Tao
1. To cook in an oven, to sacrifice. P Mgv., Mq.,
Ta.: tao, to cook in an oven. 2. To carry away. 3. Abscess,
bubo, scrofula, boil, gangrene, ulcer, inflammation, sore. Mgv.:
taotaovere, small red spots showing the approach of death. Mq.:
toopuku, toopuu, boil, wart, tumor. Ta.: taapu,
taapuu, scrofula on neck and chin. 4. Mgv.: a lance, spear.
Ta.: tao, id. Sa.: tao, id. Ma.: tao, id. 5.
Mgv.: taotaoama, a fish. Sa.: taotaoama, id. 6. Ta.:
taoa, property, possessions. Ma.: taonga, property,
treasure. Churchill.
Sa.: tao, to bake; taofono,
taona'i, to bake food the day before it is used; tau, the
leaves used to cover an oven. To.: tao, to cook food in a
oven, to bake. Fu.: taò, to put in an oven, to cook. Niuē:
tao, to bake. Uvea:
tao, to cook, to bake.
Ma., Rapanui: tao, to
bake or cook in a native oven, properly to steam, to boil with
steam. Ta.: tao, the
rocks and leaves with which a pig is covered when cooking; baked,
boiled, cooked. Mq., Mgv., Mg., Tongareva: tao,
to bake in an oven ... The word refers to the specific manner of
cookery which involves the pit oven. The suggestion in the Maori,
therefore, does not mean a different method; it is but an attempt
more precisely to describe the kitchen method, a very tasty cookery,
be it said. The suggestion of boiling is found only in Tahiti, yet
in his dictionary Bishop Jaussen does not record it under the word
bouillir; boiling was
little known to the Polynesians before the European introduction of
pottery and other fire-resisting utensils ... Churchill 2.
Kao-kao,
v. Haw., be red. Root and primary meaning obsolete in Haw. Sam.,
tao,
to bake. Marqu., tao,
bake, roast, sacrifice. Tah., tao,
baked, boiled, cooked. Greek, καιω,
Old Att. καω,
to light, kindle, burn, scorch. According to Liddell and Scott, Pott
refers καιω
to Sanskrit çush,
be dry, but Curtius rejects this. In Dravid. (Tamil)
kay,
to be hot, burn. Fornander. |