RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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ii to deteriorate, to go bad. 



T Pau. :fakaii, leaven. Mgv. : i, to taint, 

 to spoil, to become corrupt. Mq.: 

 i, rotten, corrupt. Ta.: i, to pre- 

 pare fermented breadfruit. 

 ika 1 fish, animal. 



ika rere, flying fish. 

 ivi ika, fish bone. 

 mala ika, pearl. 

 P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: ika, fish. Ta.: ia, id. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 350.) 

 ika 2 prey, victim, sacrifice. 

 ika ke aval mo, abuse. 

 hakarere ki te ika, to avenge. 

 T Mgv.: ikaiara, to quarrel; ikatamamea, 

 to be angry because another has 

 handled one 's property. Mq. : ika, 

 enemy, what causes horror. Ma.: 

 ika, the first person killed in a fight. 

 Mangaia: ika, a victim for sacrifice. 

 ika 3 ? 



matamata ika, snow. 

 ikahi to fish with a line, to angle. 



Mq. : ikahi, id. 

 ikakato to go fishing. 

 ikakohau to fish with a line, to angle. 

 ikapotu cape, end of a voyage, destination. 

 ikapotu hakarere, to abut, to adjoin. 

 topa te ikapotu, id. 

 tehe oho te ikapotu, id. 

 mci nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, 

 as far as, to. 

 ikapuhi to fish with a torch. 



Mq. : ikapuhi, id. 

 iko to take away, to carry off, to despoil, to 

 seize food, to possess oneself of, to 

 dispossess, to deprive, to intercept, 

 to subtract, to usurp, to arrogate 

 to oneself. 

 ikoa to seize, to take possession. 

 ikoiko to seize, to deprive. 

 PS Mgv.: iko, to take off, to deprive, to 

 bereave. Mq. : hiko, to take away, 

 to carry off, to take by force, to rob, 

 to extract. 

 Sa. : i'ofi, tongs. To. : hiko, to take out 



of the fire. 

 The final consonant of the Proto- 

 Samoan stem hikof is not preserved even 

 in the nearer termini of migration. This 

 sheds light upon the relative period of the 

 Proto-Samoan expeditions outward from 

 Samoa. They must have been at some 

 time anterior to the compaction with the 

 transitive-making x-augment which has 

 availed to preserve in present Samoan so 

 many closed stems. A party leaving 

 Samoa when hikof was current would, 

 under the instinct for open syllables, 

 abrade this to hiko, whereas if hikofi were 

 current the abrasion would have nothing 

 to work upon. 

 iku tail (of beast or fish) see vaero. 



P Mgv.: iku, the tail of a fish, the end of 

 anything. Mq.: hiku, the part of 

 a fish extending from the middle of 

 the belly to tail; hikupa, the tail 

 of a fish. Ta. : hiu, tail of a fish. 



iku continued. 



The aspirated forms in Marquesas and 

 Tahiti may be regarded as persisting from 

 the sibilated form in Samoa. 

 ina 1 negative, no, not. 



ina e rakerakega, innocent. 

 ina ko tikea, unperccived. 

 ina e ko mou, incessant. 

 ian nei, absent. 

 ina kai riva, uncertain. 

 ina kai mou, eternal. 

 ina kai tikea, unperceived. 

 ina kai kai abstinence, fasting. 

 ina kai titika. incorrect. 

 ina kai rakei, ill prepared. 

 Ta. : ina, no. 

 ina 2 breath Q. 

 inaga lung T. 

 inaki allowance of food. 



P Mgv. : inaki, a portion, food eaten with 

 some other food as cheese is with 

 bread. Mq.: inai, anything that 

 serves as sauce or relish to a prin- 

 cipal dish. Ta.: inai, allowance of 

 meat or fish. 

 We seem to notice that the sense passes 

 from a narrow particular to food in gen- 

 eral, this in Rapanui and Tahiti. In each 

 of our French authorities the word is ren- 

 dered pitance. But from the English 

 dictionary of Tahiti we find inai defined 

 as anything which is eaten with some 

 principal viand, therefore the same sense 

 may be understood as existing in Rapanui 

 and the sense concord is satisfactorily 

 established. In Polynesian gastronomy 

 it is repugnant to the taste to make a meal 

 of one dish, food from the sea must be 

 accompanied by food from the shore, meat 

 with vegetables, each of which may stand 

 to the other in the inaki relation. 

 inei here. 



Mgv. : inei, oh really ! 

 inua cloak Q (nua T). 

 iore indistinctly. 

 ira 1 then, there, behold. 



ira, no ira, so, wherefore, from that 



time. 

 ki re ira, yet, already. 

 ira 2 to turn around to look. 



hakaira id. 

 iragapea spongy. 

 iro a chaplet of long feathers as an ornament 



for the head in dancing Q. 

 ite to see (kite). 

 iti little, small, medium. 

 iti atu, less. 



iti no, small quantity, rare. 

 no iti, superficial. 

 itia shrunken. 

 itiiti scanty, slim. 

 hare itiiti no, cabin. 

 itiiti noa, mediocre, mediocrity. 

 hakaiti to make small, to lessen, to 

 weaken, to impoverish, to thin out, 

 to reduce, to diminish, to retrench, 

 to curtail, to subdue, to mitigate, 

 to abate. 



