RAPANUI-ENGLISH VOCABULARY. 



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tutui tutui ohio, chain. 

 tutui kura, shawl. 

 Mq.: tuitui kioe, chain. 

 tutuki shock, contusion, to run against, to 

 collide, 

 tutukia to run foul of. 

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

 to grind. Mgv.: tukia, to strike 

 against, shock, concussion. Mq.: 

 tutuki, id. Ta.: tui, id. 

 tutuma 1 {tutu if-ma) a live coal. 

 tutuma 2 tree trunk T (? tumu). 

 tutumata ligament of the eye, orbit, eyelid 



T (tutumate eyelid Q). 

 tutuu bristling. 



tuu 1 to stand erect, mast, pillar, post. 

 tuu noa, perpendicular. 

 tanu ki te tuu, to set a post. 

 hakatu tuu, to step a mast. 

 tuu hakamate tagata, gallows. 

 hakatuu to erect, to establish, to insti- 

 tute, to form, immobile, to set up, 

 to raise. 

 P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: tu, to stand up. (The 

 Polynesian Wanderings, 424.) 

 tuu 2 to exist, to be. (The Polynesian 

 Wanderings, 424.) 

 Mgv.: tu, life, being, existence. 

 tuu 3 to accost, to hail. 



tuu mai te vaka, to hail the canoe. 

 Mgv. : tu, a cry, a shout. 

 tuu 4 to rejoin. 



tuua to be reunited. 

 (tuu 5) hakatuu example, mode, fashion, 

 model, method, measure, to num- 

 ber. 

 PS Sa. : tu, custom, habit. Fu.: tuu, to 

 follow the example of. 

 (tuu 6) hakatuu to disapprove. 



hakatuu riri, to conciliate, to appease 

 wrath. 

 (tuu 7) hakatuu to presage, prognostic, 



test. 

 (tuu 8) hakatuu to taste. 

 (tuu 9) hakatuu to mark, index, emblem, 

 seal, sign, symbol, trace, vestige, 

 aim. 

 hakatuu ta, signature. 

 akatuu symptom. 

 hakatuua spot, mark. 

 hakatu haga mark. 

 hakatuutuu demarcation. 

 tuuahi {tutu 4-ahi) smoke, torch. 

 tuuaviki to pout. 

 tuuraga fat. 



tuuraga nui, girth. 

 tuurama (turama). 

 tuutuu ventral fin. 



u the breast (hu). 



hagai ei u, to suckle. 

 hakau the gums. 

 T Pau.: u, the breast. Mgv., Mq., Ta.: 

 u, the breast, nipple, milk. 

 ua 1 rain. 



hoa mai te ua, to rain. 

 mou te ua, to cease raining. 



ua 1 continued. 



P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ua, rain. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 322.) 

 ua 2 vein, artery, tendon (huahua 1) (uha 

 Ci). 

 ua nene, pulse. 

 ua nohototo, artery. 

 ua gaei, pulse. 

 uaua vein, tendon, line. 



kiko uaua, muscle T. 

 hakauaua to mark with lines. 

 P Pau. : tare-ua, tendon. Mgv., Mq., Ta. : 

 uaua, vein, tendon. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 322.) 

 ua 3 wave, surge. 



tat ua, high tide. 

 ua 4 a long club T. 

 uapiki cramps. 



Mq.: uauapeke, id. 

 uaua exigence, to exact. 

 ue 1 alas. 



Mq.: ue, to groan. 

 ue 2 to beg (ui). 



uero comet, star, twilight, a ray, to be 

 radiant (huero). 

 huero veravera, burning ray. 

 hueroero a ray. 



Pau. : tuverovero, comet. Mgv. : etuvero, id. 

 ueue 1 to shake (eueue). 



kirikiri ueue, stone for a sling. 

 PS Pau. : ueue, to shake the head. Mq. : 

 kaueue, to shake. Ta. : ue, id. 

 Sa. : lue, to shake. To. : ue'i, to shake, 

 to move ; luelue, to move, to roll as 

 a vessel in a calm. Niue : luelue, to 

 quake,to shake. Uvea: uei.to shake; 

 ueue, to move. Viti : ue, to move in 

 a confused or tumultuous manner. 

 In The Polynesian Wanderings, page 

 235, it was shown that there is a primitive 

 stem lu general to Polynesian, that a 

 secondary stage of advancement lue is 

 Proto-Samoan and is found only in Samoa, 

 Tonga, Niue and Uvea. We now find a 

 tertiary stage, a degradation form with 

 frontal abrasion, ue, encountered in Nu- 

 clear Polynesia only in Uvea and Viti, and 

 in Tonga ue'i and ueue'i with further ad- 

 vancement of transitive augment. This 

 Proto-Samoan form, probably caught up 

 by the Tongafiti in their sojourn in Nuclear 

 Polynesia, has been carried further in 

 Tongafiti migration, Maori and Hawaii 

 ue to shake. 

 ueue 2 to lace. 



uga to send, to despatch, to exhort, to dele- 

 gate, to excite, to admit, to expel 

 (huga). 

 huga mai, to bring in. 

 hakauga to instigate, to intrigue, to 

 conduct, to bring, to congratulate. 

 T Mgv. : uga, to send, to despatch. Mq. : 

 una, uka, to send a message, to 

 urge. Ta. : ua, to expel, to chase. 

 This is of the Maori-Hawaii-Southeast- 

 Polynesian class. The secondary senses 

 are easy to establish; Rapanui agrees with 

 Marquesas in the sense of urging, with 



