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Here, however, this may be the full name ; though I doubt it. 



(3.) 1. As names of j^^aces : — e.g., 



'--Te Moa-kai-hau. (See Legends and Proverbs, aiite). 



*Te Kaki-o-te-moa = the neck of the Moa, 



*Pukumoa = belly, or bowels (of the) Moa. 



Papamoa = Moa flat ; also, Spinifex flat. 



Taramoa = Moa's spur ; also. Bramble {Ruhus australis). 



*Taramoa rahi = spur of the big Moa. 



*Hauturu moanui = Hauturu big Moa : — i.e. possessing, or having had 

 there, a big Moa. (There are several places named Hauturu). 



*Moakura = red, or brownish, Moa. 



Eauhamoa = said to be the name also of a bird. 



'-^Moakatino = big, or fine, Moa or Moas. 



*Otamoa = Moa eaten raw. 



*Haraungamoa = Moa, or Moas, observed, or watched, or sought ; or, 

 the spot where the skin of a Moa was merely grazed, and it got off. 



*Tarawamoa = stand, or stage, erected for hanging dead Moa. 



*Moawhiti = startled Moa, or doubling Moa. 



*Moawhanganui = Moa long waited for. 



*Moawhangaiti = Moa briefly waited for. 



*Moarahi = big Moa. 



Moawhango = hoarse-sounding Moa. 

 2. As names of persons : — e.g., 



*Tawakeheimoa — this may mean, Tawake able to meet a Moa ; or, 

 Tawake for, or to be at, the Moa ; or Tawake to yoke {i.e. hang, or put, a 

 band, or rope around the neck of) a Moa. 



*Te Kahm-eremoa — this may mean, the garment which fell off, or was 

 thrown aside in fleeing from a Moa ; or the garment of the person who ran 

 on to, or over, a bed in a food cultivation (an offence) ; or the garment 

 which was blown on to it. 



Eongoiamoa, — the name of one of the men who is said, according to 

 some legends, to have brought the kumara (sweet XDotatoe) to New Zealand. 

 I have great doubts, however, of the termination of the word being derived 

 from the animal Moa ; it may rather be taken as amoa — carried on the 

 shoulders ; although the passive of that verb [amo) generally has the termi- 

 nation hia, sometimes loia ; should it prove to have been derived from the 

 Moa, then of course, it shows its high antiquity. 



(Those three proper names are mentioned early in their history, and are 

 all found in the two legends of Hinemoa, and of Te Kahureremoa ; all three 

 might also have beea originally the names of ancestors in the long past !) 



