RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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koreha eel, worm. 



koreha heenua, worm. 

 korereki hiccoughs. 



kori to rob, to seize (food), turbulent, to 

 play T. 

 kori ke avai, abuse. 

 tae kori iti, abuse. 

 koro if. 



koroa (ko-roa) far, distant, out of reach. 

 koroiti slowly, gently, gradually, carefully, 

 prudently, secretly; to observe pre- 

 caution, to go slowly, to moderate, 

 to slacken. 

 koroiti no, prudent, nonchalant. 

 haga koroiti no, to deal prudently. 

 hiri koroiti, to go without noise. 

 tito koroiti, to save, steward. 

 ahere koroiti, to run nimbly. 

 hakakoroiti to moderate, to slacken. 

 korokoro to clack the tongue (kurukuru). 

 koromaki pine T. 



koroua decrepit, old age, worn with age. 

 T Pau.: koroua, decrepit. Mgv. : koroua, 

 a pet name for the youngest of a 

 family. Mq. : kooua, old, a term of 

 affection. Ta. : oroua, decrepit. 

 korua you. 



na korua, ta korua, yours. 

 P Pau., Mgv. : korua, you two. Mq. : koiia, 

 Sua, id. Ta. : orua, id. 

 These are properly to be ascribed to the 

 Tongafiti source. The Samoan 'oulua re- 

 appears only in Futuna and Uvea koulua 

 and is suggested in Sikayana kaurua. 

 koruga (ko-ruga) surface. 

 kotaki calm. 

 kotikoti to tear. 



kokoti to cut, to chop, to hew, to cleave, 

 to assassinate, to amputate, to 

 scar, to notch, to carve, to use a 

 knife, to cut off, to lop, to gash, to 

 mow, to saw. 

 kokotiga kokotiga kore, indivisible. 

 kokoti haga cutting, gash, furrow. 

 P Pau. : koti, to chop. Mgv. : kotikoti, to 

 cut, to cut into bands or slices; 

 kokoti, to cut, to saw; akakotikoti, a 

 ray, a streak, a stripe, to make 

 bars. Mq. : koti, oti, to cut, to 

 divide. Ta. : ooti, to cut, to carve; 

 otioti, to cut fine. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 256.) 

 kotiru kotiru no iharaa no iharaa, usual. 

 koto mai to bring T. 

 kotokoto hemorrhage. (Cf. kutoto.) 

 kototi sea bass T (kodoti T). 

 koumi arero koumi, to report, to tell. 



Coming through a French channel ou 

 might be intended to note the Polynesian 

 sound of u, therefore koumi might be 

 transliterated kumi. In that case arero 

 kumi in the sense of long tongue might 

 readily be used in the sense of telling. 

 There are other instances in which Pere 

 Roussel has used, through a pardonable 

 lapse, his more familiar French notation 

 of the sound, t. g., goutu gutu. 



koura 1 fry, spawn, roe. 

 koura 2 flea. 



P Mgv.: ura, crayfish, lobster. Mq.: 

 koua, ua, id. Ta. : oura, id. 

 The preface ko to the stem ula dis- 

 tinguishes the Tongafiti. We therefore 

 assign the word in Rapanui and Tahiti to 

 a Tongafiti source, in Mangareva to a 

 Proto-Samoan source, and Marquesas 

 shows both. (The Polynesian Wander- 

 ings, 430.) Rapanui is the only lan- 

 guage which defines the flea otherwise 

 than in terms of the louse, commonly 

 kutufiti the jumping louse. Pediculus is 

 ancestral in the South Sea, the flea seems 

 to have been contributed by the first of 

 the explorers. 

 ku 1 I. 



kia ku, me. 

 ku 2 verb sign. 



ku ohoa, to keep out of the way, 



absence. 

 ku higaa, convinced. 

 ku taie te tai, tooverflow, to go beyond. 

 ku magaro, to reconcile. 

 ku 3 ? tae he man ku hoao, abundance. 

 ku 4 akaku to be moved, affected. 

 hakaku to groan. 



Mgv.: ku, an exclamation, a cry used 

 when one has hit the mark aimed 

 at. Mq. : u, an exclamation of 

 sorrow. 

 ku 5 gaoku, to eat greedily. 



Mgv.: ku, to be satiated, glutted. 

 kua I demonstrative. 



kia kua, concerning. 

 kua 2 verb sign. 



kua tau te moa, the hen roosts. 

 kua ora te kevare, to give the horse 

 water. 

 P Mgv. : kua, a particle denoting the 

 passive and used for ku before some 

 verbs. Ta. : ua, a verb sign. Mq. : 

 ua, id. 

 kuapu issue. 



kuhane soul, spirit, phantom, immaterial, 

 spiritual, supernatural (kuhagaT). 

 kuhane hiva, Holy Ghost. 

 kuhane no, kuhane tahaga, immaterial. 

 Mgv.: kuane, a spirit, the soul, a 

 shadow, a shade; kuhane, a spirit, 

 a soul that returns to earth. Mq. : 

 kuhane, uhane. soul, spirit, intel- 

 ligence. 

 kuhoao ? tae he mau kuhoao, to abound. 

 kui to see T. 

 kuia booby (bird) T. 



Ma.: kuia, the brown petrel, the black 

 petrel. 

 kui kui to stagger. 

 kuku 1 to tie up sugar canes. 

 kuku 2 to coo, a pigeon. 



P Mgv. : kuku, name of a land bird. Mq. : 

 kuku,kukupa,uururu,a large pigeon. 

 Ta.: uupa, uurairao, pigeon. 

 kukumu cheek. 



kukumu kivakiva, dourness. 



