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 rona Metoro said rona only three times while reading for Bishop Jaussen, two of which are at this type of glyph. Maybe I should have chosen another label, with so little evidence.  But I had my principles - to choose a label strictly according to my model for weighing the words of Metoro.
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A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. If I had chosen another label than rona, then it could have been hakarava. I would like to draw attention to the expression hakarava hakaturu for 'quadrangular'. At first rava seems to have nothing to do with 'geometry'. Upon reflection, though, we can 'see the light':

Rava

1. Enough, sufficient; ku-rava-á, that's enough, it is sufficient. 2. To be satiated, to be satisfied; ku rava-á te tagata i te kai, the man has eaten his fill. 3. Used very commonly before verbs to express someone much inclined towards this action: tagata rava taûa, quarrelsome person; rava kai, glutton; rava haúru, sleepy-head; rava kî, chatterbox; rava tagi, cry-baby; rava keukeu, hard-working; vara is often used instead of rava. Vanaga.

Metoro said hakarava three times at GD84, but he said it also at 13 other types of glyphs, which made me decide rona had to be the label. Moreover, wordplays involving (haka)rava and its reverse variant vara seem to occur: kavahaa, vari, hakavari, hakareva, hakaraoa.

The essence of rona as an idea apparently is to be in contrast to runu, and I guess the pair represents the 2 halves of a 'bicycle' (a month, a year, etc), maybe with rona as the 'front wheel' and runu as the 'back wheel'.

Together they will then form the 'quadrangular earth' - growth ('eat until you are satisfied or die') respectively stagnation ('the season of straw') - the 2 sides of reality. In 'spring' everything grows but in autumn the priority is 'offspring':

"Stagnant ... (of liquid) †that is at rest in a vessel; not running or flowing ... L. stagnant ... f. stagnum pool ..." (English Etymology)

"Straw¹ ... (coll. sg.) stems or stalks of cereals ... Straw² ... (arch.) scatter ... cover with something scattered ..." (English Etymology)