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LANGUAGE OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



AtooL 



English. 



Atooi. 



Etooo, 



The Cordia sebes- 



Una. 

 To break. 

 Yes ; it is so. 

 A song. 



A wooden bowl. 

 A shallow wooden 

 dish they drink 

 ava out of. 

 Etoohe, toohee, A particular sort of 



cloth. 

 Ootee, or otee, 



otee, 

 Pappaneeheo- 



Whatte, 



Oeea, 



Heoreeoree, 



Paraoo, 



Apooava, 



mano, 



Maheine, 

 Homy, 

 Moena, or mo 



enga, 

 Eeno, 



To cut. 



A wooden instru- 

 ment beset ivith 

 shark 1 s teeth, used 

 to cut up those 

 they kill. 



A ivife. 



Give me. 



A mat to sleep on. 

 An adjunct, ivhen 

 they express any 

 thing good, though 

 by itself it signi- 

 nies bad. Thus 

 they say, Eravvha 

 eeno, good greet- 

 ing, as the Ota- 

 heiteans say, 



Ehoa eeno, or my 

 good friend. 



Taboo, or tafoo, Any thing not to be 

 touched, as being 

 forbid. This is 

 an example that 

 shows the trans- 

 mutation of the 

 H, F, and B. 

 into each other. 

 Thus at Otaheite 

 yams are oohe, at 

 Tonga oofe, at 

 Neiv Caledonia 

 oobe, and here 

 taboo is tafoo. 



Maooa, I, first person sin- 



gular. 



Heno, Little rods, about 



five feet long,with 

 a tuft of hair on 

 the small end. 



Patae, Salt, 



Aheia, 

 Teanoo, 



Tammata, 



Ootoo, 



Ehone, 



My, 



Oura, or ouraa, 



Mango, 

 Te and he, 

 Heneeoohe, 



Eea, 



Paoo roa, 



Ee, 



Taira, 



Ahoo aura, 



Henaro, 



Ehateinoa, 



Heweereweere, 



Mawaihe, 

 Eheou, 

 Hetoa, 

 Ooamou, 



Hono, 



Matou, 



Pooa, 



Teeto, 



Epaee, 



Ohe, 



Henaroo, 



Motoo, 



Ehetoo, 



Marama, 



Ouameeta, 



English. 



A round pearl shell. 



The cold arising 

 from being in the 

 water. 



The sense of taste. 



A louse. 



To salute by apply- 

 ing one nose to the 

 other. Ehogge at 

 Neiv Zealand, 

 and Ehoe at Ota- 

 heite. 



A sore of any kind. 



Cured ; recovered ; 

 alive; well. 



A shark. 



The. 



An instrument made 

 of a shark's tooth 

 fixed on a wooden 

 handle, to cut with. 



An adjunct, as at 

 Otaheite, to give 

 strength to an 

 expression. 



Quite done ; finished . 



At. 



That ; the other. 



Red cloth. 



A fly. . 



What is the name 



of that? 

 An outrigger of a 



canoe. 

 The sail of a canoe. 

 The mast of a canoe. 

 The yard of a sail. 

 Fast ; secure ; 



sound; whole. 

 To go,; to move. 

 Fear. 

 An arrow. 

 A bow. 

 Wooden bowls made 



from the Etooo. 

 Bamboo. 



The swell of the sea. 

 Land. 

 A star. 

 The moon. 

 A man's name. 



Numerals to Ten, as at Otaheite. 



