RAPANUI-ENGUSH VOCABULARY. 



225 



marama continued. 



cally the moon, appears in all Polynesia; in 

 Futuna and Uvea the word signifies the 

 world. The tropical extension to the 

 light of intelligence is not found in Nuclear 

 Polynesia, therefore not in the Proto- 

 Samoan, but is a later Tongafiti develop- 

 ment. (The Polynesian Wanderings, 

 page 378, and compare sina, page 406.) 

 maramara (mamara). 

 maramarama bright. 



manava maramarama, intelligent. 

 P Pau.: maramarama, intelligent. Ta.: 

 maramarama, light, brightness. 

 mare to have a cold. 



PPau.: mare, a cold, catarrh. Mq. : 

 mae, mucus, phlegm, saliva. Ta. : 

 mare, a cold, to cough. 

 This is assigned to Polynesian in general 

 classification because of its occurrence in 

 Samoa male and Tonga mele. Each of 

 these languages has tale in the same sense, 

 the other languages of Nuclear Polynesia 

 have only tale. In Samoa male is in the 

 courtesy speech, diagnostic of borrowing 

 from an alien source ; in Tonga, where the 

 courtesy speech is less developed, mele 

 means to feign a cough, to cough lightly, 

 femeleaki to cough as a signal. We should 

 be justified in classing the word as Tonga- 

 fiti. 

 marego bald (marago). 

 marego paka, bald. 

 korae marego, bald forehead. 

 marere to break, to run aground, ship- 

 wreck, to strand, to lose T, to 

 launch, prolix (merere). 

 takaure marere ke, swarm of flies. 

 hakamarere to destroy, to demolish, 



to scatter, to be diffuse. 

 hakamarererere to crumble. 

 marie calm, fair weather, unruffled sea. 

 mea marie, sweet character. 

 vai marie, still water. 

 P Mgv. : marie, well, right, proper, fit. 

 Mq. : mete, fair weather, fine. Ta.: 

 marie, well, slowly, sagely. 

 marikuru ash-wood T. 

 maripu (miripau). 



kiri maripu, scrotum. 

 mariri discolored (meriri). 

 maro 1 June. 

 maro 2 dish-cloth T. 



P Mgv.: maro, a small girdle or breech 

 clout. Ta.: maro, girdle. 

 maroa 1 a fathom. 



maroa hahaga, to measure. 

 Mq. : mao, a fathom. 

 maroa 2 upright, stand up, get up, stop, 

 halt. 

 Mq.: mao, to get up, to stand up. 

 maruaki appetite, desire to eat, greedy, 

 hunger, fasting, famine, weak from 

 hunger, dearth, starvation. 

 hakamaruaki to starve. 

 We note in Motu maro famine, dearth. 

 marumaru shade, thicket, somber, um- 

 brella. 



marumaru continued. 



koona marumaru, sheltered spot, 

 copse. 

 hakamaru to cover with shade. 

 hakamarumaru to shade. 

 P Pau.: hakamaru, to shadow. Mgv.: 

 maru, shade, shadow, obscurity. 

 Mq.: mait, shade, shadow, shelter. 

 Ta. : maru, shade. 

 mata 1 the eye. 



mala neranera, mata kevakeva, mata 



mamae, to be drowsy. 

 mata keva, mataraparapa, matapo, 



blind. 

 mala hakahira, squint eyed. 

 mata pagaha, eye strain. 

 P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta. : mata, the eye. 

 mata 2 the face, expression, aspect, figure, 

 mien, presence, visage, view. 

 mata mine, mata hakataha, mata 

 pupura, mata hakahire, to consider. 

 PPau.: mata, the appearance, air. Mgv.: 

 mata, the face, features, expression. 

 Mq.: mata, face, figure, visage. 

 Ta.: mata, id. 

 mata 3 raw, green, unripe. 



P Pau.: matamata, adolescence. Mgv.: 

 mata, raw, uncooked. 

 mata 4 a drop of water. 



P Mgv., Mq.: matamata, id. 

 mata 5 mesh. 



hakamata to make a net. 

 P Mgv., Mq. : mata, a mesh. 

 mata 6 cutting, flint. 



P Mq. : mata, sharp point or edge of any 

 cutting or piercing implement. 

 Ta.: mata, cutting. 

 mata 7 point, spear, spike (a fish bone). 

 P Mgv. : mata, the extremity of the fish 

 hook. Mq. : mata, sharp point. 

 mata 8 chancre. 



mataara (mata l-ara 2) to forewarn. 

 pupura mataara, projecting eyes. 

 P Mgv. : mataara, to be wide awake, on 

 the watch. Mq. : matad, watch- 

 man, sentinel. 

 mataariki {mata 6-riki; the confusion of 

 riki with ariki is not uncommon in 

 Polynesia) a rasp. 

 mataee sleepiness. 



Mq.: matakeke, matakake, insomnia. 

 mataerua {mata 2-e rua 1) traitor, man of 



two parties. 

 matagi wind, air, breeze, squall, tempest, 

 rhumb. 

 P Pau.: matagi, the air, wind. Mgv.: 

 matagi, wind. Mq.: metani, metaki, 

 wind, air. Ta.: matai, wind. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 317.) 

 matahakahiretoconsider (?-/nra, cf. ira2). 

 matahakahiva to look back (ira 2). 

 matahakakekeva to look aside. 

 matahetuke (mata -j-hetuke) a pin. 

 matahi age. 



PS Sa.: matai, head of the family. To.: 

 matai, clever. Fu.: matai, master 

 of craft. Viti: matai, canoe-wright. 



