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tagamimi (taga 2-mimi) the bladder T 

 (tau a mimi R). 



tagata man, mankind. 



tagata ke, some one else. 

 tagata no, nation. 

 P Pau. : tagata, man. Mgv. : tagata, man 

 or woman. Mq.: enata, enana, 

 kenana, man. Ta. : taata, id. 

 tagata a incarnate. 

 tagataga ohio tagataga, hinge. 

 tagatahaga human, humanity. 

 tagi to cry, to bark, to mew, to bawl, to 

 whine, to ring, to wail, to prattle, 

 to weep, lamentation, condolence, 

 to regret, to affect, to wish, to will, 

 to choose, earnestness. 

 tae tagi, inhuman, insensible, to 



refuse, to renounce. 

 tagi kiukiu, ring of a bell. 

 tagi rakerake, to wish one ill. 

 tagi kore, indifferent. 

 manava tagi, to affect. 

 hakatagi to cause to weep, to make 



resound, to ring. 

 tagitagi to covet. 



tatagi cry, mourning, grief, lamenta- 

 tion, to groan, to weep, to be 

 affected, to grow tender. 

 tatagi tahaga, inconsolable. 

 tatagihaga friendship. 

 P Pau. : tagi, to weep. Mgv. : tagi, a cry, 

 to sing, to weep, to lament, to sigh, 

 to desire, to make a noise. Mq.: 

 lani, taki, to ring, to sing, to re- 

 sound, to bark, to cry, to moo, to 

 make a noise, to weep, to desire. 

 Ta.: tai, tears, grief, cry, to sound 

 as an instrument. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 412.) 

 taha 1 to bend, sloping, to go hither and 

 thither, to evade. 

 ki taha, near. 



taha ke, to go in different directions, 

 to separate. 

 tahataha frontier, horizon. 



hiriga tahataha, to cross, to go across. 



hakataha to divert, to turn away, to 



go aside, to be on one side, to 



dodge, to shun, oblique, to incline 



the head, to turn over on another 



side, to avoid, to subject. 



mata hakataha, to consider. 



tae hakataha, immovable. 



P Mgv.: taha, near by, close; akataha, to 



shun, to avoid, to evade. Mq.: 



taha, to go, to walk. Ta. : taha, side. 



The earliest signification in Nuclear 



Polynesia is the side of an object. This 



occurs as tafa in Samoa and Futuna, as 



tafaaki in Tonga, and in the latter as pala- 



taha in the sense of all on one side. We 



find the same sense of the side in Tahiti 



and Maori taha, Rarotonga taa. In Nuclear 



Polynesia we find also the secondary sense 



of going to one side which readily passes 



into the senses recorded from Southeast 



Polynesia, and from the further sense of 



taha 1 continued, 

 going to one side and to another side we 

 pass to the Marquesas of going in general. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 211.) 

 taha 2 to tear. 



PS Mgv. : tahataha, to cut into pieces. 

 Sa., To., Fu. : tafa, to cut, to gash. Viti : 



tava, id. 

 In Nuclear Polynesia this is but one of 

 several cutting words, and in every case it 

 connotes particularly the result of the cut- 

 ting rather than the act or the manner of 

 the act. Thus we find it easy to pass to 

 the expression of such result in Mangareva 

 which we may regard as primal, and from 

 that sense to Rapanui "tear" (sc. to 

 pieces) may be regarded as dictionary 

 error. 

 tahae moe tahae, to be a light sleeper. 

 tahaga 1 only, solely, alone, wholly, with- 

 out stopping, always, quite, a sort 

 of superlative. 

 noho tahaga, bachelor. 

 keukeu tahaga, to go without stopping. 

 topa tahaga, quite unexpected. 

 puoa tahaga, always clad. 

 nui tahaga, to superabound. 

 tatagi tahaga, inconsolable. 

 roaroa tahaga, middle finger (the 



longest). 

 tahaga no mai, a more positively 

 superlative statement. 

 P Mgv. : tahaga, only, alone, solely. Mq. : 

 tahakahaka, stripped of brushwood. 

 I have associated this with the Samoan 

 tajaga clear of trees, in order to point to a 

 source of the Marquesas tahakahaka. The 

 Rapanui sense of tahaga reappears only in 

 Maori tahanga moderately, and in the 

 Mangarevan above cited. It seems to me 

 associable with a word for "one," taha, 

 which occurs in Tonga and Niue. 

 tahaga 2 irascible. 



tuhi tahaga, to accuse, to calumniate. 

 tahaga 3 (taha 2) a sacrifice. 

 tahatai (taha i-tai) littoral, coast, shore. 

 tahatahatai coast. 

 Ta.: tahatai, coast. 

 tahe 1 to run freely, to flow (tehe 4). 

 P Pau.: tahe, a river. Mgv., Mq. : tahe, 

 to run, to flow, to melt, to liquefy. 

 Ta.: tahe, to run, to flow. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 264.) 

 tahe 2 to smooth out wrinkles (tehe 2). 

 taheta fountain, spring. 

 taheta pn, spring. 

 pokopoko taheta, concave. 

 Cf. Viti: ndaveta, as illuminating the 

 possibility of a closed stem tafet. 

 tahetoto (tahe i-toto) hemorrhage. 

 tahi one, only, simple. 

 te tahi, next. 

 e tahi, anyone. 

 e tahi no, unique, unity. 

 e tahi e tahi, simultaneous. 

 P Mgv., Mq., Ta. : tahi, one. 

 tahia to kill Q. 



