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ragi 3 commander. 



ragi 4 to love, to be affectionate, to spare, 

 sympathy, kind treatment. 

 ragi kore, pitiless. 

 ragi nui, faithful. 

 Mgv. : ragia, precious, dear, beloved. 

 ragi a guest. 

 ragiamo cloudless sky. 

 ragiga invitation, observance, precept, order, 



impost. 

 ragikai {ragi 2-kai 4) feast, festival, 

 ragitea (ragi 2-tea) haughty, domineering. 

 rago chair, sofa bed, lounge, scaffold, raft, 

 table, theater, stairs, tribunal, 

 throne. 

 haga ki te rago, to make a raft. 

 ragorago bed, pulpit, scaffold. 

 P Pau.: ti-ragorago, a joist. Mgv.: rago, 

 a beam, a cross-beam. Mq. : dno, 

 dko, piece of timber on which a 

 canoe or any heavy burden is 

 rolled. Ta. : rao, post, joist, cross- 

 beam, boat. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 257.) 

 ragua pillow. 



P Pau. iruruga, id. Mgv.: uruga, id. Mq.: 

 turua, id. Ta. : urua, turua, id. 

 This is clearly metathetic, of a type 

 (cadei) unusual in Polynesia, as appears 

 when compared with Samoan aluga; note 

 a similar metathesis in puoko from upoko, 

 and compare egarua. This word is quite 

 interesting when the metathesis is combed 

 out, for Rapanui is the only speech of 

 Polynesia which follows the Samoan type, 

 except for Nuguria far astern in the wake 

 of migration. (The Polynesian Wander- 

 ings, 241.) 

 (ragutu) hakaragutu to hatch. 

 rahirahi clear, light, thin, flimsy. 

 kahu rahirahi, gauze, muslin. 

 haipo rahirahi, short breath. 

 rahirahi maeha, thin, slender. 

 hakarahirahi a scraper. 

 hakarahirahiga scrapings. 

 Pau.: rahirahi, to be thin, slender; rahi- 

 rahiga, the temples. Mgv. : rahirahi, 

 fine, slender, supple. Mq.: dhidhi, 

 clear, thin, slender, transparent. 

 Ta.: rahirahi, small; rahirahia, the 

 temples. 

 rahui to forbid, to prohibit, to interdict. 

 kai rahui, prohibition of food. 

 P Pau.: rahui, illicit, forbidden. Mgv., 

 Ta. : rahui, to prohibit, to forbid. 

 Mq.: ahui, kahui, id. 

 It appears in Nuclear Polynesia only in 

 the highly specialized Samoan lafu to pro- 

 hibit the killing of pigs ; we may therefore 

 assign it to the Tongafiti migration. Note, 

 however, that lafu preserves an earlier 

 stem form before it had received the 

 transitive augment i. 

 rakau 1 wood. 



rakau ta, cudgel, stick. 

 PPau.: rakau, tree, to dress a wound. 

 Mgv.: rakau, wood, timber, a tree; 



rakau 1 continued. 



medicine, a remedy; an object. 

 Mq. : dkau, wood, tree. Ta. : radu, 

 id. (The Polynesian Wander- 

 ings, 353) 

 rakau 2 medicine, remedy, potion, ointment, 

 furniture, any precious object, 

 resources, baggage, riches, heri- 

 tage, dowry, merchandise, treasure, 

 wealth. 

 rakau hakaneinei, purgative. 

 rakau nui, rich, opulent. 

 rakau kore, poor, beggar, indigent, 



miserable, an inferior. 

 hakakamikami ki te rakau, to im- 

 poverish. 

 rakau te miro, ballast. 

 Mq. : akau, anything in general. 

 The medicine sense is particularized in 

 Tonga, Nukuoro, Hawaii, Tahiti, Manga- 

 reva, Paumotu. In no other speech does 

 wood stand so fully for wealth of pos- 

 sessions, but it will be recalled that Rapa- 

 nui is destitute of timber and depends 

 wholly upon driftwood. 

 rake bad, in its most general sense. 



patu toona rake, immodest, to expose 

 the person obscenely. 

 rakega evil, perversity. 

 rakerake abominable, frightful, low, 

 shocking, culpable, crime, debauch- 

 ery, dishonor, fault, hideous, ig- 

 noble, deformed, illicit, immodest, 

 immoral, impious, irreligious, las- 

 civious, evil, bad, obscene, sinful, 

 ugly. 

 rakerakega sin, crime, fault, impiety, 



iniquity, evil, vice. 

 hakarakerake causative, to make bad, 



etc. 

 Pau. : marakerake, afflicted, disconsolate. 

 rakei an ornament; to prepare, to embellish, 

 to arrange, to adorn, to dress up, 

 to make a display, to decorate ; to 

 clear away, to explain; to put an 

 edge on. 

 ina kai rakai, ill prepared. 

 rakei ki te kahu, toilet. 

 rakeia dressed up. 

 PS Pau. : rakei, to decorate. Mgv. : rakei, 

 to ornament, to adorn, chaplet, 

 garland, decoration. 

 Sa. : la'ei, ti leaves tied to a stone to 

 attract cuttlefish, to dress for a re- 

 view of troops, to wear a train. 

 To. : lakei, the leaves and stone used 

 to catch catfish. Fu.: lakei, to 

 have a long train. (The Polyne- 

 sian Wanderings, 209.) 

 The significations reported from South- 

 east Polynesia are undoubtedly primitive, 

 an idea of decoration which does not exist 

 generally in Nuclear Polynesia except as 

 it may appear in the Samoan "to dress for 

 a review, " and with more particularity in 

 Samoa and Futuna "to wear a train." 

 Highly specialized is the employment in 



