RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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pure 1 to pray, to supplicate, invocation, 

 prayer. 

 hare pure, church, chapel. 

 toe pure, irreverence. 

 purega prayer. 

 P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta. : pure, to pray. 

 In assigning this to the general Poly- 

 nesian the basis in Nuclear Polynesia is of 

 the most scanty. In Samoa, Tonga, Niue, 

 Futuna, Uvea, pule means to command; 

 but in Futuna the prayer sense is found, 

 and we must include Viti mbure for its 

 theological import, if not availing prayer 

 yet the place in which the priest came 

 under the influence of the god, a theme 

 of divinity which recalls the note under 

 avaava. 

 pure 2 a shell T. 



P Pau. : hakapurepure, to dye, to color. 

 Mq. : pue, the porcelain shell. Ta. : 

 pure, a mark. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 196.) 

 purepure spotted, dappled. 



ragi purepure, dappled sky. 

 purepurea spotted. 

 P Pau. : hakapurepure, to dye, to color. 

 Mgv.: purepure, printed cloth; 

 akapurepure, to paint in different 

 colors. Mq. : puepue, covered with 

 pale scars. Ta. : purepure, spotted, 

 dappled. 

 pureva to throw a stone. 

 puru to stuff up, to conceal, lid, to cover 

 with a lid, covering of a house, to 

 cover, to close, to stanch, to mask, 

 recluse. 

 mogugu puru, faithless, ungrateful. 

 tariga puru, to disobey. 

 puru ki te puoko, to cover the head. 

 puru ki te hare pohurihuri, to im- 

 prison. 

 purua covered, shut up, seclusion. 

 P Ma. : puru, a plug, cork. 

 puruga bung, stopper, mask, veil. 

 puruhare roof. 



maea puruhare, tile. 

 purukatorio purgatory. 

 purumata {puru-mata 1) uira purumata, 



spy glass. 

 puta fat. 



puputa bulk, voluminous. 

 hakaputaputa to gobble gluttonously. 

 PS Sa. : puta, fat. To. : butobuta, id. 

 puti 1 robust, plump, dropsy. 

 puti 2 wind on the stomach. 

 putu pure T. 

 putuga a plug. 



putuputu assiduous, compact, frequent, 

 often. 

 piri putu pu hi, to frequent. 

 hakaputuputu to do often. 

 P Pau. : hakaputu, to agglomerate. Mgv. : 

 putuputu, close, tight, compact, 

 often, frequently. Mq.: putu, close. 

 Ta.: putuputu, compact. 



ra I then. 



P Pau., Ta. : ra, then. Mq. : a, accord- 

 ingly, then. 

 ra 2 there, is it not? 



i ra, ki ra, there. 



ki ra hoki, there precisely. 



ki re i ra, yet, already. 



mai ra, on the contrary. 



pei ra, thus, so, like that, such, as, the 



same as. 

 kakore ra, or. 

 P Mgv.: ra, interrogative particle. Mq.: 

 a, there. Ta.: ra, there. 

 ra 3 an intensive particle. 



moe atu ra, to postpone. 

 ra 4 demonstrative pronoun. 

 ra, those. 



mea ra, nevertheless. 

 ra 5 1,000,000 T. 

 raa 1 the sun. 



raa ea mai, raa puneki, sunrise. 

 raa tini, raa too, noon. 

 P Mgv., Ta. : ra, the sun. Mq.: a, id. 

 raa 2 day, date. 



a raa net a, to-day, now. 

 raa i mua, day before. 

 P Mgv., Ta.: ra, a day. Mq.: a, id. 

 rae 1 commencement, beginning, to strike 

 up, to essay, to occasion, to pro- 

 ceed, former, primitive, precedent, 

 predecessor, first-fruits. 

 rae ki te mea hou, to innovate. 

 oho rae, to march at the head. 

 tagata rae, advance guard, van. 

 raega commencement, beginning, occa- 

 sion, first-fruits. 

 rae 2 to attack, to provoke. 



kakai rae, toua rae, to provoke. 

 raga 1 captive, slave, to take captive. 

 hakaraga to enslave. 

 Mq.: dka, conquered. 

 raga 2 to banish, to expel, to desert. 

 ragaraga to send away, to expel. 

 hakaraga to banish, to drive off. 

 Mq. : dka, wanderer, vagabond. 

 ragaraga to float, to fluctuate. 



eve ragaraga, ennui, to weary. 

 T Mgv. : raga, to swim or float on the sur- 

 face of the water. Mq. : dna, dka, 

 to float. 

 The germ sense as found in Southeast 

 Polynesia recurs in Hawaii, but in the 

 Maori it is hard to discover. 

 ragi 1 sky, heaven, firmament, paradise. 

 no te ragi, celestial. 

 P Pau., Mgv.: ragi, sky, heavens. Ta.: 

 rai, id. Mq. : dni, dki, sky, heaven, 

 paradise. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 359) 

 ragi 2 appeal, cry, hail, formula, to invite, 

 to send for, to notify, to felicitate, 

 precept, to prescribe, to receive, 

 to summon. 

 ragi no, to impose. 



ragi tarotaro, to menace, to threaten. 

 tagata ragi, visitor. 





