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mogo continued. 



In addition to this list the word is found 

 as tnago in Samoa, Maori, Niue, and in 

 Viti as mego. It is only in Rapanui and 

 the Marquesas that we encounter the 

 variant mogo. 

 mogugu orifice, anus, backside. 

 mogugu kore, constipation. 

 mogugu kiukiu, ingrate, ungrateful. 

 Mgv.: mogugu, gills of fish. Mq.: 

 monunu, mokuku, larynx, Adam's 

 apple. 

 The general sense of orifice suffices 

 to coordinate Rapanui and Mangareva; 

 the Marquesas is further removed and 

 obscure. 

 mogugupuru infidelity, unfaithful, ingrate 



(magugupuru). 

 mohai idol, image, sculpture, statue (moai 

 T, moi Q). 

 mohai rikiriki, amulet. 

 ragi mohai, dappled sky. 

 mohimohi level, to level. 



hakamohi stern, serious, grave. 

 Mgv.: mohia, to be straight, rigid, 

 mokai (mo l-kai 4) fruit. 

 moki signification, sense (mooki). 

 Mgv.: moki, subject, occasion. 

 (Sa. : mo'i, true; more probably the ' 

 represents, though this is quite 

 unusual, the n of moni; for mo'i is 

 not reproduced as moki in any of 

 the languages of Nuclear Polynesia.) 

 mokimoki lenitive, emollient. 

 moko 1 lizard. 



P Pau., Mgv., Mq. : moko, id. Ta. moo, id. 

 moko 2 to stun, to be dizzy. 

 PS Sa. : mo'o, to be surprised. 



An interesting parallel comes to mind 

 in English astound, which also carries the 

 idea of surprise in terms of stun. But 

 nothing can be more fallacious than such 

 parallels between enormously separated 

 languages if we seek to assign them more 

 than curious interest, for it is extremely 

 unsafe to consider the Polynesians as 

 thinking, or as capable of thinking, in 

 conformity with the laws of our thought. 

 (moko 3) hakamoko to accomplish. 

 mokohi grain, full-grown berry (mokoi). 

 mokohi haraoa, grain. 

 Mgv.: mokohe, food. 

 mokoimokoi heart T, kidney. 

 mokomoko sharp, pointed, slender, cape, 

 headland. 

 gutu mokomoko, pointed lips. 

 moku bunch grass T (mouku). 

 momomomo niho momomomo, decayed 

 teeth. 

 PS Sa. : momomo, to crumble. To. : momo, 

 broken up, crumbled. Fu.: momo, 

 to pulverize, to break. Niue: 

 momomomo, in driblets. Viti: 

 momoka, to break fine. 

 momore (more). 

 momotu (motu). 

 moni money, silver, platinum. 



moni continued. 



moi meamea, gold. 

 moni tara, dollar. 

 mooka to implant. 

 mooku mine. 



Mgv.: moku, id. 

 moomoe (mo i-moe) nuptial. 

 moraoa R (morava). 



morava to catch, to have, to conquer, to 



gain, to obtain, to participate; to 



be able, capable, to procure, to 



profit, to realize, to recover, to find. 



morava iho, to recover. 



more rent, fracture, to break. 



manava more, desolate, to grieve. 

 momore breaking. 



momore hihi, to damage, to injure. 

 moremore to divide into bits. 

 Mgv. : akamore, to decapitate, to cut off 

 pieces of wood. 

 morega fraction. 

 moremorepua to pick flowers. 

 mori oil. 



mori eoeo, pomade. 

 Pau.: mori, oil for burning. Mgv.: 

 mori, candle, taper, wax. Mq.: 

 moi, coconut. Ta. : mori, oil, lamp. 

 motare clock. 



Mgv., Mq. : motara, id. 

 The object being foreign, and the name 

 probably a loan, I incline to think that 

 the two languages have syncopated 

 chronometer. I favor this the more par- 

 ticularly since in the language of sailors 

 this timepiece is commonly pronounced 

 chronomoter, a vowel coloring by attrac- 

 tion not unknown to students of orthoepy. 

 A derivation from the French montre is 

 possible, but it does violence to the 

 island treatment of such borrowings. 

 motiho land fog. 



motiotio ragi motiotio, sky streaked with 

 clouds. 

 Mgv. : tiotio, to be specked or marked. 

 motu to break, to cut with a knife, to sever, 

 to rupture; rent, reef, shoal, rock. 

 motu polo, to cut short. 

 aretare motu, an oratory. 

 motu kivakiva, an uncovered shoal. 

 momotu to cut up. 



tae momotu, e ko momotu, indissoluble. 

 P Pau.: motu, island; komutu, to break. 

 Mgv.: motu, an island, a rock, to 

 cut, to be broken. Mq.: motu, 

 island, land, to break, to cut up, to 

 take to pieces. Ta. : motu, a low 

 island, to be broken, cut up. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 383.) 

 motuava (motu-ava 1) a hollowed rock. 

 motuhaua archipelago. 

 motupiri (motu-piri) archipelago. 

 motuputuputu (motu-putuputu) archi- 

 pelago. 

 moturauri south wind T. 

 moturogorogo to write T. 

 mou 1 enough (moua, mouga). 

 PS Sa.: mou, many. 



