RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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roturotu 2 to take to pieces. 

 rou 1 (feather, cf. rauoho). 

 rou meamea, feather. 

 Mgv.: rouoho, hair; rouro, id. Mq.: 

 ouoho, id. Ta. : rouru, id. 

 rou 2 a stick with a crook, a hook. 



P Pau. : rou, a crutch, a hook, to gather 

 with a hook. Mgv.: rou, a forked 

 pole with which to gather bread- 

 fruit. Mq.: 6u, id. Ta.: rou, id. 

 ru a chill, to shiver, to shudder, to quake. 

 tnanava ru, groan. 

 ruru fever, chill, to shiver, to shake, to 

 tremble, to quiver, to vibrate, com- 

 motion, to apprehend, moved, to 

 agitate, to strike the water, to 

 print. 

 manava ruru, alarm. 

 rima ruru, to shake hands. 

 P Pau. : rum, to shake, to tremble. Mgv. : 

 ru, to shiver with cold, to shake 

 with fever, to tremble. Mq.: u, 

 to tremble, to quiver. Ta.: ruru, 

 to tremble. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 235.) 

 rua 1 two. 



P Mgv., Ta.: rua, id. Mq.: ua, id. 

 rua 2 nausea, seasickness, to vomit, disgust. 

 hakarua to vomit, to spew. 

 PS Mgv. : aruai, ruai, to vomit. Mq. : iia, 

 id. Ta. : ruai, id. Pau.: ruaki, id. 

 Sa.: lua'i, to spit out of the mouth; 

 lulua, to vomit. To. : lua, to vomit. 

 Fu.: lulua, luaki, id. Niue: lua, 

 id. Viti: lua, id.; loloa, seasick. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 279.) 

 The Proto-Samoan form is lua. In 

 Samoa and Futuna this form remains in 

 use along with the augmented form luaki. 

 In Southeast Polynesia, Rapanui and the 

 Marquesas alone preserve the unmodified 

 Proto-Samoan stem. 

 rua 3 cave, hollow, ditch, pit, hole, beaten 

 path, grave. 

 rua papaka, a ditch. 

 P Pau. : rua, a hole. Mgv. : rua, a hole in 

 the ground, ditch, trench. Mq.: 

 ua, dish, hole, cavern. Ta. : rua, 

 hole, opening, ditch. 

 ruga high, up. 



a ruga, above. 

 ki ruga, on, above, upon. 

 ma ruga, above. 

 ruga, upper. 

 kahu ruga, royal (sail). 

 ruga iho, celestial. 

 hakaruga to accumulate, to draw up. 

 P Pau., Mgv.: ruga, above. Mq.: iina, 

 uka, id. Ta.: nua, nia, id. 

 ruhi succulent. 



ruhiruhi delicate, savory, sweet. 



mea ruhiruhi, to delight. 

 Mgv. : ruhiruhi, to have a bad taste (a 

 sense-invert) . 

 rukau (lukau coat T). 

 ruku to bathe, to immerse, to swim face 

 down, to dive, to leap into the 

 water from a height. 



ruku continued. 



hakaruku to cover with water, to 

 immerse, to submerge, to moisten, 

 to wash, to drink. 

 P Mgv. : ruku, to dive, to plunge. Mq. : 

 uku, to dive, to immerse. 

 rumaki a corpse ready for burial. 



Mgv. : rumaki, to throw or push a quan- 

 tity of food into a food pit. 

 runu 1 to pluck, to pick, a burden. 

 runu 2 a substitute. 



runurunu a representative. 

 rupa handkerchief T (ropa). 

 rupou to be in a frenzy. 



Ta. : ruporupo, giddy, vertigo. 

 (ruru) hakaruru promise, vow. 



hakaruruga promise. 

 ruruku capstan. 

 rurururu to drum, to shake. 

 rutirae author, to attack. 

 (ruto) hakarutoruto to gargle. 

 rutu to recite. 



tae rutu, irreverence. 



ta 1 of. 



T Pau. : ta, of, belonging to. Mgv. : ta, 

 genitive particle for food, for wife, 

 for husband. Mq.: ta, of, by, for. 

 ta 2 this, which. 



Mgv. : ta, that which. Mq. : to, those. 

 Ta. : to, the. 

 ta 3 primarily to strike: to sacrifice, to 

 tattoo, to insert, to imprint, to 

 write, to draw, to copy, to design, 

 to color, to paint, to plaster, to 

 note, to inscribe, to record, to de- 

 scribe, number, letter, figure, rela- 

 tion. 

 ta hakatitika, treaty, 

 to igoa, to sign, 

 to ki, secretary, 

 to kona, to tattoo. 

 to vanaga, secretary. 

 P Pau.: ta-iro, to mark. Mgv.: to, to 

 tattoo, to write. Mq. : to, to strike, 

 to beat. Ta. : to, to strike, to 

 tattoo, to write. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 411.) 

 taaka his. 

 taaku mine. 



Mgv. : taku, id. Ta. : tau, id. 

 taana his. 



Ta.: tana, id. 

 tae 1 prepositive negative: without, not, 

 none. 

 PS To.: tae, prepositive negative. 

 tae 2 to remain. 



tae atu ki, as far as, until. 

 taehaga (toe 1) to shake the head in sign of 

 negation, reluctant, to disdain, to 

 be displeased. 

 taga 1 act, business, anecdote. 



taga poki, anecdote, nonsense, story, 

 puerile, childish. 

 taga 2 sack. 



PS Sa., Fu., Niue, Viti: taga, a bag. To.: 

 taga, the colon; tagai, a sack. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 265.) 



