RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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eoeo 1 ash, charcoal, coal. 



(eoeo 2) hakaeoeo to pulverize, to make 



into dust. 

 epe ear Q. 

 eperehe (perehe). 

 epeveo ear-ring. 

 epikopo bishop (episcopus) . 

 era that. 



a mea era, that. 

 apo era, day after to-morrow, 

 (ere) hakaere to relax, to slacken, 

 etahi (tahi). 

 ete (eete). 

 eteni heathen, idolater, pagan. 



etenihaga idolatry. 

 etereno eternal. 

 etu tribe. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ati, a descendant. 



Here we set etu with the ati forms solely 

 for comparison. In the collation of ngati- 

 ati (The Polynesian Wanderings, 198) we 

 find no trace of such a form and the asso- 

 ciation is highly problematical. 

 etua 1 god (atua). 



hahumuhumu etua, revelation. 

 hakaetua to deify. 

 etuahaga divinity. 

 etua 2 stranger. 

 eua sceptre. 



euai to train, to break in. 

 eueue (ueue). 



(euheu) ariga euheu venerable. 

 eukaritia eucharist. 



(euru) hakaeuru to dilute, to dissolve, to 

 infuse, to inject, to blend, to falsify; 

 infusion, mixture, falsification. 

 hakaeuruga mixed, a mixture. 

 eva to be delirious, to rave, absurd (eheva, 

 heva, heheva). 

 T Mgv.: eva, heva, frenz ed, delirious; stiff, 

 said of a sick person; aeva, like a 

 madman. Mq. : eva, to be confused, 

 perplexed. Ta.: hevaheva, beside 

 oneself. 

 evagerio gospel (evangelium) . 

 eve 1 placenta, afterbirth (eeve). 



T Pau. : eve, womb. Ta. : eve, placenta. 

 Ma.: ewe, id. Ha. : ewe, navel string. 

 eve 2 the rear. 



taki eeve, the buttocks. 

 hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the but- 

 tocks. 

 pupuhi eve, syringe. 

 eve 3 the bottom of the sea. 



ga (na 1, 2). 



gaa to break, to split, to crack, to rive; 

 fracture, fissure, break, crack, crev- 

 ice (gaaha). 

 niho gaa, toothache, broken teeth. 

 gaamiro (miro, ship) shipwreck. 

 gaapu (pu 2) abortion. 

 poki gaapu, abortive child. 

 T Mq.: tiaha, nafa, split, fissure. Ta. : 

 aha, afa, crack, fissure. 

 gaatu 1 bulrush, reed. 



gaatu 2 (gatu). 



gaegae short of breath, out of breath, breath- 

 less. 

 PS Mgv. : aeaea, short of breath, to breathe 

 with difficulty, to feel suffocated; 

 gaegae, to have a feeble voice. Mq. : 

 naenae, kaekae, short of breath, 

 unable to breathe/suffocated. Ta. : 

 dede, short and painful breathing, 

 as of one at the point of death. 

 Sa. : gae, to breathe hard, to pant, to be 

 out of breath. Uvea: gaegae, out 

 of breath. Fu. : gaigaisa, id. 

 Pratt and Violette record the Samoan as 

 ga'e. But the complete absence elsewhere 

 in Nuclear Polynesia of a stem gake in an 

 associable sense and the presence in Uvea 

 of gaegae in a speech which never drops 

 Proto-Samoan k prove that ga'e is wrong. 

 Pere Violette has slavishly followed an 

 early edition of Pratt (probably the sec- 

 ond) ; the latter in assigning was guided 

 solely by ear without seeking to confirm 

 his assignment by comparison of other 

 languages in which the k is retained. In 

 many cases I have abundant authority 

 for altering his record in this particular. 

 gaehe to boil. 



gaei to shake, to contract, to move (gaeiei, 

 gaiei, geigei, garei, gerei). 

 ua gaei, pulsation. 

 hakagaei to shake, to wave, to waddle, 

 to twist the body about. 

 ahi hakagaei, a night signal. 

 hakagerei to shake. 

 gaga to faint, to fall in a swoon, death 



struggle. 

 gagata crowd, multitude, people, population 

 gagau (gau). 

 gaie flexible wood (? gaiei). 

 gaiei 1 movement, flexibility; to move; 

 flexible, not wholly solid (gaei, 

 gaieiei). 

 gaiei 2 mixture, mixed. 

 gamamari gland, kernel. 

 gao neck, throat (naho G). 



gao pukupuku, scrofula. 

 hore te gao, to cut the head off. 

 arakea gao, scrofula. 

 gaoaku to yelp (gaugau). 

 gaoetu to yelp. 

 gaogao calm. 

 gaoku to eat greedily. 

 gaopu to choke on a bone. 

 garahu 1 charcoal, powder used in tattooing, 

 ink (garau). 

 garau hiva, pitch. 

 TPau.: garahu, live coals. Mgv. : garahu, 

 charcoal, soot; garahurahu, small 

 pieces of charcoal. Mq.: kadhu, 

 charcoal, coal, soot, tattooing ink. 

 Ta.: arahu, charcoal. 

 garahu 2 mourning. 

 garara cockroach T. 



T Ta. : arara, the small lizard. Ma. : nga- 

 rara, a reptile, an insect. 

 garau (garahu). 



