RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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hiro to spin, to twist. 



P Mgv.: hiro, iro, to make a cord or line 

 in the native manner by twisting on 

 the thigh. Mq. : fid, hid, to spin, 

 to twist, to twine. Ta.: hiro, to 

 twist. 

 This differs essentially from the in-and- 

 out movement involved in hiri 2, for here 

 the movement is that of rolling on the 

 axis of length, the result is that of spinning. 

 Starting with the coir fiber, the first opera- 

 tion is to roll (hiro) by the palm of the 

 hand upon the thigh, which lies conveni- 

 ently exposed in the crosslegged sedentary 

 posture, two or three threads into a cord ; 

 next to plait (hiri) three or other odd 

 number of such cords into sennit. 

 hirohiro to mix, to blend, to dissolve, to 

 infuse, to inject, to season, to streak 

 with several colors. 

 hirohiro ei paatai, to salt. 

 hirohiroa to mingle. 



hirohiroa ei vai, diluted with water. 

 hita to strangle. 



hiti 1 to rise, to appear, to dawn, (ka-hiti, 

 to climb T.) 

 hitihaga rising. 



hitihaga raa, sunrise. 

 hitihiti to dawn. 



horau hitihiti, break of day. 

 hakahiti hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the 

 buttocks. 

 P Mgv.: hiti, to rise, to appear. Mq.: 

 fiti, hiti, to arise, to mount, to go 

 toward the mountains or toward 

 the east. Ta.: hiti, to rise. Pau.: 

 tahiti, to leap, to get over. 

 hiti 2 puffed. 



gutu hiti, thick lips. 

 Mq. : hitihiti, full of excrescences. 

 hitu seven. 



P Pau.: ahito, id. Mgv.: itu, id. Mq.: 

 fitu, hitu, id. Ta.: hitu, id. 

 hiva strange, alien, foreign; a stranger. 

 kuhane hiva, Holy Ghost. 

 hakahiva mata hakahiva, to look back. 



(? hakahira.) 

 Mq., Mgv.: hiva, iva, a stranger, a per- 

 son from another district or coun- 

 try. Pau.: pure-hiva, a butterfly. 

 hivo capstan. 



Mq. : hivo, to raise the anchor, to weigh, 



to set sail. 

 This, despite its occurrence in Marque- 

 sas, is an English loan, one of the oldest 

 survivals of our marine dialect as seen in 

 "Heave-ho and rumbelow," of which we 

 have a history older than Flodden Field. 

 ho 1 ho!, oh! 



Pau., Ta. : ho, id. 

 ho 2 lest, on the point of. 

 ho 3 to deliver, to give up. 



PPau.: ho ake, to despatch. Mgv.: 0, to 

 give. Ta.: ho, id. 

 It is not common in this material to find 

 Southeast Polynesia preserving uniformly 

 a senior form of any vocable. But this 

 word appears in Samoa as foa'i, in Tonga, 



ho 3 continued. 



Niue and Uvea as foaki. I have com- 

 mented (The Polynesian Wanderings, 

 241) upon -aki as a modern mechanism in 

 particularizing the verb function of the 

 attributive; this instance shows that it 

 arose later than the Proto-Samoan migra- 

 tion into Southeast Polynesia. 

 hoa I friend. 



rcpa hoa, friend (male), comrade, com- 

 panion, fellow; to confide. 

 repa hoa titika, faithful friend. 

 garu hoa, friend (either sex). 

 uha hoa, friend (female). 

 hoa kona, native T. 

 P Pau.: hoa, friend, companion. Mgv.: 

 hoa, friend; oa, a friend, said of a 

 man loved by another. Mq. : hoa, 

 friend, comrade, companion (of 

 either sex). Ta.: hoa, a friend. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 306.) 

 hoa 2 to abandon, to debark, to cast, to 

 launch, to anchor, to let go, to give 

 up, to reject, to repudiate, to sup- 

 press, to cut off, to jerk out, to 

 proscribe, to reprove. 

 hoahoa to upset, to destroy. 



hoao ? 



hakapee no kai hoao, abundance, to 



abound. 

 tae he mau ku hoao, abundance. 

 hoe 1 paddle. 



P Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 



The alternative form in Mangareva is 

 susceptible of explanation by metathesis, 

 by the general carelessness as to the aspi- 

 rate which we observe in this region or in 

 its reporters, by the persistence of the 

 aspiration of the Proto-Samoan fohe; see 

 The Polynesian Wanderings, 429, and 

 Beach-la-Mar, 52. 

 hoe 2 to wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). 

 arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter. 

 Mgv. : oe, to make a whistling sound in 

 breathing; ohe, a cry from a person 

 out of breath. Mq. : oe, to wheeze 

 with fatigue. 



hoe 3 blade, knife. 



hoe hahatu, clasp-knife, jack-knife. 

 hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife. 

 hoe pikopiko, pruning-knife. 

 hogehoge putrid odor. 



PS Pau.: hogohogo, to have an offensive 

 smell. Mgv.: hogohogo, to smell a 

 bad odor now and then. Mq.: 

 honohono, hokohoko, hekoheko, dis- 

 gusting odor. 

 Sa.: sosogo, to smell of urine, lo.. 



hogo, hohogo, to smell like urine. 

 There seems sufficient sense association 

 to carry the vowel mutation. This muta- 

 tion, o-e, is found but once in the mass of 

 material discussed in The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 51. ,_ p . , . 

 hogi 1 to smell, to stink. (Cf. hogehoge.) 

 hogihogi to scent. 



rori te koa hogihogi, to follow a scent. 



