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MONOSYLLABIC ROOTS. 
Kakahu — a garment to keep the body warm. 
Ta — to strike, to print, to tap. Ta-too (properly Ta-tu), to make 
strokes that stand or remain, to tatoo by striking a small chisel 
with a hammer. Ta-ia , strike him. Ta-tu, to count by strokes. 
Ta-tauranga, the act of striking, or fighting. Ta-piri, an assistant ; 
patch or thing added. * 
Tau — to alight as a bird ; to arrive ; a year. Tau-hou, a stranger. 
Tau-tangata, a foreigner. Tau-tohe, a quarrel, when one views 
another as a stranger, anciently syn. with enemy. Tau-reka-reka, 
to fall into one’s power as a captive, sweet for food, Syn. he-mokai, 
which is both a pet and also food, as birds, pigs, and slaves, kept 
as pets until they are fat enough to kill, hence mokai, dried heads. 
Tau-ki, a proverb or saying. Tau-ke, a separate place. 
Tu — the standing or bearing of a person. Tu-puna , to stand, 
to spring, an ancestor, to stand, to be struck, hence, Tu-pu, to 
grow, to spring, Pa-tu, to touch, to strike. Tu, god of war, 
Tu-tu, quarrelsome. Tu-a, to stand near or beyond ; any thing 
beloved, Tu-a-kana, an elder brother, Tu-a-hine, a sister, Ma- 
tu-a, parents. Tu-a, also means to stand beyond or behind, A-tu-a, 
beyond, as a man’s shadow, hence, a spirit, the shadow of man, 
God, or anything beyond our comprehension, a clock, a compass, 
were thus viewed as an A-tu-a. Tu-a-tahi, first beyond the speaker, 
Tu-a-rua, second, &c. Tu-a-whenua, main land, spoken by a coast 
native, the land beyond, Ki-tu-a, behind. Tu-a-nga huru, tenth, 
Tu-ara, the back, Tu-a-roa, the back wall of a house, 
Wa — to carry. Wa-lia, mouth or passage of the breath. 
W ae — to clear a path, by laying the fern on either side with the 
foot. Wae, the entire leg, Wae-wae, the foot, implies motion, 
walking. Wae-renga, a clearing in the forest. 
Ahi — fire; to beget. Ahi-ahi, time for lighting fires, i.e., even- 
ing. Taku-ahi, my fire lighter ; a name for a wife, a producer of 
posterity. 
Ahu — to mould the earth with the hand, in forming kumara hil- 
locks. Ahu-a, likeness. 
Anga — to incline. Anga-anga, the skull appears to be derived 
from the child crawling, the skull being always inclined to the 
ground ; hence, Anga-atu, to incline outwards. 
* Ta is still used as a term of address for man, as e ta ; it also signifies to 
touch, to alight, to breathe. 
