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become dry or cooked. A Tongan meaning of moa is dry or dried, 

 so is Marquesan moa, cooked, and pamoa, cooked on the coals. 

 If we had not the Maori comparative, mamoa, cooked, it would 

 almost appear as if the Polynesian words were not related to 

 Maori moa, but to maoa, cooked.* Before I leave these words 

 I beg to draw attention to a compound word in Samoan — 

 viz., samoamoa, " dried up as a fish often cooked, or a skeleton 

 on which the flesh is dried up." As a mere hypothesis, I 

 venture to suggest that if the Polynesian Maoris ever knew 

 the Dinomis, and called it moa, it was because they saw it as 

 " a skeleton on which the flesh is dried up." 



I now turn to the words in which the meanings probably 

 refer to some sort of bird. I also give the compound words, 

 as they tend to show distinctly the character of the creature. 

 Samoa — 



Moa, the domestic fowl ; moa'aivao, a wild fowl. 

 Tahiti— 



Moa, the domestic fowl, (2) long and narrow, ap- 

 plied to the face. Moafaatito, a fighting-cock ; 

 moahururau, a fowl of many qualities, (fig.) an 

 unsteady or fickle person ; moaopapa, a fowl 

 without a tail ; moapateatoto , a courageous cock, a 

 stern warrior ; moaparuhi, a cowardly cock, a 

 cowardly warrior; hihimoa, the feathers on the 

 back of a fowl's neck ; moataratua, a cock with a 

 long spur, (fig.) a bold warrior ; moaraupia, a pecu- 

 liarly-coloured fowl ; moataavae, a fowl tied by the 

 leg ; moatautini, a cock that beats all opponents ; 

 moavari, a cock ; fauparamoa, a head-ornament of 

 feathers ; huamoa, an unfledged chicken ; maimoa, 

 a toy, a pet, favourite ; matamoamoa, a thin, nar- 

 row face ; moarima, one finger hooked into another 

 finger ; raemoamoa, a prominent sharp forehead. 

 Hawaii — 



Moa, the domestic fowl ; moamoa, to be or act as the 

 cock among fowls, (2) the sharp point at the 

 stern of the canoe ; hoo-moamoa, to go in company 

 with, as a cock goes with hens to give warning in 

 case of danger, to be intimate with ; moaoua, a 

 young cock before his spurs are grown ; moakakala, 

 a cock w 7 ith sharp spurs ; moakinana, a hen that 

 has laid eggs ; moamahi, a cock that conquers, 

 a conqueror of any kind ; moaioi, a poor fowl ; 

 ahamoa, the name of the assembly met together at 

 a cock-fight ; hakamoa, cock-fighting ; huamoa, a 



* Hawaiian and Tahitian have also the word maoa, meaning " dry, 

 hard, ripe," while Maori has the form maoka, with same meaning as maoa. 



