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heguhegu 1 continued. 



Polynesian Wanderings, 5 1 ) and especially 

 in an unaccented syllable. Data are not 

 sufficient for the determination of the 

 primitive sense, but the longing of desire is 

 common to both. 



heguhegu 2 to murmur. 



P Ma.: whenguwhengu, to snuffle. 



heguigui 



a. to whisper, in an indistinct voice. 



b. to read. 



manava tagi ki te heguigui, studious. 

 PS Mgv.: heguigui, to whisper, to speak 

 low; eguigui, to hear the sound of 

 a person's voice without distin- 

 guishing the words. 

 Sa.: feguigui, to talk in a low tone. 

 To.: fegugui, id. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 393.) 

 hehegaraa sunrise. 



PS Sa.: sesega, to be dazzled as by the 

 sun. Fu.: sega, the beginning of 

 daybreak. Niue: hegahega, the red 

 light or rays at sunset. Viti: sese, 

 to dawn. 

 hehehehe clay, muddy, damp. 

 hehere (here). 

 heheu (heu). 

 heheva (eva). 

 hei garland. 



P Mq.: hei, garland, necklace, chaplet, 

 flower ornament. Ta.: hei, gar- 

 land, chaplet, to entwine. 

 hekaheka (ekaeka). 



(heke) hakaheke to pull down, to over- 

 throw. 

 Mgv. : akaeke, to overthrow, to van- 

 quish; heke, to fall down, to fall to 

 pieces: akaheke. akaheheke, to de- 

 molish. Mq.: heke, to crumble, to 

 fall down; hakaheke, to demolish, 

 to pull down. 

 hemahia umbrella T. 



This is probably he malua, see maru- 

 maru. In uncertain chirography lua 

 might easily be read hia; and other exam- 

 ples show that in Paymaster Thomson's 

 vocabulary the article he is compacted 

 with its noun and / is employed for r. 

 heniati dead T, hemati Q (? he mate). 

 The concurrence of T and Q seems proof 

 that each had access to the same manu- 

 script source, perhaps notes by Mr. 

 Salmon. 

 henua 1 land, country, region (heenua). 

 henua tumu, native land. 

 P Pau.: henua, country. Mgv.: enua, 

 land, said of shallow places in the 

 sea; mamuenua, the earth. Mq.: 

 fenua, henua, land, country, place, 

 property. Ta. : fenua, land, coun- 

 try, place. 

 There is apparently nothing critical in 

 the first vowel; e is the most widely ex- 

 tended ; a is found only in Samoa, Viti, and 

 Rotuma in Nuclear Polynesia, but is the 

 dominant vowel in Melanesian survivals. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 341.) 



henua 2 uterus T (cf. eve). 

 T Pau. : pufenua, placenta. Mgv. : enua, 

 id. Mq.: fenua, henua, id. 

 henua 3 ? 



pupuhi henua, volley. 

 PS Sa. : fana-fanua, cannon. To.: mea 

 fana fonua, id. Fu. : fanafenua, id. 

 Niue: fanafonua, id. Viti: a dakai 

 ni vanua, id. 

 I can not understand this henua. Of 

 course the cannon to which it is applied is 

 modern and alien and became known to 

 the islanders as part of the equipment of 

 the whaler and the explorer. A very 

 simple explanation is to regard fanua as 

 objective, fanafanua as the shooter at the 

 shore; this is doubly negatived, first be- 

 cause fana takes for its object the missile 

 shot and not the mark aimed at, second 

 because Viti requires vanua in a genitive 

 character. And if this metaphor is so 

 simple, why is it confined to Proto-Samoan 

 folk without suggesting itself to their 

 Tongafiti kin? I think the applicability 

 must rest in some meaning of fanua which 

 has nothing to do with land. 

 (hepo) hakahepo to talk in the sleep 

 (hakakepo R). 

 PS Sa. : fa'alepo, a dream. 



Pere Roussel's vocabulary form haka- 

 kepo, which makes no sense, is clearly a 

 misreading of the manuscript. Translit- 

 erated back to a Samoan form hakahepo 

 becomes fa'asepo, which differs from the 

 present Samoan fa'alepo only by the differ- 

 ence between se and le, or that between the 

 general and the particular article. 

 hera-ki-to-mea luck T. 



Probably he ragi to mea, if such a mean- 

 ing may be given to that possible colloca- 

 tion of words; other instances are ob- 

 served in which Paymaster Thomson has 

 used k for g. 

 here I to lash, to belay, to knot the end of a 

 cord, to lace, to tie, to bind, to 

 fasten, to knot ; to catch in a noose, 

 to strangle, to garrote. 

 here pepe, to saddle. 

 moa herea, a trussed fowl. 

 hehere collar, necklet. 

 herega bond, ligament. 

 P Pau.: here, a snare, a running knot, a 

 tie, to lace up. Mgv. : ere, to hang 

 up, to suspend; ereere, to bind 

 down, to enthrall, to tie with great 

 care. Mq. : hee, to catch in a 

 noose, to lace, to strangle. Ta. : 

 here, a snare, a cord, to lace. 

 (here 2) hakahere to buy, to sell, to barter, 

 to part with, to pay for, to do busi- 

 ness, to compensate, to owe, to dis- 

 burse, to expiate, to indemnify, to 

 rent out, to hire, to traffic, to 

 bargain, to bribe ; merchant, trader, 

 business, revenge. 

 tagata hakahere, merchant, trader. 

 hakahere ki te ika, to avenge. 

 hakaherega ransom, redemption. 



