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Mere, N. Z., rutetetete, Rar., hautete, 

 Haw., to tremble, shiver. 

 flatete, Sam., to be troubled; natete, 



Haw., to shake, wave, rattle. 

 Tete, N. Z. Haw., to strive, struggle, 

 quarrel. 



Teu, Sam. Tong., to prepare, arrange, 

 adorn ; teuteu, Sam. Tong., prepared, 

 adorned, neat, elegant; teoteo, Tah., 

 proud. 



Ti, ubiq., a plant, the dracaena terminalis 

 (N. Z., the dracaena australis). Titi, 

 Sam. Tong., a cincture made from its 

 leaves. 



Tt, Tong., to toss, to throw ; tiaki,Tong., 

 tia'i,Snm., to throw away, reject, aban- 

 don ; ti, Haw., to shoot, fire a gun. 

 Tin, titiri, Tah. Rar. Mang., titii, Nuk., 

 to throw ; kupeya till, Tong., a cast- 

 ing-net. 



Tiaki, N. Z. Rar. Mang. Nuk., tia'i, Tah. 

 Haw., to watch, wait for, guard. 



Tifa, Sam. Tong. Fak. Tikop., mother-of- 

 pearl shell ; tifa, Nuk., a cover or lid 

 to close any thing. 



Tife (?), tihe, Tah. Nuk. Haw., to sneeze. 



Tika, N. Z. Rar. Mang. Tah., straight, 

 upright, just ; tia, Tah. (used for tu), 

 to stand up ; tia, Haw., pillar, post, 

 mast of a ship. 



Tiketike, N. Z., tietie, Haw., teitei, Tah. 

 Rar. Mang., high ; tietie, Sam., to sit 

 on an elevated seat. 



Tiki, N. Z. Rar. Mang., tii, Tah. Haw., 

 to go for, to go to seek. 



TlKl, tfi, name of a god of whom images 

 were very common ; hence, N. Z, 

 Rar. Nuk. Tah. Haw., image. 



Tila, Sam., lira, Tah. Mang. Pau., tia, 

 Nuk. (tia, Haw, see tika), the mas 

 of a vessel ; tila, Tong., sprit of a 

 canoe ; lira, N. Z., the back fin of a 

 fish, tiratu, the rope which fastens 

 the sail to the bow-sprit. 



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Tilo, Sam., to peep ; tio, Tong., tiro, 

 N. Z., hio, Tah., to look ; tiroi, Rar., 

 to look at ; tiahi, Nuk., to see, look, 

 watch ; tUo, Haw., to judge, also, 

 a star-gazer, astrologer, observer of 

 signs, tiu, to spy. 

 Tina, Sam., Una, Viti, Tar., mother. 

 Tina-manu, Tong., a sow when she has 



had a litter ; tinana, Haw., a hen. 

 Tina, titina, Sam. N. Z., to squeeze, 

 press, crush ; titina, Haw., to urge, 

 press, hasten. 

 Tinei, Sam. N.Z., tinai, Rar. Tah. Haw. 



Nuk., to extinguish, quench. 

 Tint, Viti, ten ; N. Z., ten thousand ; 

 Tah., twenty thousand ; Haw., forty 

 thousand ; hence, a great number 

 indefinitely, thousands (Gram. 30). 

 TinO, Sam. Tong. Tah. Rar. Haw., ti- 

 nana, N. Z., body, trunk, substance, 

 person. 

 Tino, Sam. N. Z., appearance, form, 



looks. 



Tinoi, Sam., tinohi, Haw., origin, be- 

 ginning. 

 TtTfd, Sam. Fak., pain, ache ; Una, Haw., 



sin, error. 



Tipi, Mang. Pau. Tah. Nuk., matipi, 

 Rar., a knife, to cut, to slash ; tibi, 

 Tong., a club, to strike with a club. 

 Lipi, N. Z., malipi, Haw., an axe, 



sharp, trenchant. 

 To, Tong., toto, Sam., to plant. 



To, Haw., to beget, to proceed from, as 

 a child from a parent ; Sam. N. Z. 

 Tah., pregnant. 



To, Tong., to sink, to fall ; Tah. Rar. 



Pau. N. Z. (also toene and tareiyi, 



N. Z.), to set, as the sun ; toili, Haw., 



to set, to go down, as the moon. 



Toi, N. Z., to be dipped, immersed ; 



Tong., to hide, conceal one's self. 

 Tb, Rar., to light upon ; topa, Tah. 



Nuk., to fall, to let fall. 

 Taya, N. Z., Pau., toa (or tooa), Tah., 



