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Makoi went on, giving names, until he had made a (complete) circle around both sides (of the island).

In Apina Nui a stone (maea) was erected [hakatuu], saying that the naming was done on a (round) trip during a single day.

a vave renga.

he nape he oho a Makoi .i te ingoa.ka vari ro

a arurua.aro i apina nui i hakatuu ai

te maea.etahi no raa.i nape he oho ai.

Áruáru, reduplication of aaru: to grab firmly. Vanaga. 1. To pursue. P Mgv.: aruaru, to run after, to chase, to follow. Ta.: aruaru, to pursue. 2. To raise in waves, undulation. P Pau.: puhigaru, a bubble of water. Mgv.: garu, foam, froth. Mq.: naú, waves. Ta.: aru, billow, wave, flood. 3. (haruharu). Churchill. Haruharu. To rob, to steal, to arrest, to seize, to cling, to grasp unexpectedly, to take by force; robber (aruaru, aaru). Pau.: haru, to extort, to carry off, to usurp. Ta.: haru, robber, to seize by force. Churchill.

Aro. Face, front, side (of a figure); ki te aro o ..., to the front of ... Vanaga. Presence, body, frontispiece; ki te aro, face to face. P Pau.: aroga, the visage; ki te aroga, opposite. Mgv.: aro, presence, before; i te aro, in the presence of. Mq.: aó, face, in the presence of, before. Ta.: aro, face, front, presence, view. It is probable that more than one word is confounded in alo. The significations which appear in Southeast Polynesia are most likely derived from a Tongafiti alo and do not appear in Nuclear Polynesia. The alo belly and alo chief which do occur in Nuclear Polynesia are also probably Tongafiti, for in Samoa and Tonga they are honorific and applied only to folk of rank, a good indication of borrowing by the Proto-Samoans from Tongafiti masters. Churchill. In the Hawaiian group, the western portion or side of an island was called 'the front', ke alo, of the land, and the eastern side was called 'the back', ke kua. The reason of such designations must be sought in the fact of the arrival of the inhabitants from the west. Fornander.

... Ira got up, climbed up [he ea], went on, and reached Ruhi Hepii. He drilled a hole into the stone. After the hole was deep enough, he took the ornament (rei) and put it into the hole so that the shiny side (rapa) was turned outward. [He gave the name Ruhi Hepii.] He turned around, climbed down [he turu], went on, and entered the cave of Pu Pakakina. When he arrived there he sat down. The young kinsmen arrived and rested. It grew light. On the second day, Ira said again, 'Go back to riding the waves!'. They all went back out there. Ira got up [he ea a Ira] and again picked up the (second) ornament. He took it [he mau], went on, and came to Apina Nui, drilled a hole into the stone, put the ornament in the hole, with the shiny side [te rapa] to the outside, and gave (the place) the name 'Pu' ... (E34)

4  Okahu a uka ui hetuu.

MY OWN IDEAS:

Kau.1. To move one's feet (walking or swimming); ana oho koe, ana kau i te va'e, ka rava a me'e mo kai, if you go and move your feet, you'll get something to eat; kakau (or also kaukau), move yourself swimming. 2. To spread (of plants): ku-kau-áte kumara, the sweet potatoes have spread, have grown a lot. 3. To swarm, to mill around (of people): ku-kau-á te gagata i mu'a i tou hare, there's a crowd of people milling about in front of your house. 4. To flood (of water after the rain): ku-kau-á te vai haho, the water has flooded out (of a container such as a taheta). 5. To increase, to multiply: ku-kau-á te moa, the chickens have multiplied. 6. Wide, large: Rano Kau, 'Wide Crater' (name of the volcano in the southwest corner of the island). 7. Expression of admiration: kau-ké-ké! how big! hare kau-kéké! what a big house! tagata hakari kau-kéké! what a stout man! Vanaga. To bathe, to swim; hakakau, to make to swim. P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: kau, to swim. Ta.: áu, id. Kauhaga, swimming. Churchill.

