RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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(rite) hakarite continued. 



to obscure the germ sense. The word 

 appears only in Rapanui, Maori and 

 Hawaii, and its simplest signification is to 

 be like. By an odd accident, out of the 

 billion long odds against such coincidence, 

 the eye, yet not the ear, is struck by the 

 entry in the Hawaiian dictionary "like 

 like." 

 ritorito white, neat, clean, handsome, good- 

 looking, charming, graceful, ma- 

 jestic, to glorify. 

 vai ritorito, clear, limpid. 

 ritorito ke, pure. 

 hakaritorito to purify, to better, to 

 improve, to beautify, to expiate. 

 hakaritorito ki te hau, to bleach in the 

 dew. 

 Mgv. : rito, clean, bright, clear, fresh, 

 pure, beautiful. Mq. : ito, fresh, 

 handsome, red, green. 

 riva calm, modesty, health; to satisfy, to 

 restore, to convert. 

 toe riva, coarse, imperfect, uncer- 

 tain, inconvenient, inconsistent, un- 

 seemly, inefficacious, inopportune, 

 insignificant, dishonest, filthy. 

 noho tae riva, indecent. 

 riva ke, to make famous. 

 riva maoa, correct. 

 riva mo tere, navigable. 

 riva atu, progress. 

 riva kia ku, interest. 

 riva no iti, convalescence. 

 mea riva, seemly. 

 vanaga tae riva, confused speech. 

 ina kai riva, uncertain. 

 e ko riva, incurable. 

 rivaga goodness, quality. 



rivaga ke, wonderful, marvelous. 

 riva riva neatness, effect, seasonableness, 

 magnificence, excellence, curiosity, 

 elegance, loyalty, good, well, neat, 

 handsome, charming, decent, deli- 

 cate, excellent, flourishing, exqui- 

 site, good looking, commendable, 

 loyal, magnificent, majestic, oppor- 

 tune, reasonable, affable, pious, 

 agreeable, pleasing, holy. 

 tae rivariva, dishonesty, illegal, un- 

 worthy. 

 igoa tae rivariva, nickname. 

 rivariva ke, illustrious, better, best, 



precious, remarkable. 

 tagata rivariva, devout. 

 rivariva atu, to excel. 

 mea rivariva, to delight, to deserve. 

 hakatu rivariva, fine appearance. 

 rivariva maitai, good. 

 rivariva noa, moral, perfect, precious, 

 rich. 

 rivarivaga perfection. 

 rivarivaga ke, pomp. 

 hakariva happiness, attention, opera- 

 tion; to be happy, to rejoice, to 

 make famous, to govern, to rule, to 

 operate, to adorn, to cure. 

 rara hakariva, to intermeddle. 



rivariva continued. 



hakarivaga joy, gladness. 

 hakarivariva deliberation, explana- 

 tion, judgment, justification, ad- 

 monition, agreement, paraphrase, 

 process, receipt, petition for pardon, 

 reparation, resolution, restoration, 

 condemnation; to condemn, to cor- 

 rect, to judge, to set in order, to 

 organize, to refute, to govern, to 

 administer, to arrange, to assign, 

 to complete, to compose, to deliber- 

 ate, to develop, to explain, to jus- 

 tify, to adjust, to accommodate, to 

 plead, to prepare, to resolve, to 

 retrace, to simplify, to care for, to 

 stipulate, to convert, to verify, to 

 translate, to tell a story, to moral- 

 ize, to plot, to join, to reason, to 

 remedy, to preach, to sharpen, to 

 make ready, to avow, to conciliate, 

 to free of difficulties, to clear away, 

 to inquire, to intervene, to smooth, 

 to traffic, to mitigate, to gorman- 

 dize. 

 hakarivariva ki tootia reoreo, to drive 



mad. 

 hakarivariva ki te kahu, toilet. 

 tagata hakarivariva, arbiter, umpire, 

 interpreter. 

 hakarivarivaiho to modify, to renew, 

 to rectify, to reform. 

 ro 1 of, concerning. 

 ro 2 yet, nevertheless, still. 

 kakore ro, or. 



ka kikiu ro, to importune (? no). 

 roa long, large, extent. 



roaroa to grow, height. 

 mea roaroa, a long while. 

 roaroa tahaga, middle finger. 

 roaroa ke, infinite (time and space). 

 roroa far, distant, thin, to grow tall. 

 tagata roroa, giant. 

 roroa ke, immense. 

 arero roroa, to report, to tell. 

 vanaga roroa, to chatter, babbler. 

 vare roroa, driveller. 

 hakaroa to lengthen, to defer. 

 hakaroaroa to lengthen, to develop, 

 hakaroroa to extend, prolong, defer, 

 lengthen. 

 P Pau. : roa, long. Mgv. : roa, far, long 

 (of time and space). Mq.: 6a, 

 long, high, far, distant a long while. 

 Ta. : roa, long (of time and space.) 

 roaa caught. 



Ta.: roaa, obtained. 

 roaga distance, extent, size, length, distant, 



long. 

 roau to assist, to celebrate, to venerate, 



respect. 

 roe ant. 



PS Pau.: roe, id. Mgv., Ta.: ro, id. Mq.: 

 o, ko, id. 

 Sa.: hi, id. To., Fu., Niue, Uvea, Viti: 



lo, id. . 



It appears that the primal stem is to. 

 From this, by possibly descriptive addi- 



