by. 

 ekaeka 1 soft to the touch, ductility, glairy, 

 mellow, flabby, marrow, soft, ripe, 

 tender, smooth (hekaheka). 

 ariga ekaeka, amiable. 

 kiri ekaeka, leprous. 

 hakaekaeka to soften, to loosen. 



(ekaeka 2) hakaekaeka to blend, to mingle, 



to mix. 

 ekaeka 3 neuralgia. 

 ekapua mouldy. 



piro ekapua, wormeaten. 

 T Pau.: hekaheka, discolored. Mgv.: eka, 

 mouldiness, musty. Mq. : heka, 

 mould. 

 eke trestle, stilt; to mount a horse, to go 

 aboard. 

 hakaeke to cause to mount, to carry on 

 a boat. 

 P Pau.: fakaeke, to transport, to carry, to 

 hang up. Mgv.: eke, to embark, 

 to mount upon an elevation. Mq. : 

 eke, to rise, to go aboard; hakaeke, 

 to heap up, to put upon, to raise. 

 Ta. : ee, to mount, to go aboard; 

 faaee, to hang up, to transport by 

 water. 

 ekieki 1 cry of children, to groan, to sob. 

 hakaeki to howl, to yell. 

 Mq.: eo hadekieki, hadeiei, trembling 

 voice. 

 ekieki 2 languor, to make tender. 

 emu to leak, to drown, to founder. 

 tae emu, inexhaustible. 

 hakaemu to submerge. 

 ena there, behold. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta. : ena, there. 



Here we have preserved an earlier form 

 of the demonstrative pronoun (remote 

 sense) than appears in the Samoan lend or 

 the Tongafiti tend, the latter form also 

 used in Southeast Polynesia. 

 enemi enemy. 



eo incense, essence, odor, fragrance, perfume, 

 scent. 

 hakaeo to perfume. 

 PS Mgv. : eo, to exhale a strong smell, as 

 a rotting thing. Mq.: eo, rotten, 

 putrid; to stink; hakaeo, to cause 

 to spoil. Ta. : veoveo, disagreeable 

 odor; faaero, rotten (of an egg). 

 Sa.: elo, to stink. To., Fu., Niue: elo,id. 

 The sense accord is satisfactory. Very 

 little distinction is made by the Polyne- 

 sians in naming an odor; it is practically 

 sufficient to say there is an odor and to 

 leave the characterization to individual 

 discernment or to designate it by specific 

 statement of that which emits the odor. 

 An interesting light is thrown upon this 

 usage by the instructive jargon of the 

 Western Pacific in which we find an onion 

 described as "apple belong stink " and put- 

 ting perfumed oil upon the hair as "slush'm 

 grass belong head too much stink " (Beach- 

 la-Mar, pages 34 and 49). The extinction 

 of a Proto-Samoan / is regular in the Mar- 

 quesas; in Nuclear Polynesia it obtains 

 somewhat freely in Niue, and has been 

 noted in other parts of the Pacific (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 53). Tahiti veoveo, 

 a satisfactory sense concord, involves the 

 difficulty of a frontal accretion; if it does 

 not derive from elo, its source is unidenti- 

 fiable in any veo or velo stem. 



