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 tiri, riri, to fly; lea ki, to toss away, to throw down, to sweep, to drive 

 away (as the wind trees) ; leleaki, intensive. 



Samoa : lele, to fly; jelelei, id. ; lelea, to be driven off or carried away 

 by the wind ; talele, to escape quickly ; jetulele, a shooting star ; 

 the root le seems to appear in leangiangi, an eminence exposed 

 to the breeze. Nuguria: ele, to fly soaring. Nukuoro: lele, 

 to leap, to jump; manulele, a bird. Tonga: le, to drive, to 

 affright fish into the net with a rod; lele, to run; lelea, to be 

 wind-driven; fakalele, to make a cast of birds, to fly a kite; 

 leleaki, leleekina, to run with; malele, to run. Futuna: lele, 

 to run swiftly, to fly; lelea, to be wind-driven. Niue: lele, 

 to fly, to flow (as water) . Uvea : lele, to fly, to run. Hawaii : 

 lele, to fly, to jump, to leap, to move swiftly, to move as a 

 meteor through the air; lelele, to leap, to jump, to fly quickly; 

 lelelele, to run off in haste. Maori: rere, to run (as water), 

 to fly, to flee, to sail, to leap, to go swiftly. Tahiti: rere, to 

 fly, to leap. Rapanui: rere, to fly; vae rere, to run; hakarere, 

 to abandon, to abjure. Mangareva : rere, to fly, to leap ; irere, 

 to run. Rarotonga: rere, to fly, to flee. Moriori: rere, to 

 run (as water), to fly. Paumotu: rere, to fly, to soar, to leap. 

 Fotuna : rere, lele, to fly. Marquesas : ee, to go, to go away ; 

 eepau, to leap; hee, to fly, to soar. 



Viti: lele, to pass or go a short journey; lelele, a ferry canoe. 

 Rotuma: ferefere, to fly. 



Motu: lele, to swim (as a fish). Mota: rere, set of sea, current. 



Malay: leleh, to flow. 



Arabic : tara, to ffy, to be swift, to move quickly. 



In the present phase of Polynesian lele so much means to fly that the 

 plainest way of particularizing birds is to describe them as the flying animals, 

 manulele. But it is manifest that flight, an exercise or balancing of wings, 

 was by no means the primordial sense, for how could that give rise to a 

 description of water in the water-courses? It will be well to mass the 

 several significations which lele exhibits. 



Flight of birds: Samoa, Nukuoro, Tonga, Futuna, Niue, Uvea, Hawaii, 



Tahiti, Mangareva, Maori, Rarotonga, Moriori, Paumotu, Rapanui, 



Fotuna, Efate\ 

 Wind driven: Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Efate. 

 Meteors: Samoa, Hawaii. 

 To leap: Nukuoro, Hawaii, Maori, Tahiti, Mangareva, Paumotu, 



Marquesas. 

 To run: Samoa, Tonga, Futuna, Uvea, Hawaii, Maori, Mangareva, 



Rarotonga, Rapanui. 

 Flow of water: Niue, Maori, Moriori, Mota, Malay. 

 To swim: Motu. 

 To sail: Maori, Viti. 

 These several activities are exercised in earth, air, and water. The 

 common factor is the swift motion. The means of motion cut no figure. 



