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vaiapuga continued. 



indolent, idle, do-nothing, useless, 

 neglectful, loiterer, trifler, apathy, 

 leisure. 

 vaihu (vai-u) milk. 



T Mq., Ta.: vaiu, milk. 

 vaipuga (vai-puna) spring water. 



P Mgv.: vaipuna, water which springs 

 from among stones. Mq. : vaipuna, 

 spring water. Ta.: vaipuna, a 

 spring. 

 vaitahe (vai-tahe i) river. 

 vaitara winter west wind T. 

 vaitoa (vai-toa 2) sugar. 



Mgv.: vaito, id. 

 vaituru (vai-turu 1) water conduit. 

 vaivai weak. 



PS Mq.: vaivai, soft, pleasant, agreeable. 

 Sa., To.: vaivai, weak. 

 vaka canoe, boat, bateau, shallop, barge. 

 vakapoepoe (vaka-poepoe) boat. 

 PPau.: vaka, canoe. Mgv.: vaka, canoe, 

 raft. Mq. : vaka, canoe. Ta. : vaa, 

 canoe, boat. 

 vakavaka narrow. 



Mq.: vakavaka, vadvad, small, fine, thin. 

 vanaga to speak, to say, to chat, to dis- 

 course, to address, to recount, to 

 reply, to divulge, to spread a rumor; 

 argument, conversation, formula, 

 harangue, idiom, locution, verb, 

 word, recital, response, speech. 

 vanaga roroa, chatterbox, babbler. 

 rava vanaga, candid, babbler. 

 tae vanaga, discreet. 

 tai vanaga, ripple. 

 vanagarua (vanaga-rua 1) echo. 

 P Pau. : vanaga, to warn by advice. Mgv. : 

 vanaga, orator, noise, hubbub, 

 tumult. Mq. : vanana, to sing, to 

 recite genealogies. Ta.: vanaa, or- 

 ator, discourse, counsel, advice. 

 This is scarcely metathetic when we 

 notice the frequency in modern Samoan 

 speech of the exchange of these two nasals, 

 particularly when they occur in the same 

 word, thus finagalo is commonly spoken 

 figanalo. In Samoa vagana means to re- 

 sound, but we note with interest a specific 

 vagana meaning the speech of a tulafale 

 at Sagana ; in Niue note vaga-hau to speak ; 

 in Tonga we find vago to talk and chatter 

 on whilst none care about it; Futuna 

 vagana is to talk incessantly. 

 vanavana feather garland. 

 varahorohoro (vara-horohoro 1) appetite. 

 varavara 1 not compact, thinly sown, loose, 

 sparse, to have spaces, scattered, 

 rarity, a Bible verse. 

 avai varavara, to go singly. 

 varavara no, sometimes. 

 hakavaravara thinly sown, spaced. 

 PS Pau.: varavara, scattered, dispersed. 

 Mgv.: varavara, thin, lightly scat- 

 tered. Ta.: varavara, sparse, thinly 

 sown, rare. 

 Sa. : valavala, wide apart, coarse. 

 varavara 2 thick (a sense-invert). 

 (vare 1) hakavare to crisp, to plaster. 

 hakavarevare to level. 



vare 2 driveler. 



P Mgv. : vare, clumsy, inept. 

 vare 3 cf. turivare. 

 varegao to speak indistinctly, to offend, to 



pretend. 

 varevare 1 steep, rugged. 

 varevare 2 smooth, plain, without rocks. 

 horo varevare, without branches. 

 tino varevare, slender. 

 kona varevare, open place, court, mar- 

 ket place. 

 PS Sa. : valevale, fat. To. : valevale, young, 

 tender, applied to babies. 

 In Nuclear Polynesia it is difficult to 

 dissociate this vale from the vale conveying 

 the sense of ignorance. In Samoa this 

 varevare appears only as applied, le 

 valevale, to a hog that is not fat. It is 

 probable that varevare 2 preserves the 

 Proto- Samoan primitive and that the 

 sense-invert, in the preceding item, is 

 directed away from the germ sense. 

 vari about, circumference, to turn in a circle. 

 hakavari pliant, to bend, square. 

 varivari about, to go around. 

 vavari a garland. 

 varikapau circumference, to surround, a 

 compass, to admire. 

 hiriga varikapau, to go in a ring. 

 pa varikapau, to close in. 

 varitakataka (vari-taka 3) to surround. 

 varu 1 eight. 



PPau.: avaru, id. Mgv.: varu, id. Mq.: 

 vau, id. Ta. : varu, vau, id. 

 varu 2 to shave, to remove the beard, to 

 shear, to clip, to rasp, a plane. 

 varuvaru to peel, to remove the bark, 

 to plane, to scrape, to shear. 

 P Mgv. : varu, to plane, to cut the hair. 

 Mq. : vail, to shave, to scrape. Ta. : 

 varu, vau, to shave. (The Poly- 

 nesian Wanderings, 326.) 

 vau ko vau, I. 



Pau.: ovau, I. 

 vaua they R. (? raua). Cf. Ta.: vera, they. 

 vavae (vae 3) 

 vavae to separate, to disunite. 



P Ma. : wawae, to divide. 

 vavakai appetite (? ravakai). 

 vavari (vari). 

 vavau miro vavau, switch. 

 vave water in motion, a long wave. 



pokopoko vave, trough of the sea. 

 tai vave, rough sea. 

 vave kai kohe, unapproachable. 

 vavovavo echo, sound of the sea. 



Mq.: vavo, noise of breaking waves. 

 Ta.: vevo, echo. 

 vekeveke eyelash, banana flower. 



Mq. : vekeveke, veevee, tentacles, bristles. 

 veku humus. 

 vekuveku, moist, muddy. 



hakavekuveku to dampen, to wet. 

 Mgv.: vekiveki, moist, damp. Mq.: 

 veku, veii, moist, wet through. To. : 

 viku, wet. 

 veneri Friday (Vendredi). 

 veo 1 navel, button. 



epe veo, earring. 

 pu veo, buttonhole. 



