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Tehakarava
name of the part of the Poike promontory which extends from the coast to opposite Hotu iti.
tea
  1. light, fair, whitish.
  2. to rise (of the moon, the stars); ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi, the evening star has risen.
teatea
white (also: ritorito).
tehe
  1. to flow, to run (of liquids), to be spilt: he tehe te vai.
  2. to spread (of light); he-tehe te ata, the first lights of dawn spread.
  3. to mark something with lines or scratches.
  4. to melt, to dissolve.
tehi
to sneeze.
teke
occiput.
teketeke
short (not tall); also: teke.
teki
  1. 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.
  2. to jump ashore: he-teki ki uta.
  3. 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.
  4. to rape [but see translator's note in tekiteki below].
  5. to tread carefully and noiselessly to avoid waking up someone.
tekiteki
  1. to intrude.
  2. 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].
  3. to walk by hops and leaps; to limp: he-tekiteki hai va'e.
teko
giant (noun).
tere
  1. to run, to flee, to escape from a prison.
  2. to sail a boat (also: hakatere); tere vaka, owner of a fishing boat.
  3. (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).