180 ORIGIN, AS TRACED BY THE LANGUAGE. 
dark, over-hanging cloud ; wheuri , dark deep water ; tua uri 
uri, blackening masses, dark clouds ; kakarauri, getting dark, 
dusk ; kauri, the kauri pine, most probably derived from the 
rezin which, when burnt for tattooing, is black. But uri also 
signifies offspring; the uri Tangata, the beginning of man, 
is lost in darkness. 
There are two other African words identical with New 
Zealand ones, which may be alluded to without endeavouring 
to draw any inference from them. One is door, the Siloe of 
Morocco; it is a cave made in the earth to keep wheat in, and 
is entered by a small door or opening on the top, which is closed 
by a large stone or block of wood. This is precisely the 
description of the New Zealand dud or rua, which is made to 
hold the kumara. 
The New Zealand word for the sun is ra. The Coptic one 
is the same; the Egyptian rah; and hence, perhaps, the origin of 
the East Indian word Rajah Maha. The great rajah or prince, 
Maha, is a New Zealand word for a multitude ; the sun being 
the light of heaven, the prince that ol the multitude. So the 
New Zealand word rangatira, or chief, when dissected, is 
ra-nga-tira, which simply means the light of companies, or 
assemblies of men. 
There is another New Zealand word of great interest, being 
a root of many, and bearing an analogy to words of almost 
every language, that is ka, to burn; we have it in our word 
candle, and in the Latin from whence we obtained it, 
and, perhaps, in the old word kindle-, it is seen in jouw; in 
Tartary, and throughout the East, even to China, in kang, an 
oven or stove ; and in the khan, an edifice erected for the 
warmth and shelter of the wayworn traveller; in kapura, fire, 
which implies the substitute for the light of day. In kakano 
(seed) which contains the germ of life; and in kai (food) the 
fuel that sustains the flame of life. 
This word is also connected with another of great interest, 
and one which stands out as a landmark to guide us in the 
search after the origin of the New Zealand race, and that is 
Icava. In old Arabic, the word for wine is kahiveh* and before 
* See Lane's Egypt. 
