Atkinson. — The Aryo-Semitic Maori. 



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Arabic. 

 mar aim, gravy 



mad, flow (of tlie tide) 



■mabhuh, hoarse 



malih, beautiful, agreeable 



m-alik, a king 



malu-kut, omnipotence 



marrih, the planet Mars 



marrih, iron 



maram, intention, purpose 



mat, to die 



vmiL't, death 



na, our 



nuksan, injury 



rah, go 



dar, ramble 



ra-s, the head, head man 

 rakha, the pleasures of life 



Maori. 



mara, prepared by steeping in 



water 

 mate, moving slowly as the tide 

 mapic, to pant, to whiz 

 mari-e, quiet, gentle ; hu-mati-e, 



beautiful 

 ariki, a chief 

 viaru, power, authority 

 maru, the planet Mars * 

 mari-pi, a knife 

 marama, clear in mind 

 mate, to die 



(Lat.) mors [mart-) death 

 na viatou, ours ; nana, his 

 nuka, deceive 

 rara, go in shoals 

 ko-rara, go in different directions 

 ma-rara, spread about 

 hara, come 



ra-e, forehead, headland 

 ra-ngatira, chief 



rakaraka, to scratch 

 The pleasures of a primitive people are necessarily simple. 

 rami, throw rami, squeeze 



sa-dik, true ka tika, it is true 



salih, honest hari, to feel or show gladness 



It speaks well for the morality of the pristine Mauri that 

 they had substantially the same word for honesty and happiness. 



sakat, to fall taka, to fall 



sakil, heavy, oppressed with hakiri, hear or feel indistinctly 



sleep 

 Sana, light, splendour hana, glowing, warm 



tahut, a coffin tapu, as from touching a dead 



body 

 tadivir, causing to turn in a tawhiri, to whirl round 

 circle 



(by metathesis) tika, truth 

 takariri (with uhaka), vexatious 



(as by imitating or mocking) 

 t a koto, to he down 

 ta7m, to bury 

 taritari, to provoke 

 takai, wrapper, covering 



tahkik, truth 

 taklidi, imitative 



takht, a bed 



tahnit, burying with odours 



tahrik, provocation 



takkayah, pillow 



takaia, wrapped or rolled up 



See " Te Ika a Maui," second edition, p. 138. 



