1. Mgv.: pa, an inclosure, a fenced place. Ta.: pa, inclosure, fortification. Mq.: pa, inclosure. Sa.: pa, a wall. Ma.: pa, a fort. 2. Mgv.: pa, to touch. Sa.: pa'i, id. Ma.: pa, id. 3. Mgv.: pa, to prattle. Ta.: hakapapa, to recount. 4. Mq.: pa, a hook in bonito fishing. Sa.: pa, a pearlshell fishhook. Ma.: pa, a fishhook.

Pau.: hakapa, to feel, to touch. Mgv.: akapa, to feel, to touch, to handle cautiously.

Hia

How many? Ka hia? Which one? Te hia? (Teach Yourself Maori)

Mai

1. From, since; mai aganirá pemu'a from now on. 2. Before, prior to (referring to a future event certain to occur); mai ta'e oho au ki-Hiva, prior to my leaving for the continent (note the use of the negative, lit. 'before I do not go...'. 3. Short for ka-avai-mai, mai te kahu, give me the dress. 4. Hither (movement towards the speaker); ka-ho-mai (= ka-oho-mai), come here! welcome! hoki-mai-á e îa, he has come back; ina kai garo'a-mai, he cannot understand it; ka-to'o-mai, come and get it. Vanaga.

Pa is, among other things, a hook for bonito fishing, and a bonito is not a fish but a gentleman. Hakapa is to handle cautionsly, which agrees with how to handle a bonito. Basically this type of pa evidently means 'to touch'.

Then there is another (?) pa which means a wall or an inclosure.

The powerful arm in front in Ca2-22 is formed like a great fishhook (pa). And kiore in the following glyph has a strong Sign in the very small mouth. I guess these glyphs are intended to show the contrast between the great eating arm on one hand and the tiny mouth on the other.

Metoro could have meant 'a pearlshell fishhook' when he said pa. The Fish of Winter had to be drawn up onto land, and that is the proper task for the newly arrived Sun King. He should use a pa.

The little rat (kiore) at left in Ca2-23 seems to be inside a hard earth shell. Metoro said i te henua, possibly 'in the command of' (i) the earth (shell).

I. 1. Preposition denoting the accusative: o te hanau eepe i-hoa i te pureva mai Poike ki tai, the hanau eepe threw the stones of Poike into the sea. Te rua muraki era i a Hotu Matu'a. the grave where they buried Hotu Matu'a. 2. Preposition: for, because of, by action of, for reason of..., ku-rari-á te henua i te ûa the ground is soaked by the rain; i te matu'a-ana te hakaúru i te kai mo taana poki huru hare, the mother herself carries (lit.: by the mother herself the taking...) the food for her son secluded in the house. 3. Preposition: in, on, at (space): i te kaiga nei, on this island. 4. Preposition: in, on (time): i mu'a, before; i agataiahi, yesterday; i agapó, tonight; i te poá, in the morning. 5. Preposition: in the power of: i a îa te ao, the command was in his power. 6. Adverb of place: here. i au nei, I am here (also: i au i , here I am, here). Vanaga.

Î. Full; ku-î-á te kete i te kumara, the bag is full of sweet potatoes. 2. To abound, to be plentiful; ki î te îka i uta, as there are lots of fish on the beach. 3. To start crying (of a baby): i-ûi-era te ma-tu'a ku-î-á te poki mo tagi, he-ma'u kihaho, when a mother saw that her baby was starting to cry she would take it outside. Vanaga.

Toward; i muri oo na, to accompany. Churchill.

Ii, to deteriorate, to go bad. Churchill.

Maybe Metoro mentioned counting (hia) because he wished Bishop Jaussen would take the cue and count. Perhaps he intended to point out that the manzil calendar was about to reach its end.

On the other hand, the word hia seems also to be used for indicating that an action is completed, e.g.:

Haka-noho-hia, stopped. Paka-hia, to clot, curdle, coagulate.

With the heliacal rising of Menkar the cycle was completed. At 3h we can count to 12 * 29½ + 1 = 355 nights from the beginning of the manzil year.