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reka 2 continued. 



tagata hakareka no, player. 

 tumu o te hakareka, toy, plaything. 

 rekareka to long for, an adulterer. 

 hakarekareka to tickle, enjoyment. 

 T Pau.: rekareka, agreeable, sweet, pleas- 

 ant, voluptuous. Mgv. : rekareka, 

 joy, pleasure, to rejoice, an itching, 

 longing. Mq. : eka, joy ; pleasure, 

 enjoyment. Ta.: reared, id. 

 (Cf. To. : neka, to rejoice, to joy; nekeneka, 

 joy, rejoicing, delight.) 

 The mutation l-n is so far permissible as 

 to admit the Tonga neka as an affiliate. 

 But as it does not occur elsewhere in 

 Nuclear Polynesia it must stand as a 

 Tongafiti remnant and not of Proto- 

 Samoan source. 

 reka 3 to devastate. 



hakareka to lay waste. 

 reke spur, talon, claw, heel Q. 



T Pau. : rekereke, the heel. Mgv. : reke, 

 the end of a fish hook that is 

 attached to the line. Mq.: neke, 

 to walk on the heels. 

 This word offers an interesting problem 

 of evolution in sense. The Mangareva 

 precludes us from accepting as basic the 

 numerically more weighty signification of 

 the heel. No such difficulty attaches to 

 the sense which is common to Rapanui 

 and Mangareva, a spur, any sharp and 

 projecting member, such as a claw or the 

 long shank of the shell fishhook to which 

 the line is attached not by tying but by 

 lashing with a service of thread. Thence 

 it is an easy transition from the spur of a 

 bird to that part of the human foot which 

 occupies the same relative position, the 

 heel, the secondary sense which holds in 

 Maori and Paumotu and of which a spe- 

 cific detail is found in the Marquesas. In 

 Rapanui we find a distinct variation in 

 rekevae the sole, in which the parent sense 

 but scantily appears. 

 rekevae sole of the foot. 

 rekireki generous. 



Mgv.: rekireki-tahaga, to be easy, un- 

 embarrassed. 

 (? remrem R couchant.) 

 remereme to dazzle. 



reo 1 voice, vocal, word, air of a song, lan- 

 guage, story, speech. 

 reo nui, bass voice. 

 reo ke, changeable voice. 

 reo tahi, solo, unison. 

 reo torn, trio. 



reo kore, patience, resignation. 

 mou te reo, resignation. 

 reoreo story, fable, tittle-tattle. 

 hakareoreo to tell a story. 

 P Pau.: reko, speech: reo, air of a song. 

 Mgv.: reo, sound, voice, speech, 

 language, order. Mq.: eo, voice, 

 speech, language, tone, word, order, 

 commandment. Ta.: reo, voice, 

 speech, word, language, air of a 

 song. 



reo I continued. 



As already pointed out (The Polyne- 

 sian Wanderings, 232) the Paumotu reko 

 is anomalous as regards the assumption 

 of the k. 

 reo 2 artifice, trick. 



toua reo, discussion without knowing 



the object. 

 hakaaroha reo, vain compassion, to 

 adulate, 

 reoreo artifice, duplicity, false, knavery, 

 fraud, imposture, lying, deceptive, 

 to trick, to forswear. 

 horihori maia i te reoreo, to com- 

 promise one. 

 hakarivariva i te reoreo, to drive mad. 

 tagata reoreo. false witness, perjurer. 

 tuhi reoreo, to accuse. 

 reoreo peaha, unlikely, improbable. 

 reohirehire {reo i-hire) to stammer, to lisp, 



to use broken speech. 

 reokumi (reo \-kumi) to cackle. 

 reone lion. 



reopuru (reo i-puru) hoarse. 

 reouu (reo i-uu) to stammer, to lisp. 

 (repa) repa hoa, male friend, intimate, com- 

 rade, companion, fellow student. 

 repa hoa titika, trusty friend. 

 repureva neck ornament of women made of 



shells strung on hair Q. 

 rerarera surface of the sea. 

 rere 1 to fly, to run, to leap, to scale, to be 

 carried away by the wind. 

 ika rere, flying fish. 

 rere aruga, to rebound. 

 hetuu rere, meteor, flying star. 

 hakarere to leap. 

 P Pau.: rere, to soar, to fly; jakarere, to 

 precede. Mgv., Ta.: rere, to fly, 

 to leap. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 421.) 

 rere 2 to come, to reach to. 

 Mq. : ee mai, to come. 

 rere 3 to swerve, to deviate. 

 (rere 4) hakarere to cease, desist, post- 

 pone, quit, vacation. 

 tae hakarere, perseverance. 

 Mq. : rere, to disappear. 

 (rere 5) hakarere to save, preserve, put, 



place, reserve, burden, destine, 

 (rere 6) hakarere to abandon, forsake, give 

 up, depose, expose, leave, omit, 

 abjure, repudiate. 

 hakarere ki te hau, to uncover the head. 

 hakarere ki te vie, to divorce. 

 hakarere ki raro, to put down. 

 tooa te kiko e ivi i hakarere, to strip off 

 the flesh. 

 Mq. : ee, to run away, to escape. 

 (rere 7) hakarere? 



ikapotu hakarere, to abut, to adjoin. 

 e tahi hakarere, synonym. 



rerepe crest. , . To , 



Pau repe, crest, tuft, topknot. Ta.. 

 repe, crest, dorsal fin of a shark, 

 bole on a tree, projection. 



