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na 1 when, as soon as (ga). 



Mgv. : na, because, seeing that, whereas. 

 na 2 the, that, some, any, certain (ga). 

 pei na, thus, like that. 

 P Mq.: na, the (plural). Ta.: na, id. 

 na 3 of. 



P Pau.: na, of, belonging to. Mgv.: na, 

 of, by, on account of. Mq. : na, of, 

 by, for, on the part of. Ta.: na, 

 of, by, for. 

 na 4 ? possessive. 



na mea, to belong to (? his thing). 

 Mgv. : na, him, of him, to him. Ta. : na, 

 he, his, him. 

 na 5 (ana 2). 



i muri 00 na, to accompany. 

 naa to hide, to conceal, occult, secret. 

 pu moo naa, hiding-place. 

 tae naa, frank, candid. 

 naa no, to deny. 

 naa naa secretly. 



hakanaa to hide, clandestine, secret, 

 to deny, to darken. 

 topa hakanaa, unexpected. 

 ki hakanaa, a secret. 

 vanaga hakanaa, a secret. 

 PS Mq. : hakana, hadna, to conceal, hide, 

 secrete. 

 Sa. : na, to conceal. 

 naaku mine. 



Mgv.: naku, id. Mq.: na'u, id. Ta. : 

 nau, id. 

 naana his. 

 naau yours. 

 naga some. 



naginagi to feed, to nibble. 

 nainai point of a lance. 

 nako ! fat, grease, lard, marrow, tallow. 

 PS Mq.: nako, turtle meat; kao, fat. 

 Pau.: akohaga, meat. Ta.: ao, fat 

 of fowl or fish. 

 Sa.: ga'o, fat, lard. To., Fu., Niue, 



Ma.: gako, id. 

 Had Monseigneur Dordillon eaten his 

 way to the civic chair of London instead of 

 coming to starveling preferment in the 

 bishopric of a savage diocese he would 

 surely have defined the nako of the Mar- 

 quesan turtle in terms of calipash and 

 calipee. 

 nako 2 squamous, scurfy. 

 naku (naaku). 



namunamu 1 to chew, to devour, to lap up, 

 food, glutton. 

 rava namunamu, to eat noisily, to 

 champ when eating. 

 PS Mgv. : namunamu, to eat with the 

 lips, to nibble. Ha.: namunamu, 

 to nibble. 

 Sa., To., Fu.: lamu, to chew. 

 This involves the l-n mutation. This 

 is characteristic of the dependence of 

 Nukuoro on Samoa and occurs in other 

 languages as well (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 52). Moiki shows uniformly a 

 secondary stage of this mutation, l-n-ng. 

 namunamu 2 to yelp. 



nanagi to tear with the teeth. 

 nanai spider. 



kahu nanai, cobweb. 

 nanenane sweetness. 

 nape to name. 



nape iho, to give a nickname. 

 napehaga nomination. 

 naponapo handsome, bright, to shine, to 

 glorify. 

 hakanaponapo to amend, to better, to 

 embellish. 

 natura nature, essence of god. 

 nave manu nave, great abscess. 

 neanea rimamatua neanea, thumb. 



Pau. : manemanea, finger. Ha. : manea, 

 hoof, nail, claw. 

 neenee (nene). 

 neginegi to shorten. 



nego to be equipped with, to fill up, to 

 suffice, full, complete, plenty, whole, 

 plain, quantity, sum. 

 nego mai, to assemble. 

 tae nego, incomplete, insufficient, im- 

 perfect. 

 negonego to agglomerate, to heap up, 

 cargo, load of fruit. 

 negonego mai, to flow in. 

 mea negonego, enough, plenty. 

 tae negonego, few. 

 tai negonego, tide. 

 hakanego to enlarge, to supply, to 

 accumulate, to assemble, to surfeit, 

 to augment, to overrun, populous. 

 hakanegonego to accumulate, to fill 

 up, to multiply, to amass. 

 hakanegonego rakau, to enrich. 

 nehe odor. 



nehenehe fern, moss. 

 nehu obscure, cloudy. 



hakanehu to disguise. 

 hakanenehu serious. 

 nei here, this. 



ina nei, absence, to be away. 

 a mea nei, this. 

 i nei, kona nei, here. 

 hou a nei, modern. 

 ki nei, hither. 

 P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: nei, this, here. 

 neinei 1 to defecate, to lay eggs. 

 hare neinei, latrine. 

 kopu neinei ma te mataku, phobic 



evacuation. 

 koona neinei, latrine. 

 hakaneinei to purge. 

 neinei 2 to squeeze, to press. 



Pau. : nekineki, to compress. Ta. : neinei, 

 to press, to oppress, to trample 

 down. 

 (neira) aneira. 



a. now, actual, at once, this instant, to-day, 



soon, presently, in a little. 



b. to adjourn. 



moo aneira, inopportune. 

 aneira nei, soon, 

 (neke) hakaneke to move. 



ata hakaneke mai, near by. 



