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kaiga continued. 



noho kaiga, indigenous, a native of. 

 man kaiga, proprietor. 

 hooa te kaiga, to buy land. 

 T Pau.: kaiga, the soil. Mgv. : kaiga, 

 land, country, property, the earth, 

 the world. Mq. : kaina, kaika, resi- 

 dence, property, patrimony. Ta.: 

 aid, place of residence. 

 kaihaga to abstain from. 



Mq. : di, lack, dearth, privation. 

 kaihue (kai 4- hue 2) a heap of food. 

 kaikai 1 (kai 4) mastication, to eat heavily. 

 kaikai 2 (kai-3) sharp, cutting, edge of a 

 sword, point of a lance. 

 moa tara kaikai, cock with long spurs. 

 kaikino selfish, avaricious, faithless, ingrate. 

 miserly, rascal. 

 Mq. : kaikino, selfish, stingy, avaricious. 

 kaipurua (kai l-purua) issue, outlet, egress. 

 kaitagata (kai 4-tagata) cannibal. 



paoa kaitagata, cannibal, savage. 

 kaiu (kai 4-tt) nursling, suckling. 



Pau. : kaiu, a child at the breast. Mq. : 

 kaiu, child at the breast, unweaned, 

 suckling, young of animals. Ta. : 

 aiu, nursling. 

 kakai to blame, to chide, to scold, to dis- 

 approve, to expel, to reproach, to 

 rebuke; debate, anger, dispute, 

 discussion, quarrel, reprehension, 

 reprimand, hostility. 

 ivi kakai mat kakai aiu, an inhar- 

 monious family. 

 kakai rae, to provoke. 

 kakai nuinui ke, rage. 

 toua kakai, to rebuke. 

 Mgv.: kaia, wicked, cruel. Mq.: kaia, 

 envious, jealous, shrewish, quarrel- 

 some, wrangling, surly. Ta. : aia, 

 despicable. 

 kakari (karikari). 

 kakaure fly T (takaure). 

 Mq.: tikaue, the fly. 

 The common element is kaure ; the pref- 

 aces in the two languages may be suscepti- 

 ble of coordination. In Marquesan ti is 

 sometimes used as an equivalent of haka; 

 and in Rapanui ka discloses a verb-forma- 

 tive value. 

 kakava chemise. 

 kakea to come near, to embark. 



P Pau. : kake, to climb, to ascend. Mgv. : 

 kake, the arrival of shoals of spawn- 

 ing fish. Mq.: kake, to climb up 

 a valley. Ta. : ae, to climb, to 

 ascend. (The Polynesian Wander- 

 ings, 402.) 

 kakore no, not. 



kakore ra, kakore ro, or. 

 T Pau.: kakore-tarari, not any, no one. 

 Mq.: kakore, kakoe, aoe, not, noth- 

 ing. Ta. : aore, no, not. 

 kamakama to yawn Q. 

 (kami) hakakamikami ki te rakau, to im- 

 poverish. 

 Mgv.: kami, to desire. 



(kami) continued. 



The connection in sense appears more 

 clearly in the succeeding form kami-ora to 

 wish health for a sufferer. Then the 

 phrase involving the haka form, intensive 

 by duplication and by the formative ele- 

 ment means "to wish earnestly for the 

 property;" in the gentile communism of 

 the Polynesians even a very mild desire 

 leads to possession, hence in the opinion 

 of a thrifty French priest to impoverish- 

 ment. 

 kamiora to console. 

 kamoi good-bye T (? ka moe). 

 kamou hush! (ka mou). 

 kana pectoral fin Q. 

 kanaha R (kauaha). 

 kanamunamu glaive R (? glaire). 

 (kaneka) hakakaneka, to murmur. 

 kao cloth, clothing, garb. (Perhaps a vari- 

 ant of kahu). 

 kaokao side, flank, lateral. 



P Pau.: kaokao, the side, flank, ribs, lat- 

 eral. Mgv. : kaokao, the side, flank. 

 Mq.: kaokao, id. Ta. : aodo, id. 

 In Nuclear Polynesia this is particu- 

 larized, in Samoa to the armpit, in Tonga 

 and Futuna to the sides of the canoe. 

 Therefore it may be considered a borrow- 

 ing from the Tongafiti. 

 kape arum, yam. 



PS Mgv. : kape, a plant allied to the taro 

 having a long bulbous root. Mq. : 

 kape, ape, a large-leaved and very 

 bitter taro (Arum costatum) . Ta. : 

 ape, id. 

 Sa. : 'ape, the bitter taro. To. : kabe, id. 

 Fu.: kape, id. Niue: kape, the 

 gigantic taro. 

 kapu kapu amua, to go ahead. 

 kapuivi (kapu-ivi 1) the shoulder. 

 kara wing. 

 karatia grace. 

 karava 1 cave. 



karava 2 to strain to hit the mark. 

 karavarava manava karavarava, colic. 

 (kari) kakari 



ropa kakari kore, petticoat. 

 kakari manava, waist. 

 kakari rima, wrist. 

 karikarivae (kari-vae 1) ankle T. 

 karo to decline, to be on the wane. 

 karoga figure. 



karokaro karokaro tariga, ear pendant. 

 karu 1 to raise the arm for a blow. 

 karu 2 to awake T (? kara for ka ara). 

 karu 3 large berries, seed. 



Mgv. : karu, large in appearance. 

 karua (ka 4-rua 1) second. 

 karukaru a swelling, to swell. 

 kata to laugh, to smile. 



kakata tae kakata, dourness. 

 P Pau.. Mgv.: a/a, to laugh, to be happy, 

 joyful. Mq.: kata, to laugh, to 

 joke. Ta.: ata, to laugh, to smile. 

 katikati to scratch, to claw. 



P Pau. : kakati, to bite. Ta. : ati. to bite, 



