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taukete continued. 



Mangareva and Marquesas have suffered 

 the loss of a. The sense in its two occur- 

 rences in Nuclear Polynesia is that of 

 uterine relationship, in the Tongafiti it is 

 affinity, to which the Maori adds the par- 

 ticularly interesting item of the relation- 

 ship inter se of a man's several wives, rela- 

 tives by marriage. We do not identify 

 either tao or kete singly in any sense sug- 

 gesting family ties. 

 taura thread, cord, twine, strand. 

 taura hiri, to make a cord. 

 pupu taura, whiplash. 

 tata ei taura, to flog, to lash. 

 T Mgv. : toura, cord, string. Mq. : toud , 

 cord, Ta. : taura, cord, thread, 

 twine. 

 tautau fertile (toutou). 



hakatautau to fertilize. 

 Mq. : tautau, fertile; hadtautau, to fer- 

 tilize. 

 taviri key, lock, to turn a crank. 

 hakataviri a pair of compasses. 

 T Mgv. : taviri, a key, a lock, to lock, to 

 twist. Mq.: kavii, a crank; tavii, 

 to twist, to turn. Ta. : taviri, a key, 

 to turn, to twist. 

 The element viri shows that the primal 

 sense is that of causing a motion in rota- 

 tion. The key and lock significations are, 

 of course, modern and negligible. 

 te 1 the, this, which. 

 ko te, the. 

 T Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta. : te, the. 

 See note under e 8. 

 te 2 negative prepositive; without, not. 



hiri t& reka, to walk without noise. 

 T Mgv. : te, no, not, without. Mq.:fe, 

 not (postpositive). 

 See note under e 6. 

 tea 1 to shine, be bright, brilliant, white. 

 tea niho, enamel of the teeth. 

 ata tea, dawn. 

 teatea white, blond, pale, colorless, 

 invalid. 

 rauoho teatea, red hair. 

 hakateatea to blanch, to bleach. 

 P Pau.: faatea, to clear, to brighten. 

 Mgv.: tea, white, blanched, pale. 

 Mq. : tea, white, clear, pure, limpid. 

 Ta.: lea, white, brilliant. 

 tea 2 proud, vain, haughty, arrogance, to 

 boast. 

 tae tea, humble. 

 teatea arrogant, bragging, pompous, 

 ostentatious, to boast, to show off, 

 haughty. 

 hakateatea to show off. 

 Mgv.: akateatea, pride, vanity, osten- 

 tatious, to be puffed up. Ta. : 

 teoteo, boastful, proud, haughty. 

 tea niho enamel of the teeth. 

 (tee) hakatee to disembowel, to eviscerate 



(cf. lehe 3) 

 (tega) hakatega to encroach. 

 tehe 1 to come, to arrive. 



tehe 1 continued. 



tehe oho te ikapolu, to abut. 

 tehe e turu, through and through. 

 tehe 2 to smooth out wrinkles (tahe 2). 

 tehe 3 to cut. 



tehetehe notch. 

 P Pau.: tehega, circumcision; tehe, to cas- 

 trate. Mgv.: tehe, to circumcise, 

 to castrate, to cut well, to sting 

 deeply. Mq. : tehe, to cut, to 

 castrate, to circumcise. Ta. : tehe, 

 to castrate. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 265.) 

 tehe 4 to spurt, to spout, to melt (tahe 1). 



hakatehe to liquefy. 

 tehetoto {tehe 4-/0/0) hemorrhage. 

 tehi to sneeze (tehu Q). 



T Mgv., Mq. : tihe, id. Ta. : maitihe, id. 



tehu to cough (cf. tehi). 



teina younger brother or sister or cousin. 



P Pau., Mgv., Ta. : teina, younger 



brother or sister. Mq. : teina, teid, 



id. (The Polynesian Wanderings, 



I93-) 

 teitei to grow, to increase, to raise, to ele- 

 vate, height. 

 hakateitei to be plentiful. 

 T Pau.: teitei, high, exalted. Mgv.: 

 teitei, high, lofty. Mq.: teitei, 

 high, elevated, great, developed. 

 Ta.: teitei, elevated, great. 

 The germ sense is that of height; the 

 secondary sense of increase in any dimen- 

 sion is found additional in Rapanui, Mar- 

 quesas and Tahiti. 

 tekai curl, a round ball, as of twine. 

 (tekateka) hakatekateka rudder, helm. 

 teke leke ki nei, as far as, until (? tehe 1). 

 tekeo weak; cold, chilly (tekoo). 

 tekeo meniri, to cool, to chill. 

 metaku ki te tekeo, sensitive to cold, 

 tekeotekeo chilled. 

 Mgv. : tekeo, sickness provoked by eat- 

 ing certain fish and causing pain in 

 all the limbs. 

 teketeke crest, ridge. 

 teki to traverse. 

 tekiteki id. 

 teki teki lame, on the point of going, to hop 

 on one foot, to skip. 

 tekiteki ke, a new paragraph, break. 

 Mq.: teki, lame, to limp. Ta. : tei, to 

 jump on one foot, to hop. 

 tekoo (tekeo). 

 tena that. 



T Pau., Mq., Ta.: tena, id. 

 tenei this. 



T Mgv., Mq.: tenei, id. 

 teni hopohopo teni, to languish. 

 teo to cool. 

 teperanate serpent. 

 (tepetepe) hakatepetepe kahii hakatepe- 



tepe, jib. 

 tepuhanga light variable rain winds T. 

 tera every one. 



ko mea tera, that. 

 teratera each. 

 T Pau., Mgv., Ta.: tera, that. 



