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a e g h haka i k m n o p r t u v
- 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).