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hou 2 continued. 



hakahou to reiterate, reparation, to 

 restore, to recapitulate. 

 haga hakahou, to make over, to renew, 



recovery. 

 aval hakahou, a loan, to borrow. 

 rere hakahou mai, to rebound. 

 hakahou iho, to recommence. 

 P Pau. : hou, young, new. Mgv. : hou, new ; 

 akahou, to renew. Mq. : hou, new, 

 recent, fresh, young. Ta.: hou, 

 new, recent, before. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 327 .) 

 hove widow, widower. 

 Mq.: veve, id. 



As the social condition is matter of no 

 great moment in Polynesian life, and of 

 less duration, hove and veve may be bor- 

 rowed from veuf. 

 hu 1 breaking of wind. 



T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta. : 

 hu, id. 

 hu 2 whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, 

 high wind. 

 P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. 

 hua 1 the same. 



ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, 

 to struggle, to move, to repeat, over 

 and above. 

 Mq. : hua, the same, to return, to recom- 

 mence. 

 hua 2 to bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit 

 (huaa). 

 huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit. 

 hua atahi, only son. 

 huahaga fruit. 

 mei te huahaga tokoe kopu, the fruit 



of thy body. 

 tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. 

 PPau.: ua, to be born; huaga, lineage. 

 Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of 

 trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of 

 flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq. : 

 hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta. : 

 ua, to sprout. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 426.) 

 huahua 1 a tailless fowl. 

 huahua 2 (ua 2). 



hue 1 calabash, gourd, pumpkin, pot, vase. 

 P Pau. : hue, gourd. Mqv. : hue, calabash 

 gourd. Mq.: hue maoi, calabash; 

 hue dkau, pumpkin; hue, every 

 sort of vase with a large aperture. 

 Ta. : hue, gourd, bottle. 

 hue 2 a pile, a heap; to accumulate, to 

 agglomerate, to amass, to heap up, 

 to collect, to charge, to put in 

 charge, to destine, to consider, to 

 camp, to pile up, to mass, to 

 assemble, to conceal, to reunite. 

 hue ke, to choose. 

 hue no, a halt. 



hue ki ruga, to put on another. 

 hakahue to heap up, to amass, to 



assemble. 

 huega mass, sheepfold, camp, collec- 

 tion, company, society, council, 



hue 2 continued. 



corporation, faculty, crowd, group, 

 league. 

 Mgv. : hue, to collect, to gather together, 

 to heap up. Mq. : huevaevae, calf 

 of the leg ; huefenua, the terrestrial 

 globe. Ta. : hue, to heap up. 

 huero (uero). 

 huga (uga). 



hugahuga to cut off, to divide in parcels, 

 fragment, debris, small. 

 hakahugahuga to crumble. 

 P Pau.: hugahuga, to crumble, a rag, 

 tatter. Mgv.: ugauga, crumbs, 

 little pieces; hugahuga, a particle, 

 a crumb, a tiny piece, a portion of 

 anything, a small object, a small 

 man; huga, a piece of pandanus 

 leaf cut short off from its row; 

 akahuga, to bruise, to crush, to grind 

 to atoms. Mq.:huka,crumbs;huna- 

 huna, small, tiny, slender, slim. 

 hugamoa thin, emaciated. 



(Mq.: haamoka, emaciated.) 

 The Marquesan is a regularly formed 

 causative of moka. This suggests that 

 Pere Roussel's hugamoa is a misprint for 

 hagamoa. 

 hugaraa (hugahuga-raa 1 ) morning twilight. 

 hugavai father-in-law, mother-in-law. 

 T Pau. : hogavai, father-in-law. Ta. : hooai, 

 hoovai, id. 

 huhu 1 atom, molecule. 



hakahuhu, hakahuu, to pulverise. 

 huhu 2 sap wood, alburnum. 



(P uso, uho, pith of trees.) 

 huhu 3 humming, to buzz, impetuous (of 



wind). 

 huhu 4 groove, running-string. 



Pau. : huhu, a groove. Ta. : huhu, run- 

 ning string of a bag. 

 huhu 5 to take a reef. 

 huhu 6 wormeaten. 



T Mgv. : huhuhu, to leave a thing to rot, 

 to let it go to corruption. Mq.: 

 huhu, a white grub which eats wood, 

 the cuttings which it drops. 

 The association of the grub, found in 

 Marquesas and Maori, with the result of 

 its activities, as in Rapanui, finds suffi- 

 cient support in Hawaii where huhu is the 

 grub and huhuhu means wormeaten. This 

 form connects herewith the Mangareva 

 huhuhu, although the grub is not specified 

 in that definition. 

 huhu 7 to strip, to graze the surface. 

 T Mgv.: huhu, to wipe off the dust, to 

 rake a garden. Mq.: huhu, to rub, 

 to shell grains. 

 huhu 8 to toll, to ring. 

 (huhu 9) hakahuhu to set in motion, to 



apply oneself. 

 huhuhuhu to sail toward. 

 huhumiro (huhu i-miro) sawdust. 

 huhure (hurehure). 

 huhuri (huri). 



