402 
MONOSYLLABIC ROOTS. 
Tane (Maori. ) 
avrip (Gr.) a man (Eng.) 
Tango 
99 
Tiyco (Gr.) tango (Lat.) to take (Eng.) 
Tara 
9 9 
Oappeco (Gr.) to dare (Eng.) 
Tari or tatari 
>99 
tardo (Lat) tardy, tarry (Eng.) 
Tatu 
>9 
to mark the skin by striking, the tattoo, the striking on 
a drum, from ta, to strike (Eng.) 
Tawiri 
9 f 
to twist, to wring, as clothes (Eng.) 
Te 
9 9 
the (Eng.) 
Tika 
„ 
Aikcuos A iKrj (Gr.) dica (Lat.) just (Eng.) 
Tiki 
99 
a god. Tii (Poly.) Dii (Lat.) gods. 
Tini 
99 
6 ip (Gr.) many (Eng.) 
To 
99 
to tow a boat (Eng.) 
Toa 
9 9 
tough, strong (Eng.) 
Toru 
99 
rpeis (Gr. ) tres (Lat. ) trois (Fr.) tre (Ital.) tri (Sans.) 
three (Eng.) 
Tu 
9 9 
tvtttm (Gr.) tuer (Fr.) to kill, to strike (Eng. ) 
Uma 
99 
ovdap (Gr.) uber (Lat.) udder, breast, bosom (Eng.) 
TJ mu 
99 
cavos (Gr.) oven (Eng. ) 
Wa, wahanga ,. 
veho, vehiculum (Lat.) wahana (Goth.) to carry on 
the shoulders, waggon, wain (Eng.) 
Wahine 
Wai, water, 
99 
yvpr) (Gr.) woman, or carrying woman, a mother (Eng.) 
) uda (Sans.) voda (Sclav.) vato (Goth.) dwr (Celt.) 
wet 
9 9 
> Wseter (Sax.) vdcop (Gr.) mai (Ethiopic ) Wasser 
Ua rain 
99 
) (Goth.) vazar (0. H. S.) wasser (Ger.) 
Waka 
9 9 
fac (Lat.) fhaka (Tonga.) to make or cause (Eng ) 
Wata 
99 
watt (Burmah) a store house. 
Watitoka 
99 
fytoka (Tonga.) pagoda (India, Burmah. ) dagoba 
(Ceylon temple.) 
In the New Zealand tongue many are surprised to find 
how easily they may be mistaken in some words, which seem 
to be real Maori, when they are only introduced ones ; to 
find out whether they are so or not, it is necessary to discover 
their roots, for there are few words in the language which 
may not thus be traced to monosyllabic origin. 
For instance, there is one word admitted into our trans- 
lation of the Testament which it is doubtful whether the 
translators, though the best Maori scholars, ever suspected 
was anything but a genuine Maori one, and that is toro- 
naihi, a sickle. Wondering what this toronaihi could be 
originally, as they had nothing like a sickle, or anything 
sharper than a green-stone adze, or hatchet, I put the ques- 
tion to an intelligent native, who laughed, and said, “ Why, 
don’t you know, it is one of your own words V’ I expressed 
my ignorance. He said, that the toronaihi is the sharp knife 
