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- Tehakarava
- name of the part
of the Poike promontory which extends from the coast to
opposite Hotu iti.
- tea
-
- light, fair, whitish.
- to rise (of the moon, the stars);
ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi,
the evening star has risen.
- teatea
- white (also: ritorito).
- tehe
-
- to flow, to run (of liquids), to be spilt:
he tehe te vai.
- to spread (of light);
he-tehe te ata,
the first lights of dawn spread.
- to mark something with lines or scratches.
- to melt, to dissolve.
- tehi
- to sneeze.
- teke
- occiput.
- teketeke
- short (not tall); also: teke.
- teki
-
- to intervene in a fight;
ki kakai te taû'a, he-teki te tagata, he-hakamou i te taû'a,
as the enemies were fighting, a man intervened and
appeased them.
- to jump ashore:
he-teki ki uta.
- to jump, to leap;
e-toru hanau eepe i-teki a ruga a te hanau momoko, i-ora,
three
hanau eepe
leapt over the
hanau momoko
and saved their lives.
- to rape [but see translator's note in tekiteki below].
-
to tread carefully and noiselessly to avoid waking up
someone.
- tekiteki
-
- to intrude.
- to rape frequently;
tagata tekiteki,
womanizer;
vî'e tekiteki,
wanton woman [Translator's note: the word seems to mean
sexual promiscuity rather than rape proper].
- to walk by hops and leaps; to limp:
he-tekiteki hai va'e.
- teko
- giant (noun).
- tere
-
- to run, to flee, to escape from a prison.
- to sail a boat (also: hakatere);
tere vaka, owner of a fishing boat.
- (deap-sea) fisherman;
tere kahi, tuna fisherman;
tere ho'ou, novice fisherman, one who goes deap-sea fishing for the
first time.
Penei te huru tûai; he-oho te tere ho'ou ki ruga
ki te hakanonoga; ana ta'e rava'a, he-avai e te tahi tagata tere
vaka i te îka ki a îa mo hakakoa, mo iri-hakaou ki te hakanonoga i
te tahi raá. The ancient custom was like this: the novice fisherman
would go to a hakanonoga; if he didn't catch
anything, another fisherman would give him fishes to make
him happy so he'd go again one day to the hakanonoga
(more distant fishing zones where larger fishes are
found).
- tetea
- to have many descendents.
- teteme
- a fish.
- tetere
- iterative of
tere.
- tetu
- very large, very wide, huge (also: kotetu, nuinui tetu).