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Sowia. Revenge.
Sy-sy. A kind of spear.

Ta.

T

To strike or beat, to hey to carve wood or stone. Tá-tá. To buffet or beat about, a mallet, a hammer. Ta-mate. To kill by striking. Tamaté. Kill him, kill it.

Ta-tattów. To strike the tat

Tacca-milo. Flexuous, winding.
Tacca tacký. To engird.
Tacký. To wheel, to roll up.
Tacoto. To lie along, to lie
down, one lying, to lean a-
gainst.
Táë. Dung, excrement.
Tafa.

To cut, to intersect.
Tafanga. A paddling canoe.
Tafanga-fanga. The open coun-
try.

tow. See Appendix, No. II., Tafe. To stream like water.

"Surgical Skill.

Taffi-taffi. To sweep.

Ta-nioo. Spinning a cocoa-nut, Tafoki. To turn back, to return, to turn round, to turn

as a prognostic.

Táǎfi. An obstacle, to obstruct.
To fix on, to select.

over.

Taggi-taggi. To carry or lead

To challenge, a chal- in the hand. lenge. Táagi. To deracinate, to pull

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Tabili.

To cut down wood.

Taggi-taha-be. Each, each one.
Taha. The numeral one. He
taha. Somebody, anybody.
Fanów fucca taha. At one

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Another.

Tahi. The sea, sea-water.

Bellows, also blowing Taha-gehe.

the fire with the breath.

Taboo. Forbidden, illicit, also Tahi-hoco. High tide.
sacred, consecrated, under a Tahi-mamaha. Ebb tide.
prohibition, any thing forbid-Tahine.
den to be eaten or touched.
Tabooni. To shut, a bolt or

bar. Tácabé.

Unmarried, (applied

only to females), whether a widow or not. Tacábe. Necessitous, poor. Tacanga.

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An attendant of a Tái-ala. Unfit, inexpedient.

chief. Cow catanga. suite of a chief.

Tácapów. Mats of the cocoa

The Tai-alla-tattow. A mismatch. Tái-áoonga. Useless, worthless, Tái-booboonoo. Not shut. nut leaf, used for flooring. Tái-boto. Unskilful. Tacca. To be present at, or to Tái-catagi. Unbearable. assist at any amusement, a Tái-cotóa. Incomplete. circuit or perambulation. Tái-fa Unable, unskilful.

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|Tái-manavachí. Bold. Inerpli-|Tái-maoo. Indefinite.

Tái-fafanga. Unfed. Tái-fa fucca maoo. cable, unintelligible, not to be unravelled, as tangled string. Speechless.

Tái fa lea.

Tái fa low.

Numberless.

Tái fa mate. Inextinguishable,
invulnerable, immortal.
Tái fa mohe. Restless.
Tái-fa-vete. Indissoluble.
Tái-fanów. Sterile, barren.
Tái-fioo. Insatiable.
Tai-foofooloo. Unwashed.
Tái-fooó. Not new, old.
Tái-fucca-ilonga. Indiscrimi-
nately.

Tái-fucca-tangata. Unmanly.
Tái-fucca-tattów. Disparity.
Tái-fy-gehe. Unalterable.
Tái-gena. Uneaten.
Tái-gigihi, Incontestable.
Tái-gnaoóë. Motionless, un-
cultivated, as land.

Tái-halla. Inevitable.

road.

Tái-mate. Deathless, immortal. Aców tai-mate. A tree that is always replete with green leaves. Hotooa tai-mate. An immortal spirit.

Tái-mohe. Sleepless, restless. Tái-molle. Uneven, rough. Tái-momoho. Unripe (as fruit). Tái-möóni. False, incredible. Tái-monooía. Unpropitious. Tái-möoói. Unfertile (as land). Mortal, mortally. Tái-mow. Inconstant, move able, unobtained, insecure. Tái-mow-angi. Irrecoverable, or lost to him or them. angi. Tái-mow-atoo. Irrecoverable,or lost to thee or you. See atoo. Tái-mow-my. Irrecoverable, or lost to me. See my Tái-nanamoo.

Inodorous.

See

Pathless, without a Tái-nofo-mow. Wandering.

Tái-ochi. Endless.

Tái-hela. Indefatigable, not out Tái-ofa. Without love, cruel.

of breath.

Tái-heloo. Uncombed.

Tái-ofi. Incontiguous. Tái-ohana. Unmarried.

