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gorigori continued. 



Ma.: ngori, weak, listless; ngore, soft, 

 flaccid. 

 gorogoro to snore, to grunt, to sleep deeply, 

 nightmare (gogoro) (nogoru Q). 

 P Pau. : gooro, tagoro, to snore. Mgv. : 

 goro, to snore, to rattle. Ta.: 

 ooro, to snore, to rumble. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 392.) 

 hakagorogoro to cause to grunt. 

 goruru to sleep (auru, ahuru, horuhoru). 

 goutu (gutu). 

 gu 1 apology. 

 gu 2 brusque. 

 guha brusque. 

 T Mgv.: guha, a deep voice with bad ar- 

 ticulation. Ma.: nguha, to snort, 

 to rage. 

 guregure mottled, to spot. 

 tapa guregure, calico. 

 guruarapuru hoarse, hoarseness. 

 guruhara throat. 

 guti Thursday (Jeudi). 

 gutu lips, mouth, beak, snout (goutu). 

 gutu ahu, swollen lip. 

 guti hiti, thick lip. 

 gutu mokomoko, pointed lip. 

 gutu no, vain words. 

 gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips. 

 gutu raro, lower lip. 

 gutu ruga, upper lip. 

 gutugutu snout. 

 PPau. : gutu, lip, beak, bill. Mgv.: gutu, 

 the chin, the mouth of a fish. Mq.: 

 nutu, beak, snout. Ta.: utu, lip, 

 mouth, beak, snout. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 349.) 

 gutupiri attentively. 

 gututae attentively. 



gututae mekenu, a small mouth. 

 gututika tattooing on the lips. 



ha 1 four. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta. : ha, id. 

 ha 2 to yawn, to gape. 

 ha 3 to heat. 



(ha 4) hakaha to skin, to flay. 

 unahi hakaha, to scale fish. 

 Mgv. : akaha, to take to pieces, to take 

 off the bark or skin, to strip the 

 leaves off sugarcane. 

 haata (hata). 

 haatigo to accompany. 



Mq.: heetina, to accompany. 

 haatu (hatu). 

 haavare cunning, guile. 



Ta. : haavare, to dupe, to swindle. 

 hae 1 smoke with a foul smell. 

 PS Sa. : saesae, to burn brightly. 



With form concord and so much of sense 

 agreement as may inhere in the fact that 

 this and the Samoan are fire words, per- 

 haps the fact that hae can be associated 

 with no other Polynesian stem may estab- 

 lish this identification. In Samoa the 

 word has so far lost its meaning that it is 



hae I continued. 



rarely used alone but only in the determi- 

 nant compound musaesae. There may be 

 a sense-invert here, for such smoke could 

 most readily come from a smoldering fire, 

 the direct opposite of the Samoan sense. 

 hae 2 angry, jealous. 

 hakahae to slander. 

 T Pau., Ta. : hae, jealous. Mq.: hae, 

 angry. 

 Ma.: hae, jealous, envious. 

 haga 1 bay, strait, anchorage, strand, beach. 

 P Mq. : hana, haka, small bay, creek, cove, 

 haga 2 work, labor, employment, act, affair, 

 creation, design, state, maker, fash- 

 ion, manufacture, occupation, pro- 

 fession; to do, to make, to con- 

 struct, to employ, to form, to 

 manufacture, to fashion, to found, 

 to be busy with. 

 haga rakerake, crime. 

 tagata haga ei mea, mercenary. 

 haga no Hi, to plot mischief. 

 haga ke, to act contrary. 

 haga takataka, to disjoin. 

 haga nui, difficulty, fatigue, to weary. 

 tuhi ki te haga, to give employment. 

 haga hakahou, to make over, to renew, 



recovery. 

 haga koroiti, to deal prudently. 

 haga nuinui ke, to overburden. 

 P Pau.: haga, to do, action, work, a deed. 

 Mgv. : haga, aga, work, labor. Mq. : 

 hana, haka, action, act, work, occu- 

 pation. Ta.: haa, work, to labor, 

 to make. 

 The common consent of the Tongafiti 

 branches of the family shows the Proto- 

 Samoan to have been haga. This receives 

 support within the area of Nuclear Poly- 

 nesia in Viti dhaka, the mutation from the 

 stronger (lingual) aspiration to dh being 

 normal. 

 haga 3 agreement, conduct, liking, inten- 

 tion, desire, will; to resolve, to 

 agree, to consent, to obey, to per- 

 mit, to endeavor, to tolerate, to be 

 willing, to wish, to approve. 

 haga ihoiho, fixed desire. 

 haga mai, haga no mai, to agree, to 



hearken favorably. 

 toe haga, despite, involuntary, to 



refuse, to renounce. 

 noho hakahaga, apathy. 

 haga 4 (haka). 



Pau.: haga = haka. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 269.) 

 hagaava (haga i-ava 2) entrance of a harbor. 

 hagahaga 1 (haga 2) work. 

 hagahaga 2 hesitation, to hesitate. 

 hagahuru ten (agahuru, hagauru). 



P Mq. : onohuii, okohuu, id. Ta. : ahuru, id. 



hagai to feed, to nourish, foster-parent 



(agai). 



hagai ei u, to suckle. 



P Pau.: fagai, to feed, to maintain, to 



support. Mgv.: agai, to nurse, to 



