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hagai continued. 



nurture, to give food to, an adop- 

 tive or foster father; akaagai, to 

 feed. Mq. : hakai, to feed. Ta.: 

 faaai, to nourish, a foster-parent. 

 The Samoan represents an earlier type 

 of the root, but in the case of this compo- 

 sition element, the postpositive paradeic- 

 tic i of effective transitive value (Beach- 

 la-Mar, page 21), we are not justified in 

 regarding it as critical in assigning a voca- 

 ble to either migration swarm. The Sa- 

 moan contains many words of undoubted 

 Proto-Samoan provenance which have re- 

 ceived this augment, and in the specific 

 case of fafaga the surrounding Proto- 

 Samoan languages use fagai, except that 

 Uvea agrees with the Samoan. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 269.) 

 hagaiho (haga 4-iho 1) recovery. 

 hagakahu (haga 2-kahu) to weave. 

 hagakavaga to judge. 

 hagake (haga 4-ke) to act contrary. 

 hagamiro (haga i-miro) to work in wood. 



tagata hagamiro, carpenter. 

 (hagamoa, hugamoa). 

 hagarae (haga \-rae) creation, to undertake, 



enterprise, promoter. 

 hagatahi (agatahi). 

 hagatopa (haga 2-topa 6) vain, futile, to do 



to no purpose, failure. 

 hagauru (hagahuru, agahuru). 

 hage look here ! 

 hagihagi clear. 



ui hagihagi, to discern. 

 Pau.: hagihagi, light, slender, elegant. 

 Mq. : dnidni, dkidki, fine, thin, 

 clear, transparent. 

 hago a musket, to shoot. 

 hago poto, pistol. 

 (Mgv. : hago, the hole of a snake or an 

 eel in the ground. But note P 

 fana, to shoot.) 

 hagu 1 the temples. 

 hagu 2 (agu). 



haguhagu convulsion, spasm, convulsive. 

 hagupotu younger son, younger brother T. 

 haha 1 to grope, to feel one's way. 

 po haha, darkness, obscure. 

 P Pau. : fafa, to feel for, to grope. Mq. : 

 haha, fafa, to grope, to feel one's 

 way with the hand as one blind. 

 Ta. : fafa, to touch, to feel with the 

 hand. 

 The absence of fafa from the Samoan is 

 not in itself sufficient to prohibit entry of 

 the word into the general Polynesian, for 

 it is found in Tonga, Futuna, and Uvea; 

 Niue, however, follows after Samoan with 

 a mutation so clumsy and unusual (Samoa 

 tdgotago, to grope ; Niue: tamotamo, id.) as 

 to suggest a roundabout acquisition. On 

 the other hand the presence of any vocable 

 in Tonga, Futuna and Uvea is not wholly 

 satisfactory evidence that it is Proto- 

 Samoan, for considerably more Tongafiti 

 vocables are there encountered than in 

 Samoa and Viti. 



haha 2 mouth, chops, door, entrance, 

 window. 

 haha pipi, small mouth. 

 haha pipiro, foul breath. 

 ohio haha, bit of bridle. 

 tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. 

 T Pau. : vaha, the mouth. Mgv.: haha, 

 aha, the mouth. Mq. : haha, fafa, 

 mouth, chops, beak, opening. Ta. : 

 vaha, the mouth, beak, chops. 

 hahae to walk with legs wide open. 



Mgv.: hae, unequal, out of unison, 

 longer on one side. 

 hahaga ridge, summit, wall plate. 



maroa hahaga, to measure lands, to 

 walk at a great pace. 

 hahao 1 a measure, to measure. 

 hahao 2 to pack up, to box, to put into, to 

 sheathe; scabbard, sheath. 

 P Mgv. : hao, hahao, to inclose, to sur- 

 round, to envelop, to put a thing 

 into a box or sack. Mq.: fao, 

 fafao, hao, hahao, to put into, to 

 introduce into. Ta.: fafao, to put 

 into. 

 The Samoan identification is debatable, 

 for sao is defined as to "collect together 

 food or property preparatory to present- 

 ing. " It is only by implication that this 

 suggests the custom of collecting the food 

 in coconut frails. The Tongan hao, to 

 surround, to inclose, is still wider from the 

 sense. It may prove safer to include this 

 in the Tongafiti material. 

 hahari to comb. 

 hahati (hati). 

 hahatu (hatu). 

 hahau ham. 

 hahi package. 



PS Mgv. : hahi, hahihi, a packet or bundle 

 of fish enveloped in leaves; to wrap 

 up in leaves. Mq. : fafi, hahi, small 

 packet in leaves, envelope, wrap- 

 per; to envelop, to wrap up. Ta. : 

 afifi, to tie up. 

 Sa. : aft, afifi, to do up in a bundle. 



Niue : aft, a bundle, to wrap. 

 The presence of the initial aspirate in 

 Rapanui and Marquesan indicates a 

 Proto-Samoan stem hafi. Abrasion of 

 afisi appears to have led to a tangle of the 

 two stems in the Tongafiti languages (see 

 the Polynesian Wanderings, page 277, with 

 the later determination on page 290). The 

 second form in the Marquesan seems to 

 have derived through hahi, where each h 

 is misunderstood to stand for an original/. 

 The Tahiti afifi is the Samoan plural 

 afifi. 

 hahie firewood. 

 P Ta. : vahie, id. Mgv., Mq.: vehie, id. 



The Rapanui and Tahiti (as well as 

 Hawaii, Rarotonga and Maori) follow the 

 Samoan in respect of the vowel in the first 

 syllable. The Mangareva and Marquesas 

 vehie reproduces the Tongan fefte. Mr. 

 Tregear cites the Futuna asfaeie, but on 

 the authority of Pere Grezel this should be 