Tái-hili. Endless. Möoói tai Tái-ongo. Noiseless.

hili. An everlasting life. Tai-táäfi. Unobstructed. Tái-hoóö. Undug, unweeded.|Tai-tammý. Fatherless.

Tái-ilaw. Imperceptible.

Tái-tattów. Disproportionate

Tái-ita. Wrathless.

Tai-toli. Ungathered.

Tái-láa. Sunless.

Tái-tonoo. Incorrect.

Tái-lata. Discontent.

Tái-toogoo. Incessant.

Tái-loto. Insensible, thought-|Tái-tootoo. Tái-vela. Unbum

less, improvident.
Tai-loto-mow. Capricious.
Tái-low. Leafless.

Tái-ma. Bare-faced, dirty.
Tái-machila. Blunt, obtuse.
Tái-mahalo. Mistrustless.
Tái-mamahi. Painless.
Tái-manatoo. Inconsiderate.
ai-manava. Breathless.

Tái-vacký. Heedless.

Tái-vete. Unstripped, unspoile Taký. Takyagi. To anoint Tala. To relate, to bid. Talahooi. Impudent, saucy.. Tala-lohi. A false recital. Talamy'. To tell to me or Talangi. To relate to a thi person. (See angi).

Talanoa. A narrative, conver-Tanoo. To overwhelm, to bury.

sation.

Talatoo. To relate or tell to
thee or you. (See atoo).
Tali. To wait for a person.
To entertain.

Talla. A thorn. Tallai, thorny.
Talla-talla. Thorny, prickly.
Talo. A certain esculent root.
Taloo. To beckon.
Taloo. Since, (after which time).
Tama. A boy, a young man.
Tama-booa. A doll, (from
tama, a boy, and booa, the
name of the wood of which it
is made).
Tamachi. A child of either sex.
Tamate. Támatéä. To kill, (from
ta mate ia, strike, death, him).

Tanoo-manga. The sixth lunar
month.

Táö. A dart, lance, spear.
Tao velo ica. A fizgig.
Tao fotoi. A spear headed with
stingray.

Tao talatala. A bearded spear.
Taoo. To cook victuals. Fy
taoo. To get ready the leaves,
&c. with which the victuals
are covered during the pro-
cess of cooking.
Táoobe. Pendent, hanging.
Taoonga malie. Exactly fitted.
See Gnatoo.

Tapa.

Tá-Tá.

Tatali.

Tatao.
cade.

A mallet, a hammer.

To await, to expect.
To way-lay, an ambus-

Tattangi. To clink, to jingle
together.

Tattao. See page 11 of this vol.
Tattów. See Ta-tattow.
Alike, coequal, he tat-
tów, a match, an equal.

A matting used as a screen on the weather-sides of houses.

Tammy'. A father.
Tanagi. To gather together, to
collect, to convocate.
Tanga-caho. A case for arrows.
Tanga-mimi. The bladder.
Tangata. A man, any male;
also a term of honour applied
to a brave man, (as having
the true manly character).
Loto fucca tangata. Mag-
nanimity. Foo tangata.
giant.
Tangata fe oomoo. A cook.
Tangata-tow. A warrior.
Tangi. To weep, to implore,
to coo, as the doves.
Tangi-fe-toogi. To bemoan.
Tangi-möóni. Asseveration, an
interjection denoting surprise,
(móöni, truth); to take an Tawgia.

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Tattów-anga.

Conformity.
Tattów-be. Alike, similar.
To cure, a cure.

Taw.

To drop, to slip down, to fall, to let fall, to be killed in battle.

To implant, to plant.
To open, as a box,or door.
The sugar-cane.

To commit a rape.

oath; nai tangi moóni gi he Tawgootoo. A preparation of

egi co Toobó Totái, he swore by the god Toobo Totai. Tango. To wander by night, to lie in wait for. Tangooloo. To snore. Tano. A grave, or pit.

food.

Tawto. Blood, to bleed. Pani
tawto. Smeared with blood.
Tawto-tawto. Bloody.
Te. Almost.

Te-how. About to come.

Té-té Same as te.

The personal pronoun I, except in the future tense, when it is Oo.

The sign of the fut. tense.
See Tegger.
Téa. Pale, white.
Táoo. A hundred.
Tebi. To trip along, to pace,
gait or walk.
Teboo. Knotty, prominent.
Teboo-teboo. Roughwith knots.
Teca. To trundle, a wheel, a
ball, the name of a boyish
sport, to string a bow.
Teców. A score. Used merely
as a collective noun, as our
words dozen for twelve, score
for twenty.

