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PHILOLOGY. 



TuJfU, tu'u, ubiq., to put, put down, leave, 



yield, let go. 

 Tula, Sam. Tong. Viti, bald. 



Tulaki (?), turaki, N. Z. Rar. Mang., 



tulai, Haw., turai, Tah., to overthrow, 



cast down. 

 Tuli, turi, tui, ubiq., deaf, stunned or 



deafened by noise. 

 Tuli, Sam. Tong., to run after, pursue ; 



tulia, Haw., " a young, handsome 



person desired and sought after, a 



beauty." 

 Tuli, Sam. Haw., tui, Tong. Nuk., nduru, 



Viti, turi, N. Z. et caet., the knee. 

 Tootuli, Sam., tulutui, Tong., tuturu, 



N. Z., tutuli, Haw., tuturi, Rar., tuu 



te turi, Tah., to kneel. 

 Tulu, Tong. Haw., turn, N. Z. Viti, 



kuruJcuru, Rar., to drop, as water. 



Tulu (?), wrw, Mang., to support, sustain ; 

 turu, Rar., tauturu, Tah., to help, 

 assist ; tutulu, Haw., to set up on 

 end, erect. 



Turu, Pau., turuturu, Rar., tutulu, 

 Haw., tutuu, Nuk., a prop, a post 

 which sustains the roof of a house. 



Turuturu, Mang., a stick, club ; tutuu, 

 Nuk., a tree of tough pliable wood, 

 a hoop made of this wood ; tutulu, 

 Haw., the circle of the visible horizon. 



Tumu, Sam., full, tumutumu, top, ex- 

 tremity ; tumu-ake, N. Z., the crown 

 of the head, the upper part of the trunk 

 of a tree, tumutumu, lower part of 

 trunk, stump ; tumu, Tah. Rar. Mang. 

 Nuk. Haw., trunk of tree, stump, 

 hence, beginning, basis, foundation, 

 producing cause. 



Tuna, Sam. N. Z., nduna, Viti, an eel. 



TUHU, Sam. Tong. Rar. Tah. Haw. Nuk., 

 to roast. 



, N. Z., tuna, Haw., a sore. 

 N. Z. Viti, tutuyi, Rar., tutuni, 



tuni, Haw., tutui, Tah., to light, to 



kindle, burn. 

 Tuyou, N. Z. Rar., tunou, Haw., to 



beckon, make signs. 

 Tupapaku, N. Z. Nuk., tupapau, Tah. 



Haw., a corpse. 

 Tupe, N. Z., a snare for birds ; Haw., to 



fasten with a fetter, to tie the wrist. 

 Tupele, Haw., to bruise, as fruit, to soften ; 



tupere, Mang., a knife for scraping 



breadfruit, to scrape. 

 1 upu, tubu, ubiq., to spring up, sprout, 



grow. 

 Tupuya, Sam. N. Z., tiibuaya, Tong., 



origin, source, ancestry. 

 Tupulaga, Sam., waka-tupuraga, N.Z., 



a generation. 

 Tupuna, N. Z. Rar. Haw. Nuk., tumbu, 



mbu, Viti, grand-parent, ancestor. 

 Tupu, Sam., presiding chief, head of 



the government ; tupua, Mang., high 



priest ; Haw., sorcerer, wizard. 

 Tusi, Sam., toSe, Viti, tohi, Tong., tuhi, 



tuhituhi, N. Z., to make marks, to 



write. 

 Ndusi, nduSi, Viti, tuhi, Nuk., to point 



with the finger ; tuhi, Haw., to point 



out, judge, conjecture, tuhituhi, to 



point out, show, designate, make signs 



with the hand. 

 Tute, Tah. Rar. Haw. Nuk., to thrust 



away, put aside, expel. 



TutU, Sam. Tong. Nuk. Viti, to kindle, 



to burn. 

 TutU, Sam. Tong., to shake (act). 



[The root tu appears to have three dis- 

 tinct significations, viz.: (1) to strike 

 or cut, (2) to stand, and (3) to burn. From 

 the first of these may be derived tutu, to 

 pound, tui, to pierce, tuki, to beat, tusi, to 

 mark, tulu (Sam.), to cut off, and tufa, to 

 divide, together with the tu which is the 

 prefix of the partitive numbers (Gram. 

 35) ; from the second come tuku, to put, 



