POLYNESIAN LEXICON. 



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Haw. Nuk., uti, Rar. Mang., to pull, 

 draw up, pluck. 



Fu (?), fufu, Tong., vuni, Vit., huna, 

 N. Z., Tab. Haw., ima, Rar. Mang., 

 hide, conceal (see no). 



Fu, Tong., great, whole, entirely,;/^, 

 all, every, universally, wholly, hua,, 

 Tab., ua, Rar., earnestly, strongly, 

 entirely; fua, Sam., merely, only, 

 without cause, without success ; pu, 

 Rar., earnestly, strongly, authority, 

 source of power, master ; pu, N. Z. 

 Nuk., strongly, absolutely, especially, 

 merely, only; Tab., whole, alto- 

 gether ; Haw., together. 



Fua, Sam. Tong., hua, N. Z. Haw., ua, 

 Rar., huero, Tah., vua, Viti, iva (or 

 ua), Tar., fruit. 



Hua, N. Z. Haw., to sprout, grow, bear 

 fruit ; fua, Sam. Tong., uai, Mang., 

 to begin. 



F ua, Tong., the shape ; huahita, N. Z., 

 likeness, similitude, ahua, looks, ap- 

 pearance, waka-ahua, to pretend, 

 feign ; aiahua, Haw., to be a hypo- 

 crite. 



F ua, Sam., hua, Haw., envious, jealous. 



Fue (?), fuefue, Sam., a species of wild 

 vine ; hue, N. Z. Nuk. Haw., pohue, 

 Tah., the gourd, convolvulus Brazili- 

 ensis. 



Fuke (?), fu'e, Sam., huke, N. Z., to take 

 food out of an oven ; hue, Haw., to 

 unload a ship. 



Fula, fufula,, Sam. Tong., huhua, Nuk., 

 to swell, swollen. 



Fuli, huri, huli, uri, hui, ubiq., to turn 

 or roll over, upset. 



Fulu (?), fufulu, Sam. Tong., vuluvulu, 



Viti, pulu, Haw., to wash ; pupu (qu. 



pupuu?), Nuk., to rinse. 

 Fulu (?), fulufulu, huruhuru, huluhulu, 



uruuru, huuhuu, ubiq., the short hair 



of the body, fur, feathers. 



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Fulu, ten (Gram. 30). 



-T WSZ, fusifusi, Sam., to bind, to tie, as a 

 bundle or sheaf; hui, N. Z., to gather, 

 huihui, N. Z., hui, Haw., to unite, 

 assemble ; huitahi, Haw., girded, 

 belted. 



Fuifui, Tong., a flock of birds ; huihui, 

 Haw., a bunch, applied to vegetables ; 

 hui, Tah., ui, Rar., a company, class, 

 sign of plural (Gram. 14); lahui, 

 Haw., rahui, N. Z., a company, a 

 collection of people ; kahui, N. Z., a 

 flock, a herd ; Nuk., a bunch of fruit. 



Fusu, Sam.,fuhu, Haw., boxing ; a pugi- 

 listic contest ; huhu, Haw., angry. 



Futa, Tong., to boast, vaunt, -femafuta, 

 to strive together, contend ; mafuta, 

 Sam., mahuta, Tah., to rise up ; ma- 

 hula, Haw., to flee away. 



Futi, Tong. Fak. Tikopia, vundi, Viti, 

 banana. 



FuyO (?), vuyo, Viti, a child-in-Iaw, vei- 

 vu-goni, the relation of child and parent- 

 in-law. 



Huyoni, N. Z., Nuk., ogoai, Rar., hooai, 

 Tah., hunoai, Haw., a parent-in-law. 

 Hunaoya, N. Z., unoya, Rar., hunoa, 

 Tah., hunona, Haw., Nuk., a child- 

 in-law. 



H 



By referring to the Grammar it will be 

 seen that the letter h is not one of the ori- 

 ginal elements of the Polynesian speech, 

 but is a variation either of * or f. A few 

 words, however, must be given under this 

 initial, until further investigations shall de- 

 termine to which of these radical letters 

 (s or/) they properly belong. 



Hererei, Pau., erei, Mang., eei, Nuk., 



cocoa-nut. 

 Hohonu, N. Z. Tah. Haw. Nuk., oonu, 



Rar. Mang., deep. 



