RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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huhuru hair, down, plumage, fur, 



P Pau. : huruhuru, coarse hair on the body, 

 a feather, wool. Mgv.: huru, uru, 

 the hair on the body, a feather; 

 uruuru, eyebrows, eyelashes, hair 

 on the body, a filament; rouru, the 

 head of hair. Mq.: huu, hair, 

 feather, fur. Ta.: huruhuru, hair, 

 wool, feather. 

 The two forms in Mangareva may de- 

 rive from two stems, fulu and ulu, as to 

 which see The Polynesian Wanderings, 

 267. 

 huhuti (huti). 

 hui tattooing rod. 



(Cf . Ta. : hui, to prick, to pierce.) 

 huira (uira). 

 huki 1 to post up, to publish. 



Mgv.: uki, to allude to, to make re- 

 marks upon. Mq.: hui, to revive 

 a forgotten discourse. 

 huki 2 to cut the throat (uki). 

 hukihuki 1 colic. 



Pau.: hukihuki, itching. Mgv.: huki, 

 to be in labor, childbirth; ukiuki, 

 shooting pains, pangs of childbirth. 

 Mq. : huki, lancinating pain. 

 hukihuki 2 to transpierce, a pricking. 

 P Pau.: hukihuki, to bore, to perforate. 

 Mgv.: huki, to pierce through, to 

 bury a small piece of wood in the 

 ground or in a soft body, to dart 

 with a lance, to lance; uki, to stir 

 the fire, to break the fire with a 

 stick. Mq. : huki, to pierce a fish 

 with a bit of pointed wood. Ta.: 

 hui, to pierce, to prick. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 225.) 

 hukihuki 3 to sink to the bottom. 

 huma (uma). 



humu 1 tattooing on the feet. 

 (Cf. Ta.: umu, ornament.) 

 humu 2 (umu). 

 huna thornless. 



PS Sa. : fa'afuna, to moult, to clip the 

 hair short. To.,Fu.:/wwa, to moult. 

 It is clear that the stem funa refers to 

 some condition to which the act of moult- 

 ing or haircutting is contributory. As de- 

 fining the condition rather than the act 

 the Rapanui retains the primitive sense. 

 hunoga marriage, son-in-law, daughter-in- 

 law. 

 T Pau.: hunoga, son-in-law. Mq.: hu- 

 nona, hukona, huona, son-in-law, 

 daughter-in-law ; hunona koina, 

 wedding feast. Ta.: hunod, son- 

 in-law, daughter-in-law. 

 hupee mucus. 



hupeepee asthma. 

 T Pau., Ta.: hupe, mucus. 

 hura 1 sling. 



In his brilliant study of the distri- 

 bution of the sling in the Pacific tracts, 

 Captain Friederici makes this note (Bei- 

 trage zur Volker-und Sprachenkunde von 

 Deutsch-Neuguinea, page 115b): "Such, 

 though somewhat modified, is the case in 



hura 1 continued. 



Rapanui, Easter Island. The testimony 

 of all the reporters who have had dealings 

 with these people is unanimous that stones 

 of two to three pounds weight, frequently 

 sharp chunks of obsidian, were thrown by 

 the hand; no one mentions the use of 

 slings. Yet Roussel includes this weapon 

 in his vocabulary and calls it hura. In my 

 opinion this word can be derived only from 

 the Mangareva verb kohura, to throw a 

 stone or a lance. So far as we know 

 Rapanui has received its population in 

 part by way of Mangareva." To this 

 note should be added the citation of 

 kirikiri ueue as exhibiting this particular 

 use of ueue in which the general sense is 

 the transitive shake. 

 hura 2 fife, whistle, drum, trumpet, to play. 

 hurahura whistle. 

 P Mq. : hurahura, dance, divertissement, 

 to skip. Ta. : hura, to leap for joy. 

 Pau. : hura-viru, well disposed. 

 hurehure to shell, to skin. 

 huhure to skin. 

 PS Mgv.: huhure, to uncover, to expose, 

 to unfold, to unroll, to open, to 

 show. 

 To. : hafule, to shell. 

 In the Tongan hafule the ha is undoubt- 

 edly one of the group of which fa' a is the 

 type, in this case verb-formative. 

 huri 1 stem. 



P Mgv. : huri, a banana shoot. Mq. : hui, 

 shoot, scion. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 211.) 

 huri 2 to turn over, to be turned over onto 

 another side, to bend, to lean, to 

 warp. 

 huri ke, to change, to decant. 

 tae huri ke, invariable. 

 huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as 



the wind. 

 tae huri, immovable. 

 e ko huri ke, infallible. 

 huhuri rolling. 

 hakahuri to turn over. 

 hakahuri ke, to divine. 

 P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, 

 to turn on one side, to roll, to turn 

 upside down, to reverse. Mq.: 

 hui, to turn, to roll, to change sides. 

 Ta.: huri, to turn, to reverse. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 335.) 

 huri 3 to throw, to shoot. 

 huri 4 to water, to wet. 

 huri 5 to hollow out. 

 hurihuri 1 wrath, anger. 



kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, 



wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, 



quick tempered, to feel offended, to 



resent, to pester. 



kokoma hurihuru ke, to be in a rage. 



hurihuri 2 (huri 4). 



hurihuri titi, to fill up. 

 hurihuri 3 to polish. 

 hurihuri 4 (uriuri). 

 hurikea to transfigure, to transform. 



