RAPANUI-ENGUSH VOCABULARY. 



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(here) 2 hakahere continued. 



hakahererua to exchange, to avenge. 

 here 3 here ei hoiho, incense. 

 heregao {here i-gao) scarf, cravat. 

 hereo button T (? he veo). 

 herepo ice plant T. 

 herohero scarlet, suffocating T. 



ura herohero, brilliance of flames. 

 heru leg T Q. 

 heruheru rake. 



P Pau.: heru, to brush with the hand. 

 Mq.: heu, to scrape, to clear away 

 by rubbing. Ta. : heru, to scratch 

 the ground. 

 In sense the Paumotu and Marquesas 

 are by no means satisfactorily coordinated, 

 but there is no other stem with which they 

 may be associated, and it is to be noted 

 that the definitions of the Paumotu dic- 

 tionary are meager and Bishop Dordillon's 

 Marquesas dictionary is scarcely better. 

 heruru to calk (cf. v.ru i). 

 hetu 1 star (heetuu). 

 hetu rere, meteor. 

 hetu pupura, planet. 

 P Pau.: hetu, star. Mgv.: etu, id. Mq.: 

 fetu, hetu, id. Ta.: fetu, fetia, id. 

 The alternative form fetia in Tahiti, now 

 the only one in common use, need not be 

 regarded as an anomaly in mutation. It 

 seems to derive from Paumotu fctika, a 

 planet. Its introduction into Tahiti is 

 due to the fashion of accepting Paumotu 

 vocables which arose when the house of 

 Pomare came into power. 

 hetu 2 capital letter (? he hi). 

 hetu 3 to amuse. 

 hetu 4 to stamp the feet. 

 hetuhetu 



a. to calk. 



b. to strike the water. 

 hetuke sea urchin. 



Mgv.: etuke, the sea porcupine; points, 

 spines of the sea porcupine. Mq. : 

 etue, a species of fish. 

 (heu 1) heheu. 



ivi heheu, the cachalot, bone needle Q. 

 hakaheu spade, to shovel, to grub up, 

 to scratch the ground, to labor. 

 rava hakaheu, laborious, toilsome. 

 (heu 2) hakaheu affair. 

 heva (eva). 

 hi I to angle. 



Mgv. : hi, hipo, to fish with a line. Mq., 

 Ta. : hi, id. 

 hi 2 asthma, to wipe the nose. 



hihi to have a cold. 

 hia 1 e hia, how many? 



P Pau. : ehia, id. Mgv. : e hia, id. Mq.: 

 fia, hia, e hia, toohia, id. Ta. : hia, 

 e hia, a hia, toohia, id. 

 hia 2 to whistle. 



hakahia to turn the stomach. 

 TPau.: hiohio, to whistle, to hiss at. 

 Mgv. : vio, to hiss in speaking. Ta. : 

 hio, to whistle, to blow. 

 Ma. : whio, to whistle. 



hiahia to saw. 



P Pau. : ika, to cause fire by friction of one 

 piece of wood against another. 

 Mgv.: hika, id. Ta.: hia, id. Mq.: 

 hika, hina, to saw, to obtain fire by 

 friction. 

 The identification lacks much in sense; 

 it would also entail the loss of a stem k. 

 Despite the inclusion of the saw sense 

 in the Marquesan the fire friction is the 

 plow method and differs in a marked 

 degree from any sawing. 

 hieroturia, sacrilege (hierodoulia). 

 higa 1 to consent, to obey, to give adhesion, 

 to acquiesce. 

 higahaga agreement. 

 higa 2 to fall, to stumble (iga). 

 higa iho, to fall down. 

 higa ki te amoga (uraga), to fall be- 

 neath a burden. 

 iga rakerakc, ignominy. 

 higahiga awry, to stagger. 

 hihiga to heel over under the wind. 

 TPau.: higa, to fall. Mgv.: akahiga, 

 turned upside down, thrown down, 

 upset. Mq.: hina, hika, turned 

 upside down, fallen, slipped. Ta.: 

 hid, to fall. 

 As this occurs in Tongan higa and 

 Futuna siga it may be assignable to the 

 general Polynesian class, not, however, 

 materially affecting any argument in the 

 work except to swell the number of the 

 neutral element. 

 higa 3 to beat down, to defeat, to subject, 

 to convince; danger, defeat. 

 e ko higa, unconquerable. 

 tae higa, invincible. 

 higaa conquered, convinced. 

 hakahiga to subject, to gain the mas- 

 tery, to persuade, to subjugate, to 

 conquer; victory. 

 hakahakahiga to surpass. 

 Mq. : hina, hika, conquered, vanquished, 

 surrendered. 

 hihi 1 antennae, feelers, lattice, eyebrow T 

 {hihu Q). 

 hihi ketuketu, to wrinkle, to turn back 

 the eyelids. 

 hihihihi to lace, to twist; eyebrow. 

 hakahihi to cross the legs. 

 T V&u.: hihi, a ray, sunbeam. Mgv.: 

 hihi, to confuse; akahihi, to con- 

 fuse, to tangle; pehehihi, interlaced, 

 crossing; tahihi, entangled. Mq.: 

 hihi, antennae, tentacles, cat's 

 whiskers. Ta. : hihi, sun ray, cat's 

 whiskers, antennae. 

 Close analysis is needed to clear up the 

 situation in this vocable. 



A. A long thread-like object, antenna, 

 tentacle, cat's whisker, eyelash, ray: 

 found only in Rapanui, Paumotu, Mar- 

 quesas, Tahiti, Maori. 



B. A word signifying tangled, inter- 

 laced or that which is interlaced: found 

 in Maori, Rapanui, Mangareva, Tahiti, 



