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roe continued, 

 tions, have developed loi and loata, the 

 small ant and the large, venomous ant 

 respectively. The form loi is found only 

 in Samoa; its recurrence in Rapanui and 

 Paumotu groups these languages in their 

 relation to a point of departure from 

 Samoa restrictively and at a period when 

 loi had come into use. 

 rogo 1 news, message, errand, messenger, 

 deputy ; to delegate, to send a mes- 

 sage. 

 uga ki te rogo, to send a message. 

 P Mgv. : akarogo, to carry news, to report. 

 Mq.: ono, oko, news, rumor. Ta. : 

 rod, news. 

 rogo 2 to hear, to understand, to compre- 

 hend, to listen, to believe, to con- 

 sent. 

 rogo hara, to misunderstand. 

 tae rogo, unheard. 

 kai rogo, to abstain. 

 hapai rogo, to announce. 

 hakarogo to hear, to listen, to be atten- 

 tive, to comprehend, to understand, 

 to collect, to obey, subordination, 

 devoted, to adhere, to be deceived. 

 tae hakarogo, to disobey, miscreant. 

 ho ai a moo hakarogo atu, to disbelieve. 

 tariga hakarogo, faithful, obedient, to 

 obey. 

 P Pau.: rogo, to hear. Mgv.: rogo, to 

 hear, to understand, to compre- 

 hend, to know, to perceive. Mq. : 

 ono, oko, to listen, to understand, 

 to comprehend, to perceive through 

 touch. (The Polynesian Wander- 

 ings, 398.) 

 rogoa to believe, belief, intelligible, com- 

 prehended. 

 kai rogoa, not in use, obsolete. 

 roho head (oho). 



Mgv.: oho, the head of human beings. 

 Mq.: 66, the head, brains (roro). 

 ro'i knife Q. 

 rona drawing, traction. 



Pau.: ronarona, to pull one another 

 about. 

 ropa robe. 



ropa raro, shirt. 

 ropa kakari kore, petticoat. 

 rori 1 to invert the sense. 

 T Ma. : rori, silly, foolish. 



Data are lacking to carry out the com- 

 parison, but it does suggest itself that there 

 is some connection between Rapanui and 

 Maori, although we want the middle term 

 which might make it clear. It does not 

 appear to be associable with rori 3, the 

 sense there being wholly physical. 

 rori 2 to arrive, to come, to result, to issue, 

 to come from, 

 to rori mai, the future. 

 rori 3 to go from side to side. 



rori te koa hogihogi, to follow a scent. 

 rorirori to stagger, to waver, to luff. 

 hakarori to tack about. 



rori 3 continued. 

 T Pau. : rorirori, pliant, supple; garori- 

 rori, to vacillate. Mgv.: rori, to 

 stir, to toss about; akarori, to do 

 nothing but come and go. Mq.: 

 61, mobile, hard to restrain. 

 roro head, skull, brains. 



T Pau. : taka-roro, headache. Mgv. : roro, 

 the head, the cranium, milk, coco- 

 nut milk. Mq.: roro, 66, brains. 

 Ta. : roro, id. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 Wanderings, 224.) 

 There are three senses in this word as 

 here collated, one of which it is violent to 

 seek to link with the germ sense of that 

 which is palpably soft. 1, coconut milk, 

 as in Mangareva, a Proto-Samoan signifi- 

 cation; note that coconut milk employed 

 by writers who know the South Sea does 

 not mean the natural water within the nut, 

 which is limpid, but is a tincture obtained 

 by maceration of the bruised kernel, 

 which is white and heavy and thickens to 

 a custardy consistency when cooked. 2, 

 the Tongafiti sense is the brain, palpably 

 the soft contents of the calvarium, some- 

 times very soft indeed; this sense is lack- 

 ing to Mangareva but is found in Rapanui. 

 3, a designation of the hard part of the 

 head, found only in Mangareva and Rapa- 

 nui, so violently sundered from the germ 

 sense underlying 1 and 2 as to indicate 

 confusion with a stem of similar form but 

 diverse meaning. 

 roroa (roa). 



roto 1 marsh, swamp, bog. 

 roto nui, pond. 

 roto iti, pool. 

 T Pau.: roto, lake. Mq.: otovai, pond, 

 marsh. Ta. : roto, pond, swamp. 

 roto 2 inside, lining. 



roto, interior, issue. 

 ki roto, within, into, inside, among. 

 mei roto mea, issue. 

 no roto mai mea, maternal. 

 vae no roto, drawers. 

 P Pau.: roto, in, within. Mgv.: roto, the 

 inside, within, entrails, deep. Mq.: 

 6to, within, interior, cavity. Ta. : 

 roto, in, within. 

 roturotu 1 to clap, to wink. 



PS Pau. : rotu, to strike the water. Mgv. : 

 rotu, to beat the sea in order to 

 frighten fish into the net, to beat a 

 drum. Mq. : 6tu, to drive fish 

 into the seine. Ta.: rotu, to strike. 

 Sa. : lotu, to make a hollow sound in the 



water with the hand. 

 Omitting the Rapanui definition to 

 wink, which is in no wise correlative, we 

 find the germ sense in the making of a 

 noise by the hand, and in four languages 

 out of the seven this is distinctly an aquatic 

 noise, for the Marquesas definition in 

 omitting the noise-beat yet leaves it in- 

 ferential. I regard the Rapanui as primal 

 and associate therewith the Tahiti, though 

 the noise is omitted from the definition. 



