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2.
If the basic glyph type rima aueue has no 'knee', which I have guessed, then the visual impression is that
of a
fluid.
Undulations usually means there is a fluid of some sort. If, on
the other hand, what is illustrated was an arm or leg, there should be sharper bends (elbows, knees) than what
my suggested
basic glyph type evidently shows.
Possibly the supposed fluid is blood, toto.
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Toto
1. Blood; he-gaaha te toto mai roto
mai te haoa, blood gushes from inside the wound;
toto hatukai, coagulated blood. 2. Rust; to rust.
Vanaga.
Blood, bloody, to let blood, to make
bloody, to bleed, to dissolve, rust; ariga toto,
florid, ruddy complexion; hakatehe ki te toto, to
bleed; toto pine, to bruise; toto ohio,
iron rust. Mgv., Mq.: toto, blood. Ta.: toto,
blood, sap. Churchill |
At Aa4-36--37 Metoro mentioned totohu (whatever
he meant by that):
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Aa4-36 |
Aa4-37 |
| i tona
henua - kua oho te vae - ku totohu - i tona henua - e
mai tae kake hia |
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