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action Akamaru Aukena banana bird blow body bread-fruit bundle canoe cause cloth coco-nut colour commence cooked coral cord cover crayfish denotes exclamation eyes fall finish fire fish food maa fruit garment give hair hand hara head hole kava kind korino lance land leaves Makaroa Mangareva marama mata matagi matau moon moraro moruga mountain mouth MUHU native oven noho noise octopus one's oneself pain pandanus pandanus fruit papyrus person piece of wood plant plural puku ragi rama reef rima ripe roro round RUMAKI ruru shell-fish sickness side skin sleep small fish smell soft soil speak species stone stretch stuff tahi tahora takao tapu Taravai taro tata teeth thing thread throw Tirau toko touch tree turn verb walk waves wind word
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Page 95 - A, a mast. 2. Bold, hardy. TIRA (tira), to go straight along a road till you get to the end, or to the place you set out for. 2. To go on and present yourself without fear ; to go straight and openly upon any path you choose. Tiratira (tiratira), plural of the action ; titira (titira), plural of the subject. TIRARA (tirara), to vary the conversation. Tirararara (tirararam), plural of the action; tititaca (titirara), plural of the subject.
Page 22 - Mgv. : huhuhu, to leave a thing to rot, to let it go to corruption. Mq.: huhu, a. white grub which eats wood, the cuttings which it drops. The association of the grub, found in Marquesas and Maori, with the result of its activities, as in Rapanui, finds sufficient support in Hawaii where huhu is the grub and huhuhu means wormeaten.
Page 14 - ... Mangareva. unufe Tonga. Tertiary forms are Paumotu hanuhe and Rapanui eanuhe. In general the word signifies worm and caterpillar; its alteration to snail in Paumotu and to a fern in Tahiti is not really remote in a classification based on superficial resemblances. eeriki carpet. Mgv. : eriki-kura, a piece of cloth painted yellow used to cover the breast of a corpse.