Kaukau. 1. Horizontal poles of a frame (of a hare paega, or a paina statue): he-hakatu'u te tama o te paina, he-kaukau, they erect the vertical poles of the paina then they lay upon them the horizontal ones. 2. Group of people: e-tahi tuitui reipá i Te Pei, ekó rava'a e-varu kaukau; i-garo ai i Hiva, i te kaiga, a necklace of mother-of-pearl is on te Pei, few will find it (lit: eight groups of people); it has remained in Hiva, in our homeland. 3. To go through, to pass through in unison; he-hogi-mai te ûka i te e'eo o te pua kaukau-á i roto ite hare, the girl smelt the fragrance of the pua wafting inside the house. 4. Newborn baby's first hand and feet movements (kaukau or kau). The five stages of a baby's development are: kaukau, puepe, tahuri, totoro, mahaga. Puepue = said of a newborn baby when, a few weeks old, it begins to distinguish people and objects: ku-puepue-á te poki. Tahuri = of a new-born baby, to move from side to side: ku-tahuri-á te poki. Totoro = to crawl; ki totoro te poki, when the baby crawls. Mahaga = baby when able to stand by itself. Vanaga.

Oka. 1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables; used generally in the meaning of making plantations. 2. The four sideways poles supporting a hare paega. Okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly. Vanaga. Digging stick, stake, joist; to prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate; kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka, a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick, to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.

Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill.

Uka hoa, female friend, companion. Ukauka: 1. Firewood. 2. Leathery, tough. PS Mgv.: ukauka, hard to chew. Mq.: ukakoki, leathery. Ta.: uaua, id. Sa.: u'a, tough, tenacious, glutinous. To.: uka, sticky. Niuē; uka, tough. Viti: kaukamea, metal. Churchill.

... The last couple of the seven generations of gods who appeared when heaven and earth began, Izanagi and Izanami, received the order to consolidate and fertilize the moving earth. Here Izanagi stirs the waters of the sea with his celestial lance to produce the island of Onokoro. The brother and sister then descended to it and engendered the islands of Japan and numerous deities. Silk painting, nineteenth century AD ...

... Tupa. Ancient buildings found scattered along the coast; made of stone, and almost all of them round, they served as shelters for fishermen. Tupatupa, to carry (someone) on a stretcher; to carry (a load) with the help of several people. Vanaga. 1. Land crab. PS Mgv.: tutupa, a large crayfish. Mq., Ta.: tupa, land crab. Sa., To., Fu.: tupa, a land crab with large claws. 2. Mixture, to carry, tupatupa, to bring in one dead or wounded. Tupapaku, corpse. T Pau.: tupapaku, corpse, ghost. Mgv.: tupapaku, corpse, sick person. Mq.: tupapaku, tupapaú, id. Ta.: tupapau, corpse, ghost, specter. Churchill.

... Compare also the type of structure, mainly in the Lake Titicaca basin area, called chullpa and Easter Island's tupa, both apparently built as 'adoratorios', in which mummies, skeletons, and skulls were displayed and worshipped …  where tupa would be the expected Polynesian revaluation of chullpa ...

Thus there was reason for naming the 4th place Okahu - the prominent place for recycling (birth - death - birth - death etc).

"The correct name of the bay a short distance north of Apina Iti is Hanga O Ua. Since it is possible that 'o' and 'a' were confused in the process of copying or that the two letters were phonetically interchangeable, the localized version is acceptable." (Barthel, a.a.)

Métraux has Tahai where Heyerdahl has Taha. And Ana-kai-tangata (Cave-for-eating-man) was south of Hanga-piko, where we can read piko = pito = navel(-string), and where we would expect to find A(pi)na Nui (= Pu).

