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68. 



langa ti, langa i, langai, to raise, to lift up. 



Samoa: langa, to raise, to rise. Tonga: langa, to raise up the soil; 

 fakalanga, to raise up. Uvea, Futuna : langa, to raise. Niue : 

 langa, to rise against ; langaaki, to raise up. Nukuoro : langa, 

 to float. Hawaii: lana, id. Maori: ranga, to raise, to cast 

 up. Mangareva: ranga, to float on the surface of water. 

 Paumotu: fakaranga, to raise, to lift up. Tahiti: toraaraa, to 

 raise up. Marquesas: aha, ana, to swim on the surface. 



Viti : langa, to be lifted up, said of a brandished club. 



Mota: langa, to lift up, to turn up. 



69. 

 langilangi, to be proud, uplifted. 



Samoa : fa'alangilangi, to be angry because of disrespect. Tonga : 

 langilangi, powerful, great, applied to chiefs; fakalangilangi, 

 to honor, to dignify, to treat with great respect. Hawaii: 

 lanilani, to be proud, to show haughtiness. Uvea: fakalai, 

 to compliment, to adulate. 

 Viti: langilangi, proud. 



70. 

 lofa i, to bend. 



Samoa : lofa, to cower down, to crouch as a dog. Tonga : lofatia, 



obedient, yielding, respectful. Proto-Samoan : Iofat. 

 Viti: lovetha, to bend. 



7i. 

 mono-ti, munu-ti , to close, to plug, to stop, to block up ; though given as a 

 dialectic form of bono-ti it is probably of a different stem. 

 Samoa: momono, to cork, to plug; monomono, to calk. Tonga: 

 mono, to squeeze, to press in : monoji, to cork ; monomonoji, to 

 patch, to mend. Futuna: mono, to calk, to bung, to plug. 

 Uvea: momonono, to patch. Proto-Samoan: monot. 

 Viti : mononotaka, to stop up sennit or other holes in a canoe with 

 breadfruit gum, to calk. 



72. 



sakau, a reef. 



Samoa: a'au, a coral reef. Tonga: hakau, a sunken reef or rock. 

 Maori : akau, the coast. Mangareva : akau, lowland, shoal, a 

 ridge of rocks. Paumotu : akau, a reef of rocks. Mangaia : akau, 

 a coral reef. Nuguria: agau, id. Proto-Samoan: hakau. 



Viti: thakau, a reef. 



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73- 

 ata na, spirit, soul, shadow, image. 



Maori: ata, morning personified, a reflected image, shadow, spirit, 

 soul. Samoa: ata, shadow, spirit, dawn, reflected image. 

 Tonga : ata, a shadow, the dawn, to reflect. Niue : ata, shadow, 



