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noa 2 continued. 



a muri noa atu, never. 

 uru noa, to enter deeply. 

 Mgv. : noa, wholly, entirely, without 

 end, to do nothing else, without 

 others, unique. Mq.: noa, very, 

 greatly, enough. 

 noa 3 common, ordinary. 



noa ki te mau, impartial. 

 P Pau. : noa, single, simple, spontaneous. 

 Mq.: noa, simply, accidentally. 

 Ta. : noa, common, simple. 

 noa 4 negative. 



mou noa, to endure. 

 nohea where? 



noho seat, bench, dwelling, marriage, posi- 

 tion, posture, situation, session, 

 sojourn; to sit, to dwell, to reside, 

 to rest, to halt, to inhabit (kano- 

 cho Q). 

 noho hahatu, to sit cross-legged. 

 noho hakahaga, apathy. 

 noho heenua, countryman. 

 noho kaiga, native. 

 noho kenu, married. 

 noho ke noho ke, to change place. 

 noho muri, to stay behind. 

 noho noa, invariable. 

 noho opata, to stand on a cliff. 

 noho pagaha, badly placed. 

 noho pepe, table. 



noho tahaga, bachelor, unmarried. 

 noho vie, married. 



noho no, apathy, stay-at-home, col- 

 onist, idler, inhabitant, inactive, 

 immobile, settler, lazy, loiterer. 

 hakanoho to abolish, to rent, to lease, 

 to enslave, to dissuade, to exclude, 

 to exempt, to install, to substitute, 

 hostage. 

 hakanohohia stopped. 

 P Pau.: noho, to dwell, to reside, to rest. 

 Mgv.: noho, to sit, to remain, to 

 dwell. Mq. : noho, to sit, to dwell, 

 to reside, to remain, to abstain 

 from, to be married. Ta.: noho, 

 to sit, to remain, to dwell. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 259.) 

 nohookotahi isolated. 



hakanohookotahi id. 

 nohoga seat. 



P Mgv.: nohoga, a seat, chair, action of 

 sitting down. Mq. : nohona, nohoka, 

 seat, chair. 

 nohoturi to kneel, genuflexion. 

 nohovaega to preside. 

 nohue ape-fish T. 



Mgv.: nohu, a fish with poisonous spines. 

 Mq. : nohu, a small fish. Ta.: 

 nohu, a fish with a spine whose 

 prick is very dangerous. 

 noi to bend down toward the ground, to bow 

 down, to worship. 

 hakanoi to prostrate oneself. 

 nokinoki concave. 



noku 1 mine. 



Mq.: no'u, id. Ta.: nou, id. 

 (noku 2) hakanoku to hide, partial, par- 

 tiality. 

 nokunoku throat. 

 noma succulent. 



nomanoma delicate, sweet, a dainty. 

 mea nomanoma, to delight. 

 P Pau. : momona, odor, savor. Mgv. : 

 momona, grease, fat. Mq. : momona, 

 exquisite, delicious, fat meat. Ta. : 

 momona, sweet, sugar, delicious. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 281.) 

 The metathesis (cabe type) in asso- 

 ciating noma with momona entails no 

 difficulty upon the Polynesian. 

 nonoi to implore, to beg from house to 

 house, to make a plea, to petition. 

 nonoi pogeha, to beg with insistence. 

 nonoi tae hakama, to beg shamelessly. 

 nonoihaga petition. 

 P Pau. : nonoi, to exact, to require. Mgv. : 

 inoi, to demand. Mq. : noi, nonoi, 

 inoi, to beg, to solicit. 

 The use of i in Mangareva and Mar- 

 quesas inoi is a peculiarity repeated in 

 Maori, and, so far as we may judge, pro- 

 duces no effect upon the sense; equally with- 

 out effect this augment i is noted in irere 

 and iioko, which in no wise differ from the 

 sense of rere and toko. 

 noona him. 

 nua cloak T (inua Q). 

 nuehine old woman. 

 nui 1 grave, serious. 



nui 2 great, large, numerous, famous, not- 

 able, prosperous. 

 nui atu, greater. 

 nui tahaga, superabundant. 

 hakanui to grow, to enlarge, to aug- 

 ment, to multiply. 

 nuia to prosper. 

 nuiga greatness, generality, quantity. 



nuiga tagata, population. 

 nuinui great, large. 



manava nuinui, appetite. 

 maga nuinui, to bolt the food. 

 nuinui ke, wild, numerous. 

 nuinuia to grow. 

 hakanuinui to amplify. 

 nunui great, considerable, plump, enor- 

 mous, extreme, fame, famous, con- 

 spicuous. 

 nunui ke, immense. 

 nunuiga intense, intensity. 

 hakanunui to exaggerate. 

 P Mgv., Mq. : nui, great, large, numer- 

 ous. Ta.: nui, great. 

 Not appearing in Nuclear Polynesia save 

 in Samoa, even there in no great use, nui 

 is preferably assigned to the Tongafiti. 

 (nuka) hakanukanuka to disdain. 

 (nuko) hakanukonuko irony. 

 nunu thin. 



nunupaka id. 

 nuu bile. 



