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rava 2 to get, to have, to attain, to conquer, 

 to gain, to obtain, invasion, to 

 capture, to procure, to recover, to 

 retrieve, to find, to bring back, to 

 profit, to assist, to participate, to 

 prosper. 

 mea meitaki ka rava, to deserve. 

 PS Pau.: rave, to take. Mgv.: rave, to 

 take, to acquire possession. Ta.: 

 rave, to seize, to receive, to take. 

 To.: lava, to achieve, to obtain. Viti: 



rawa, to obtain, to accomplish. 

 Here again we find the mutation to 

 rave in Southeast Polynesia, while Rap- 

 anui is in close agreement with the two 

 languages of Nuclear Polynesia in which 

 the word may be identified. 

 rava 3 to know. 



rava iu, to discern. 

 rava 4 large. 



hakarava to enlarge, to augment, to 

 add. 

 PS Sa.: lava, large, very. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 358.) 

 (rava 5) hakarava wide, width, across, to 

 put across, yard of a ship, firm. 

 hakarava hakaturu, quadrangular. 

 P Mgv.: ravatua, the shelving ridge of 

 a road, poles in a thatch roof, a 

 ridge. 

 In the Tongafiti speech this appears 

 only in Maori whakarawa to fasten with a 

 latch or bolt. We may very properly 

 assign it to the Proto-Samoan source. 

 rava 6 a prepositive intensive. 

 rava oho, to take root. 

 rava keukeu, to apply oneself. 

 rava ahere, agile, without fixed abode. 

 rava ki, to prattle. 

 rava vanaga, to prate. 

 Mq.: ava, enough, sufficient. 

 (rava 7) hakarava gummy eyes, lippitude. 

 (rava 8) hakarava omua to come before, 



to precede. 

 ravagei to prattle. 

 ravahaga capture. 

 ravaika to fish. 



Mgv.: raveika, a fisherman. Mq.: 

 avaika, avaid, id. 

 ravakai glutton, insatiable (ravekai). 



tae ravekai, frugal. 

 ravakata jovial, merry. 



ravakakata id. 

 ravaki to prattle, to tell stories, loquacious, 

 narrator, orator, eloquent, to boast, 

 to speak evil, to defame, slander, 

 gossip. 

 ravapeto to blab, to speak evil. 

 ravapure fervent, earnest. 

 ravarae invention. 

 ravatere to scare away. 

 ravatotouti neku ravatotonti, agile. 

 ravavanaga loquacious, garrulous, to tell 



stories, narration. 

 reeree black. 



niho reeree, black teeth. 



regorego round. 



maea regorego, a flinty beach pebble 

 used for the finest stone imple- 

 ments T. 

 hakaregorego to make round. 

 rehau head ornament of women's hair. 

 reherehe weak, feeble, lean, effeminate, 

 lacking energy, clumsy, perplexed, 

 rheumatism, tall and slender, mild. 

 ariga reherehe, amiable. 

 vae reherehe, weak in the legs. 

 hakareherehe relaxed. 

 T Ma. : rehe, to yield, to succumb. 

 rehu 1 dust. 



P Mgv. : rehu, a cinder, coal, ashes. Mq. : 

 ehuahi, ashes. Ta.: rehu, ashes, 

 soot, any powder. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 313.) 

 rehu 2 to omit, to forget, to faint. 



rehurehu to omit, omission, lost to 



sight. 

 hakarehu to surprise. 

 rehua unintelligible. 

 rei mother of pearl. 

 rei kauaha, fin. 

 P Mgv.: rei, whale's tooth. Mq.: ei, id. 

 This is probably associable with the 

 general Polynesian rei, which means the 

 tooth of the cachalot, an object held in 

 such esteem that in Viti one tooth (tambua) 

 was the ransom of a man's life, the ran- 

 som of a soul on the spirit path that led 

 through the perils of Na Kauvandra to 

 the last abode in Mbulotu. The word 

 is undoubtedly descriptive, generic as to 

 some character which Polynesian percep- 

 tion sees shared by whale ivory and nacre. 

 Rei kauaha is not this rei; in the Maori 

 whakarei designates the carved work at 

 bow and stern of the canoe and Tahiti has 

 the same use but without particularizing 

 the carving: assuming a sense descriptive 

 of something which projects in a relatively 

 thin and flat form from the main body, 

 and this describes these canoe ornaments, 

 it will be seen that it might be applied to 

 the fins of fishes, which in these waters 

 are frequently ornamental in hue and 

 shape. The latter sense is confined to the 

 Tongafiti migration. 

 rei rei to trample down, to knead, to pound. 

 reka 1 then, but, or, therefore. 



Mgv.: reka, accordingly, therefore, or, 

 rather, else. 

 reka 2 content, gay, pleasant, hilarious, 

 noisy, playful, melodious, game, 

 foolery, to please, to divert, to 

 applaud. 

 reka no, to jest. 



hiri te reka, to walk without noise. 

 hakareka to amuse, to caress, pleasant 

 conversation, to please, playful, 

 gay, to chatter, game, to play, 

 leisure, droll, pleasant, pleasantry, 

 to jest, recreation, to leap for joy, 

 holiday, vacation. 

 hakareka no, chat. 



