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mahana 1 continued. 



hakam aliana to heat, to scald, to warm 

 over. 

 P Pau. : hakamahanahana, to console; 

 pumahanahana, lukewarm. Mgv. : 

 mahana, maana, heat, warmth, to 

 warm over. Mq.: mahana, heat, 

 to warm. Ta. : mahana, heat, sun, 

 day. 

 mahana 2 finery. 



mahani habit, custom, to accustom, to 

 practise, to inure, familiar, sym- 

 pathy. 

 mahani maia, access. 

 hakamahani to tame. 

 PS Mgv.: mahani, smooth, even, polished. 

 Mq.: mahani, accustomed, habit- 

 uated. 

 Sa. : masani, to be accustomed to, to be 

 in the habit of. To. : maheni, to 

 be accustomed or in the habit of. 

 Fu. : masani, id. Niue: mahani, 

 custom. 

 mahara to be in rapture, ecstasy. 



T Pau.: mahara, mehara, to remember, 

 sense, reason. Ta. : mahara, to 

 recollect. 

 Ma.: mahara, thought, memory, recol- 

 lection. 

 maharo to glorify, to flatter, to admire, to 

 amaze, to astonish, to enchant, to 

 astound; eulogy, boasting. 

 maharo kia ia a, to vaunt. 

 maharohaga flattery. 

 P Pau.: maharo, to wonder at, to marvel. 

 Mgv.: maharo, to praise, to vaunt, 

 commendation. Mq.: mahao, to 

 praise, admirable, astonishing. 

 mahatu (hatu) twisted. 



rauoho mahatu, lock of hair. 

 Mgv.: mahatu, twisted, frizzly (said 

 only of the hair). 

 mahiahia dry, aridity. 



hakamahia to expose to the air. 

 mahina the moon. 



maeha mahina moonshine. 

 PMgv.: mahina, light; maina, the moon, 

 moonlight. Mq. : mahina, moon, 

 month. 

 Peculiar interest attaches to Mangareva 

 mahina in the sense of light, for before the 

 Proto-Samoan was touched by the later 

 Tongafiti influence masina was not the 

 moon but the shining orb and therefore 

 particularly the sun. This bears very for- 

 cibly upon the question of Proto-Samoan 

 migration to Southeast Polynesia. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 406.) 

 mahiti cancer. 



Mq.: mahiti, bubo. 

 mahutetutu (mahute-tutu 1) bast cloth 

 in the last stage of preparation 

 (maute). 

 mai 1 directive. 



P Pau.: mai, from, since. Mgv.: mai, 

 directive. Mq., Ta. : mai, mei, id. 

 mai 2 ill, sick. 



mai mate ia, sick unto death. 



mai 2 continued. 



PS Pau.: maki, sick. Mgv.: maki, an 

 ill, a sore spot, a wound. Mq.: 

 maki, mai, id. Ta.: mai, sick. 

 Sa. : ma'i, ill. 



There is great confusion in regard of 

 mai and maki, which is rather stated than 

 cleared up in the note in The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 379. Rapanui has both 

 forms, so has Marquesan, and Tahiti has 

 the reduced mai. It appears that k in 

 this word has a tendency to vanish from its 

 inner security even in languages which find 

 it not ungrateful to their palatal utterance. 

 maia 1 (mai 1). 



mate maia mamae, to depress. 

 mahani maia, access. 

 maia 2 (mai 2) to grow weak. 

 maigo to come in great numbers; party, 



following, partisan. 

 maikuku finger nail, claw, spur, talon 

 (akikuku). 

 PPau.: maikuku, hoof. Mgv.: matikuku, 

 matekuku, nail, claw, talon. Mq. : 

 maikuku, maiuu, matiuu, id. Ta.: 

 maiuu, id. 

 The two forms of the former component 

 appear together in Samoa mai'u'u and 

 mati'u'u, in Futuna and Maori maikuku 

 and matikuku, and in the Marquesas. In 

 the Paumotu the same is observable in 

 maikao and mitikao, a claw, although the 

 latter element of the composite is different. 

 maira on the contrary. 

 maitaki (meitaki). 

 maitakia clean. 

 maito kupega maito, the long seine T. 

 maka maka motu, a rock T. 



PS Mgv., Pau., Mq.: maka, a sling. Ta. : 

 maa, id. Sa.: ma' a, a stone. To., 

 Niue, Fu., Uvea: maka, id. 

 The word retains a suggestion of its 

 value in Rapanui where it is all but sup- 

 planted by maea. The latter is not else- 

 where identified, therefore is inexplicable 

 except in so far as we might give some con- 

 sideration to the idea that when k was 

 dropped from maka (as from maki) a light 

 vowel was thrown in to keep the important 

 vowels apart and free of possibility of 

 crasis, a suggestion for which I know no 

 warrant. Elsewhere in Southeast Poly- 

 nesia maka has passed from the stone to 

 the sling by which it is cast, not a violent 

 figure of Polynesian speech. 

 makani R (mahani). 

 makemakenu to warp. 

 makenu attentively (mekenu). 



tae makenu, difficult to please. 

 hakakiva tae makenu, pleasant breeze. 

 makenukenu to move, to stir. 

 hakamakenukenu to cajole, to shake. 

 Pau.: makenukenu, disheveled. Mgv.: 

 mekanutoi, to bend, to cause to be 

 curved. 

 maki a boil, a sore (mamaki). 



P Pau., Mgv.: maki, a wound, a sore. 

 Mq.: maki, mai, a wound, a sore, 



