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keri continued. 



kerikeri to scratch. 

 keriga excavation. 

 kerihaga kerihaga oone, farmer. 

 P Pau. : keri, to dig. Mgv. : keri, to dig, 

 to scrape. Mq.: kei, to dig, to 

 spade up, to excavate, to work the 

 soil. Ta. : eri, to mine. 

 The manner of digging underlies the 

 sense of this word ; the digging implement 

 is a sharpened stick (oka) driven into the 

 earth by arm power and then used as a 

 lever to loosen the mold. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 347)- 

 keriti to attract, brusque. 

 kero to crease, to fold. 

 kete sack, basket, case, bag, satchel (keete). 

 kete iti, satchel. 

 P Mq. : kete, ete, sack, bag, basket. Ta. : 

 ete, id. (The Polynesian Wander- 

 ings, 256.) 

 ketu to bound, to climb over, to leap, to 

 jump, to raise (keetu). 

 Mq. : ketu, to raise, to lift. 

 ketu ketu to spread out. 



hihi ketuketu, to turn back the eyelids. 

 keukeu 1 affair, movement, to move. 

 rava keukeu, to apply oneself. 

 T Mgv.: akakeu, to agitate, to make a 

 thing stir or move ; keukeu, to cause 

 to move, to stir up. Mq. : keu, eu, 

 to agitate, to move, to stir up. Ta. : 

 eueu, id. 

 keukeu 2 to coax, to wheedle. 

 keukeu 3 to scratch the earth. 

 keva one-eyed. 



kekeva to sleep with the eyes open. 

 hakakeva to wink, to point, to aim. 

 Mgv.: kevo, squint, crosseyed, one-eyed; 

 kevokevo, to wink, to blink. 

 kevakeva agony, death throe. 

 kevare horse (cheval). 

 ki 1 in, toward, to, for, at. 

 ki ra, there. 



ki ra hoki, exactly there. 

 ki aho, outside. 



ki roto, within, into, inside, among. 

 PPau.: ki, to, in. Mgv.: ki, to, at. Mq.: 

 i, id. Ta.: i, id. 

 ki 2 in order that. 



Ta. : i, in order that. 

 ki 3 to say, to speak, to chat, to pronounce, 

 to respond; argument, conversa- 

 tion, description, doctrine, expres- 

 sion, word, relation. 

 ki veveveve, voluble. 

 ki vaiapuga, nonsense, to speak much 



and say nothing. 

 ki ihoiho, to speak forcefully. 

 T Mgv. : ki, to speak, to say. Mq. : i, id. 

 Ta. : i, to say. 

 kia 1 that, so that. 



kia 2 to, against, toward, for, according to. 

 kia kua, concerning. 

 P Mgv.: kia, to, at (only before proper 

 names and personal pronouns). 

 Mq., Ta.: ia, id. 



kia 3 he. 



kia ia, himself. 

 kia 4 to decide. 

 kia 5 domestic. Cf. kio 2. 

 kiakia dove, gull T. 



Mgv.: kiakia, the cry of the kotake (a 

 white marine bird.) 

 kiata ginger. 

 kie ochre, vermilion. 

 kihaga (ki 3) argument, advice, teaching, 



belief, expression. 

 kihikihi lichen T, stone T. 

 kii 1 (ki). 

 kii 2 moonlight. 



(kikaa) hakakikaa niho hakakikaa, pro- 

 truding teeth. 

 kikiri (kirikiri). 

 kikiu (kiukiu). 

 kiko flesh, meat. 



tooa te kiko e ivi i hakarere, to strip the 



flesh from the bones. 

 kiko uaua, muscle T. 

 kiko te ivi tika, pancreas. 

 P Mgv.: kiko, the flesh of animals or of 

 fruits. Mq. : kiko, flesh, meat, 

 muscles, pulp, heart of wood. Ta. : 

 id, flesh, meat. 

 Since kiko appears in Nuclear Polynesia 

 only in Samoan 'i'o to be covered with 

 meat (for io is quite another stem) and 

 that is a defective sense accord, this voca- 

 ble should properly be credited to a Tonga- 

 fiti source. We note a few cases in which 

 present Samoan includes Tongafiti mate- 

 rial persisting from the period which ter- 

 minated in the expulsion of Matamatame. 

 kimatiko schism. 



kimikimi to seek, to search, to inquire, to 

 examine. 

 ata kimikimi, to inquire. 

 kimikimi ei moni, to speculate, to seek 

 money. 

 kimikimiga research. 

 T Pau.: kimi, to seek, to look for. Mq.: 

 imi, to search, to examine, to sift 

 thoroughly. Ta. : imi, to seek, to 

 search. 

 kina more, in a high degree. 

 horahorau kina, agile. 

 kino 1 bad, wrong. 



T Pau.: kiro, bad, miserable. Mgv.: 



kino, to sin, to do evil. Mq.: ino, 



bad, abominable, indecent. Ta. : 



ino, iino, bad, evil. 



kino 2 a skin eruption, verruga, blotched 



skin, cracked feet T. 

 kinoga (kino 1) sin. 



Mgv. : kinoga, sin, vice. 

 kio 1 stick wherewith to rake things into a 



heap. 

 kio 2 slave, servant, inferior, of low estate, 

 husbandman. 

 hakakio to enslave, to reduce to sub- 

 jection. 

 tagata hakakio, master. 

 Mgv. : kio, a servant, slave, tiller of the 

 soil. 



