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. |