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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



Arabic. 



tal, an eminence, high ground 

 takalliif, inconvenience 

 taraf, flap, anything dangling 

 tarakhi, proceeding slowly 



tanin, a sharp soiind 

 tannin, a large serpent 

 taivali, continuation, succession 



tawb, a great gun 



taii'him, giving what is desired tawhi, food 



to eat 

 tawhe-d, unity 

 turak, forsake, forego 

 tut, a mulberry 



Maori. 



tara, a peak 

 takarure, to be listless 

 taraira, hung up, dangling 

 tarakihi, a cicala ; anyone who 

 has watched this insect will 

 know how slowly it proceeds 

 tancfi, cry, make a sound 

 taniii'ha, a monstrous reptile 

 tawari, almost broken off . 

 taivariwari, bending from side to 



side 

 tail, report of a gun 



tmvani, delay, slowness 

 warak, leaf of a tree or book 



wa-kt, time, season 

 u-ata-d, stake, paling 



aicki, embrace 

 turaki, throw or push down 

 tutu, a shrub with mulberry- 

 coloured fruit 

 tuwhana, urge, incite 

 wharani/i, a broad-leaved shrub ; 



the leaf of a book 

 ic-a, time, season 

 ti-watamita, a palisade* 



This list might, of course, be indefinitely extended, but 

 these are enough, I will, however, take two or three of them a 

 little more in detail. 



Mr. Tregear says he has traced the word ariki, chief, "in 

 every Aryan tongue" — a most creditable feat, apart from its 

 intrinsic difficulty, seeing that there are said to be some forty of 

 these languages living, and some twenty of them dead. He 

 gives, however, only four or five examples : — " In Gaelic it is 

 ardricih, high king ; in old Slavonic, zary : in Greek, arkei, chief, 

 archon, a chief magistrate ; in English orr/iangel, rt/Wideacon, 

 (arke-diaconosi) from the Greek." Now, ardrinh, zarij, and archon 

 may no doubt be considered like ariki, but not more like, I think, 

 than Arabic Kh-alik, creator, and M-alik, a king, especially if, 

 as is required in Maori, you vocalize the final k: while if you 



* This I understand to be its meaning in the Whakaaraara pa, the chant 

 of the sentinel to keep the ^'anison alert : — 

 " Tenei te pa, 

 Tenei te tiwatawata 

 Tenei te aka te houliia nei . 

 Ko roto ko an, o, e, e ! 

 " Here is the fortress, here is the palisading, and here the creeper that 

 binds it, whilst inside am 1 1" 



Archdeacon Williams gives tiwata, but without a^sit;ning a meaning. 



t This, I think, is not the ordinary spelling of this word. 



