Entries from Churchill 1912 in Pollex-Online
Churchill, W. (1912). Easter Island: the Rapanui speech and the peopling of southeast Polynesia. Washington, DC, The Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Language | Item | Description |
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Easter Island | Marie | Calm, fair weather, unruffled sea |
Easter Island | Mama | Limpet (Chiton magnificus) |
Easter Island | Mano | Thousand |
Easter Island | Mao | Clear up (of sky) |
Easter Island | Maʔori | Name of the native land of Hotu Matu`a and of his people who migrated, following a cataclysm on the continent of Hioa, to the island; expert, wise, intelligent; tangata maori rongorongo, literate person (who knows how to read the inscriptions of the kohau motu); maori-ika, surgeon [dead body-expert]; maori-hare, house-builder (Egt). (Of manual training) dexterity, handy, industry, artisan; (Of mental training), erudite, finesse, cleverness; (the resultant) memorable, renowned, of good reputation; tagata maori, carpenter; rima maori, left (sic) hand; tae maori incompetent; maori ke, judicious, sly; maori ke avai, adroit (Chl). Skilled, old (Fts) |
Easter Island | Mahara | Ecstasy Problematic |
Easter Island | Maharo | Admire, admirable; glorify, flatter; astonish, astound; eulogy, boasting |
Easter Island | Mataŋi | Wind, air, breeze, squall, tempest |
Easter Island | Matoru | Thick |
Marquesas | Mautini | A large gourd |
Easter Island | Mira/mira | Shake, perplex, tangled Problematic |
Easter Island | Muli | The rear |
Easter Island | Nehe/nehe | Fern spp. |
Easter Island | Manu /nave/ | Great abscess Uncertain Semantic Connection |
Easter Island | Nehu | Obscure, cloudy |
Easter Island | Parau | Speak |
Easter Island | Petehe | Castrate |
Easter Island | Peau | To sweep all away |
Easter Island | Pehea | How? |
Easter Island | Peka | Cross |
Easter Island | Pirari | Honey . Not in |
Easter Island | Pi/niku | Mesh (as of a net) |
Easter Island | Po/poro/ | A berry whose juice is mixed with ashes of tii leaves in tattooing . Planta de la familia umbelifera |
Easter Island | Popo/popo | Deteriorate |
Easter Island | Poto | Short; concise |
Easter Island | Potu | End, tip ; butt, end, extremity, point, piece, stick; children of the youngest brother |
Easter Island | Pooʔuri | Darkness. Obscure (Wbr). |
Easter Island | Pohuri/huri | Gloom |
Easter Island | Puu | Trumpet |
Easter Island | Puku | Knot; hillock. |
Easter Island | Puku | Pubes |
Easter Island | Pu/pura | Shine, glitter |
Easter Island | Purepure | Spotted, dappled |
Easter Island | Pupu | To collect, accumulate |
Easter Island | Puta | Fat |
Easter Island | Haŋa | Work, make, labour, employment |
Easter Island | Hau | Dew |
Easter Island | Hau | Breeze, wind; blow freshly; cool |
Easter Island | Haka/heke/ | To pull down |
Easter Island | Hira | Turn eyes away |
Easter Island | Hiri | Elevate |
Easter Island | Hipa | Incline |
Easter Island | Ora | Save oneself ; escape |
Easter Island | Hope | Spine, backbone |
Easter Island | Tahaŋa | Only, solely, alone, wholly, without stopping, always, quite, a sort of superlative |
Easter Island | Taŋamimi | Bladder |
Easter Island | Tai | Sea, ocean . Océano, mar. Tide (Wbr). |
Easter Island | Tamaahine | Daughter, female |
Easter Island | Tamaʔaroa | Boy, male. Masculino; macho (Fts). |
Easter Island | Moe tahae | Be a light sleeper Uncertain Semantic Connection |
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