OTHER SIGNS
The bird with 'undulating
wing'
also needs an explanation. A
bird shakes its wings when it wants to get rid
of water in its feathers.
'Note that rain and stars are
singled out as the characteristics of the sky:
we have seen that the ancients of Mesopotamia
and in India shared the concept of a divine
sky garment consisting either of rain clouds
or of the starry sky.' (Parpola)
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The 'undulating wing' is a very obvious sign:
A list of GD11 birds
with 'undulating wing(s)' in B, A, C and D shows that Metoro
did not seem to react on the sign.
The meaning 'undulating' may be expressed by
pipine, to be wavy, to undulate. Another word of interest is
aruaru, undulation:
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Pipi |
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Pine
1. Toto pine, bruise,
contusion. 2. Pau.: pinepine, to do often.
Ta.: pinepine, often, frequent. Ha.:
pinepine, to do often. Churchill. |
| Aruaru
Áruáru,
reduplication of aaru: to grab firmly.
Vanaga.
1. To pursue. P Mgv.: aruaru,
to run after, to chase, to follow. Ta.: aruaru,
to pursue. 2. To raise in waves, undulation. P Pau.:
puhigaru, a bubble of water. Mgv.: garu,
foam, froth. Mq.: naú, waves. Ta.: aru,
billow, wave, flood. 3. (haruharu).
Churchill. |
| Garu
Surfing. Garuru, to feel
dizzy, seasick; to have a sudden headache: he
garuru te puoko. Vanaga.
1. To swim over the waves (see
aruaru 2). P Mgv.: garu, foam, froth.
Mq.: kaú, naútai, wave, billow. Pau.:
puhi-garu, a bubble of water. In aruaru 2
is found another galu derivative. The sense
of this garu is nowhere else encountered; the
stem means simply the waves and involves no idea of
swimming. We note, however, the Viti galo to
swim; un uncertain identification. 2. Garu hoa,
a friend of either sex. PS Sa.: galu, an
number of young persons (galu teine, galu
taulele'a). To.: ? gauta, many in number.
Data fail for the comparison. The plural sense of
the Samoan does not appear in Rapanui. The
Tongan form involves the rather infrequent loss of
an inner l and leaves the latter element
ta unexplained. Garuru, headache,
vertigo; puoko garuru, migraine. P Mgv.:
garuru, nausea that persists. Mq.: naúú,
kaúú, headache, migraine. Churchill. |
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