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rtame for rope is maea, while maa is a sling in Tahiti. In Pau- 

 motu maka is a sHng, hakamau is to thread, join, or assure; 

 fakamau, to sustain; 7nau, solid or stsihle ; fakahau, to reconcile, 

 soothe, or conciliate ; hau, to rule, reign, or surpass, superior, king- 

 dom, government, order, peace; haunoho, to stay or sojourn; 

 meamau, sure, safe; mehara, to remember, idea, disposition, 

 sense; mauri, soul or mind. 



POLYNESIAN COGNATES RELATING TO BARK CLOTH 



Although the paper-mulberry appears in recent times to 

 have been more prominent than the maho as a source of bark 

 cloth, words relating to bark cloth indicate an earlier dominance 

 of the maho. Three distinct classes of bark-cloth words may be 

 recognized; the first referring to the peeling and spreading of the 

 bark, the second to the beating of the bark to separate the woody 

 material from the fibrous network, and the third class to the 

 finished bark cloth and its uses. 



Words of the first class are represented in Hawaii by mahihi 

 and mahole, to peel off bark from a tree, and maliola, to spread 

 out, but mahole also means to open wide, exhibit or display, and 

 maholo carries such meanings as to inspect or approve, wonder, 

 admiration, beautiful, glorious, or admirable. In Tahiti mahae 

 means to tear. Mahore, in the dialect of the New Zealand 

 Maoris, means peeled, while mahora means to spread out. In 

 Easter Island maharo means to spread out, and also to flatter, 

 admire, or glorify. In Paumotu mahu is to deliver; mahoro, 

 miscarriage or abortion; pahore, to peel off or scale; pahure, to 

 be skinned; kihoe pahurehure, to flay; papahoro, to slip; pagore, 

 smooth or without hair on the body; pahere, to lop, to prune; 

 pakirotu, a piece of w^ood for beating off bark. In Tahiti, ac- 

 cording 'to Tregear, the w^ord pahere means to pare off the rind, 

 and in Mangareva pahore is to pare, or the peel taken off. 



Among the prominent examples of the second class of maho 

 words, those that relate to the beating, softening, and cleaning 

 of the bark, is hau, in some islands the name of the tree, in some 

 meaning to tie or unite, in others, to reconcile or rule. But in 

 Hawaii, Tonga, and New Zealand hau or hauhau carries the idea 