... It grew light. On the second day, Ira said again, 'Go back to riding the waves!'. They all went back out there.Ira got up [he ea a Ira] and again picked up the (second) ornament. He took it [he mau], went on, and came to Apina Nui, drilled a hole into the stone, put the ornament in the hole, with the shiny side [te rapa] to the outside, and gave (the place) the name 'Pu' ... (E:34)

... One of the parallels suggested by Heyerdahl is that between Polynesian pito 'navel'…and Quito, the very ancient Ecuadorian capital. In Hawaiian, the equator is defined as ke ala i ka piko a wakea 'the road to the navel (or birth-place) of Wakea (= Light)', where piko is the regular reflex of PPN *pito. Thus the possibility should exist to postulate kito, meaning 'navel', as a word of the pre-Incaic Andean language(s), to be used as a place-name later and therefore preserved today. The question remains open whether there could be - as in the Hawaiian example - any connection with the equator crossing the area. (The Incas' ancient capital, Kosco or Cuzco, meant 'navel' too.) ...

Rega. Ancient word, apparently meaning 'pretty, beautiful'. It seems to have been used also to mean 'girl' judging from the nicknames given young women: rega hopu-hopu. girl fond of bathing; rega maruaki, hungry girl; rega úraúra, crimson-faced girl. Vanaga. Pau.: rega, ginger. Mgv.: rega, turmeric. Ta.: rea, id. Mq.: ena, id. Sa.: lega, id. Ma.: renga, pollen of bulrushes. Churchill.

Tini. To be at the zenith: ku-tini-á te raá; middle of a journey, of a period of time; te tini o te raá, the middle of the day. Vanaga. 1. A great number, innumerable, infinite, indefinite. Tinitini, million, billion. T Pau.: tinitini, innumerable. Mgv.: tini, a countless number, infinite. Mq.: tini, id. Ta.: tini, numerous. 2. Raa tini, noon; tini po, midnight; te tini te raa, zenith; topa tini, abortion. Churchill. Kina, s. Haw., an indefinitely great number; specifically equal to 40,000 or 10 manu; a train of followers; kini-kini, s. a multitude; na kini akua, innumerable spririts. N. Zeal., tini, many, a crowd, 10,000. Tah., tini, innumerable. Sam., tino, ten in counting men; tino-lua, twenty. Marqu., tini, much, many times, multiplied. Fiji., tini, ten. Ceram. (Camarian), tinein, ten. In view of the permutation of l and n, not uncommon in the Greek as well in other Aryan branches, it is possible that this Polynesian word refers itself to χιλι-ασ, a thousand, generally an indefinite but large number,  χιλι-οι, a thousand, of which lexicographers give no etymon, and which seems to stand alone without kindred in the West Aryan dialects. Fornander.

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. Totoro = to crawl; ki totoro te poki, when the baby crawls.

Mei. Of; mei a, here, there, since, to spring from; mei a mea, issue; mei ra, to result; mei roto a mea, issue. Mq.: mei, of, since. Ta.: mei, of. Churchill. Breadfruit tree. Barthel 2.

Uhi. Yam (Dioscorea alata); a large tuber, one of the main staple foods in ancient times, of which some 40 varieties were grown. Uhi-uhi, to sew (also: tía); ka-uhiuhi toou nua, sew yourself a cape. Vanaga. Yam. P Pau., Mgv.: uhi, id. Ta.: uhi, ufi, id. Mq.: puauhi, id. Uhiuhi An endemic legume (Mezoneuron kauaiense), a tree with pink or red flowers and thin, broad, winged pods. The wood is hard and heavy and formerly was used for hōlua (sleds), spears, digging sticks, and house construction. Also kawa'ū, kea, kolomona, and the weedy herb Phaseolus lathyroides (Niihau). Ho'o uhiuhi, to prepare uhiuhi wood for house posts. Wehewehe. Uhi  1. Covering, cover, veil, film, lid, solid tattooing, tent; to cover, spread over, engulf, conceal, overwhelm; to don, as a feather cloak. Fig., to deceive, hide the truth. Kākau uhi, to tattoo solidly. Uhi mai ka lani pō, the night sky spreads forth (ignorance). Ua uhi 'ia kō lāua mau mana'o i ke aloha, their thoughts were overwhelmed with love. Uhi i ka moe, to make a bed. 2. Large, bluish-brown birthmark. 3. The yam (Dioscorea alata), from southeast Asia, a climber with square stems, heart-shaped leaves, and large, edible, underground tubers. The plant is widely distributed through islands of the Pacific, where it is commonly grown for food. Also pālau, ulehihi. In the past botanists have applied the name uhi incorrectly to the hoi kuahiwi. 4. Mother-of-pearl bivalve, mother-of-pearl shank. 5. Turtle shell piece used for scraping olonā. 6. Mark made by the gall of raw pūpū 'awa (a shellfish) on tapa or on the skin as an ornament. Wehewehe.

