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timo continued. 



dress, goes about behind the houses, 

 and makes great yelling and rattles 

 the bones Q). 

 tini 1 a great number, innumerable, infinite, 

 indefinite. 

 tinitini million, billion. 

 T Pau.: tinitini, innumerable. Mgv.: 

 tini, a countless number, infinite. 

 Mq.: tini, id. Ta.: tini, numerous. 

 tini 2 



raa tini, noon. 

 tini po, midnight. 

 ki te tini te raa, zenith. 

 topa tini, abortion. 

 As tinai, middle, midst; in a closer 

 approximation as tine in tine-kpwon mid- 

 night and tine-hwomaran noon, this stem 

 seems to have been preserved in Mota, 

 therefore it is Proto-Samoan. 

 tino body, matter. 



mea tino, material. 

 tino kore, incorporeal. 

 P Pau. : tino, a matter, a subject. Mgv. : 

 tino, the body, trunk. Mq. : tino, 

 nino, the body. Ta. : tino, id. 

 tipatipa to shake, contortion, drunk. 



hakatipatipa to shake. 

 tipi hip. 



titaa crack, demarcation, line, limit, to 

 border on, to bound, to measure 

 (titaha). 

 hakatitaa to limit. 

 T Mgv. : titaha, to lie on the side, to be on 

 the sides of. Ta.: titaha, oblique, 

 long. 

 The common element in all these com- 

 paratives is taha the side, but the second- 

 ary senses of the compound vary widely, 

 and in Tahiti the primal sense does not 

 appear at all. 

 titi 1 landing-place, shore, to return to the 



boat. 

 titi 2 hammer, to nail, to affix, to adjust, to 

 construct, to build, to fix, to set up 

 a wall, to remain fixed, strict, to 

 crucify (titihia). 

 titi nui, club. 



titi ki te pa, to inclose, to wall up. 

 titititi to close up. 

 hakatiti to adjust. 

 T Mgv. : titi, to excavate a hole with a peg 

 or a pin. Ta.: titi, nail, pin, peg, 

 stake, to nail, to fix, to adhere, to 

 stick. 

 titi 3 to fill up, full, plenty, to suffice, to 

 mass. 

 hurihuri titi, full. 

 tai titi, high tide. 

 titia full. 



hakatiti to accumulate, to glut, to aug- 

 ment, to supply, to multiply, to 

 fructify. 

 titigi (tigi). 



titika worthy, exact, formal, lawful, moral, 

 honest, sincere, truthful, circum- 

 spect, direct, right, impartial, real, 



titika continued. 



proper, legal, reasonable, regular, 

 just, to approve, correct. 

 tae titika, incorrect, unjust, impolite, 



insufficient. 

 titika kore, indirect. 

 titika noa, sincere, indubitable. 

 tagata titika, heritage. 

 aaki ki te mea titika, to attest. 

 titikaga power, authority, primacy, 



preeminence, supremacy, reason. 

 titikahia due. 



hakatitika to accept, to administer, to 

 agree, to appoint, to approve, to 

 attest, to authorize, to complete, to 

 combine, to decide, to decree, to 

 direct, to align, to legalize, to ratify, 

 to redress, to reform, to regulate, to 

 subscribe, to sanction. 

 koona hakatitika, a rendezvous. 

 hakatiti kahaga to accredit, contract, 

 agreement, formality, justice, com- 

 pact, rule, report, title, tribute, tax, 

 assessment. 

 T Pau.: pai-titika, direct, straight, per- 

 pendicular. Mgv. : tika, right, true, 

 just, in a straight line. Mq. : tid, 

 to put in line, to judge, to affirm, 

 to bear witness. Ta.: tia, right, 

 exact, just. 

 titikamaaki direct, perfect. 



tae titikamaaki, indirect, imperfect. 

 titimiro (titi i-miro) mallet, maul. 

 titipa {titi 2-pa i) mason. 

 titiri to abandon, to abjure. 



rima titiri, to walk with the hands 

 behind the back. 

 T Pau. : titiri, to abandon, to leave, to 

 abjure, to deny. Mgv.: tiri, to 

 throw away, to reject, to neglect, 

 to lose. Mq.: tit, titii, to throw 

 away, to reject, to abandon, to 

 leave behind. Ta. : titiri, to reject, 

 to throw away. 

 titiro to admire. 



P Ma.: tiro, to gaze at. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 422.) 

 titivai {titi 3-vai) to cover with water. 

 tito frugal. 



tito koroiti, saving, economical. 

 to 1 of. 



T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to, genitive 

 sign. Mq. : to, of, for. 

 to 2 this, which. 

 toa 1 moa toa, cock. 



P Pau..Mgv.,Mq.,Ta.: toa, brave. Mq.: 

 toa, male. (The Polynesian Wan- 

 derings, 423.) 

 toa 2 sugarcane. 



T Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: to, id. 



(To., Niue: to, id. Sa., Fu.: tolo, id.) 

 This form occurs only in Rapanui. In 

 New Zealand, where the plant does not 

 grow, the name is applied to any similar 

 haulm. 

 toauira {toa 2-uira) spyglass. 



