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rakei continued. 

 Samoa and Tonga of the lure for the 

 octopus, long strips of green being every- 

 where as peculiarly attractive to that 

 beast as in our country life the bullfrog 

 will jump for red flannel on the hook. 

 rama nut. 



P Pau. : rama, a nut, torch. Mgv. : rama, 

 the nut of the native walnut, to 

 give light, to go fishing with torches. 

 Mq.: dma, candlenut, torch. Ta. : 

 rama, torch. 

 The nut sense is a remote derivative. 

 The stem is that lama which appears in 

 malama to give light. Thence derives 

 the sense of the light-giver, which in out- 

 door conditions is the torch of leaflets of 

 the coconut, within doors is the candle 

 of threaded nuts of Aleurites triloba or 

 moluccana. Thence the sense attaches 

 generally to the candlenut itself, and in 

 Niue it has passed yet beyond to the soot 

 of such combustion, an abundant product. 

 ranorano volcano, crater. 



PS Sa. : lano, a crater lake. 

 rapa to polish. 



hakarapa to polish, to smooth. 

 raparapa to glisten, smooth; tin, zinc, 

 drinking cup, lantern. 

 ohio raparapa, tin. 

 mata raparapa, blind. 

 hakaraparapa to brighten, to plate. 

 Mq. : dpa, to be bright, to glisten. 

 rape room, chamber. 



rapehare hall, room. 

 Ta. : rape, the wall plate of a house. 

 rapino rabbit {lupin). 

 rapo pumice. 



rapu work, workman, to till the soil, to hoe. 

 rapurapua kaiga rapurapua, cultivated 



soil. 

 Mgv.: rapu, to knead, to bray in a 

 mortar, to beat many times. Mq. : 

 dpudpu, to knead. Ta.: rapu, to 

 scratch. 

 rara 1 to meddle with, to insinuate oneself, 

 to visit, to spread a report. 

 rara hakariva, to intermediate. 

 rara 2 to interpret, sentence, sermon. 



tagata rara, interpreter. 

 raraga to weave, to braid, to make mats or 

 bags. 

 raraga piniku, to net. 

 P Pau., Mgv.: raraga, to weave, to plait, 

 to make mats. Mq.: ddna, ddka, 

 id. Ta.: raraa, id. 

 rarama to inspect, to review. 



PS Mgv.: rarama, to go to see, to visit. 

 Mq.: ddma, to visit, to examine, 

 to explore, to spy. 

 Sa., To.: lama, to watch for. Niue: 



lamalamati, to lie in wait for. 

 An idea central to all these variants is 

 that of looking at or for something with 

 fixed or intent gaze, which primal sense 

 appears most clearly in Nuclear Poly- 

 nesia and is almost exactly repeated in the 

 spy meaning in the Marquesas. The 



rarama continued. 



other occurrences of the word are in 

 secondary senses. 

 rarara condemnation, to condemn. 

 rararara to heat. 



Mgv.: rara, to leave by the fire. 

 rarau distrust, mistrust. 

 rari moist, soaked. 



oone rari, marsh, swamp. 

 rarirari muddy, miry. 

 hakarari to soak, to wet. 

 TPau.: rari, wet, water; fakarari, to 

 moisten. Mgv.: rari, moist, humid, 

 muddy, wet, soft. 

 rarikau go away T. 

 raro under, below, leeward. 

 i raro, below, beneath. 

 ki raro, under, below. 

 raronui, pit, chasm. 

 P Pau.: raro, under, beneath, leeward, 

 west. Mq.: do, id. Ta.: raro, id. 

 Mgv. : raro, under, beneath. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 213, 216.) 

 raruga moea raruga, lying flat. 

 rata 1 to tame. 



P Pau.: fakarata, to tame. Ta.: rata, 

 tame. Mq. : dta, wild, not tame, 

 to run when called (a sense-invert) . 

 rata 2 to receive, to welcome. 



Mgv.: rata, to welcome. 

 rate rat. 

 rau 1 leaf. 



P Pau., Ta.: rau, id. Mgv.: rau, rou, id. 

 Mq. : du, ou, id. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 397.) 

 rau 2 hundred. 



P Mgv., Ta.: rau, id. Mq.: du, 200, 400. 

 rau a they. 



P Mgv., Ta. : raua, they two. Mq.: 

 diia, id. 

 (rauga) hakarauga a file, a row. 

 rauhiva weak, feeble, ill, malady, fever, 



pale, sallow. 

 raukape {rau \-kape) leaf of the yam. 



Ta. : rauape, id. 

 rauoho hair (lauocho Q). 



Mq. : ouoho, id. Ha.: lauoho, id. 

 raupa large leaves. 

 rauti {rau i-ti 1) dracaena leaf. 



Ta. : rauti, id. 

 rava 1 art, power, capable, possible, means, 

 inventor. 

 tae rava, e ko rava, impossible, in- 

 capable. 

 PS Mgv.: ravehaga, to be a worker. Ta.: 

 rave, work, operation; ravca, means. 

 Sa.: lava, to be able. To.: lava, to 

 accomplish. Fu.: lava, to be able 

 to carry. Viti: lawa, to be able, 

 easy. 

 The Nuclear Polynesian source is unmis- 

 takable in the exact concord of form and 

 sense. The Mangareva and Tahiti words 

 contain an important form difference and 

 in sense they can be linked only through 

 Tahiti ravea and the occurrence of its 

 definition "means" in Rapanui; this form 

 is found in Maori rawe easy, suitable. 



