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MONOSYLLABIC HOOTS. 
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; a 
patch or thing added.* Ta-nga-ta, to print the prints, man. 
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-relca, to 
fall into one’s power as a captive, for food. Syn. lie-moikai, 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-lci, a 
proverb or saying. Tau-ke, a separate place. 
Ta —the standing or bearing of a person. Tu-puna, to stand, to 
spring; an ancestor; to stand, to be struck; hence, Ta-pu, to grow, 
to spring. Ta-tu, to touch, to strike. Tu, god of war. Ta-tu, 
quarrelsome. Ta-a, to stand near or beyond; any thing beloved. 
Tu-a-Jcana, 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. 
Wae —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. 
AM —fire; to beget Alii-ahi, time for lighting fires, i.e. evening. 
Talcu-ahi, my fire lighter; a name for a wife, a producer of posterity. 
Aim —to mould the earth with the hand, in forming kumara 
hillocks. 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. 
Are —implies concavity, or over hanging, an area. Wh-are, house. 
Pu-are, open Tau wh-are, over hanging. Waka-are, the opening 
* Ta is still used as a term of address for man, as e ta,; it also signifies to 
touch, to alight, to breathe. 
