RAPANUI-ENGUSH VOCABULARY. 



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tugutugu adolescent, young children, 

 virile. 

 kope tugutugu, youth T. 

 tuha to distribute, to share, to divide, to 

 apportion, part, district. 

 tuha e rua, to share in two. 

 tuha muri, those who remain to be 

 served after the others. 

 PMgv. : tuha, to divide, to portion out. 

 Mq., Ta.: tufa, tuha, id. 

 I have assigned tahuga to this stem as a 

 metathetic form because in sense it com- 

 ports therewith and because no stem from 

 which it might derive directly could afford 

 the signification. It will be observed that 

 tufa in its proper form is found in all but 

 Paumotu of Southeast Polynesia. The 

 metathetic tahuga is identifiable in Rapa- 

 nui, Mangareva and Marquesas; therefore 

 we conclude that the metathesis was estab- 

 lished in the parent of these three lan- 

 guages and has persisted even when over- 

 laid by a migration which brought the 

 stem in its proper form. 

 tuhai old, ancient, antique, inveterate, lon- 

 gevity. 

 tuhaituhai long ago. 

 hakatuhai to delay, postpone. 

 PS Sa. : tuai, former, older, to be a long 

 time. To.: tuai, slow, dilatory, to 

 be long. Niue: tuai, old, ancient, 

 a long time. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 311.) 

 Nowhere else in the history of this word 

 do we find the aspirate; its absence from 

 Tonga, a speech very conservative of the 

 Proto-Samoan aspiration, is proof that in 

 Rapanui it is intrusive, or erroneously 

 reported. 

 tuhi 1 to point the finger, to show, to indi- 

 cate, to design. 

 tuhi auha, middle finger. 

 P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: tuhi, to point the 

 finger, to show. 

 tuhi 2 suspicion, to alienate, to estrange, 

 to censure, to be painful, to accuse 

 falsely. 

 tuhi no mat, to accuse. 

 tuhi tahaga, to accuse, to decry. 

 tuhi tahaga no mat, calumny, to sus- 

 pect. 

 tuhi reoreo, to charge. 

 tuhitaga invective, to curse. 

 Mq.: tuhi, to impute, to accuse, to 

 curse, to insult. Ta. : tuhi, to curse. 

 tui to expel. 

 tuitui gold T. 

 tukaga porringer (tukuga). 

 tuke 1 leaf. 

 tuke 2 nape. 



P Ma. : tuke, the elbow. 



Physically the sense is not quite clear. 

 There is a Polynesian stem tuke, of which 

 the basic signification is an angle. This is 

 found in Samoa tu'e in tu'elima the knuck- 

 les, in Tonga tuke the knuckles, in Niue 

 tukeua the shoulder and probably in tukiua 

 nape, in Maori and Mangareva tuke the 



tuke 2 continued, 

 elbow, in Tahiti otae the fingertips, in 

 Hawaii kue any object with an angle, in 

 Paumotu tuketuke a bend or angle. The 

 agreement of Rapanui and Niue upon the 

 nape is scarcely a matter of such observa- 

 tion as is possible to us, for in the erect 

 carriage and upstanding poise of the Poly- 

 nesian head the angle at the seventh cer- 

 vical vertebra is not the disfigurement 

 which it becomes in certain occupational 

 kyphoses. 

 tuke 3 a pile, pier. 

 tukegao {tuke 2-gao) gullet. 

 tukepaka leafless. 

 tuki 1 at the fingertips. 



Mgv.: kike, the joints of the fingers; 



tuki, to feel, to handle. 



tuki 2 to instigate, to provoke, to influence, 



to stimulate, to tempt, to try, to 



encourage, to corrupt, to debauch. 



tuki pogeha, to stir up trouble, to 



make mischief. 

 tuki rakerake, seditious. 

 tuki toua, to excite dissension. 

 PS Sa. : til'itu'i, to forbid the doing of any- 

 thing. To. : tuki-tala, to warn. 

 Here we see clearly a case of sense 

 inversion, and the substantial Tongan 

 concord with the Samoan establishes the 

 direction of the inversion as away from 

 the Proto-Samoan primitive. 

 tukiga proof. 



tukiga kinoga, temptation. 

 tukituki to pound, to copulate T. 

 tapa tukituki, calico. 

 P Pau.: tukituki, to strike, to pound. 

 Mgv.: tuki, to bruise, to pound 

 with a stamper. Mq.: tuki, to 

 beat, to pound. Ta.: tui, id. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 266.) 

 tuku to give, to let go, to deliver, to accord, 

 to go back to the boat, to dedicate. 

 rima tuku, to bend at the elbow 

 (? tuke). 

 P Pau. : tuku, to lay down, to place, to 

 deliver up. Mgv.: tuku, to give, 

 to deliver, to let alone. Mq. : tuku, 

 to give, to let go. Ta.: tuu, id. 

 (The Polynesian Wanderings, 226.) 

 tukuga plate, ladle, porringer, legacy, to 



dedicate (tukaga). 

 tumoku a sprain. 



tumu base, cause, element, origin, prin- 

 ciple, source, spring, trunk, occa- 

 sion, origin, author, subject, motive. 

 ina e tumu, accidental, fortuitous. 

 tumu kore, causeless, baseless, weak 



in the legs, to waver. 

 tumu te hakareka, toy. 

 tumu hatihati, weak in the legs. 

 tumu te hiriga, purpose of the voy- 

 age. 

 T Pau.: fakatumu, to lay a foundation. 

 Mgv., Mq.,Ta.: tumu, cause, base, 

 origin, principle, trunk. 

 tumumeika (tumu-meika) banana plant. 

 Mgv., Mq.: tumumeika, id. 



