RAPANUI-ENGUSH VOCABULARY. 



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tere to depart, to run, to take leave, to 

 desert, to escape, to go away, to 

 flee, fugitive, to sail, to row, to take 

 refuge, to withdraw, to retreat, to 

 save oneself. 

 terea rest, defeat. 

 tetere to beat a retreat, to go away, 



refugee. 

 teretere to go away, hurrah. 

 hakatere to set free, to despatch, to 

 expel, to let go, to liberate, to con- 

 quer, helmsman. 

 terega departure, sailing. 

 teretai a sailor. 



Pau. : tere, to set out ; teretere, to row, to 

 paddle; fakateretere, to navigate. 

 Mgv. : tere, to sail well, to steer; 

 akatere, to be in earnest. Mq. : tee, 

 to sail, to go away. Ta. : tere, to 

 sail, to advance. 

 tetahi (te i-tahi) another, each, anyone. 

 ki tetahi koona ke, somewhere else. 

 T Pau.: tetahi, other, different. Mq.: 

 tetahi, one, other, also, 

 (tete) nihotete, to gnash the teeth. 

 tetetete fever, to tremble. 

 P Mgv.: tete, to shiver with cold. Mq.: 

 tete, to tremble, to shiver, to show 

 the teeth; hadtete i te niho, to gnash 

 the teeth. Ta.: tete, to make a 

 noise, to chatter. 

 tetere (tere). 

 ti 1 dracaena. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ti, id. 

 ti 2 tea. 

 tia to sew (tiha Q). 



T Mgv. : tia, to prick, to pierce, to stick in. 

 tiaki 1 rubbish. 



PS Sa.: tia'i, to throw away. To.: jiaki, 

 to abandon, to cast away. Fu., 

 Niue: tiaki, to throw away. 

 This varies from the Proto-Samoan 

 primitive only in that it is entered in the 

 vocabulary as noun, a situation paralleled 

 in our speech where one word does duty 

 for the verb waste and the noun denomin- 

 ating the thing wasted. 

 tiaki 2 to furrow, to plough, to empty the 



earth from a hole. 

 tiaki 3 to guard, to watch over, to conserve, 

 to close up, to obstruct, to take pre- 

 cautions, vigilant, responsible, sen- 

 tinel, to preserve. 

 tiaki puaka, swineherd. 

 tiaki mutone, shepherd. 

 tiaki haha, doorkeeper. 

 tae tiaki, imprudent. 

 T Mgv. : tiaki, to guard, to preserve, to 

 watch over. Mq.: tiaki, tiai, to 

 guard, to watch, to protect. Ta.: 

 tiai, to guard, to protect. 

 tiaporo devil (diabolus). 



tute tiaporo, exorcise. 

 tigai to put a stop to, to extinguish, to exter- 

 minate, to kill, to sacrifice. 

 PMgv.: tinai, to strike, to kill. Mq.: 

 tinai, to extinguish, to kill. Ta. : 



tigai continued. 



tinai, to extinguish, to put a stop to. 

 The mutation n-g is peculiar to Rapanui 

 in this word. In Samoa are two forms, 

 tinai and tinei, of which only the latter 

 is found in Maori. 

 tigaipoki (tigai-poki) infanticide. 

 tigairo homicide. 



tigi I a blow, to repress, to reprimand. 

 tigiga a blow. 



tigitigi to box, to dent, to bruise, to 

 chastise, to correct, to strike, to 

 whip, to wound, to punch with the 

 fist, to punish, to torture. 

 tigitigi matua, parricide. 

 tigitigiga punishment. 

 titigi dispute, massacre, repression, 

 tigi 2 a small stone hatchet, 

 (tigo) haatigo to accompany. 

 tigotigi to beat to death (? tigitigi). 

 tiha tnanava tiha, shortness of breath. 

 tika class. 



ivi tika, fishbone, spine. 

 kiko te ivi tika, pancreas. 

 hakatika rava hakatika, to follow a 

 track. 

 T Ta. : tiaa, band, society. 



We lack the data wherewith to establish 

 the Maori tika, straight, in connection with 

 the Rapanui and Tahiti words, which are 

 clearly allied inter se. But the Maori 

 establishes the sense in ivitika and haka- 

 tika: also see titika. 

 tikea to see, to feel, to recognize, to per- 

 ceive, to know, manifest, to appre- 

 ciate. 

 tikea mai, to appear, visible. 

 tikea horahorau, to skim a book. 

 tae tikea, unknown, invisible, mis- 

 understand, unperceived, unheard. 

 tikeahaga science, a dream. 

 hakatikea to announce, to make known, 

 to prove, to propose, to prejudice, 

 to show, immodest. 

 hakatikeahaga instruction. 

 P (metathetic kite) Pau.: kite, to see, to 

 know. Mgv.: tikei, to appear, 

 become visible. Mq. : tike, to see, 

 to know. Ta.: ite, to know, to 

 comprehend. 

 tiki sick, ill. 

 tiko menstruation. 



PPau.: titiko, to evacuate the bowels. 

 Mgv.: tiko, menstruation, defeca- 

 tion. Mq.: tiko, to carry away 

 excrement. Ta.: titio, to void 

 excrement. 

 Rapanui and Mangareva alone employ 

 this of the catamenia. That which is dis- 

 charged is but an accident of the word, the 

 sense lies in the act of evacuation from 

 the body. 

 timo mourning, grief, sorrow; (clappers 

 made of flat bones etimoika; when 

 an islander is working up his ven- 

 geance for the loss of a murdered 

 kinsman he puts on a feather head- 