Téë. To swim, o. oat.
Téë-téë. A float, to be buoyant.
Tefe. To circumcise in the

Tonga manner. The Fiji

method is called camo. Tefito. The root of any plant. fanna. The heel of a

mast.

Tefooa. Single, alone.
Tefoohi. One hundred.
Teggafili. Prostrate, thrown
down by accident.
Tegger. (From te, the sign of

the future, and ger, thou),
thou shalt, thou wilt. Taken
interrogatively, it often means,
canst thou?

Tegi. To break wind, flatus.
Tegichi. Not yet, ere.
Tehi. A piece or morsel of
food; only used with my, e. g.
give me a piece, my tehi.
Tehina. A brother. Cow te-
hina. Brethren.
Téhów. About to come.
Téia, To belabour, or beat,
(from ta, to strike, ia, him).

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(Used interrogatively), ability of doing; as tenne aloo? can he go? Teoo. To adorn with dress, to prepare to go any where, Finery in dress. Ready, prepared.

(Used interrogatively), can I? (see te). It is also the first person of the future tense, I shall or will. Téootów. Array of battle. Tepa. To goggle, to squint. Tété. Well nigh, almost. Téte-téte. Tremulous,chilliness. Tetemi. To flutter, to tremble. Teve. The name of a particular

plant, the root of which, in
time of security, is eaten for
want of better food.

To. The name of a tree, bear-
ing berries, of which the glu-
tinous pulp (called also to)
is used to paste together the
different sheets of topa.
Tó-ochi. (This word is always
used with fucca before it).
See fucca to-ochi.
Toa. Brave, bravery.
Toa-he-tow. Strong in arms.
Toa. The casuarina.

Tobe. A lock or tuft of hair. Toboo-váë. The sole of the foot, a shoe, or sandal.

Toca. Aground, to get aground,
to lie on the ground.

Person, or individual.
chi. Few (people).
ooa. Both.

taha be. Only one per-
son, by one's self.
Tocalów. Eastern, in the east.
Tocca.

Vide toca.

Toho-toho. A rape, to ravish. Toi, Toi-toi. To hide, to conceal one's self. Hawla toitoi. To abscond.

Toía.

Pierced, pricked.

To meet one's expectation of profit in the act of bartering, or trading. To lose a game.

Toki. Newly, lately, just now. fy. Lately done. Mea toki fy. A recent event.

Tochi, Tochi-tochi. Nibbled, Tole. Pudendum muliebre.

notched.

A staff.

Toco. A post, to fasten ca-
noes to..
Toco-toco.
Tocooa. Only used in conjunc-
tion with coehá, what? as, coe-
ha tocooa? what do you say?
Tocoto. To lie, to lie down.
Tóë. Remainder, residue. Toa
mea. Leavings.
Tóë. Again. once more.
Toetaców. A sham fight,
Tofe. The oyster.

Tofi, or Tofi-tofi. To mince.
Tofoá. A whale.

Tofoo. A calm (no wind).
Tofoobe. The same, just as.
Toge. A water snake.
Togi. An adze.

fucca anga gehe. An axe.
i. e. an adze of a different
turn or disposition, because
they express an axe, by call.
ing it an adze, having the
blade differently turned with
respect to the handle.
Tohi. A picture, to draw, to
write.

Toho. To drag, to tow a vessel.
fucca malohi. To drag by
main force.
gi tahi,

To launch.

Toleccalecca. Beautiful, ap

plied only to men, though sometimes to plants, trees, &c. Toli, To gather, to pluck. Tolo. To pitch, or throw, the name of a game. Tolo-afi. To produce fire by friction. Toloa, The wild duck. Tolonga. Lasting, durable.

The piece of dry wood on which the end of a stick is forcibly rubbed to produce fire. The stick is called cownatoo.

Toloo. The number three: the
sign of the plural of personal
and possessive pronouns,
Toloo-ongofóoloo. The nume-
ral thirty,
Toma. Pride in dress, &c.
Tome. A sort of torch.
Tomooa.
time).
Tongi. To engrave, to carve.
Tongiagi. A double sailing

canoe.

Before, first (as to

Tongo. The mangrove.
Tonomea. A kind of spear.
Tonoo. Manifest, clear, dis-

tinct, direct, even, in a row. Tonoo, or Totonoo. Candid,

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