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pei continued. 



pei na, thus, like that. 

 pei ra ta tnaton, proverb. 

 pei ra hoki, likeness, similitude. 

 pei ra tau, system. 

 pei ra hoki ta matou, usage. 

 PS Sa.: pei, thus. 



This is particularly interesting as pre- 

 serving one of the primordial speech ele- 

 ments. It is a composite, pe as, and i a 

 demonstrative expressive of that which is 

 immediate within sight ; therefore the locu- 

 tion signifies clearly as-this. 

 peka 1 100,000 T. 

 peka' 2 a cross. 



pekapeka curly. 



pekapekavae instep T. (? shoelaces.) 

 hakapeka to cross. 

 hakapekapeka to interlace, lattice. 

 TMgv. : peka, a cross, athwart, across; 

 pepeka, thick, only said of a num- 

 ber of shoots or sprouts in a close 

 bunch. Mq. : peka, a cross, dense 

 thicket. Ta. : pea, a cross. 

 peke to succeed, to follow. 



Pau.: peke, to follow, to accompany. 

 Ta. : pee, to follow. 

 pena strap, thong, bridle, girth, suspenders. 

 pena hakamau, bridle. 

 pena hakagau, bit. 

 hakaihoiho ki te pena, to gird up. 

 PS Sa. : pena, a snare, noose. To. : pena, 

 to mend nets. 

 That which runs through all these 

 variants is the cord sense, therefore we 

 regard Rapanui as preserving the primi- 

 tive which persists in Samoa and Tonga 

 only in specific uses. 

 penetuli paint (peinture). 

 pent paint. 



pent akui, paint. 

 pepe 1 a sketch. 



pepe 2 bench, chair, couch, seat, sofa, saddle. 

 here pepe, man pepe, to saddle. 

 noho pepe, tabouret. 

 pepepepe bedstead. 

 pepeke lean, weak, effeminate, without 

 energy, feeble, incapable, infirm, 

 invalid, coward, sluggish, bewil- 

 dered. 

 Pau.: pekepeke, lively, quick. Mgv. : 

 pepeke, feeble, weak, bent with toil. 

 Mq.: peepee, soft, light. Ta.: 

 pepee, unstable, shifting place. 

 pera to forbid (peraa). 



kai peraa mat, to forbid to eat. 

 pere doleful, lugubrious. 

 perehe cicatrice (plaie) (eperehe). 

 perepitero priest. 



perigi a corpse wholly consumed, to fall in 

 ruins, shedding, to fall in drops, to 

 lose (hakaparigi, perigui R). 

 hakaperigi to throw, to turn aside, to 

 demolish, to pour out, to shed, to 

 pass water, to spill, to empty. 

 hakaperigi ke, to decant. 

 vai hakaperigi, water over the head. 



peropero greedy. 



hakaperopero to famish, to starve. 

 petehe a cut, incision. 



Mq. : petehe, to castrate, to cut up 

 tobacco for smoking. 

 peti wind in the belly, to blow. 

 peu 1 axe, adze, mattock. 



pen pakoa, an axe poorly helved. 

 peu 2 energy. 

 peugo opaque (? peuga). 

 peupeu 1 to groan. 



peupeu 2 to be affectionate, to grow tender. 

 peupeuhaga friendship. 

 Mq. : peehu, hadpeehu, pekehu, to make 

 tender. 

 peva to be in the habit of. 

 pia arrowroot T. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta. : pia, id. Pau. : piapia, 

 gum. Ma.: pia, gum of trees. 

 Although the word is common to the 

 two swarms of Polynesian migration it is 

 found in Nuclear Polynesian only in Niue. 

 This circumstance sheds an interesting 

 light on the problems of the vanished 

 words, see also arero. The stem pia has 

 two significations, specifications of a basic 

 idea plain enough to the Polynesian under- 

 standing of what constitutes a generic 

 character. In one sense it means semen, 

 in the other the arrowroot in preparation 

 and fully prepared. In some rather recent 

 period the word masod has been applied 

 to arrowroot in Samoan and Futuna, 

 mahoaa in Tonga, probably allied to 

 masawe which in Viti is the edible root of 

 the Cordyline. In Samoa pia still carries 

 the arrowroot sense but is forbidden to use 

 on the score of obscenity, a most effective 

 principle in the speech of this race which 

 in general is far more outspoken in inno- 

 cence of thought than many races less 

 modest in fact. Thus we are able to 

 examine an instance of a word in the van- 

 ishing, and as it sinks below the surface 

 we may study the reason therefor. 

 piere 1 a thousand, a great number. 

 piere 2 resin (? Fr. : brai). 

 piere hiva, tar, pitch. 

 akui ei piere hiva, to tar. 

 hakapierehiva to tar. 

 pigei rump (pihaigi, piheigi). 

 pigoa haunt, den, lair. 

 pii to crush. 



hakapiipii id. 

 pikea crab. 



piki to climb, to mount, to go up. 

 piki aruga, to surpass. 

 pikipiki to embark, to go aboard. 

 hakapiki to climb. 

 P Pau.: piki, to climb, to ascend, to 

 mount. Mgv.: piki, to mount, to 

 go up, to climb. Mq. : piki, pii, 

 to mount, to climb, to go aloft. 

 Ta. : pii, to mount. 

 Since this piki appears only in Samoa of 

 Nuclear Polynesia it may be not improper 

 to assign it to the Tongafiti migration. 



