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horau continued. 

 horarau to run. 

 (P Pau.: horo, to flee, to run. Mq.: hod, 

 to go quickly, prompt, brisk, to run, 

 to make haste. Ta. horo, to run; 

 horohoro, activity, quickly. The 

 conduplication horahorau militates 

 against this identification.) 

 horauhopae (horohopae). 

 hore to hew, to cut off, to amputate, to cas- 

 trate, to cut with a knife, to decapi- 

 tate, to abridge, to incise, to set 

 landmarks; a notch.incision, tenon, 

 hore poto, to cut short off. 

 hore te gao, to chop the head off. 

 horea taken to pieces. 



kai horea, intact, integrity. 

 horega chamber, class, debris, half, 

 stage, fraction, fragment, shred, 

 scrap, string, bit, part, partial, par- 

 tition, piece, portion, quarter, sect, 

 section. 

 horega hare, hall. 

 horega kahu, skirt. 

 horega kai, ration . 

 horega ki, phrase. 

 horega no iti, parcel, subdivision. 

 horega no iti hakapiri, supplement. 

 horega nui, majority. 

 horega tagata, party. 

 horehore to carve, to tear, to cut off, 

 to lop, to parcel out, to divide into 

 parcels, to share, to take to pieces, 

 to mark with spots, streaked, color- 

 ing, to hew, to torture. 

 horehore itiiti, to cut into bits. 

 T Pau.: kohore, to make bald; pahore, to 

 peel off. Mgv.: hohore, to rough 

 hew; oreore, to smooth off, to level 

 inequalities. Mq. : horehore, to husk 

 grain; hoe, to notch, to channel, 

 to plane. Ta.: hore, to peel. 

 We have here an interlacing of similar 

 vocables. 



A. Cutting sense: Rapanui, Manga- 

 reva, Marquesas. 



B. To peel, or its resultant bald : Maori, 

 Hawaii, Paumotu, Marquesas, Tahiti. 



hori 1 calm. 



horihori undecided, inattentive, indif- 

 ferent, weary, lassitude. 

 hori 2 to be opposed. 



hakahori to exclude. 

 hakahoriga to criticize. 

 horihori adversity. 



tuu mat te horihori, accident. 

 horihori maia i te reoreo, to com- 

 promise. 

 hakahorihori to contradict, to go 



against, to criticize, to perplex. 

 Mq. : oi, to refuse to give up, to make 

 opposition; hakaoi, to contradict. 

 horo 1 to wash down, to gulp, to swallow, to 

 bolt food. 

 horohoro to swallow, to gobble, glut- 

 tonous, greedy, insatiable, vora- 

 cious. 



horo 1 continued. 



PPau.: tahoro, to swallow; horomiti, id. 

 Mgv.: horo, oro, id. Mq.: hod, to 

 eat poi, to swallow without chew- 

 ing. Ta..: horo puuputi, to bolt food; 

 horomii, to swallow, to devour. 

 horo 2 to escape, to hide. 



Pau.: horo, to hide, to bury, to avoid, 

 horo 3 to trot (horau). 



P Pau. : horo, to run, to gallop. Mgv. : 

 oro, oh oro, to pass along quickly. 

 Mq.: hod, to run, to make haste. 

 Ta. : horo, to run. 

 The gait specification in the senses run, 

 trot, gallop, must be thrown out of the 

 reckoning, for the Polynesians had no 

 large mammals on which to study differ- 

 ences in methods of locomotion. The 

 germ sense is that of swift motion. 

 horo 4 to put an edge on, a jointing plane 

 (orooro). 

 horohoro to brush, to polish, to clear 

 up, to rub wood, to rumple. 

 tnaea horohoro, snowy rock. 

 P Mgv. : oro, to rub, to whet, to sharpen. 

 Mq. : hoo, to rub on a stone. Ta. : 

 hororaa to, a cane mill ; oro, to rasp, 

 to grate. 

 horo 5 to starch (horoi). 



Mgv.: oro, to wash. 

 horo 6 to have recourse to, to repass. 

 horo 7 ? 



horo varevare, without branches. 

 horoga demarcation. 

 horohopae to save, to economize, steward 



(horauhopae). 

 horoi 1 to dry, to wipe (horo 5). 

 horoimata, handkerchief. 

 P Mgv. : horoi, oroi, a towel, handkerchief, 

 anything used as a wiper after 

 bathing. Mq.: hooi, to wash, to 

 cleanse, to purify, to scour, to 

 rinse, to dry, to bathe, to dry the 

 tears, to console. Ta. : horoi, hand- 

 kerchief, to wash, to cleanse. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 262.) 

 horoi 2 to clean, to efface, to sharpen 

 (horo 4). 

 Mq. : hooi, to efface. 

 horu pig (oru). 



punua horu, suckling pig. 

 horuhoru to sleep (ahuru, auru, goruru). 

 hoto shoulder. 

 hotonuinui fat. 

 hotopararaha fat. 

 hou 1 to perforate, to drill. 



P Pau.: fakahou, to furrow, to groove, to 

 plow. Mgv.: hou, ouou, a drill, 

 a wimble, a borer, a gimlet, to 

 pierce with a drill. Mq.: hou, an 

 auger, a drill, a wimble, corkscrew, 

 to pierce with a drill. Ta.: hou, 

 auger, to drill. 

 hou 2 new, fresh, modern, recent, young, 

 youth. 

 rae ki te mea hou, to innovate. 

 hou anei, modern. 