And 13 = 7 + 6 (ono) - as in Tau-ono, the Pleiades, the 6 'stones', where a new cycle was beginning.

... They prepared a soft bed for him in the cave and let him rest there. They stayed there, rested, and lamented the severely injured Kuukuu. Kuukuu said, 'Promise me, my friends, that you will not abandon me!' They all replied, 'We could never abandon you!' They stayed there twenty-seven [27] days in Oromanga. Everytime Kuukuu asked, 'Where are you, friends?' they immediately replied in one voice, 'Here we are!' They all sat down and thought. They had an idea and Ira spoke, 'Hey, you! Bring the round stones (from the shore) and pile them into six heaps of stones!' One of the youths said to Ira, 'Why do we want heaps of stone?' Ira replied, 'So that we can all ask the stones to do something.' They took (the material) for the stone heaps (pipi horeko) and piled up six heaps of stone at the outer edge of the cave. Then they all said to the stone heaps, 'Whenever he calls, whenever he calls for us, let your voices rush (to him) instead of the six (of us) (i.e., the six stone heaps are supposed to be substitutes for the youths). They all drew back to profit (from the deception) (? ki honui) and listened. A short while later, Kuukuu called. As soon as he had asked, 'Where are you?' the voices of the stone heaps replied, 'Here we are!' All (the youths) said, 'Hey, you! That was well done!' ...

KUPA, v. Haw., to dig out, hollow out, as a canoe or a trench; kupa-paku, a place deep down in the ground. Tah., tupa, to dig out, hollow out, scoop out. Fiji., cuva, to stoop, bow down. Mal., kubur, grave, tomb. Sunda., tumbuk, a hook, a staple. Sanskr., kûpa, a well, a pit.; kûpa-kara, a well-digger; kub-ja, humpbacked, crooked; kumbha, a pot, jar. Benfey (Sanskr. Dict.) refers the two latter to a lost verb kubh, with an original signification of 'to be crooked'. He offers no etymon, however, for kûpa, well, pit. The Polynesians reconcile the two. The Sanskrit kûpa finds its kindred in the Hawaiian and Tahitian kupa, and the Sanskrit kumbha, ku-ja, and kubh, with a primary sense of 'crooked', refer themselves to the Fijian cuva, 'to stoop, low down', a sense now lost within the Polynesian dialects proper. Pers., kuftan, kaftan, to dig, cleave; kuft, kâf, fissure. Armen., kup, pit, cistern. Greek, κυπτω, to bend forward, to stoop down; κυφος, humpbacked; κυμβη, a cup, a boat, a wallet; σκυφος, a cup; κυψελη, any hollow vessel. Lat., cubo, lie, recline: concumbo, incumbo; cupa, a vat, cask. Goth., kumbjan, lie down, recline; hups, the hips, loins. A.-Sax., cop, a hollow vessel, cup. Anc. Slav., kâpona, a goblet.  Russ., kopati, to dig; a cistern. Welsh, cwb or cwpan, a hollow place, kennel or cote. Gael., tubag, tub. (Fornander)